Summary of Life in the Fasting Lane Book by Jason Fung, Eve Mayer, Eve Mayer Orsburn, Megan Ramos

Eve Mayer, one of the authors, grew up in south Louisiana, where you don’t eat to live. You live to eat! When she was eight, her mom was diagnosed with a devastating chronic disease for which there was no known cure. For thirty-four years, she went to specialists all over the country, and she dealt with treatments and medicines that often made her feel even worse.

When Eve was forty-two years old, her mom finally conquered her disease. Still scared that her mom would not make it another year, she adopted unhealthy behaviors to cope. She buried her feelings in food: hiding it, sneaking it, and gorging herself multiple times a day.

Eve has been fat all her adult years; at her peak, she swelled to a size 26 at three hundred pounds. Every diet plan she tried worked for a short while, but because she always felt hungry, she would give in, break her diet, and gain back more weight than she had lost. She always felt embarrassed at the gym, at restaurants, and at family reunions.

In 2018, Eve decided to try to lose weight again, this time by following a low-carb, high-fat diet. She secretly assumed this diet would fail, too, but, after a month, something felt different. She wasn’t hungry every moment like she had always been, and lost 30 pounds after a few months, then started to stagnate.

To stem the stagnation, she decided to read “The Obesity Code” by Dr. Jason Fung. “The Obesity Code” validated the low-carb, high-fat approach to eating, but then Dr. Fung suggested something she hadn’t expected. He recommended that people who struggle with their weight will benefit from fasting.

She decided to give fasting a try. That decision changed her life. She began to lose weight again, she felt healthier than she had ever been, and her body began to change in ways she could never have imagined. Best of all, the constant hunger messages flooding her brain stopped for good.

Eve was worried that she could pass out if she skipped more than two meals, but she didn’t. She thought fasting would make her tired and give her brain fog, but it didn’t. She thought not eating would slow down her metabolism, but the opposite happened. She felt like a new woman.

Evereached out to Dr. Fung and collaborated with him. Dr. Fung also introduced her to his health educator, Megan Ramos,whofelt a connection with Eve, as she explained her own struggles with weight and a host of other medical conditions. Within a month, a plan was formed, and life in the fasting lane is the product.