Let's be honest—if you've Googled intermittent fasting lately, you've probably ended up in a rabbit hole of conflicting advice, extreme protocols, and someone telling you that hunger is just a mindset.

This episode is not that.

Carrie sits down with holistic health practitioner Jim Jackson to cut through the noise on one of the most talked-about (and most misunderstood) approaches to eating. No dogma, no hardcore protocols—just a real conversation about what intermittent fasting actually is, why it's not as scary as it sounds, and how to start in a way that doesn't make you want to quit by day three.

In this episode:

• What intermittent fasting actually is (and isn’t)—and why your ancestors were basically already doing it
• The difference between real hunger and "I'm bored and the kitchen ...