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Feast

Without Fear

Food and the Delay, Dont Deny Lifestyle

Gin Stephens

Copyright 2017 Gin Stephens

All rights reserved.

ISBN: 1977820182

ISBN-13: 978-1977820181

DEDICATION

And a special message from me, Gin,

to you, the reader

T his book is dedicated to YOU: all of the dieters of the world, who have searched and searched for the perfect foods to eat. You know what I mean: that special, magical food plan that will lead to amazing weight loss and give you the body of a fitness model.

Does this one perfect diet even exist? Spoiler alert: NO.

My goal in writing this book is to teach you how to Feast Without Fear . You will learn how to choose foods that work best for your unique body, and why we are not all the same when it comes to foods that work well for us.

I am not here to be your health or medical guru. Instead, allow me to sit beside you in the role of friend: someone who has done the research for you, and is sharing the synopsis of it with you here, in this book.

The bad news is that you probably still wont have the body of a fitness model. Hey, maybe you will. (I dont.) But, even without that, the best news is that you will once again be free to enjoy the foods you love, free of the guilt that a lifetime of dieting has brought you.

Free to Feast Without Fear .

Also by Gin Stephens:

Delay, Dont Deny:

Living an Intermittent Fasting Lifestyle

Available through most online book and e-book retailers.

Visit

www.ginstephens.com

for blog posts and intermittent fasting success stories

Subscribe to The Intermittent Fasting Podcast !

Go to

www.ifpodcast.com

to learn more

Foreword

G in Stephens is one of the most uplifting and heartfelt authors I've had the pleasure to get to know. She and I connected privately after I joined her Facebook intermittent fasting support group, and I knew right away that Gin was someone who was genuine and kind. She has one of the most important qualities of every good teacher: never stop learning. As a doctor who is a fan of intermittent fasting, and an intermittent faster myself, I was immediately impressed with her knowledge and guidance on intermittent fasting. I admire her openness and willingness to connect to her readers, and how she encourages them to succeed.

Gin walks her talk and is a compassionate listener and communicator. She wrote her first book, Delay, Don't Deny , after losing 80 pounds and keeping it off for more than two years now. She created two very popular Facebook groups: Delay, Don't Deny: Intermittent Fasting Support and One Meal a Day IF Lifestyle . An avid believer in clean fasting and an active participant in these groups herself, she directs you back to the basic premise of intermittent fasting, while encouraging you to be in charge of what type of food plan you wish to follow. Although she has over 37,000+ followers in her Facebook support groups, Gin takes the time to give people individual attention. She is engaging, friendly, and well-educated, and if you'd like to get a taste of her Southern charm, you can hear her and her co-host, Melanie Avalon, as they answer readers questions on their podcast: The Intermittent Fasting Podcast .

When you are an active participant in your online groups with a heart as big as Gins, you want to see your readers succeedand succeed they do! However, some come in looking for WHAT to eat, not just WHEN to eat. Its important to understand that when you are living an intermittent fasting lifestyle, your body and mind may be going through some amazing shifts behind the scenes: decreased pain and inflammation, cellular repair, reduced insulin resistance, autophagy, increase in human growth hormone, and an increase in neurogenesis and neuronal plasticity. But because of this, the more you have to heal, the longer it may take for you to see weight loss on the scale.

Gin recognizes, as do I, that people tend to hyper-focus and blame the food they are eating for the slow pace of their weight loss, rather than the fact that their body may be going through a series of adaptations and compensations. As a result, their body will shift between weight loss and healing and repair as it sees fit. Because of the dynamics of the body, people tend to fear eating the wrong types of food, and may eliminate entire food groups altogether, seeking a universal diet for weight loss. Sometimes, they will even give up before they reap the impressive benefits of intermittent fasting. Feast Without Fear will debunk the myths that you have to eliminate entire food groups in order to lose weight, or that you have to count calories, fat, or carb grams to succeed. It also will help you to understand that what works for me may not work for you.

As a Holistic Practitioner with over 18 years of experience, I can tell you for certain that Gin is right onthere is no universal diet for weight loss. In my practice, I focus on food intolerances, leaky gut, autoimmune conditions, digestive health, chronic dis-ease and various inflammatory conditions. I practice functional medicine, which means I address the underlying cause of disease or dysfunction and focus on the health and healing of the whole person to bring them back into balance. I use a combination of lifestyle changes, mental and emotional counseling, essential oils, and plant-based medicine to bring patients bodies back into an optimal state of health. I engage in a patient-and-practitioner therapeutic partnership, where we each play detective to successfully resolve their individual health challenges.

In my practice, each person is taught an individualized food plan based on their own biochemistry and how foods make them feel, and also based on how their bodies react. We work on optimizing their individual metabolisms by taking a look at the whole person: their food, sleep, exercise, stress level, and mental/emotional health. I teach my patients, as Gin does in Feast Without Fear , that food is information, not a math problem. I tell my patients that your body is more like a chemistry lab and less like a bank account.

There is nothing to fear on this journey. Your body wants to heal, it wants to thrive, it wants to perform optimally, and it wants to live at its ideal weight. As I do with patients in my private practice, Feast Without Fear will teach you to have a relationship with your body. First, you fast. Then, you feast. You wait, you listen, you live, you move, you pay attention to how you feel, you record feedback, and you begin again the following day. And the great part about this is, over time, as your body heals, the feedback changes, allowing you to eat more foods that may have bothered you in the past.