Real fasting stories, practical food peace.
Intermittent Fasting Stories is an interview-led health show built around personal accounts of intermittent fasting. Guests trace the messy path from diet rules, weight changes, cravings, illness, and body image toward more practical eating rhythms.
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Intermittent Fasting Stories is built around first-person accounts of intermittent fasting, presented through warm, steady interviews. The show’s rhythm is familiar and dependable. A guest starts with a food and health origin story, then the conversation follows the turns that made fasting feel possible, useful, or sustainable. Those turns can be practical: eating windows, exercise habits, hunger cues, meal satisfaction, cravings, and what to eat when the window opens. They can also be deeply personal. Guests talk about body image, childhood food memories, college weight gain, family health patterns, emotional eating, illness, sleep, aging, confidence, and the complicated pull of wanting both pleasure and control around food. The show is not framed like a debate. It is a testimonial space, and the people featured generally speak from the perspective that fasting helped them. That gives the episodes a clear emotional current: relief after diet confusion, pride after experimentation, and the hope that a calmer relationship with food is possible. Short practical lessons surface inside the stories rather than arriving as lectures. A conversation about being tall becomes a reflection on modeling confidence for daughters. A memory of a dining hall meal becomes a look at old nutrition rules and unintended weight gain. A discussion of beans and satisfaction turns into a broader point about physical, nutritional, and emotional fullness. The host’s presence is affirming, curious, and lightly corrective when needed, with regular reminders that the podcast is not a substitute for medical advice. The result is a health show for people who want encouragement, lived experience, and everyday language more than dense science or rigid plans.
Made for: For intermittent fasters, fasting-curious listeners, and people trying to quiet diet noise while rebuilding trust around food, hunger, and satisfaction. It especially suits listeners who prefer personal stories over technical nutrition lectures.
What sets it apart: The show’s strength is its archive of lived experiments: many guests connecting fasting to real food histories, family patterns, health worries, and body confidence. It feels more like a steady conversation than a protocol manual.
Are you ready to be inspired? Tune in each week to hear real-world stories from successful intermittent fasters, including their best tips to help you find success. Intermittent Fasting Stories is hosted by Gin Stephens, author of the New York Times bestseller Fast Feast Repeat, as well as her other books: Cleanish, Delay, Don't Deny, and Feast Without Fear. Looking for a community of like-minded intermittent fasters? Go to ginstephens.com/community for more information and to join.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Personal fasting accounts reveal how hunger, body image, exercise, and food habits change when people reorganize when they eat.
Intermittent Fasting Stories builds each conversation around one person's lived history with food, weight, exercise, and fasting. Gin Stephens gives guests room to trace how their habits changed, including shifts in hunger cues, food noise, body confidence, and ideas about…
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A personal fasting story about fewer illnesses, fewer doctor visits, and keeping work moving through COVID.
Peter's account keeps its focus on the everyday changes that fasting brought: fewer illnesses, fewer doctor visits, and less time lost to routine sickness.
Standing tall becomes a small lesson in refusing to shrink.
Height becomes a way into self-consciousness, posture, and the slow work of learning not to shrink. The speaker describes needing years to feel at home in being six feet tall, remembering school corridors and classroom doorways where she tried to make herself look smaller before…
A college food story built around exercise, family walks, and a walk-on rowing invitation.
The episode follows a familiar health puzzle: freshman-year eating, a 45-pound gain, and the uneasy feeling that the right foods should have fixed things.
A warm look at fasting, food pleasure, and the kinds of satisfaction that shape an eating window.
This episode keeps food pleasure at the center of intermittent fasting, with a focus on what makes an eating window feel genuinely satisfying.
A guest traces fasting from a 2020 start to quieter food thoughts and a more deliberate eating window.
The episode follows a guest who began intermittent fasting in 2020 and found that a narrower eating window gradually changed her relationship with food.
A grounded look at how food weight and density can shape satisfaction during an eating window.
The episode keeps its focus on a practical intermittent fasting question: what makes an eating window feel satisfying rather than merely compliant.
A grounded fertility story finds its force in the space between a difficult prediction and an unexpected pregnancy.
This single-episode review follows fertility anxiety through a health history that started in the late teenage years, when a long stretch without a period led to testing and a diagnosis of polycystic ovaries. Continuous birth control was the first answer.
Researchers, doctors and coaches, translated into everyday health stakes.
Supplement labels, decoded with conviction.
Practical health conversations for reducing overwhelm.
This episode promotes the Eat Like a Grown-Up program, a 52-week journey in the Fast Feast Repeat app to build a peaceful relationship with food and improve digestion through intermittent fasting resources.
This episode promotes the Eat Like a Grown-Up program for building a healthy relationship with food and discusses the importance of magnesium for deep sleep.
Host Gin Stephens interviews Jasmine, a deputy principal from Australia's Gold Coast, about her intermittent fasting journey.
Host Gin Stephens interviews Karen Hiebert, a 62-year-old from Winnipeg, Canada, who started intermittent fasting in July 2024.
This episode promotes the Eat Like a Grown-Up program, a 52-week journey in the Fast Feast Repeat app designed to help listeners build a peaceful relationship with food through intermittent fasting and addresses digestion issues related to enzyme decline.
This episode promotes the Eat Like a Grown-Up program for building a healthy relationship with food and discusses the importance of deep sleep and magnesium for overall wellness.
This episode promotes the Eat Like a Grown-Up program in the Fast Feast Repeat app, offering a 52-week journey to build a peaceful relationship with food and improve digestion through intermittent fasting resources.
Peter talks through the health story that shaped his view of intermittent fasting.
This episode introduces the Eat Like a Grown-Up program, a 52-week journey in the Fast Feast Repeat app to help listeners build a confident relationship with food through intermittent fasting without dieting or guilt.
This episode introduces the Eat Like a Grown-Up program, a 52-week journey in the Fast Feast Repeat app to build a peaceful relationship with food without dieting, and sets up for an inspirational story about intermittent fasting.
This episode promotes the Eat Like a Grown-Up program for building a healthy relationship with food through intermittent fasting and discusses the importance of deep sleep and magnesium for recovery and cravings.
This episode introduces the Eat Like a Grown-Up program, a 52-week journey in the Fast Feast Repeat app designed to help listeners build a peaceful relationship with food through intermittent fasting without dieting or guilt.
Intermittent Fasting Stories Episode 509 follows Lisa Dainty-Wall, a finance director in Leeds, as she explains why she started fasting on September 12, 2020 after friend Naomi pointed her to the Intermittent Fasting Podcast.
It opens with a dining-hall memory.
The episode turns toward a simple but slippery question: what makes eating feel satisfying.
The guest traces her move into fasting to 2020.