Intermittent Fasting Success Story: Nikki Lost 30 Pounds

In today's episode, Nikki Esquivel shares her 30 pound weight loss journey with intermittent fasting. An autogenerated transcript is available at the end of these show notes. Click here to connect with Nikki on Facebook Click here to donate to Mercy House Other links: Slow and Steady Success Academy Courses Become an Insider on Youtube Private Coaching With Kayla Sign up for my weekly newsletter My Books (ebook or paperback) on Amazon: The Laid Back Guide to Intermittent Fasting: How I lost Over 80 Pounds and Kept It Off Eating Whatever I Wanted Overcoming Weight Loss Obstacles: How To Keep Going When Things Get Difficult Get the audiobook for free with a 30 day FREE TRIAL from Audible My young adult fiction novel: Escape From Olshek's Castle ALL THE INFORMATION CONTAINED ON THIS PODCAST IS FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY. IT IS NOT A SUBSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL ADVICE. YOU SHOULD ALWAYS CONSULT A MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL BEFORE GOING ON ANY DIET OR EXERCISE PROGRAM. The following is an AI generated transcript of this podcast. Welcome to the Six Miles to Supper podcast. I'm your host, Kayla Cox, and I've lost over 80 pounds with intermittent fasting six days a week, eating whatever I wanted at my meals, taking a cheat day every Sunday and walking six miles a day. And I'm here to help you on your weight loss journey. Today's episode is a crossover from the Intermittent Fasting Success Stories series I do on my YouTube channel, also called Six Miles to Supper. These interviews are recorded on Zoom, so the audio might be a little bit different than what you're used to on this podcast. Regardless, I hope you enjoy it. If you consider yourself a success story and you would like to be interviewed, please reach out to me at interviews at six miles to supper. Tor.com. Nikki Esquivel lost a £30 with intermittent fasting and she's kept it off for two years now. So thank you for being here. Nikki. Why don't you give yourself a little introduction, Tell everybody who you are and what you do. I sure. Thanks for having me, Kayla. My name is Nikki Esquivel, and I live in the Philippines. I've lived in the Philippines for ten years, along with my husband, Anthony. We run an orphanage for street boys called Mercy House X Street Boys because there are boys now. We have 17 boys in our home right now. We've had as many as 25 at times here and there. Ten years ago, we moved here from the U.S. We were just your regular typical American family. We had six children that we homeschooled. My husband worked outside and I stayed home and took care of the family. And just kind of your normal, average family that we're called to to come overseas and and start an orphanage. So that's that's me. Wow. So why don't you give us a rundown of how you have found success with weight loss? How much have you lost and how long did it take? Sure, sure. It took about a year and I lost about 30 pounds. I was not ever what you would call obese. I was probably I'm five little less than five four. So I'm not very tall and at my highest weight, I was probably about £170. So maybe by the doctors charts, I was I was on the edge of obesity. But what really challenged me to lose weight was I was just feeling so achy and old and bad every single day. When we first moved to the Philippines, it was busy and hectic and I lost some weight and I had a lot of energy. And then as we got settled into our routine with our orphanage and kind of knew what we were doing and knew the ropes, we just I got a lot more sedentary. A lot of the work that we do here involves a lot of writing of newsletters and updating our friends in the States and all of this. And so there was a lot of sitting on the computer for me and I started packing on the pounds. My husband and I started this nightly habit of having a glass of wine and some chips in our room, and it became every single night. And before I knew it, I had just put on weight and I just felt achy and uncomfortable. So that's kind of what led to the I just had to change. I knew I had to do something. Mm hmm. Right. So. So you lost 30 pounds and it took about a year. What were you doing during that time? What was your daily routine like? Well, first of all, I learned about intermittent fasting from a friend of mine in the States who. Who's a lady much older than I am, and one of the a close friend of our orphanage. I went home on a furlough and I saw her and she looked amazing. She looked thin, but just radiant. Her skin was beautiful, her eyes were bright. And I said, What are you doing? And she said, I'm intermittent fasting. And I kind of said, okay, well, that's great. And I didn't think about it again until I started to feel bad and realized I needed to do something. And I thought, what was that thing that my friend said she was doing? And I just started Googling. So the routine that I settled on is I started out slow at 16 eight, I think was my first fast and I had to take a spoonful of peanut butter in the ...