#277. How A 40-Day Faith-Fueled Fast Rebuilds Your Body, Mind, And Connection With God

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Fasting is not about deprivation, starvation, giving something up.
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It's making room for God to do his work in us and bring new things into our life, body, mind, and spirit.
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So there's physiology going on that we're gonna talk about, like the healing things that happen, but spiritually and mentally, like when you remove some of that stuff, food especially, you make room for God to get to work, right?
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Yeah, you do.
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If you're tired of doing all the right things and still feeling exhausted, stuck in your body and disconnected from God, this podcast is for you.
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I'm Dr.
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Tabitha, triple board certified functional medicine physician, and I help women stop fighting their bodies and start healing them God's way.
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This isn't about another diet or quick fix.
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This is about restoring your energy, your confidence, and your faith through fasting, functional medicine, and biblical truth.
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Welcome to Fast to Faith, where you don't just lose weight and feel great.
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You step into who God created you to be.
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So let's get into it.
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Happy birthday to me.
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Oh my gosh.
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Thank you for sharing my birthday with me today.
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I'm so glad you're here with me and my girl Ashley.
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We are doing a double episode recording, so you're gonna hear the other one in a few weeks.
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But today is important.
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So take the time to listen all the way through to this today.
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That's the beauty of the podcast.
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You can pause and come back.
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But this is a timely um subject, and so I really want you to listen to it this week.
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Hi, Ashley.
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Hi, I'm so first off, happy birthday.
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Thank you.
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And I'm so excited for you ladies to hear this podcast today because this is what we are all about.
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We are all about fast of faith, and that is what it's gonna be about.
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But um, if you don't know this about me, one of my absolute, it is my absolute favorite holiday is Easter.
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It has and always will be.
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I love it.
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I have adult bonus children and they still get Easter baskets, but it's not so much about that.
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It is about the season of Lent.
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Like it is the one holiday that isn't about the gifting.
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Like no one expects an Easter basket, no one expects anything out of it.
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I love the church um going to Easter Sunday, but I just I love that you get 40 days every year and it it's about Lent.
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It's just it's beautiful.
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Like I I can't even, I'm like speechless right now because I have chills.
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Like it, there's just so many powerful memories for me over Lent.
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And one of the things I remember doing um growing up was about what am I going to give up for Lent, right?
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It's something that it just kind of happens, and so it's something that I always did.
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And I think it's the one thing that when people think of Lent, they think of like, what am I gonna lay down?
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So what are we gonna lay down for Lent this year?
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Like, what are you being invited to lay down?
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I'm over here laughing because I was raised Catholic and we wouldn't um eat meat on Fridays, we would eat fish, and so I would always give up fish for Lent because I hated it.
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That's terrible.
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I was not raised Catholic, but I still gave something up for Lent, but it was not finished.
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Oh my gosh.
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Oh, that's awesome.
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I love that.
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I know, but really That's your that was her rebel side back then.
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Like you, yeah, you're gonna tell me actually giving anything up because I wasn't gonna eat it in the first place.
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I love that.
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Let's just be honest.
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Um, but I don't want Lent to feel like something that is scary or um it is about suffering because at the end of the day, Jesus suffered for us and took that on for himself so that we didn't have to.
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And for us to suffer for 40 days a little bit, come on, we can do that.
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And the cool thing is, it actually makes us a better person.
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It does.
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Well, I just always think about like the Sundays coming, and I our church does this awesome celebration where they set off these confetti canyons on Easter Sunday, and so I literally just keep that at the forefront for those 40 days, and I just think about the celebration that's coming.
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So I don't I don't ever think about the negative aspect.
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I know it's so, and I've done a lot of the um like the Friday events that you go to can be kind of dark, but I just keep those canon celebrations and just that yeah, the Sunday's coming because it is.
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I love that.
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I mean, we we are supposed to focus on and be grateful for and thank Jesus for that death, but the resurrection is the part that we should really be focused on.
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Like he overcame it all for us, it's so powerful.
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So yes, Sunday's coming.
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I love it.
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And truly, I believe that we are called to fast for 40 days.
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It might look different for different people, but um, that story that Matthew tells about Jesus fasting for 40 days isn't in the Bible for no reason.
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There is a real spiritual warfare going on.
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The enemy is trying to get to us.
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Food is one of the biggest things that he tempts us with.
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That it's been happening since the beginning of time.
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It was what Eve was tempted with.
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Yeah.
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Food, right?
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Yeah.
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And so I'm inviting you guys.
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Ashley and I are inviting you to fast with us for Lent.
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It is the most powerful thing I have ever done, and it continues to be powerful every year for Lent.
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Yep.
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Isn't it crazy?
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It is crazy, and I I want to make sure that it's really clear right now, because I don't want you to stop listening because you heard fast for 40 days.
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You are going to eat, you are going to nourish your body.
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It is just going to look different.
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But I promise you, you're gonna come out of these 40 days and you're no longer gonna feel deprived or dependent on food, and I think that is the most amazing thing.
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I remember when you launched this, is it's been three years ago now, right?
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Yeah, three, three Lents ago.
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And you launched this and we did it.
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And I have always been a faster, and I thought I knew what I was doing.
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And then we did this program, and it really wasn't anything about the food for me, it was the Lectio Divina, which we're gonna talk about.
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But it's so powerful and it drastically changed not only my path of my life, but also my relationship with Jesus.
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And so I'm excited for women to understand what Fast of Faith is and what we do for 40 days during those 40 days.
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Yeah, so important.
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And I wouldn't I would just ask that you have an open heart and an open mind for the next 20 minutes because we think that we know something and that we understand something, and there is always another layer, or there is a misunderstanding, or we just have this perception bias because of what we have experienced as individuals.
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And so you have one idea when you hear the word fast, and another woman has a completely different idea.
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And this was like really laid on my heart out in California recently.
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I was with an incredible group of like Christian loving Jesus living for women, like their entire lives, their businesses are around Jesus, and they were still afraid of the word fast and fasting.
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And I was like, okay, God, what are we doing with this?
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And he really laid it on my heart that we have to explain that fasting is not about deprivation, starvation, giving something up.
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It's making room for God to do his work in us and bring new things into our life, body, mind, and spirit.
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So there's physiology going on that we're gonna talk about, like the healing things that happen, but spiritually and mentally, like when you remove some of that stuff, food especially, you make room for God to get to work, right?
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Yeah, you do.
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And something super powerful that you said to us when we did that test group three years ago was you said, no matter where you are in your journey, I want you to start at day one and pretend like you don't know anything.
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Yes.
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And that was a game changer for me.
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And um, one of our coaches, Bridget, I remember when she um before we rolled this out to the public, um, one of the things that she has said was, Well, I don't need to do this because I fast.
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And I said, Here's what Tabitha told us in the test group.
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And so she did it, and she did it from day one, and she's now a certified coach, and she's helping other women do this.
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And her story is so powerful because if she wouldn't have done day one, like you recommended, written out how it was done, she probably wouldn't be a coach today.
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So it's such a powerful testimony to just understand that sometimes you have to just start at the beginning, even if you think you know what you're doing.
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Yeah, a hundred percent.
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So when God really downloaded this entire thing to me, um, I was running a fasting program as a physician, as a functional medicine provider.
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I was teaching women the physical benefits of fasting to balance your hormones, to heal your gut, to calm down your adrenals, and just activate deeper healing and autophagy.
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And what he started to show me was these baby steps that women in particular need to do.
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We are not little men.
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We cannot fast the same way as men.
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Men can be just go off and do a five-day water fast and feel amazing and and like climb a mountain.
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Like, that's not us.
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That's not how God created us.
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You're not climbing mountains.
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What?
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We are, but we're doing it differently.
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We are baby stepping, and unfortunately, the majority of us living in the United States, I know some of you are in other countries listening to this, and so I'm not sure what your diet looks like, but we are on a sugar roller coaster in this country.
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We are literally taught by the American Diabetes Association and doctors to graze, to eat every couple hours to maintain your blood sugar.
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Ladies, that's a straight up lie from the pit of hell.
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That will create diabetes.
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It will cause insulin resistance and metabolic disease.
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Please do not, you know, fall for that lie.
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And what I hear is well, I have hypoglycemia or my blood sugar drops if I don't eat.
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That is a sign that you don't have metabolic flexibility, that you are stuck in sugar burning mode from the standard American diet and our way of living.
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And so we need to break up with some lies today and start to understand how God actually created our body because I love history.
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I love looking at like, how did we exist for thousands of years without grocery stores on every corner, doctors on every corner?
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Like, how is it that we went from two people to billions of people and we're still existing?
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It's because God actually created our bodies to go times without food and then to feast.
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We should be in feast famine cycles.
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Carb cycling is key for women.
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I think we should talk about all of that because I know as the academy director, you're like, women don't understand what's happening inside the program.
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So I think let's break it all down, but understand that you're tackling all aspects of yourself by joining us for Lent and doing this.
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You're going to heal physically, your mind is gonna be renewed.
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We need to talk about Lectio Divina, it's so powerful.
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And spiritually, you are going to get reconnected to your creator.
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Like it that's just what happens because the lines open up.
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And as a bonus, you're gonna lose some weight.
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I mean, that's really what it is, but you're not gonna realize yeah, and you're not gonna realize that you're losing that weight and inflammation.
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It's not gonna be as hard.
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Like, I guess that's what I want to say.
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It's not gonna be as hard to lose it because you're getting just better in touch with yourself and with our creator.
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It's just a side benefit.
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Like the weight loss happens when you tackle the root cause issue of why you can't lose the weight.
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Weight is a symptom, it's not the problem.
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But it's also weight that you're gonna lose that's going to stay off.
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So there's so many women.
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I just saw three.
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I can literally I can picture their before and afters that our coaches are starting to share their photos from last year when they did the Lent program and they lost 25 to 35 pounds each, and that weight is still gone.
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Like that's what's powerful because so many times women do programs and they lose 20, 30 pounds, but they had to work really hard to do it, and within six months, it's 40 or 50 pounds have gained back.
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Like it's worse than where they started.
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And that's that's not what we do.
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That's not what this is.
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Yeah, and that is what we talked about in our in-person event this past Saturday, which my heart is still bursting.
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It's so full because it was such an incredible event.
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Like when you really start to see the lies that are perpetuating and driving your decisions and your choices and your habits, and you break up with those lies and start to live into the truth who God says you are, like, yeah, you are gonna have sustainable results.
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You're becoming a better version of you.
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Well, it goes back to community, and that's what we have.
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So, you we had that event on Saturday, and not everyone obviously can be in person with us all the time.
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We live in Michigan, I don't know where you live, but um, we having that community around us, and so that is what we do that's so vastly different.
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Like, not only do you get a one-on-one coach, but you get a community.
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We meet every Monday.
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So we are gonna be reminding you of overcoming these limiting beliefs every single Monday.
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We're gonna be in your um living room or kitchen or wherever you're watching us, or maybe you're at your desk at work or you're watching the replay, it doesn't matter.
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You're getting those reminders, and that's I is just wildly different than anything else.
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It's not just like, here's a meal plan, good luck.
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I hope you lose 30 pounds.
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That's not what this is.
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And the sisterhood community is so fulfilling and rewarding that people actually show up from Mexico and Australia or wherever on vacation, like they're in their bathing suit or they're you know taking a break from their husband and be like, I know we're on vacation, but I need to talk to my sisters for an hour.
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Like it's so powerful.
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It is.
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I love when the ladies who have like random Mondays off and they can join us and they're so freaking pumped up because they've they've watched, they had to watch the recording and then they can come.
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And we just had that experience last week.
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And I know at the upcoming holiday we'll have it again.
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So yeah.
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Oh my gosh.
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It's cool to see.
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That is one of my favorite things about Fast of Faith is just the sisterhood.
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But when we do these calls on Monday, we talk about everything.
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Can I just tell the women who are not in the group?
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Like, we're talking about hormones and gut and your immune system or your Hashimoto's, but sometimes we're talking about like vaginal health and intimacy with your partner, or we're talking about trauma from your childhood, or your estranged child that you're not talking to, and working through that.
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Like, we literally have got you body, mind, and spirit.
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We are we are helping you as a whole woman, every aspect, and that is where true healing comes from.
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Yeah, it does.
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Okay, so why don't we dive in and let's talk a little bit about some of these medical type things that we talk about on Monday?
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And one of the biggest things is um blood sugar and insulin sensitivity.
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So let's start with what most women care about, which is belly fat, weight, cravings, the energy, what's happening happening um physiologically with that?
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Yeah, so this is one of the main factors that Fast of Faith addresses.
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When you are stuck in sugar burning mode and you're not burning off your own fat for fuel, you can't lose the weight.
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The fat cells are staying fat.
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They actually have to get active and burn off to shrink.
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I know it's a weird thought, but at the cellular level, there are reasons your fat cells are staying fat.
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And so we really dive into this in the program so that you can start to understand what your body is doing and what it needs.
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And as we alluded to, we baby step you from being a sugar burner to becoming a fat burner.
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And then when we take away the food, we do a shorter fast, your body starts burning your own fat for fuel.
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And so there's this transition into ketosis and then into fasting.
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And this is what we talk a lot about in the group as well is your body is always trying to find your baseline and get back into homeostasis.
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It likes to be in balance.
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So if you do the same thing every day, you'll get the same result, right?
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And so we have to shake things up.
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That is why we're supposed to change the foods we eat with the seasons.
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We need that diversity.
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We also need to change our eating window.
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You cannot eat in an eight-hour eating window and expect to lose weight.
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That is not how it works.
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And so the program was designed in four phases.
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The sunrise phase is really just helping you break up with sugar, get rid of snacking, and eat the meal that is going to start to initiate fat burning.
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So the macros get adjusted.
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And then we go into phase two and we start playing around with the eating window.
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Phase three scares a little bit women a little bit of the time because there is a three-day water fast for deeper healing.
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We're getting into autophagy, we're getting into that cellular repair where your own body goes around like Pac-Man and eats up the bad cells, the bad DNA, the damaged proteins, so that you don't grow cancer.
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It's essential.
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But there's a right way to do it and a wrong way to do it.
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And I would be remiss if I didn't address this lie out there that if I have adrenal issues or Hashimoto's, I can't fast.
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But that's not true.
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You just need to do it in these phases in this way to prevent the keto flu or side effects.
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I've had Hashimoto since I was 17.
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I have the worst genetics you can imagine.
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And I have figured out how to do this in a way that has kept my 30 pounds off for a decade, and I have thrived.
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My Hashimoto antibodies went from like over 900 to single digits.
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They're like three and five.
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So you can do it, you should do it.
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It's part of how God created us to heal, but you have to do it the right way.
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That's why starting day one of with Fast of Faith is essential and getting through all four phases.
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And then we get into the maintenance of how do we make this a lifestyle?
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What does that look like long term?
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So that it's sustainable, enjoyable, that you can continue to feed your family and yourself, and it's not gonna break the bank.
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Like that is all really important stuff.
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But what I would say to women is just trust the process and start with us on day one, right?
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I love that.
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I'm gonna address a couple things.
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One, people are like macros and they're they're wondering about all of that.
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We are going to have an episode in a few weeks with our nutritionist Morgan.
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She is going to come into the studio and we're gonna break all of that down for you.
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So we're gonna get in a little bit deeper with the macro and the nutrition side of stuff in a couple weeks.
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So she has a master's in functional nutrition.
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She's not, yeah, she is highly educated.
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Yes, she's amazing.
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And we um she just redid all of the recipes.
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So they are super, we have taken a ton of feedback from women, and we have made this a very family-friendly plan.
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So you will hear from most of our women in our community that they're not making two meals.
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We we are we are all busy moms.
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So we everything that we need to make work for our life, we've done for you ladies.
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So we just continue to change, and so that's why Lent, these are all new recipes that Morgan um curated herself.
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So we are super excited about that.
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So we'll dive into that a little bit deeper.
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And the other thing that I wanted to address was you get a one-on-one coach.
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So you you get Tabitha has certified almost 40 coaches now.
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So you get a certified Fast of Faith coach who will walk you through this.
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So not only will you get to join us on Monday, ask Tabitha herself questions, but you will also get a certified fast of faith coach who has been trained and continuously each week gets trained by Tabitha.
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So your questions will get answered and your plan will be individualized, which is what is so unique about this program where it we have a the 40 day plan, but we have it for different lifestyles.
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And that's really important to acknowledge because not everyone is on this journey for weight loss.
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Some women come to us because they just are.
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Are struggling, they're depleted, their hormones are a mess, their adrenals, but they don't have weight to lose, but they get something still out of this program.
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So we have a plan for you.
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If you are a woman, we have a plan for you.
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A hundred percent.
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And your husband too.
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The same.
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I know the husbands get so excited when they start seeing their wives' results, and they're like, Can I do it?
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Absolutely.
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Um, but you touched on this earlier, lectio divino.
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This is the differentiator.
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When you fast with God, the results are supernatural.
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Like you open up this line of communication and you start hearing from him in a way that you never have before because you're no longer living in your flesh, trying to satisfy your flesh and feel in your flesh.
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You're feeling in the spirit.
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What does your spirit need?
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Yes.
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And this is what I keep hearing from women.
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I heard it probably four times at the brunch this weekend.
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I feel a peace I have never felt ever in my entire life.
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So powerful.
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That peace and the joy that you get.
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So good.
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We are gonna show you guys a um testimonial from Saturday who's a woman who is currently in our 40-day program.
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She really had no idea why she joined the 40-day program.
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And we would love to have you hear what she got out of the 40-day program.
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I heard you on a podcast and um investigated you for a little bit and stuff kept popping up.
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And I was like reading.
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I kept reading it and I was like, yeah, that'd be good.
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I probably and I ended up joining the Fast of Faith program.
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And then I realized after like I got the videos and I watched like some of the introductory stuff, and I was like, wait, will we have to journal in this?
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I was like, I literally, if I had known there was journaling, I would have been like, that's not the program for me.
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Uh I'm I am not, I don't like journaling, it makes me very uncomfortable.
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I feel like I have to write everything perfectly, and grammar has to be right, and punctuation, and I judge it, and I go back with a red pen and mark it all up, you know.
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And so I was like, I can't, I don't, I don't have time for that.
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But I was like, well, shoot, I'm I already paid on man, so I'm gonna listen to her and just try it out.
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And I think it was like the third or fourth Lectio Divina that was um I'm doing the Fasta, the 40-day Fast of Faith.
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And um, it is Jeremiah 17 about being a like a tree planted by water.
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And in yeah I mean, God literally like turned my life in one 10-minute session of sitting there and listening, and he spoke so clearly to me, you don't have to do to be.
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Um I don't have to do a million things and pretend I'm super busy to be loved, to be seen, to be cared for, to be known.
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Um, because I have I I went to chiropractic school, had two kids while I was in school, got out, um, and then became a stay-at-home mom, which I thought I would never do.
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And I didn't really look very highly on stay-at-home moms.
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I was like, um, and then I felt like, oh, this is exactly what I'm supposed to be doing, but I fought it the whole way through.
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And I just thought I've got to do something, I've got to contribute to the family, even though I'm like running the household and our five our businesses and our finances and the and I just thought nothing is ever enough, you know, because I don't make a paycheck.
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And so I I have scrambled my whole life feeling like I've got to do a million things.
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My brain's meant just utter chaos because all this input comes in, and so I've never lived at peace.
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I've always told everybody how busy I was, and that's like the savior complex of bad Javon.
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Yeah, it is.
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Like I I'm super busy.
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That's how I continue to claim that I'm important instead of actually believing.
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I'm super busy.
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Even hilariously, when I started this program, I was pretty sick.
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Um, I had just c come out of bronchitis um and then got the flu, but I had I hadn't been sleeping in months.
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I just felt like trash, I hadn't been eating well, all the things.
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But I even like got onto like the text thread, you know, like, yeah, yeah.
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And I'm the girl that posted, like, I've been so sick.
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These are all the million things I have to do.
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And we are in tax prep season, and like there's stuff coming at me all day.
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And so, and I like even writing that, like, I can look back and it makes me laugh now, like, oh, that's hilarious.
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I was just perpetuating that belief that like I gotta let everybody know.
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And some people were even nice enough to like say nice things, even though it was like super obnoxious.
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People most people were like, Oh, okay.
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Um, but but we've all been there.
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I know, yeah.
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We've all been in that space, and so I mean, just knowing that um yeah, that God brought me to this place to let me know that I can slow down, and I have completely slowed down.
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My mind has like come to a place of like con utter contentment.
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Um, and what I thought was gonna be like a diet program, you know, like okay, that'll help me like you know, get back on track and get things rolling, figure a few things out, it was not at all what God had planned for me.
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And so I am just super grateful.
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Thank you for what you're doing.
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Because it's better, right?
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It's it's way better.
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And I feel like everybody in the whole world has to know how do we tell everybody that this is this is the way to do it.
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You have so many friends that are just struggling along and you can see it, and like you know now that there's a better way.
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And so the the Lectio Divinas, which I was honestly, I mean, I I love reading scripture, and I just thought, well, I'll read it and you know, and maybe do a like a word study on it or something because I don't want to journal about it, but the being forced to stuff that I will do everything but what I'm supposed to do.
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Yeah, like let me look up the Hebrew meeting or something, you know, like and it was just God said no, just sit and listen, and He totally completely changed my life in like in doing that.
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So thank you.
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That I mean, thank God that is the power of our Lord and his word on our lives.
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It it can be in a quick moment like that, it can be that crazy.
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Yeah, so that is one of the testimonials I'm referring to.
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It is so powerful when you just ask God, you invite him into this health journey walk.
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Women, we've been like brainwashed to think God doesn't care about our physical body because it's not spiritual enough or whatever it is, it's superficial.
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That is not true.
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God would not have taken the time to create such intricate bodies and given them to us for this experience if he didn't actually care about them.
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And so we just need to shift how we're thinking about all of this and trust that God has a plan, he's making a way, and he actually cares about how much you weigh, how much pain you have, how much inflammation you have, your chronic headaches.
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Like he cares about all of it and he wants to free you from all of it.
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Yeah, he does.
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And there's um, I think when you fast strategically and you're nourished when you eat, you stabilize your appetite.
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And so your hormones, your you reduce that dopamine, roller coaster, your cravings start to quiet down.
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So do you want to talk a little bit about the cravings and the different like food noise that we quiet down?
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Yeah, because that is why we can't hear from God.
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That's why we can't go out and live into our purpose, because we're so distracted by our pain, by our hunger, by our loneliness, our anger, whatever the feelings are in the physical body.
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And if you haven't watched the episode with Dr.
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uh Russ Irwin, please go back and watch that because he talks about you might have a feeling that's physically real.
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You have chemical responses happening, dopamine, serotonin, and all the different chemicals that doesn't make it true.
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It could be just a memory, it could be a lie that is creating chemicals.
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And so we have to take every thought captive.
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That's what we're told to do.
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And we really have to ask ourselves: why am I reaching for this food?
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Why do I continue to feel hungry despite the fact that I just ate?
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Why do I feel addicted to sugar?
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For me, I was exhausted.
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I wasn't sleeping, I was trying to have energy.
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My poor body was like running on fumes.
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It's like that last few one mile in your gar your car with no gas, like you know, and I just didn't realize because this busy world lies to us and it tells us busyness is a badge.
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You just need to push through and try harder.
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And that's really not what we're called to do.
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So uh if you join Fast of Faith, please join.
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Like it is the best gift you'll give yourself this year.
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It is the best gift you'll give Jesus because I'm sorry, but what he suffered and did for us, like we cannot even begin to repay him, but you can at least acknowledge it with your own 40 days of trying to honor him.
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Yeah, I love that.
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It's a great way.
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And I think one of our coaches, Kendra, on Saturday, said it perfectly like, we're not actually busy, we're just full.
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And we need to look at it in a different way and a different perspective.
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And it's such a blessing to be full.
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So I think that was so powerful that she said that.
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Right.
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And like I said at the opening of this, if your containers are full, if there's no capacity for God to even do anything in your life because you've filled it up with so much crap, like he's not going to give you stuff.
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Yeah, that's so true.
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Like, you need to write down like what is making you busy, and are those things even necessary anymore?
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So it sometimes we just we do things because we've always done it, but maybe that thing that you've been doing forever, whatever it is, doesn't bring you joy.
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So I mean, I I can just think about just like the small things that you do in a day that you don't even realize that you're doing at, like, especially at home, if you're going around picking up behind your kids, like maybe you don't actually need to do that all the time.
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Like your house doesn't need to look like a Pinterest um page all the time.
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It's just not normal.
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And so we're we're living in our homes.
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And so I think sometimes you just have to let those things go.
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But it's hard.
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And that's why having the community and the support and the accountability makes a difference in that someone to remind you, like, girlfriend, it's okay that your house is a mess.
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Like you can still host that dinner, like it's all right.
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Right.
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We really have to let go of this idea of perfection and control.
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I would say that's the majority of the problem for over 90% of women is it scares you to death to be out of control.
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And I get it, but I promise you the peace that you get when you surrender and let God be in control and guide you and direct you, it's just it's profound.
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I wouldn't give it back for anything in the world.
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Like I do whatever it takes to keep that going.
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And that looks like doing Lectio Divina every morning with my Fast of Faith sisterhood.
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And you might be going, What the heck is this Lectio Divina?
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I didn't know what it was either.
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I never heard of it.
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God literally brought it into my life three years ago.
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And all you're doing is you're meditating on one scripture in the Bible, just one.
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And it's so powerful, especially if you were like me and you were afraid to read the Bible because you didn't understand it or you didn't think it applied to you.
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But when you do the method that we teach you, all of a sudden you realize God is talking to you.
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The Bible is living and active, it says it right there, and you get to start to experience that.
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So I'm excited for you.
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You need to join today.
00:34:25.119 --> 00:34:27.440
And what else we got?
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Yeah.
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So a couple other things we're going to talk about and address is the inflammation and then the gut repair that comes from this program as well.
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Because most of you who are listening to this are probably in perimenopause or on your way into perimenopause.
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And so you're probably wondering like, how is this going to benefit me?
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My main problem right now is my hormones are a mess, or I'm bloated when I eat.
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And so, can you talk about how this program addresses those things?
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Yeah.
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And I know you could talk about it too.
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You see it all the time with our clients, you know?
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Yeah.
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Women don't think they have gut issues, you know, because they're quote unquote having regular bowel movements or they're not having stomach pain or things like that.
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But I promise you, the gut is the gateway to the rest of your body.
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It is how things from the outside world get inside of us.
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And that can be good or bad.
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So we can put stuff in that nourishes us, but we're also getting stuff inside of us that is causing inflammation and destruction.
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Our food is so toxic.
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I call them Frankenfoods, if you've read my book.
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They're full of pesticides, these forever chemicals, these organophosphates, the plastics that are everywhere now, they get into our body and our body doesn't know what to do with them.
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And so fasting, the coolest thing it does is it starts to heal our gut lining within the first 24 hours.
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So even a shorter fast, like a dinner-to-dinner fast, can have a profound impact on sealing up leaky gut, aka intestinal permeability.
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That's the medical term.
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And when that happens, stuff that isn't supposed to get into your body can't get into your body.
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And so it's a protection.
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You're you're sealing up the doors and the gateways that are supposed to keep things out.
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And it's really incredible to see how that translates into decreased inflammation because all of a sudden your entire body doesn't have to like fight this stuff that it's not supposed to be seeing.
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And women are like, oh my gosh, it's only been six days.
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Could it really be that's why I'm less puffy and that's why I'm sleeping better?
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Absolutely.
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100%.
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100%.
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I always say ditch the scale, get a pair of pants that are too tight, and take a picture of your face because that's where you're gonna notice it.
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You're gonna put those pants on, you're gonna be like, oh crap, these fit today.
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And then you're gonna notice it in your face because that is one of the first places that you notice it.
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It's really cool to see.
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And that's because we do everything virtually, a lot that's what we see, it's women's faces, and you can start to see it go away in their face and just the joy that comes back into their life.
00:37:11.840 --> 00:37:14.719
And I was just actually talking about this with a client this week.
00:37:14.960 --> 00:37:29.119
When that when you can actually start to feel joy, when you are in a room and you're like, I don't have to fake that this is fun, and I don't have to fake, like you know that this is supposed to be enjoying, but you you can't, you literally can't muster the joy.
00:37:29.360 --> 00:37:37.039
And when you get in that room and you feel that joy and it goes, it's just there naturally, it's it's such a healing thing.
00:37:37.199 --> 00:37:38.480
Like I can't even describe it.
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Right.
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And maybe none of your external circumstances have changed.
00:37:42.559 --> 00:37:50.880
Maybe you still hate your job and you're still in a broken marriage, but all of a sudden you feel empowered and you feel capable.
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You start to change.
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You change and you can handle it.
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Like it is so incredible.
00:37:57.599 --> 00:37:58.800
It it really is.
00:37:59.039 --> 00:38:06.800
Um, so the the energy, too, that women start to get when they become the medical uh metabolically flexible, like they are.
00:38:06.960 --> 00:38:11.679
I think the um something that's super important that we talk about though is the time-restricted feeding.
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If you want to just give us like a high-level overview of what that looks like and why it's beneficial.
00:38:17.199 --> 00:38:20.800
Yeah, so we're we're a chemistry experiment.
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Our cells, our trillions of cells, have these little chemical reactions going on all of the time.
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We have little factories inside of ourselves called mitochondria.
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These make ATP.
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ATP, adenosine triphosphate, that is the chemical term for energy.
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That is how we get up and we function and we move.
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And when you see things like chronic fatigue and different illnesses where there's no energy, a lot of times it's because those mitochondria are not functioning properly.
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And so we need to help those factories get back online to make ATP.
00:39:01.840 --> 00:39:04.880
And sometimes they just need ingredients, right?
00:39:04.960 --> 00:39:06.559
You just need healthy supplementation.
00:39:06.639 --> 00:39:08.320
We talked about that recently.
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But sometimes we need to go and bulldoze those factories and rebuild new ones.
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And that is where fasting comes in.
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Fasting does that autophagy, that repair.
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And it's like, okay, that mitochondrial factory is a hot mess.
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Let's tear it down, let's get rid of those broken proteins.
00:39:27.199 --> 00:39:27.760
I love the packet.
00:39:28.400 --> 00:39:28.960
When you use packets.
00:39:29.119 --> 00:39:29.760
Yes, exactly.
00:39:29.840 --> 00:39:33.920
I know us 80s kids, um, 70s and 80s.
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But the truth of it is, like, we have these processes happening all of the time, and it's a balance of inflammation and destruction versus repair and restoration.
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Which one is winning?
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Are we more destruction or are we more repair?
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Because it's constantly happening.
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We are a dynamic process, it never stops until we die.
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And that's actually the definition of death is the that ATP no longer moves through the cells.
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The electrical activity stops.
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And our spirit says, okay, that body's done.
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Peace out.
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And so if you can just base boil it down to those two things, which one am I feeding?
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Am I feeding destruction and inflammation, or am I feeding healing and repairing?
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And it really does go deeper.
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We talk about this that your mind creates thoughts.
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Those thoughts create feelings, those feelings come from chemicals and they talk to every cell in your body.
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And that determines which side of the scale you're on.
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And so if you can get on the reparative scale with us at Fast of Faith, everything will shift.
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Yeah, I love that.
00:40:47.840 --> 00:40:52.880
I it's just it's some it's mind-blowing that the body works the way that it does.
00:40:53.199 --> 00:40:58.960
So I I think it's important to hear from women who have done the program.
00:40:59.199 --> 00:41:02.960
Um, and these two women, we're gonna share two stories with you today.
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Um, and the first one is gonna be Melody.
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And I'm looking forward to you hearing Melody's story because she was another woman who came into our community and really didn't know what she was looking for, but got so much out of it.
00:41:16.000 --> 00:41:18.159
So let's listen to her testimonial.
00:41:18.239 --> 00:41:20.400
I'm gonna play it because I know you haven't heard it.
00:41:20.719 --> 00:41:22.079
FastaFaith.
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I realize that it's not a diet, it is a lifestyle change.
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And I love that part of the program because I have completely shifted the way that I think when it comes to food.
00:41:37.920 --> 00:41:42.719
Before joining Fastaf, I was up and down all over the place.
00:41:42.880 --> 00:41:49.760
I have always struggled with my weight as far as maintaining and being healthy.
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Growing up, my journey began with my mom, who also is overweight, and she struggled with food, and food was our dependence, our emotional stability.
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I tried every diet on the market.
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But the difference is that I would gain it all back because I wasn't addressing the root issue of what really needed to be addressed when it came to a food dependency on things.
00:42:16.400 --> 00:42:19.519
So I started in January of 2025.
00:42:19.760 --> 00:42:29.760
They give me a meal plan that I can do, it's not a program that I buy as far as I have to eat this bar and I have to have so many calories, and I have to only have this.
00:42:30.159 --> 00:42:33.679
The program of food was like, wow, I can eat like fat.
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And I didn't feel guilty.
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And you always heard of like no carbs, no sugar.
00:42:38.639 --> 00:42:40.400
And although obviously Dr.
00:42:40.719 --> 00:42:47.440
Taz's program is getting rid of those, it didn't just say get rid of them, it gave you the why behind it.
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And so I realized, wait a minute, nothing with her comes in a box.
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Like this is all fresh foods.
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I was feeling so much better on the food.
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And then when I really started implementing the Lectio Divina and the Future Gazing, that's when things started to change about six months later.
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Not only did I get freedom from food, I found this newfound freedom in going to God when I needed to re-look at the way why I was eating the way I was doing it.
00:43:21.440 --> 00:43:22.960
Morgan is my coach.
00:43:23.119 --> 00:43:24.400
She is amazing.
00:43:24.639 --> 00:43:34.320
Having my first couple sessions with her, I realized, wow, when you speak to somebody about what you're going through, it really is different than just journaling it.
00:43:34.559 --> 00:43:41.440
Having a coach is like having somebody walk alongside with you rather than you being by yourself.
00:43:41.679 --> 00:43:51.360
Morgan has really helped me see how important it is to rely on the successes and not focus on the failures.
00:43:51.840 --> 00:43:56.400
I did immediately lose 15 pounds, like boom, like off the bat in the first 40 days.
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I sleep better.
00:43:58.079 --> 00:43:59.760
I started adding supplements.
00:44:00.320 --> 00:44:01.760
The supplements provided by Dr.
00:44:01.840 --> 00:44:06.960
Tabitha, and I saw a change in my energy as well through those.
00:44:07.360 --> 00:44:11.280
I also saw an increase in my mobility.
00:44:11.599 --> 00:44:16.320
I am healthier now, I think, than I have it in my entire life.
00:44:16.559 --> 00:44:29.519
And so I know that working through this program and seeing the spiritual aspect of the program, unless you do something about it, then nothing's going to change.
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Try it out.
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It's worth giving it 40 days.
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It's a program that transforms your thinking, your heart, the way that you look at things, because it goes to the root causes and the issues of things rather than just give you a plan or a checklist to say, Oh, I've done it and I've lost weight.
00:44:51.360 --> 00:44:53.199
But it doesn't transform you.
00:44:58.719 --> 00:45:11.840
I'm so glad that Melody addressed the fact that um even though we're removing things, it doesn't feel like deprivation because we're actually replacing it with better things that are healing and nourishing.
00:45:12.079 --> 00:45:16.800
And that's a pivotal thing to understand why you're doing something.
00:45:16.880 --> 00:45:20.639
Because if you're just told to do something, you probably won't do it for very long.
00:45:20.800 --> 00:45:22.480
You'll be like, well, whatever.
00:45:22.719 --> 00:45:31.920
But if you understand why and you feel the difference pretty much right away within days, you will continue to do it.
00:45:32.159 --> 00:45:39.280
Yeah, and I think she brought up a really good point of like she went through the 40-day program, but then there we have making this a lifestyle.
00:45:39.440 --> 00:45:44.960
So it's an opportunity to continue to work with your coach or stay in the community and learn how to make this a lifestyle.
00:45:45.039 --> 00:45:48.239
So this is not just 40 days and like you're out there on your own again.
00:45:48.400 --> 00:45:52.960
We are here for you every single week, and so is your coach, and that's what's powerful about it.
00:45:53.199 --> 00:45:56.159
The next testimonial we're gonna hear from is Sally.
00:45:56.320 --> 00:45:58.800
And Sally is near and dear to us because she is local.
00:45:58.880 --> 00:46:04.800
We actually met her at a local event, and so this is gonna be a really powerful testimonial for you to hear.
00:46:05.039 --> 00:46:12.159
And um, it's also shows the power of showing up and being in community because that's what she did during a Fast of Faith book study.
00:46:12.400 --> 00:46:25.280
If you're hesitant on joining this Fast of Faith program, I would say that there's so many reasons to do this, and it's so different than maybe what you've experienced before that you are worth it.
00:46:25.519 --> 00:46:27.920
And this is something I started early last year.
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It's been over a year.
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I'm continuing to follow it.
00:46:30.800 --> 00:46:35.599
I'm continuing to be in community with some of the folks from that program.
00:46:36.079 --> 00:46:39.519
And so I just think that it's not like any diet program.
00:46:39.840 --> 00:46:46.559
It truly is something that will foster a way of life for you and that will help you meet those goals like nothing else ever has.
00:46:46.800 --> 00:46:51.280
Nothing else worked for me before this, and I'm a true testament to the fact that it works.
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If you follow it and you use the community, it does work.
00:46:57.599 --> 00:47:01.840
Hi, I'm Sally Churchill and I am from Twin Lake, Michigan.
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Before Fast of Faith, I had struggled a lot with different diet programs.
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It was always a diet.
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It was go on it, and then eventually I would get tired of it and I would go off it and go right back to old habits.
00:47:15.519 --> 00:47:20.559
I'm 58 years old and that journey went on for as long as I can remember.
00:47:20.800 --> 00:47:26.800
One of the things that I really found with Fast of Faith is that it included the faith part of it.
00:47:26.960 --> 00:47:34.480
And I think bringing the faith part of this program into the health part of it, it was new for me.
00:47:34.639 --> 00:47:40.960
It was a way to really look to God for that help and motivation versus trying to do it all myself.
00:47:41.199 --> 00:47:53.280
And using some of the daily scripture and the calls that we had just continued to sort of re-emphasize for me that the body is the temple that God gave us, and I'm honoring God by taking care of it.
00:47:53.679 --> 00:47:58.719
So I think that really was the first time in all my years that I brought those two things together.
00:47:58.880 --> 00:48:02.480
When I followed the first 40-day program, I saw results.
00:48:02.639 --> 00:48:12.480
It made it that much easier to keep going with it because you do see results fairly quickly with the weight loss, which, as much as we say, let's not make it all about the weight loss, it certainly does help.
00:48:12.559 --> 00:48:13.840
And that's part of why I did it.
00:48:13.920 --> 00:48:17.360
I wanted to feel better about myself and feel better health-wise.
00:48:17.840 --> 00:48:25.920
My coach was Kristen Wurst, and she really helped me with all of the crazy questions that I had.
00:48:26.239 --> 00:48:30.719
I tend to be very sort of detail-oriented.
00:48:30.800 --> 00:48:39.360
I'm very OCD about if this is the program I'm following, I'm gonna put a log everything in the app and I'm gonna wanna hit those macros exact.
00:48:39.519 --> 00:48:48.159
And I think she really helped me with answering some of those questions, with helping me understand that we also have a life to live.
00:48:48.239 --> 00:48:52.079
And so it was okay if I didn't do things exactly on program.
00:48:52.400 --> 00:48:55.599
And so I was texting her constantly, just saying, What about this?
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What about that?
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Can I eat this?
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Can I eat that?
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So she was great at responding.
00:49:01.039 --> 00:49:08.719
God wants us to be happy and healthy, and there's so much in the Bible that he's given us that you don't think about.
00:49:08.800 --> 00:49:17.599
So he's given us tools, he's given us the ways that we can do some of that, and he's told us over and over again how he wants us to treat our bodies.
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I never had thought of that before.
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So I think just realizing that you can bring God into your life every day.
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It doesn't just have to be this solemn prayer with big words and organized church.
00:49:31.440 --> 00:49:35.679
It can be every morning going, wow, I'm struggling with this and I really want to feel better.
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Help me.
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Since completing the Fast Faith program, my results have been in several areas.
00:49:42.000 --> 00:49:44.239
So first and foremost, I did lose weight.
00:49:44.400 --> 00:49:54.480
So I lost uh about 45 pounds, which also resulted in going from I was pushing into getting tight with size 16s.
00:49:54.639 --> 00:50:01.199
Now I'm in a four to a six, more towards a four these days, way more energetic.
00:50:01.360 --> 00:50:03.039
Sleeping has been fantastic.
00:50:03.199 --> 00:50:07.039
I would say another big one for me is my relationship with alcohol.
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How I'm experiencing life, not doing it under an influence of alcohol or feeling like I have to do that every time I go somewhere.
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That's changed quite a bit.
00:50:16.559 --> 00:50:19.840
I did use the Fasta Faith supplements during this journey.
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I still use them.
00:50:21.199 --> 00:50:25.519
The ones that I use most often, I use the hormone tame, which is a multivitamin.
00:50:25.679 --> 00:50:30.079
I do omega, which is just good healthy fats and healthy oils.
00:50:30.239 --> 00:50:33.519
I take magnesium before I go to bed for sleep.
00:50:33.679 --> 00:50:40.159
And I think those supplements that I use from FastaFaith really helped me to stay on track with some of that as well.
00:50:40.320 --> 00:50:46.239
I think it's gonna sound crazy, but my favorite part of the 40-day journey was actually the three-day fast.
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I don't know what the right word is.
00:50:48.239 --> 00:50:54.559
It was just very kind of powerful to be able to say, I don't have to think about food.
00:50:55.039 --> 00:50:58.400
My body can survive without food for three days.
00:50:58.719 --> 00:51:04.320
That incredible sense of control over my body and over not letting food have that control over me.
00:51:04.559 --> 00:51:07.599
The community was really, it's almost a bit of a lifeline.
00:51:07.760 --> 00:51:13.599
I had so many questions about what kinds of supplements or food or how to hit macros.
00:51:13.840 --> 00:51:27.280
And I think the community being able to ask those questions, get lots of different inputs and ideas, and just have the general support that says, hey, we've been there, we've done this, we know you can do it, we know it works, keep on going.
00:51:27.440 --> 00:51:29.840
And that support was really a huge piece of it.
00:51:30.079 --> 00:51:42.960
I think the Monday calls just continued to reiterate what the community was and what the book tells you, but it reiterates the real world struggles that people are dealing with.
00:51:43.199 --> 00:51:48.960
And a lot of times there would be a question that would come up that I had been thinking about.
00:51:49.119 --> 00:51:54.239
I didn't ask it, and it seems it was always like, oh yeah, that I need to know about that too.
00:51:54.400 --> 00:51:56.480
And we go into details, and Dr.
00:51:56.559 --> 00:52:02.239
Tabitha would really help explain in plain English in a way that we could all understand.
00:52:02.400 --> 00:52:10.559
She would explain a little bit of the science behind some of it, as well as just the God part of it that helped you pull it all together.
00:52:15.679 --> 00:52:22.079
Oh my gosh, I love Sally's testimony, but I love seeing her before and after.
00:52:22.159 --> 00:52:24.320
It is like right in your face.
00:52:24.400 --> 00:52:26.800
It's so obvious the difference.
00:52:26.960 --> 00:52:29.039
And that is fast of faith.
00:52:29.119 --> 00:52:34.079
Like you're gonna see it, you're gonna feel it, other people are gonna see it and feel it.
00:52:34.239 --> 00:52:37.840
We get testimonials from husbands, like, thank you so much.
00:52:38.079 --> 00:52:40.800
I love my wife again, she loves me again.
00:52:41.119 --> 00:52:55.119
Because here's the truth of it when you are struggling physically and mentally, it impacts your relationships, it changes how you show up for your partner, for your coworkers, for your children, for your friends.
00:52:55.280 --> 00:52:56.639
It just does.
00:52:56.880 --> 00:53:04.159
When you are struggling, you're you might not be very nice, or you might be short-tempered, or whatever it is.
00:53:04.400 --> 00:53:19.119
So maybe you're not even feeling ready to do this before for yourself, or you're not feeling worthy, or you just don't think it's gonna work because you've done every other program and it wasn't sustainable, it didn't work.
00:53:19.679 --> 00:53:22.000
Do this for the people you love.
00:53:22.159 --> 00:53:23.599
You will not regret it.
00:53:23.760 --> 00:53:25.199
It will change your life.
00:53:25.280 --> 00:53:28.320
Like, I I'll give you your money back if it doesn't.
00:53:28.480 --> 00:53:30.320
That is how much I believe in this.
00:53:30.400 --> 00:53:34.800
Like time and time again, women's lives are changed.
00:53:35.039 --> 00:53:36.000
Yeah, they are.
00:53:36.159 --> 00:53:46.320
And I think something that we should address right here, you you said it beautifully, is like, why do women succeed in fast of faith when they've failed at so many other things?
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Because God is in control.
00:53:50.639 --> 00:53:51.440
All right, yeah.
00:53:51.679 --> 00:54:06.639
We are asking God to heal us, and he gives us the resources, he gives us the information, but until you give him permission to actually heal you, you have free will, ladies.
00:54:06.960 --> 00:54:08.960
He's waiting for that invitation.
00:54:09.199 --> 00:54:14.079
He wants to be a part of this, but he is not going to bulldoze you.
00:54:14.639 --> 00:54:24.159
He that's that's the magic and the beauty of faith, but he will show up and get to work if you invite him in.
00:54:24.480 --> 00:54:24.960
Yeah.
00:54:25.119 --> 00:54:39.599
Um, and I think that there are six pillars that you talk about, and those six pillars will clearly show why this Fast of Faith program works and when so many other things have failed.
00:54:39.760 --> 00:54:49.280
Um, and the very first one is that we fast as women, and this isn't a copy-paste from some male written program, and that's what makes us different.
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100%.
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Yeah.
00:54:51.039 --> 00:54:54.800
I mean, that is pivotal, that is going to balance your hormones.
00:54:54.880 --> 00:55:01.039
And like you mentioned, we have different types of the 40-day program based on where you are at.
00:55:01.280 --> 00:55:20.800
So fasting when you're trying to have a baby looks different than fasting in a menopausal state versus fasting as an athlete, training for a triathlon versus someone um who is carnivore, and some maybe they're doing that to heal the microbiome in the gut, or that's just their preference.
00:55:21.039 --> 00:55:27.599
And so we address all of this, and it's it's so cool that we have all these different programs.
00:55:27.920 --> 00:55:31.440
Yeah, and then we also cycle with um fasting and feasting.
00:55:31.920 --> 00:55:33.280
Yeah, which is key.
00:55:33.440 --> 00:55:40.639
You have got to eat after you fast, or your thyroid will think you are starving it to death.
00:55:40.800 --> 00:55:45.199
It will downregulate your metabolism, it will hold on to your fat harder.
00:55:45.360 --> 00:55:55.360
We know from the studies and from watching The Biggest Loser, chronic calorie deprivation does not keep that weight off.
00:55:55.519 --> 00:55:58.960
You might lose it initially, it's gonna come back with a vengeance.
00:55:59.119 --> 00:56:04.559
So the feasting part is just as important as the fasting, and that is what we teach in the program.
00:56:04.719 --> 00:56:07.840
Yeah, because we don't want our metabolism to adapt and stall.
00:56:07.920 --> 00:56:09.760
So that's what's key about this.
00:56:09.920 --> 00:56:15.039
And then we also for focus on um nourishment, and that's that protein fat fiber.
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Yeah, that is really essential.
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We we teach you how how healthy fats are essential for your hormone production, for your cell receptor production and function, and that is why we have a functional nutritionist on the team.
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It's like imperative that we're actually eating faith foods, the foods that God created for our bodies to thrive.
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Yes, and these next two go together.
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We regulate the nervous system, and then we also renew the mind.
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And it's all goes back to scripture, which is Romans 12, 2, that you talk about so much.
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Yeah.
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You do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.
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That is absolutely essential if you want to show up differently in life.
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If you want to break up with your bad habits, if you want to quit sleeping in and hitting this news button, if you want to quit reaching for the Snickers bar or the afternoon Starbucks, some reprogramming has to happen.
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And that piece is essential.
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And as a physician, as a scientist, as a surgeon, I understand the neurochemistry and the neuroplasticity that has to happen.
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And we use scripture as our foundation to do all that scientific reprogramming.
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Yeah.
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And so the last one is we do it in a sisterhood.
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And I feel like we've talked about this throughout the whole episode.
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And I think it's just because it's so important to you and I.
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Like, community is really important.
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And these women have helped us in our own lives.
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And so, in showing up as a messy Christian, it is okay.
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Like, we are not perfect women in this group.
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And I think that's what is so powerful about this sisterhood is we're open and we're honest, and you share all the time.
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I mean, you just went through the keto flu last week yourself, right?
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And you shared like you were pumping them up on Monday, and by Tuesday she had the keto flu, you guys.
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And so it was one of those things where, like, we're real and things happen.
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Uh, thanks for calling me out.
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Yeah, you're welcome.
00:58:16.159 --> 00:58:17.599
She does it to me enough, right, ladies?
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I know.
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No, honestly, I I need to share this because I say this all the time.
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It's from one of my mentors, JJ Virgin.
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You cannot see the picture when you're in the frame.
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So, even me, I am a trained expert in fasting.
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I live a fasting lifestyle for a decade now.
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I teach it, I teach my coaches.
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I literally was giving the advice on Monday about going into the three-day water fast prepared.
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Make sure you've gone through the two phases that come before.
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Make sure you are fat adapted and you are not in sugar burning mode.
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Make sure that you have your electrolytes replenished and on board so that you don't struggle when you take away the food.
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Having said that, I went into a three-day water fast without doing that advice because my ego thought, I've been doing this for a decade.
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My body knows how to do it.
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I'll just like in full transparency, I was in California with my kids for a week eating garbage.
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We we ate nonstop fast food, sugar.
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I was trying all the Hayley Bieber smoothies and all the garbage.
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I was living a 15-year-old vacation life.
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And that's okay.
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But my body just did not go into ketosis.
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But I think you I think you went through that though, because you want you needed to help women and have this reminder.
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I think it was so powerful.
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Yeah, it it sucked on all levels.
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Like it didn't.
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It affected me.
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But you know what I mean?
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It did, like it, and it sucked for you.
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And it it you're still recovering.
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And so it's one of those things where like it happened, but it happened for a reason, and you're using that instead of making an excuse and hiding about it in shame.
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So I think it's so powerful.
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And and the truth of it is that is why women say to us all the time, I love you, Dr.
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Tabitha, because you're real, because you're honest, because you're messy, you're not trying to be perfect.
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I'm like, let me use my mistakes to teach you guys, you know.
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And I truly believe God was just reminding me, you gotta live out what you're speaking out every single day.
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You are teaching women, you are guiding them, you have to be living by example.
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And I wasn't living by example in that moment, and I take full ownership of that, and man, did I suffer consequences.
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So if you've ever tried to do a longer fast and you got shaky, hangry, jittery, migraine, raging headache, um feeling like you have a fever, like you can't regulate your temperature, you're hot, you're cold, you got the jitter nausea.
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Like I tried to drink some electrolytes and I threw them up.
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I was so nauseous.
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That is a sign that you have not gotten into ketosis, that you are continuing to have a low blood sugar and you can't get out of it.
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So don't let that steer you away from fasting.
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It's a just telling you that you need to do it in a specific way.
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So please don't be afraid of it.
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It's the most powerful tool that God has given us.
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I call it like it's a supernatural tool.
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And I I just want you to experience it the right way with us.
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Yeah.
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So if Lent has you feeling like something you should do, um, but you're hungry for real transformation, I invite you to join us for Fast of Faith for the Lent.
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We start on 218.
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If you're listening to this podcast after 218, there is still time to join us.
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It is not too late.
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And so we would love to see you in there.
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Absolutely.
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Don't make an excuse that it already started or like those are lies from the enemy.
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Just make a decision.
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I'm gonna do this.
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I'm gonna do this for me.
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Just sign up and begin.
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We meet women who come in every day.
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Like, we don't always start as one group.
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So don't let that deter you.
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We want to see you in there, we want to pour into you, we want to pray over you as a group, and we want to educate you on the truth about your body and why you've stayed stuck and throw you a ladder in that pit and get you out.
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Yes.
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Ladies, I hope to see you on Monday.
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Yay! Yay! Oh my gosh, I can't wait.
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Love you guys.
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Bye.