Your personalised fasting program for success

Get a professional assessment of your health status and goals, which forms the basis of a customised fasting plan that optimises success

I’m a certified Fast Like A Girl (FLAG) coach, which means I’m trained in how to align fasting practices with each woman’s individual needs, whether they’re cycling, perimenopausal or postmenopausal.

I’ve personally been fasting since my late teens, and have tried everything under the sun, but I wasn’t aware that women need to fast differently, like a girl. I’ve also been using fasting successfully with clients for weight loss, gut health, autoimmunity and more.

Cyclical Fasting for Women

Fasting can improve the health of key hormones like insulin, cortisol and sex hormones. But fasting routines need to be adjusted according to a woman’s menstrual cycle, or absence of one, to avoid hormonal disruption.

Personalisation

Professional personalisation and support can be integral to the success of fasting regimens. They ensure that fasting is tailored to individual health needs and goals, provide ongoing monitoring and adjustments, and offer emotional and behavioural support. This comprehensive approach enhances the effectiveness and sustainability of fasting, leading to better health outcomes. Fasting can be a powerful and empowering tool to help women overcome health and weight challenges.

Variety in Fasting Protocols

Fasting routines also need to vary to prevent the body from adapting and to avoid metabolic slowdown. This includes mixing intermittent fasting, prolonged fasting and fasting mimicking diets, along with macronutrient ratios.

Nutrition

The quality and quantity of our diet during eating windows is important to optimising fasting outcomes and achieving fasting goals. I rely on my nutrition background to help tailor women’s diets to achieve their goals.

fasting roadblocks

Sometimes people find it difficult to fast, lose weight while fasting, or achieve their health goals. Fasting protocols, and what’s eaten during eating windows, can be tweaked to overcome these. Detoxification, eating too little, an inability to metabolically switch to fat burning, are some examples of these.

Ongoing Monitoring and Adjustments

Regular check-ins ensure tracking progress, making necessary adjustments, and addressing any adverse effects to maintain effectiveness and sustainability. support offers motivation, accountability, emotional encouragement, and practical tips, enhancing the overall fasting experience.

Some advantages of fasting over other approaches to health & weight loss

Metabolic Flexibility

Enhanced Fat Burning

Fasting can increase the body’s ability to burn fat for energy, which can be more effective for weight loss and metabolic health than specific diets or supplements.

Improved Insulin Sensitivity

Fasting can improve insulin sensitivity more directly and effectively than some dietary supplements or herbal remedies, helping to manage and potentially reverse insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes.

Autophagy & Cell Repair

Natural Cell Cleanup

Fasting triggers autophagy, a process where the body cleans out damaged cells and regenerates new ones. This process is more comprehensive and natural compared to some complementary approaches that might use targeted supplements to support cellular health.

Enhanced Recovery

The cellular repair mechanisms activated during fasting can aid in faster recovery from injuries and illnesses, potentially offering broader benefits than some specific herbal remedies or treatments.

Hormonal Regulation

Balanced Hormones

Fasting can help regulate hormones like insulin, leptin and ghrelin, which control hunger and energy balance. This can be more holistic compared to using specific supplements to target individual hormonal pathways.

Lower Cost

Fasting often requires no additional cost, unlike other complementary medicine approaches that may involve functional testing, purchasing lots of supplements, or undergoing specific support.

Simplicity

The simplicity of fasting (abstaining from food) makes it accessible and easy to implement. Fasting is empowering and gives people control over their body for the long term.

Broad Health Benefits

Systemic Benefits

Fasting can simultaneously address multiple health issues such as weight management, metabolic health, inflammation and cognitive function, offering a more comprehensive approach than some complementary therapies that might focus on one or two areas.

Research Support

Growing scientific research supports the benefits of fasting, providing a robust evidence base.

Behavioral & Lifestyle Integration

Promotes Healthy Habits

Fasting can encourage mindful eating and healthier food choices during eating periods, potentially fostering long-term healthy habits more effectively than some complementary therapies that do not directly address eating behaviours.

gut healing & balance

Fasting allows the gut to heal and promotes microbial balance. Longer fasting promotes stem cell creation, an otherwise costly therapy.

the power of fasting

Fasting harnesses metabolic, cellular and cognitive benefits to enhance health and promote weight management, from heart health, insulin sensitivity, digestive well-being, reduced inflammation to improved longevity. Fasting can be complete, partial, extended, intermittent, or a combination of these.

Here are some research-based benefits.

Weight Management

Fasting can help with weight loss by reducing calorie intake and influencing metabolic processes like insulin sensitivity, which promotes fat burning.

Improved Insulin Sensitivity

Fasting has been shown to lower insulin levels and improve insulin sensitivity, which can help prevent type 2 diabetes.

Cellular Repair and Autophagy

During fasting, cells initiate a cellular repair process called autophagy, where they remove dysfunctional proteins that build up inside cells.

Heart Health

Fasting can improve heart health markers like blood pressure, cholesterol levels, triglycerides and inflammatory markers.

Brain Function

Fasting can enhance brain function and protect against neurodegenerative diseases by promoting the production of brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF).

Longevity

Studies show that intermittent fasting can extend lifespan.

Reduction in Inflammation

Fasting may reduce markers of inflammation, which is linked to various chronic diseases.

Digestive Health

Giving the digestive system a break during fasting improves gut health and healing, and reduces the symptoms of disorders like irritable bowel syndrome (IBS).