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26: Fasting for Women & Music Therapy

Published: March 6, 2015, 5:11 p.m.

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Abel James, creator of the popular blog FatBurningMan,\\xa0joins me in this episode to talk about female specific fasting for weight loss and mental performance, how to lose weight while eating chocolate, and using music for therapy.

Abel is a modern day Renaissance man and bestselling author, award winning podcaster, world traveler and husband to Alyson. He has advised fortune 500 companies and is an acclaimed speaker. Abel graduated as a Senior Fellow with Honors at Dartmouth College with a concentration in Psychological and Brain Sciences and has traveled the world as a musician. His book The Wild Diet and his new musical album both release this spring.

In this episode, we talk about:

  • Abel\\u2019s own journey to health that involved following his doctors advice and gaining 30 pounds in the process before finding his own answers and losing 20 pounds effortlessly in 40 days (while still eating chocolate)
  • What the \\u201cWild Diet\\u201d is and how it is different from other diets
  • Abel\\u2019s take on fasting and the special rules that apply to women
  • Emotional attachments to food and how our modern mindset about food often sets us up for failure
  • How stress impacts living and the lessons Abel learned from going off grid and turning off technology
  • The role of music in health and therapy and how to foster love of music\\xa0in your children
  • What moms can learn from bodybuilders about health
  • Things that are hiding in health foods

Abel also shares his three tips for getting a jumpstart on creating healthier habits, his favorite online resource and the advice he wishes he\\u2019d gotten earlier in life.

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Katie: Hi, and welcome to the Wellness Mama podcast. I\\u2019m Katie from wellnessmama.com. A random fact: did you know that fasting is an age old remedy that has been around since even before biblical times. In fact, Plato was famous for saying I fast for greater physical and mental efficiency. Today\\u2019s guest knows quite a bit about that and pretty much everything else. Abel James is a bestselling author, musician, speaker, and entrepreneur. He\\u2019s a modern day Renaissance man. He\\u2019s had one of the number one rated health podcasts in more than eight countries. He\\u2019s a best-selling author. He has an award winning web series, The Fat Burning Man, and he\\u2019s helped millions of people reclaim their health. He\\u2019s here to talk to us today specifically about his new book, &ls

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