🙌 Meet Sheena!
Sheena lives in Canada, has two children, aged 7 and 9, and enjoys painting in her spare time. Sheena has been intermittent fasting for over a year and has lost more than 31 pounds!
In 2014, Sheena was diagnosed with fibromyalgia — a condition that causes pain all over the body, triggers some major health issues, and makes lots of things challenging. For a period of time, Sheena was even unable to walk, which was shocking. Besides, she wasn’t able to work out (as she was involved in different diet programs, she felt that she had to work out to lose weight).
At the beginning of 2021, she tried intermittent fasting and it changed everything. This is what Sheena told us: “IF is so easy — now I see the changes — and the inches are dropping. But before I HAD to work out; it wasn’t visible to keep that up.”
🙌 But the benefits didn’t stop at weight loss
“My most significant change was when I’m eating. I look at what I’m eating and why I’ve chosen it; is it physical hunger, or am I emotionally hungry?”
Sheena also discovered the anti-inflammatory benefits of intermittent fasting: “I used to get sick all the time — ever since I started IF, I haven’t been sick at all.”
People with fibromyalgia experienced less pain after losing a few pounds, according to a 2012 study in Clinical Rheumatology. There is also emerging evidence that intermittent fasting could improve symptoms of this disease, such as a 2005 observational study from BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies.
“I had no expectations. I thought that this was not going to work, but now it has. It’s so easy for me to follow and I can still enjoy my life.”
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