In this short, Dr. Tabatha Barber and her coaching team discuss a holistic approach to women’s nutrition that rejects fear of dietary fat and fasting. They argue that the body is designed to thrive on periods of fasting and that constant snacking on sugary foods is unhealthy. The speakers promote a two‑meal-a‑day framework, urging women to ensure each meal contains sufficient protein, fat, and the nutrients typically spread across three meals. They introduce the “feast‑famine” cycle, allowing occasional higher‑carb days—such as during vacations—provided protein and fat remain adequate. The conversation also tackles the emotional side of eating, highlighting how guilt, shame, and “food noise” trap women in constant food‑related anxiety. By shifting mindset and structure, women can experience freedom from energy crashes and a healthier relationship with food.
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I hope everybody listening is starting to realize that fat is not something to fear. Fasting is not something to fear. It's actually how God created our bodies to function and thrive, not just like survive, but to thrive. So this idea of eating every couple hours, being on the sugar roller coaster, even if it's a bagel and potato chips and whatever, it is not healthy. It is not how we were created to function.
Women don't realize that they're not eating enough. And so once they start eating enough at each meal, they don't need the snacks. And they might be able to get down to 2 meals, but then they, what we have to then teach is that even though you're only eating 2 meals, you still need to eat enough at those 2 meals and take all of the stuff you were supposed to eat at the 3rd meal and divide it into the 1st and 2nd. And so they also realize how simple this is once they really truly understand the 2, 10, 20, 30.
And I think also, like, it's important to note that it's usually like something that we're adding, right? It's usually like we need more fats, we need more protein, like that's what helps you feel better. Not exactly.
And I think too is the feast, uh, feast-famine cycle is so important because women realize that they can actually have a couple days a month where they can eat high carbs.
Like when you are living a Fast to Faith lifestyle, you can have those kind of days and you don't have to worry about it.
I love when women who are working with us go on vacation or have to travel for work and maybe they have to have a couple higher carb days, or they're just— they just enjoy themselves on vacation. But they come back and they're like, this is the best I've ever felt coming back from vacation, because they have a plan they can get right back to. Or while they were eating those higher carb days, they were still eating enough protein and fat, because that's where so many women screw up, is like, they're like, well, I'm gonna have all these carbs, but then they don't eat any protein or fat because they're limiting themselves.
Yeah, that is a recipe for disaster. I know. I love when they come back from vacation and they're like, oh my gosh, I lost weight. I didn't have hangovers. I didn't, you know, gain weight like I normally do.
They didn't have the guilt either.
We do need to talk about that because it is a huge deal. Food is so wrapped up in our emotions and the guilt and the shame that we carry What are some of the things that you love seeing when women are realizing, like, I don't have to carry all this shame around what I'm putting in my mouth?
Food noise.
That's my favorite part of coaching women through this is that they, it's like all of a sudden they feel free.
Yeah.
Free from constantly thinking about food, free from being on those energy crashes all the time, free from like just letting that run their lives.
