The Intermittent Fasting Podcast

I really enjoy listening to this podcast. The questions are great, and the answers are really good! I have listened to all the podcasts. I think Melanie and Vanessa are a great fit with Vanessa’s nutrition background. I have seen a few reviews of people who do not enjoy the catch-up part at the beginning before the questions, and I suppose this part could be shortened a bit, but I enjoy hearing this information as it gives a window into 2 people’s IF lifestyles and Melanie and Vanessa are very in tune with each other. Hearing about the podcaster’s lives also helps personalize them and provides a perspective for their advice and answers to questions. I also enjoy hearing about Prague and now I want to visit. I have really pared down the number of podcasts I listen to but this one is definitely staying in my permanent line-up.

Between the long chit chat for the first 1/3 to 1/2 of each episode and the numerous ads, there’s about 20 minutes of great information, but I can’t keep listening to it as it’s too time-consuming.

The topics listed are always so enticing, but then the podcast itself is 95% other junk. It's a disappointment every single week. They started adding more Intermittent fasting content because there was absolutely none for a number of months, but the IF and other useful info is still really minimal compared to what you can get on other podcasts on the topic.

It’s so blatantly and PAINFULLY clear that Melanie has a severe eating disorder. Everything she says about her eating & food behaviors is DISORDERED. Shes the last person anyone should be taking diet advice from. Shes harming people with the normalization of Anorexic & orthorexic behaviors. Shes severely underweight, malnourished & sick. She’s anorexic.she lies & claims she is healthy. Her diet is restrictive & she does anything she can to stay as underweight as possible. She is TOXIC. She STARVES HERSELF! And she TALKS about her extremely restrictive diet over and over again! All she eats is meat and cucumbers. No seasonings. Never a drop of sweet taste in her mouth because “she can’t handle it”. You can hear the terror and fear in her voice when she talks about sweet treats that she will never allow herself to have unless she’s on her death bed. These are HER WORDS!! She is sick!! I can no longer support this podcast and Melanie Avalon because she is irresponsible with the information she is putting out, it’s CLEAR she has anorexia and her restrictive eating patterns has resulted in weight loss to the point of unhealth. She is the LAST PERSON anyone should be taking diet or food advice from. Her entire mentality around food, eating and weight is completely disordered. She posts photos of herself on Instagram showing her boney arms and bones in her neck and chest. She is clearly obsessed with fat loss, weight loss and staying as skinny and underweight as possible. She does FAT LOSS TREATMENTS while she is severely underweight and emaciated!! She even ADMITS ON HER PODCAST that she has frequent days that she eats ONLY PROTEIN. She contradicts herself in almost every episode. She tries to say that she doesn’t restrict in any way, and then she talks about how she eats only protein. THAT IS RABBIT STARVATION. She lies and says that she has been the same weight for a decade but that is not true. She literally has talked about how she has done a restrictive diet and is underweight in older episodes of the podcast and now, both of her pods are heavily based around “food addiction”, supplements to lose fat, weight loss, fasting, etc. she is a public figure and she’s doing a huge disservice to people who are trying to be healthy. She abuses thyroid medications to stay underweight, she abuses supplements like Berberine to stay skinny. She talks about how she uses fat burning creams, NAD patches, EMSCULPT!!! while she is clearly underweight and emaciated. I can’t take anything she says seriously because she is ignorantly hiding her anorexia and masking it as health. She will lie and say “she’s always looked this way” and she has “never restricted her calories”. This girl is one big contradiction. She has shared in detail on her podcast about what she eats and if she thinks it’s normal, it’s not. It’s disordered. And you can tell that her main intention is to stay extremely skinny. There is no way you lose tons of weight and become extremely underweight by “not restricting calories”. She’s a liar. She’s an influencer making money off brands and supplements while she is deep in her eating disorder and she will do and say anything possible to hide it and pretend she’s perfect, she’s in-genuine and completely dismissive to real issues, which she is causing many to her listeners, especially folks who are healing from Ed’s. Melanie is DOING HARM!!!