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Graeme Currie

I am a person who lost 60 kg (132 pounds) and successfully kept it off. I will tell you exactly how I did it, and what it is like to live an intermittent fasting lifestyle. I cover my journey, about an ordinary Australian bloke who has found a way to lose weight that is sustainable. Along the way, I found some amazing health benefits as well. I interview dozens of others, who wanted to try it for themselves and have had similar success. I am Graeme Currie from Western Australia author of the best seller The Fasting Highway it can be found on Amazon in both Kindle and Paperback.

Hi All

While I am away travelling this week, I thought I would address a few questions that have been sent in over time about living an Intermittent fasting lifestyle. Next week, we return to our regular guest line-up with more exciting guests.

Thank you to all who sent in questions, and thanks to our listeners for taking the time to listen today.

Our Patreon Supporters Community

Please consider joining the Fasting Highway Patreon community it really has been great for all who have joined.

It has become an excellent add-on to our Patreon members' IF lifestyle, who enjoy a lot of bonus content to support them in living an IF life.

For less than a cup of coffee a month, you can join and support your own health goals.

Graeme hosts three Zoom meetings a month in the Northern and Southern hemispheres for members to come and get support for their IF lifestyle, which is very popular with our Patreon members.

You will not find anywhere that gives that kind oif support back to you from 0.16 cents a day.

I cannot urge you more strongly to give it your utmost consideration.

Please go to www.patreon.com/thefastinghighway to see the benefits you get back and how to join.

Private coaching is available with Graeme one-on-one.

Graeme's best-selling book, The Fasting Highway, about his own journey and how he did it, is available in paperback and Kindle at your local Amazon store. It is also available on audio at Applebooks, Kobo, Spotify, and many other audiobook platforms. Disclaimer: Nothing in this podcast should be taken as medical advice. All content is the opinion of the host and guest only.

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Wendy is a recovering life-long emotional eater, food addict, and yo-yo dieter. IF was the missing tool sheneeded to gain control of her cravings, to help her dig in and deal with the root issues of her bingeing - both biologically and emotionally.

She was put on her first diet at 11. But what nobody knew at the time was that she had some trauma that she wastrying to bury with food. And that would be her coping mechanism for the next 25 years. But she did every diet out there to try and manage it. Jenny Craig, Weight Watchers, Nutrisystem, and every other fad. She’s lost and gained thousands of pounds over her lifetime.

In 2006, all of the pain that she’d been trying to keep at bay came bubbling up, and she had a nervous breakdownand struggled with major depression for two solid years. She had binged her way up to 285 pounds in a short time.

After years of therapy and emotional healing, she was finally ready to tackle the weight gain and become a whole, integrated, and healthy person. Ready to heal her body after working to heal her mind and heart. Even though she doesn’t recommend it to anyone now, she hadWeight Loss Surgery in 2017 and lost 80 pounds in the first year. But then struggled to lose 20 more the next until she found that doing a Keto diet worked for her. In 2019, she met and married her amazing husband, who broughtcarbs back into her life and house. And regained 20 pounds.

In 2020, she found IF, and she was determined not to put all the weight she’d worked hard to lose back on. She didn't know then that it would also help her heal her metabolism! She went on to lose an additional 40 pounds and has been maintaining a 140-pound loss with IF for almost four years now!

Our Patreon Supporters Community

Please consider joining the Fasting Highway Patreon community it really has been great for all who have joined.

It has become an excellent add-on to our Patreon members' IF lifestyle, who enjoy a lot of bonus content to support them in living an IF life.

For less than a cup of coffee a month, you can join and support your own health goals.

Graeme hosts three Zoom meetings a month in the Northern and Southern hemispheres for members to come and get support for their IF lifestyle, which is very popular with our Patreon members.

You will not find anywhere that gives that kind oif support back to you from 0.16 cents a day.

I cannot urge you more strongly to give it your utmost consideration.

Please go to www.patreon.com/thefastinghighway to see the benefits you get back and how to join.

Private coaching is available with Graeme one-on-one.

Graeme's best-selling book, The Fasting Highway, about his own journey and how he did it, is available in paperback and Kindle at your local Amazon store. It is also available on audio at Applebooks, Kobo, Spotify, and many other audiobook platforms. Disclaimer: Nothing in this podcast should be taken as medical advice. All content is the opinion of the host and guest only.

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In this episode, we check in with Daryl Woods, who was last on the podcast three years ago. As you will hear in this episode, Daryl lost an astonishing 150 pounds living an IF lifestyle and has transformed in more ways. Daryl lives in Manitoba, Canada, with his partner and son and works in Farming. Daryl tells us about his experience with maintaining and his experiment with the carnivore lifestyle. His mission now is to focus on building muscle and strength training to set himself up for a healthy future. Daryl's original episode was number 153 for those who want to listen to that one first. Daryl's passion is also to pay it forward by sharing his story in the hope of inspiring others.

Our Patreon Supporters Community

Please consider joining the Fasting Highway Patreon community it really has been great for all who have joined.

It has become an excellent add-on to our Patreon members' IF lifestyle, who enjoy a lot of bonus content to support them in living an IF life.

For less than a cup of coffee a month, you can join and support your own health goals.

Graeme hosts three Zoom meetings a month in the Northern and Southern hemispheres for members to come and get support for their IF lifestyle, which is very popular with our Patreon members.

You will not find anywhere that gives that kind oif support back to you from 0.16 cents a day.

I cannot urge you more strongly to give it your utmost consideration.

Please go to www.patreon.com/thefastinghighway to see the benefits you get back and how to join.

Private coaching is available with Graeme one-on-one.

Graeme's best-selling book, The Fasting Highway, about his own journey and how he did it, is available in paperback and Kindle at your local Amazon store. It is also available on audio at Applebooks, Kobo, Spotify, and many other audiobook platforms. Disclaimer: Nothing in this podcast should be taken as medical advice. All content is the opinion of the host and guest only.

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I'mJustin Claypool, I'm excited to join you again on The Fasting Highway podcast. As you know, I'm originally from Klamath Falls, OR, and currently call Clarkston, WA home. Since our last chat, I've made significant changes in my approach to health and fitness that I can't wait to share with your audience. After shedding 150 pounds through intermittent fasting, I've shifted my focus towards building muscle. Over the past four years, I've been tweaking my fasting window to support this new goal, and it's been quite the journey. I think our conversation will offer valuable insights into the evolution of my wellness journey and the intricacies of transitioning from weight loss to muscle building.

Our Patreon Supporters Community

Please consider joining the Fasting Highway Patreon community it really has been great for all who have joined.

It has become an excellent add-on to our Patreon members' IF lifestyle, who enjoy a lot of bonus content to support them in living an IF life.

For less than a cup of coffee a month, you can join and support your own health goals.

Graeme hosts three Zoom meetings a month in the Northern and Southern hemispheres for members to come and get support for their IF lifestyle, which is very popular with our Patreon members.

You will not find anywhere that gives that kind oif support back to you from 0.16 cents a day.

I cannot urge you more strongly to give it your utmost consideration.

Please go to www.patreon.com/thefastinghighway to see the benefits you get back and how to join.

Private coaching is available with Graeme one-on-one.

Graeme's best-selling book, The Fasting Highway, about his own journey and how he did it, is available in paperback and Kindle at your local Amazon store. It is also available on audio at Applebooks, Kobo, Spotify, and many other audiobook platforms. Disclaimer: Nothing in this podcast should be taken as medical advice. All content is the opinion of the host and guest only.

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Kelly Schupp is a 46-year-old mechanical engineer and mom of two living in Louisiana, one of the worst states for people who LOVE to eat! The food there is well known for being irresistible, but not the healthiest. Kelly grew up on an agricultural farm (primarily rice and crawfish) with a Cajun great-grandmother and mother who were fabulous cooks. Food was everywhere, all the time, absolutely engrained in the culture she grew up in.

Kelly was overweight at a young age and struggled her whole life to lose weight and keep it off. Her mom was also overweight and had them try every diet out there: Jenny Craig, Weight Watchers, the “Zone” diet, low carb, ketogenic, paleo, etc. Unfortunately, nothing ever worked long-term.

Years went by and diets and workout fads came and went, but her weight remained the same. She hovered nearly 200 lbs for nearly 20 years. It was her body’s setpoint andnothing she did ever changed it, even after she cleaned her diet up significantly to keep insulin resistance and diabetes at bay (which her mother and father both had). Then, in 2018, Kelly had surgery, and her weight started to climb rapidly, topping out at around 215 lbs.

Kelly started an 8-week “body transformation” program, weightlifting 4-5x’s/week and eating like a bodybuilder. She stuck to the program, logging everything she ate and did – and gained 3 lbs. Her doctors scratched their heads and then offered to test her metabolism with a CO2 measurement. Surprisingly, Kelly’s estimated basalmetabolic rate of 1500 kcal was off by 500 kcal! The test proved that she only burned 1,000 kcal/day at rest, which meant 3 meals/day would be nearly impossible for her.

Kelly had read Gin Stephens’ book and was curious about fasting. Her doctors agreed to let her try it. In DecemberIn 2022, she started with a 16:8 protocol, eventually settling on OMAD as it proved the easiest to manage as she travelled often for work and was rarely hungry in the evenings.

Kelly lost 60 lbs in the span of a year and is maintaining a 50 lb loss from her highest weight with more flexibility inher eating window. Most days, she continues to do an 18:6, usually eating one meal + a small, high-protein snack before closing her window. She understands the importance of clean fasting and sticks to water and/or black coffee during her fasts. Fasting has finally given Kelly control over her body!.

Our Patreon Supporters Community

Please consider joining the Fasting Highway Patreon community it really has been great for all who have joined.

It has become an excellent add-on to our Patreon members' IF lifestyle, who enjoy a lot of bonus content to support them in living an IF life.

For less than a cup of coffee a month, you can join and support your own health goals.

Graeme hosts three Zoom meetings a month in the Northern and Southern hemispheres for members to come and get support for their IF lifestyle, which is very popular with our Patreon members.

You will not find anywhere that gives that kind oif support back to you from 0.16 cents a day.

I cannot urge you more strongly to give it your utmost consideration.

Please go to www.patreon.com/thefastinghighway to see the benefits you get back and how to join.

Private coaching is available with Graeme one-on-one.

Graeme's best-selling book, The Fasting Highway, about his own journey and how he did it, is available in paperback and Kindle at your local Amazon store. It is also available on audio at Applebooks, Kobo, Spotify, and many other audiobook platforms. Disclaimer: Nothing in this podcast should be taken as medical advice. All content is the opinion of the host and guest only.

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Cindy Hallett is retired from the US Air Force and Lives in Cheyenne, Wyoming, in the USA, with her husband and family. In her first year of living an intermittent fasting lifestyle, she has lost an incredible fifty pounds (24kg).

Cindy has had some trials and tribulations with her weight, as you will hear in this episode, where she shares openly about her struggles and finding an answer with intermittent fasting.

Cindy has had a major health scare in recent times, and she describes how she was fortunate to have lost weight before that occurred.

Cindy enjoys retired life playing guitar and singing at her local church.

She is looking forward to a long, healthy, and happy life and continuing with her IF lifestyle.

Our Patreon Supporters Community

Please consider joining the Fasting Highway Patreon community it really has been great for all who have joined.

It has become an excellent add-on to our Patreon members' IF lifestyle, who enjoy a lot of bonus content to support them in living an IF life.

For less than a cup of coffee a month, you can join and support your own health goals.

Graeme hosts three Zoom meetings a month in the Northern and Southern hemispheres for members to come and get support for their IF lifestyle, which is very popular with our Patreon members.

You will not find anywhere that gives that kind oif support back to you from 0.16 cents a day.

I cannot urge you more strongly to give it your utmost consideration.

Please go to www.patreon.com/thefastinghighway to see the benefits you get back and how to join.

Private coaching is available with Graeme one-on-one.

Graeme is available for private one-on-one coaching and mentoring sessions. He can help you with burning questions about how to get started or overcome issues no matter what phase you are in on your intermittent fasting journey. He has times available that are suitable to all globally.

To book a time, go to the website and click Get help/coaching the fee and details are on the website.

www.thefastinghighway.com

Graeme's best-selling book, The Fasting Highway, about his own journey and how he did it, is available in paperback and Kindle at your local Amazon store. It is also available on audio at Applebooks, Kobo, Spotify, and many other audio book platforms. Disclaimer: Nothing in this podcast should be taken as medical advice. All content is the opinion of the host and guest only.

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Rachel Awad is an American university administratorwho is living in Egypt, and has been living in the Middle East for over 30 years. She has been overweight for most of her life. In 2008 Rachel (who is only 5’3”) reached her all-time highest weight of close to 300lbs. She managed to lose about 40 lbs with a popular commercial weight loss program (about calorie restriction). She eventually started regaining the weight she lost. Whenshe was close to her starting weight again, Rachel learned about Intermittent Fasting and Michael Moseley’s 5:2 plan. This was in 2014. She followed that for a few years, and was successful in losing weight. In 2017, after reading Jason Fung’s The Obesity Code and Gin Stephen’s book Delay, Don’t Deny, she moved to a daily intermittent fasting approach and most importantly, to clean fasting.

Rachel became a huge proponent of IF, guiding manyfriends to explore fasting, and becoming a moderator on some very large IF groups on FB. This is where she first met Graeme, and then read “The Fasting Highway” about his own IF journey. She has been an active member of The Fasting Highway FB group since its early days.

This is the 3rd time that Rachel has been a guest on the TFH podcast, previously in Episodes 6 and 152. She discusses her own journey with IF, how ADF can be avery helpful tool when used correctly and for the right reasons, and the importance of knowing what’s in your IF toolbox.

Our Patreon Supporters Community

Please consider joining the Fasting Highway Patreon community it really has been great for all who have joined.

I strongly urge you to do so if you need more accountability and support for not a lot each month, as it is helping so many people to do that.

It has become an excellent add-on to our patrons' IF lifestyle, who enjoy a lot of bonus content to support them living an IF life, and it supports me in getting the podcast out and running the Facebook group.

For less than a cup of coffee a month, you can join and support your own health goals.

Please go to www.patreon.com/thefastinghighway to see the benefits you get back and how to join.

Private coaching by Graeme.Graeme is available on a limited basis for private one-on-one coaching and mentoring sessions with you. He can help you with those burning questions about how to get started or overcome issues no matter what phase you are up to on your intermittent fasting journey.

To book a time, go to the website and click Get help/coaching.www.thefastinghighway.com

Graeme's book The Fasting Highway can be found at your local Amazon store in paperback and Kindle.Disclaimer: Nothing in this podcast should be taken as medical advice. All content is the opinion of the host and guest only.

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I live with my husband and college freshman son in LakeDallas, TX. We are the proud parents to adorable pet chickens and two precious chihuahuas! I am blessed with the most amazing career imaginable as a wedding and portrait photographer. Life is very busy, and we’re immersed in a constant celebration of food and fun! I grew up in a large, boisterous and endlessly fun Hispanic family, and we celebrated life with great food and music. I developed a deep passion for cooking and good wholesome food early on and have since considered myself an OG FOODIE! My passions are hiking with my dogs, kayaking and swimming and anything that keeps me in nature. I just celebrated my 19th month of Intermittent Fasting, and have lost 60 lbs, gained 22 lbs, reversed type 2 diabetes, reduced my cholesterol, healed my body, eliminated my inflammation, improved my gums, eyes, and overall health, and tried every modification of IF imaginable! OMAD 23:1 is my preferred protocol and how I feel my absolute best!! I am 100% certain I will ALWAYS live an IF life.

The Fasting Highway

Our Patreon Supporters Community

Please consider joining the Fasting Highway Patreon community it really has been great for all who have joined.

I strongly urge you to do so if you need more accountability and support for not a lot each month, as it is helping so many people to do that.

It has become an excellent add-on to our patrons' IF lifestyle, who enjoy a lot of bonus content to support them living an IF life, and it supports me in getting the podcast out and running the Facebook group.

For less than a cup of coffee a month, you can join and support your own health goals.

Please go to www.patreon.com/thefastinghighway to see the benefits you get back and how to join.

Private coaching by Graeme.Graeme is available on a limited basis for private one-on-one coaching and mentoring sessions with you. He can help you with those burning questions about how to get started or overcome issues no matter what phase you are up to on your intermittent fasting journey.

To book a time, go to the website and click Get help/coaching.www.thefastinghighway.com

Graeme's book The Fasting Highway can be found at your local Amazon store in paperback and Kindle.Disclaimer: Nothing in this podcast should be taken as medical advice. All content is the opinion of the host and guest only.

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This week, I speak to New York Times best-selling author and my good friend Gin Stephens

Gin is known worldwide for her work in the IF community and her books, which have changed countless lives and she lives in South Carolina, USA.

Gin has a burning passion for helping others find great health, as you will hear in this episode.

In a candid discussion, we chat about her books All Things IF and we bust open a few myths about the IF lifestyle

To connect with Gin.

www.ginstephens.com

All her books can be found on Amazon, and all are good booksellers.

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Our Patreon Supporters Community

Please consider joining the Fasting Highway Patreon community it really has been great for all who have joined.

I strongly urge you to do so if you need more accountability and support for not a lot each month, as it is helping so many people to do that.

It has become an excellent add-on to our patrons' IF lifestyle, who enjoy a lot of bonus content to support them living an IF life, and it supports me in getting the podcast out and running the Facebook group.

For less than a cup of coffee a month, you can join and support your own health goals.

Please go to www.patreon.com/thefastinghighway to see the benefits you get back and how to join.

Private coaching by Graeme.Graeme is available on a limited basis for private one-on-one coaching and mentoring sessions with you. He can help you with those burning questions about how to get started or overcome issues no matter what phase you are up to on your intermittent fasting journey.

To book a time, go to the website and click Get help/coaching.www.thefastinghighway.com

Graeme's book The Fasting Highway can be found at your local Amazon store in paperback and Kindle.Disclaimer: Nothing in this podcast should be taken as medical advice. All content is the opinion of the host and guest only.

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BIO: ALISON PREUSS (pronounced PROYCE)

I am a 67-year-old mother of three and grandmother of one, widowed for 10 years. I live in Angus, northeast Scotland. I have owned and run an online vintage boutique since 2007 and was previously a Scottish parliamentary researcher and freelance journalist. My own children were home-educated, and I co-ordinate the national Scottish Home Education Forum which offers information, support and advocacy to parents and campaigns on educationissues. My attempts at retirement have proved futile as I enjoy what I do and like to keep busy and active both mentally and physically. I was a skinny child and did classical ballet until my mid-teens, so I never had any cause to diet, and my weight remained static for years. After my first two pregnancies in the 80s, I zapped back to normal within weeks, but my third baby was quite a bruiser and it took me a few months of good diet (not dieting!) and exercise to get back in shape. During my husband's illness and after he died in 2013, I practically stopped eating dueto stress and trauma. I dropped so much weight I looked emaciated, but once I got back into regular eating, middle-age creep started to become evident!

I came to IF through my son, who takes his health very seriously and is an avid researcher. My first shot at it was in 2018/2019 when I did a 5-month stint with goodresults, but I made the mistake of looking at it as a short-term undertaking rather than a lifestyle change. When Covid and the first lockdown came along, like many, I got sloppy with my diet and drank too much. The catalystfor change was my daughter's wedding in November 2021, for which I had around 10 months' notice to fit into the vintage dress I wanted to wear (and it would be a challenge!) I took it very seriously and began on 11 January 2021 doing 19:5, which had worked well previously, and completely cutting out alcohol. Meanwhile, I joined a few IF groups online and devoured IF podcasts, taking inspiration from others' experiences. Two months in, I hadstarted regular dance sessions, and four months in, I was in the gym three times a week and doing occasional Meal-less Mondays /36-hour fasts. I didn't regularly weigh myself but took many photographs and weekly measurements. I was losing inches steadily and gaining muscle due to strength training, and people were noticing. Two months before my daughter's wedding, I had reached my goal of fitting into that vintage dress and continued downward until around February 2022, when I estimated I had lost around 45lbs. Now, three years into IF, it's just a usual way of life, and I can't see myself ever going back.

In terms of unexpected NSVs, a longstanding scar from a burn on my leg completely disappeared and an injury to my finger that I'd trapped in a drawer miraculously got better. My skin has improved, and my hair is now waist-length, silver and in great condition, despite being a woman of a certain age. I managed to get back into my front splits at 66 with consistent flexibility training, although my hamstrings do complain a bit! I also fit intosome of the clothes I wore in my 20s, including a vintage evening dress to meet the queen in 1981. It's been like a post-pandemic renewal!

Alison Preuss

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Our Patreon Supporters Community

Please consider joining the Fasting Highway Patreon community.

I strongly urge you to do so if you need more accountability and support for not a lot each month, as it is helping so many people to do that.

It has become an excellent add-on to our patrons' IF lifestyle, who enjoy a lot of bonus content to support them living an IF life, and it supports me in getting the podcast out and running the Facebook group.

For less than a cup of coffee a month, you can join and support your own health goals.

Please go to www.patreon.com/thefastinghighway to see the benefits you get back and how to join.

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Please go to the show notes episode 79 for the original Podcast with Renee in July 2021

Update to those notes

Almost 49-year-old wife and mother of three (22, 20,17). Former ICU nurse turned stay-at-home mom.

I am from Minnesota, USA. I began fasting on February 1, 2021, losing 50 pounds over ten months. I maintained that weight range for about a year and then started to see a very slow regain.

I had a hysterectomy in late October 2023, and since then, saw my weight climb very quickly. I'm currently 18 pounds higher than when I first started maintaining.

The Fasting Highway

Our Patreon Supporters Community

Please consider joining the Fasting Highway Patreon community.

I strongly urge you to do so if you need more accountability and support for not a lot each month, as it is helping so many people to do that.

It has become an excellent add-on to our patrons' IF lifestyle, who enjoy a lot of bonus content to support them living an IF life, and it supports me in getting the podcast out and running the Facebook group.

For less than a cup of coffee a month, you can join and support your own health goals.

Please go to www.patreon.com/thefastinghighway to see the benefits you get back and how to join.

Private coaching by Graeme.Graeme is available on a limited basis for private one-on-one coaching and mentoring sessions with you. He can help you with those burning questions about how to get started or overcome issues no matter what phase you are up to on your intermittent fasting journey.

To book a time, go to the website and click Get help/coaching.www.thefastinghighway.com

Graeme's book The Fasting Highway can be found at your local Amazon store in paperback and Kindle.Disclaimer: Nothing in this podcast should be taken as medical advice. All content is the opinion of the host and guest only.

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By Shoshana Grinstein

Height—150cm 5ft—Weight at start 88 kilos size 46. Current weight around 70 kilos size 36!! Growing up in Montreal, Canada- very active, healthy childhood. Age 11/12- first encounter with weight on the scale, dietitian. Instead of becoming more confident, it made me more self-conscious. I was hard on myself and judgemental. Periods of over-eating Periods of under-eating Un-healthy relationship with my body and food Moved to Israel, gained weight- lost weight- got married- pregnancies. Heavier and heavier between each pregnancy- about 20 kilos overweight Depression- finally leading to real healing Therapy: learning to accept myself, to be kind to myself. Pregnancy #4- healing but corona !! stuck at home. Crazy. Weight Gain and inactivity. While pregnant, parenting coach. So during covid, began listening to podcasts about Parenting. Became vegan and listened to Podcasts about healthy eating, which led to podcasts about mental health. I began to treat myself better, talk to me more kindly, try to motivate me positively, and just get happier. As much as I was learning to love myself the way I was, I couldn't ignore how big I had gotten; a few things triggered my fasting start. My son had said to me: Mom, I’ve never seen you run! A picture from the summer. And ads constantly popping up on my instagram about it! I finally said- what the hell, let’s try. I have nothing to lose… except the weight. I challenged myself; it was 9:00 pm- I could not eat until recess at 10:00. I did it! Stopped eating at 8 pm and went the next day to 10:00… then noon… then I wouldn’t eat until I got home from work. OMAD…. Pilates in July (6 months in), and here we are! Within a week, I realized I needed to know more- started listening to Gin Stephens, and bought and read her book. I looked for more interesting podcasts and found The Fasting Highway- bought and read The Fasting Highway! It is so motivating and such an exciting community to be a part of. The initial weight came off fast! I was down 10 kilos in no time. I felt such a new sense of freedom- so in control. I learned to listen to my body and stopped fearing that I might miss out or feel hungry…. “Vigilance without obsession!” Measured but stopped weighing- keep getting rid of clothes- old and new! (Dropped my false sense of confidence and swapped it out for a new one.) Having been raised in a home where no one saw me for who I was/am- no one motivated me or believed in me and now… I’m in a place in my life where I feel such control; I feel worthy, and I feel that I can do and succeed at whatever I want. I want more for myself and my family, and I know now that I can accomplish anything. To get to this point in my life after years of struggling is so liberating

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Our Patreon Supporters Community

Please consider joining the Fasting Highway Patreon community.

I strongly urge you to do so if you need more accountability and support for not a lot each month, as it is helping so many people to do that.

It has become an excellent add-on to our patrons' IF lifestyle, who enjoy a lot of bonus content to support them living an IF life, and it supports me in getting the podcast out and running the Facebook group.

For less than a cup of coffee a month, you can join and support your own health goals.

Please go to www.patreon.com/thefastinghighway to see the benefits you get back and how to join.

Private coaching by Graeme.Graeme is available on a limited basis for private one-on-one coaching and mentoring sessions with you. He can help you with those burning questions about how to get started or overcome issues no matter what phase you are up to on your intermittent fasting journey.

To book a time, go to the website and click Get help/coaching.www.thefastinghighway.com

Disclaimer: Nothing in this podcast should be taken as medical advice. All content is the opinion of the host and guest only.

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Bio -Sheila Parsons

Hello. I’m Sheila Parsons, a 70-year-old retired federal employee, wife, mother and grandmother, raising twoof my grandchildren, a 20-year-old in college and a 15-year-old in high school. I am a native Atlantan and have lived in this area all my life.

Hello. I’m Sheila Parsons, a 70-year-old retired federal employee, wife, mother and grandmother, raising two of my grandchildren, a 20-year-old in college and a 15-year-old in high school. I am a native Atlantan and have lived in this area all my life.

I am obsessed with IntermittentFasting! It’s magic! Clean fast, and the rest is magic!

o After reading Delay Don’t Deny by Gin Stephens, I began IF January 2019–5 years ago, weighing205 lbs.

o I am 5’2” tall and currently weigh 134 lbs., maintaining 132-135 for two years.

o Total weight loss 71 lbs.

o I wear size Small to Medium, size 8 clothes.

o I am healthy!

o I walk andswim in summer for exercise.

o I have so muchenergy!

o I drink onlyblack coffee, unsweetened teas and water while fasting.

o I eat whatever I want during my window, opting for mostly healthy choices. I eat all the things, keeping it simple. No Keto, no calorie counting. I have always hated that in previous diets, and I have tried them all. Weight Watchers, Jenny Craig, Atkins and I have taken diet pills. I lost weight but never stayed with it and would gain all the weight back, plus some.

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Please consider joining the Fasting Highway Patreon community.

I strongly urge you to do so if you need more accountability and support for not a lot each month, as it is helping so many people to do that.

It has become an excellent add-on to our patrons' IF lifestyle, who enjoy a lot of bonus content to support them living an IF life, and it supports me in getting the podcast out and running the Facebook group.

For less than a cup of coffee a month, you can join and support your own health goals.

Please go to www.patreon.com/thefastinghighway to see the benefits you get back and how to join.

Private coaching by Graeme.Graeme is available on a limited basis for private one-on-one coaching and mentoring sessions with you. He can help you with those burning questions about how to get started or overcome issues no matter what phase you are up to on your intermittent fasting journey.

To book a time, go to the website and click Get help/coaching.www.thefastinghighway.com

Graeme's book The Fasting Highway can be found at your local Amazon store in paperback and Kindle.Disclaimer: Nothing in this podcast should be taken as medical advice. All content is the opinion of the host and guest only.

I am obsessed with IntermittentFasting! It’s magic! Clean fast and the rest is magic!

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Tracey is 54 years old and lives in Iowa. She is married toher high school sweetheart and the love of her life. They have 3 grown daughters and 3 granddaughters. Family is a huge part of her “why” for finally deciding in 2022 that it was time to focus on her physical health and prioritise her well-being. In her school days, Tracey was fit and athletic. Her daily activities covered the poor eating habits she developed in her teen years. Once college came, the activity decreased, and poor food choices continued; 30 years of yo-yo dieting followed. Tracey was always looking for a quick fix and focused solely on the scale and her appearance. She now reflects and understands the abuse she put her body through for years. Tipping the scales in late 2019 at almost 200 pounds on her 5’4” frame, fatigue, joint pain and pre-diabetes were taking its toll. Tracey and her husband were empty nesters and new grandparents, and she began to realize her lifestyle would keep her from enjoying the best years of her life ahead of them. Her mindset was shifting, and a journey was underway. She had no idea how much healthier and happier her future was about to become. When she reached out to her physician one more time for help, she was told if she couldn’t go more than a couple hours before getting “hangry”, she shouldn’t consider intermittent fasting and maybe try the Mediterranean diet. That conversation planted a seed for intermittent fasting because, after all, if Tracey is told she can’t do something, she tends to think to the contrary. Over the next couple of years, she discovered Gin Stephens and Dr. Fung, read their books and then tucked them away until August 2022, when her mindset was fully on board for finally making a lifestyle change. She got the books outagain and began her true IF journey. Along the way she discovered podcasts and Facebook groups, which led herto The Fasting Highway. To date, Tracey has lost almost 60 pounds, gained numerous NSV’s and turned her health around! She lives an active life with her husband of 32 years and can now keep up with her family! She practiced dental hygiene for 15 years and in 2020, made a careerchange to the business side of dental where she became a practice manager at a dental office. She enjoys long walks, landscaping, listening to podcasts and spending as much time with her family. Tracey considers herself one blessed lady!

The Fasting Highway

Our Patreon Supporters Community

Please consider joining the Fasting Highway Patreon community.

I strongly urge you to do so if you need more accountability and support for not a lot each month, as it is helping so many people to do that.

It has become an excellent add-on to our patrons' IF lifestyle, who enjoy a lot of bonus content to support them living an IF life, and it supports me in getting the podcast out and running the Facebook group.

For less than a cup of coffee a month, you can join and support your own health goals.

Please go to www.patreon.com/thefastinghighway to see the benefits you get back and how to join.

Private coaching by Graeme.Graeme is available on a limited basis for private one-on-one coaching and mentoring sessions with you. He can help you with those burning questions about how to get started or overcome issues no matter what phase you are up to on your intermittent fasting journey.

To book a time, go to the website and click Get help/coaching.www.thefastinghighway.com

Graeme's book The Fasting Highway can be found at your local Amazon store in paperback and Kindle.Disclaimer: Nothing in this podcast should be taken as medical advice. All content is the opinion of the host and guest only.

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My name is Helen Blicharz. I am a 50-year-old mother of three. I also have a wonderful husband, John, and the cutest little Beagle named Bingo. I work for a Lutheran Church, and I have a member, Shelley Beck, who introduced me to your podcast. She also encourages me to share my story with you and has been doing so for over a year; I've been hesitating as I am still on my weight loss journey. I have been pretty much overweight most of my life or at least after I graduated college. I tried just about every diet out there Weight Watchers, Liquid diets. Nutrisystem's Jenny Craig, you name it. Various things worked throughout the years, but nothing never worked or help me loose weight. In 2018, I was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes and my doctor told me that mostpeople were not successful in losing weight on their own and that I had really good insurance, and she recommended weight loss surgery. I was really offended, but I found out later that she was in her residency and was using a reverse psychology tactic, which worked for me. I told her that I have never truly tried to lose weight on my own, and I think Icould do it with some guidance. So I started out giving up sugar for 21 days, and that led me to a low-carb diet. Which eventually led to keto. And I lost 25 lbs. When I went back to the doctor, she was very happy, and that started my journey to where I am today. I did not stay with Keto, but I was introduced to intermittent fasting. COVID and why everyone else gained weight I was losing because I had more control and I didn't have insulin spikes. The keto diet helped me too. Gain the confidence I needed to find another lifestyle which was intermittent fasting. Three years later I still Fast, Feast & Repeat. Mostly. I have a four-hour window, so I fast for 20 hours, and sometimes, on the weekend, I openmy window up for 8 hours to switch it up. I have lost 110 lbs. total so far, and although I am currently not at my goal weight and still have 50 lbs. to go, I know I will get there.

The Fasting Highway

Our Patreon Supporters Community

Please consider joining the Fasting Highway Patreon community.

I strongly urge you to do so if you need more accountability and support for not a lot each month, as it is helping so many people to do that.

It has become an excellent add-on to our patrons' IF lifestyle, who enjoy a lot of bonus content to support them living an IF life, and it supports me in getting the podcast out and running the Facebook group.

For less than a cup of coffee a month, you can join and support your own health goals.

Please go to www.patreon.com/thefastinghighway to see the benefits you get back and how to join.

Private coaching by Graeme.Graeme is available on a limited basis for private one-on-one coaching and mentoring sessions with you. He can help you with those burning questions about how to get started or overcome issues no matter what phase you are up to on your intermittent fasting journey.

To book a time, go to the website and click Get help/coaching.www.thefastinghighway.com

Graeme's book The Fasting Highway can be found at your local Amazon store in paperback and Kindle.Disclaimer: Nothing in this podcast should be taken as medical advice. All content is the opinion of the host and guest only.

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Jules is a 53 years old woman, married, with three beautifulchildren and living the dream in Western Australia (WA). Her passions, besides her vocation are, yoga, bush walking, going to the beach and reading. Jules is a family therapist for a not-for-profit women’s health organisation and dearly loves her work. Previously, she was a registered nurse; she trained and then worked in Victoria and the UK. She lived there for 15 years, and she met her lovely Englishmen. Jules had two of her children in the UK, and they all moved to her hometown in Victoria, where she had her third child in 2007. Then, they moved from Victoria to WA in 2010 due to hubby's work commitments.

During Jules’s third pregnancy, in 2006, she developed gestational diabetes, which sparked off an intentional health journey. Having gestational diabetes meant she had to test fasting blood sugar levels all the time, just like a type 1 diabetic. And, since 2007 has needed to have fasting BSL’s annually and Fasting Glucose Tolerance Test every three years. Also, Jules’sgrandmother had type 2 diabetes and unfortunately had to have one of her toes amputated and was on daily oral medication. So, with these two factors in Jule’s medical and family history, Jules was determined to avoid acquiring type 2 diabetes. Disappointingly, Jules was quite discouraged by GP’s saying eachyear, when she would go in to see them for the blood work results, that she would inevitably get it and there was nothing to be done to prevent it. Then, with a few changes in Jules’s health, well-being and significant life events, Jule’s blood results started to deteriorate, and she feared the worst. Then, thankfully, in 2018, Julie discovered a tool called Intermittent fasting; at the time, when she was going down the rabbit hole of YouTubelectures about sugar and insulin from Dr Robet Lustig at the University of California and then later came across the book The Diabetes Code, by Dr Jason Fung. This book, The Diabetes Code, changed her life forever, and not to mention saved her life.

Before starting IF, Jules BSL’s were 6.8 mmol and rising, andnow, after six years of IF, they average around 4.8 mmol. Jules has had to tweak her IF regime, flipping back and forth from OMAD to ADF over the six years when optimal blood results have begun to waiver. Jules's primary focus is balancing her hormones, even though she weighs daily. For those that like numbers, Jules is 175 cm tall and before IF weighed 86kg and now maintains between 76-78kg. Has gone from a dress size of 16 to 12.

The Fasting Highway

Our Patreon Supporters Community

Please consider joining the Fasting Highway Patreon community.

I strongly urge you to do so if you need more accountability and support for not a lot each month, as it is helping so many people to do that.

It has become an excellent add-on to our patrons' IF lifestyle, who enjoy a lot of bonus content to support them living an IF life, and it supports me in getting the podcast out and running the Facebook group.

For less than a cup of coffee a month, you can join and support your own health goals.

Please go to www.patreon.com/thefastinghighway to see the benefits you get back and how to join.

Private coaching by Graeme.Graeme is available on a limited basis for private one-on-one coaching and mentoring sessions with you. He can help you with those burning questions about how to get started or overcome issues no matter what phase you are up to on your intermittent fasting journey.

To book a time, go to the website and click Get help/coaching.www.thefastinghighway.com

Graeme's book The Fasting Highway can be found at your local Amazon store in paperback and Kindle.Disclaimer: Nothing in this podcast should be taken as medical advice. All content is the opinion of the host and guest only.

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Michelle is 52 years old and lives in the North East of England in a place called Low Fell, not far from the city of Newcastle Upon Tyne. She lives with her husband Michael (they celebrated their 25th wedding Anniversary last Aug), her 24-year-old son Owen, 21-year-old Daughter Abbie and their gorgeous little poodle Milo.

Michelle leads a hectic lifestyle; she has her own cleaning business called ‘Milo and Mich Cleaning Co. throughout the day and also an online Craft Business on Facebook called ‘CorbettsCreations and Gifts, which she works on in the evening and on weekends.

Michelle loves being active, walking her dog, attending boxing classes, and going to the gym. She usually manages to hit 15,000 steps daily.

Michelle has been following IF for 14 months and loves the freedom it gives her and the flexibility within herbusy life. After trying every diet over the years, she has lost 35 pounds in total, living an IF lifestyle, dropped two dress sizes and feels a lot fitter, healthier and happier in all aspects of her life.

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Erika Barnhart is a 43-year-old salon consultant who resides in Pennsylvania with her husband and three dogs. She had been struggling with weight issues since childhood and was overweight throughout most of her life. Over many years she has triednumerous diets since the age of 12, but her success was only temporary. Erika has always been fond of eating various foods, but she also enjoys eating in large quantities and feeling full. At the age of 13, she was diagnosed with high cholesterol and triglycerides but was never prescribed any medication. Then inearly 2023, she realized that she was procrastinating on scheduling her annual physical because she knew that the doctor would become more persistent about beginning a series of statin medication due to her high cholesterol. She also suffered from sleep apnea, used a CPAP machine, and had been experiencing plantar fasciitis in her right foot, causing her to limp. She felt unnaturally old, defeated, and unhealthy for her age. Shewas ready to make a change. She began looking for a sustainable and cost-effective plan to become healthier. As well as not wanting to take any medications unless necessary.

Erika’s work involves a hybrid environment, including working from home, local, and overnight travel. She attends many business luncheons and events, so finding something to fit into her ever-changing routine is essential.

In March 2023, Erika finally discovered the freedom she had been seeking through fasting, and within about ten months, she lost 87 pounds (39.5kg). Erika achieved this by practising various fasts and focusing on nourishing foods. She appreciates the flexibility of fasting and incorporates it into her routine frequently. She has tried several fasts, such as Intermittent Fasting, Alternate Day Fasting (ADF), and Modified Alternate.Day Fasting (MADF), and One Meal a Day (OMAD). Also, she occasionally includes 48-60-hour fasts. Fasting has helped Erika gain more clarity, perspective, and patience, and the best part is that fasting doesn't cost anything! The flexibility has also made it easy to work into her ever-changing schedule. She's also excited to incorporate some yoga and weight training as soon as she begins working towards achieving her goal body. She’s also looking forward to hiking with her dogs once the weather improves in the spring.

The Fasting Highway

Our Patreon Supporters Community

Please consider joining the Fasting Highway Patreon community.

I strongly urge you to do so if you need more accountability and support for not a lot each month, as it is helping so many people to do that.

It has become an excellent add-on to our patrons' IF lifestyle, who enjoy a lot of bonus content to support them living an IF life, and it supports me in getting the podcast out and running the Facebook group.

For less than a cup of coffee a month, you can join and support your own health goals.

Please go to www.patreon.com/thefastinghighway to see the benefits you get back and how to join.

I strongly urge you all to consider joining the Patreon community. Each month, having the extra layer of affordable support pays off for many of our members.

You get a lot back in return for what you put in for your health.

Private coaching by Graeme.Graeme is available on a limited basis for private one-on-one coaching and mentoring sessions with you. He can help you with those burning questions about how to get started or overcome issues no matter what phase you are up to on your intermittent fasting journey. Get accountable and come and have a chat with Graeme, who is vastly experienced in all areas of intermittent fasting and the mindset it takes.

To book a time, go to the website and click Get help/coaching.www.thefastinghighway.com

Graeme's book The Fasting Highway can be found at your local Amazon store in paperback and Kindle.

Disclaimer: Nothing in this podcast should be taken as medical advice. All content is the opinion of the host and guest only.

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Growing up in rural Tennessee, Gretchen Bates was always very active. She spent long summer days in her childhood exploring the woods, swimming in creeks, and playing with friends. As a teenager and young adult, Gretchen was competitive insports and was an avid cyclist, kayaker, open-water swimmer and triathlete. By her early 30s, she had completed her first full-length Ironman competition, logged over 15,000 miles on her bike, and finished three separate, fully independent bicycle tours. At 5’6” tall (167 CM) and 160 pounds (73 kg), she was a healthy, athletically built woman. By her late 30s, Gretchen left her physically active career to return to school for her Masters Degree. She started a new career after graduation, leading tolong hours behind a desk. The new stationary career and her naturally slowing metabolism started to take its toll. By her 40th birthday, Gretchen weighed 185 pounds (84 kg). To control her weight, she spent several years experimenting with low-calorie and fad diets. Nothing seemed to work.

At 44 years old, Gretchen’s weight ballooned again when her mom was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Disease. Gretchen became her primary caregiver, took on the management of her mother’s small business, and was responsible for her mother’s personal and health affairs, all while juggling her career. The weight of being a full-time caregiver left Gretchen physically and emotionally exhausted. Like many caregivers, she was chronically stressed and started suffering from depression. Simultaneously, the Covid pandemic swept through North America, her mother’s condition worsened, and by 46 years old, Gretchen had reached her all-time highest weight of 220 pounds (100 kg). A sudden health scare forced Gretchen to take a hard look at her lifestyle and to make drastic changes to reclaim her health. After 15 monthsof Intermittent Fasting, Gretchen reached her goal weight range of 140-150 pounds (63-68 kg). She continues to try new fasting protocols and works to strengthen her fasting muscles by practising TRE, mindful eating, and avoiding sugar and processed foods. She fully embraces her new fastinglifestyle and strives for optimal health.

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By Joe Bernardo RN.

My wife and I are Registered Nurses by profession. Despite knowing how to “eat healthy” and what the guidelines recommend, I found myself to be in the worst health and shape about a year and three months ago. I was 42 years old, and my BMI breached 30; I had RA, sciatic issues, and undiagnosed sleep apnea. I was also getting short of breath with minimal activity. I also found out, later in my journey, that I had been pre-diabetic and possibly diabetic. This did not surprise me as I was addicted to sodas, often drinking 6-8 glasses with dinner! Unfortunately, I did not have any baseline labs drawn before fasting and keto, and I was already 5-6 months into it when I had my A1C completed.

Fasting has changed our lives as all of my chronic and acute issues are now gone! I live out a baseline 18:6 protocol with extended water fasts of 36 hours and beyond biweekly!

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Our Patreon Supporters Community

Please consider joining the Fasting Highway Patreon community.

I strongly urge you to do so if you need more accountability and support for not a lot each month, as it is helping so many people to do that.

It has become an excellent add-on to our patrons' IF lifestyle, who enjoy a lot of bonus content to support them living an IF life, and it supports me in getting the podcast out and running the Facebook group.

For less than a cup of coffee a month, you can join and support your own health goals.

Please go to www.patreon.com/thefastinghighway to see the benefits you get back and how to join.

Private coaching by Graeme.Graeme is available on a limited basis for private one-on-one coaching and mentoring sessions with you. He can help you with those burning questions about how to get started or overcome issues no matter what phase you are up to on your intermittent fasting journey. Get accountable and come and have a chat with Graeme, who is vastly experienced in all areas of intermittent fasting and the mindset it takes.

To book a time, go to the website and click Get help/coaching.www.thefastinghighway.com

Graeme's book The Fasting Highway can be found at your local Amazon store in paperback and Kindle.Disclaimer: Nothing in this podcast should be taken as medical advice. All content is the opinion of the host and guest only.

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Michelle Montone is the Host of The Fast and Fabulous Podcast and founder of the Facebook group of the same name. Michelle returns to the podcast today as we check in with her and find out what she has been up to since last on the show in episodes 41 and 165. Michelle has lost an incredible 50 pounds (23 kg) and lives in Florida with her lovely husband and two children. Michelle is also an intermittent fasting coach; she not only shares her inspiring journey in this episode. We also get Michelle to answer a few common questions about intermittent fasting. Michelle is passionate about helping others and is known for her insights and practical advice.

To connect with Michelle and find details about her podcast, click here.

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Our Patreon Supporters Community

Please consider joining the Fasting Highway Patreon community.

I strongly urge you to do so if you need more accountability and support for not a lot each month, as it is helping so many people to do that.

It has become an excellent add-on to our patrons' IF lifestyle, who enjoy a lot of bonus content to support them living an IF life, and it supports me in getting the podcast out and running the Facebook group.

For less than a cup of coffee a month, you can join and support your own health goals.

Please go to www.patreon.com/thefastinghighway to see the benefits you get back and how to join.

Private coaching by Graeme.Graeme is available on a limited basis for private one-on-one coaching and mentoring sessions with you. He can help you with those burning questions about how to get started or overcome issues no matter what phase you are up to on your intermittent fasting journey. Get accountable and come and have a chat with Graeme, who is vastly experienced in all areas of intermittent fasting and the mindset it takes.

To book a time, go to the website and click Get help/coaching.www.thefastinghighway.com

Graeme's book The Fasting Highway can be found at your local Amazon store in paperback and Kindle.Disclaimer: Nothing in this podcast should be taken as medical advice. All content is the opinion of the host and guest only.

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I am joined by my co-host for this episode in Karen Cahill who lives in Atlanta Georgia in the USA. Karen has been on the podcast in earlier episodes #117 #191 where you can hear her full backstory of how IF changed her life. In this episode we have a candid discussion about our weight loss transformations and offer some insights and encouragement based on our experiences living a successful intermittent fasting lifestyle.

The Fasting Highway News

Our Patreon Supporters Community

Please consider joining the Fasting Highway Patreon community.

I strongly urge you to do so if you need more accountability and support for not a lot each month, as it is helping so many people to do that.

It has become an excellent add-on to our patrons' IF lifestyle, who enjoy a lot of bonus content to support them living an IF life, and it supports me in getting the podcast out and running the Facebook group.

For less than a cup of coffee a month, you can join and support your own health goals.

Please go to www.patreon.com/thefastinghighway to see the benefits you get back and how to join.

Private coaching by Graeme.Graeme is available on a limited basis for private one-on-one coaching and mentoring sessions with you. He can help you with those burning questions about how to get started or overcome issues no matter what phase you are up to on your intermittent fasting journey. Get accountable and come and have a chat with Graeme, who is vastly experienced in all areas of intermittent fasting and the mindset it takes.

To book a time, go to the website and click Get help/coaching.www.thefastinghighway.com

Graeme's book The Fasting Highway can be found at your local Amazon store in paperback and Kindle.

Disclaimer: Nothing in this podcast should be taken as medical advice. All content is the opinion of the host and guest only.

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Susanne struggled with her weight for most of her adult life, losing and re-gaining the same 30-odd lbs over and over and over. She tried several diets, including Weight Watchers, calorie counting, and keto. Although she lost weight with all the diets, none of them were sustainable, and the calorie counting, macro tracking, and food restrictions made her miserable. In 2019, she tried intermittent fasting and lost 38 lbs (17kg). Her weight before IF generally ranged from about 220 lbs (100kg) to 180 lbs (81kg). At 5’9” tall (1.75m) this had put her in the overweight to obese range for many years. After a slight adjustment in her maintenance routine, she has successfully kept the weight off and has settled in at 160-165 lbs (72-75kg), a weight she had not seen since her late 20s. Although she started fasting for the weight loss, she has keptdoing it for the many health improvements that fasting brought to her life.These included:

· a reduction in bloodpressure and resting heart rate,

· the elimination of plantarfasciitis, which she had since her 20s,

· the elimination of dry eyes,which she had since her 30s,

· the elimination of keratosispilaris (red bumps on skin) which she had since her teens,

· significant reduction injoint pain and foot calluses.

On most days, Susanne sticks to one meal a day (dinner) and generally eats between 5 and 9 pm. She is thrilled to have ditched the counting and tracking!

Susanne is a retired scientist and medical writer. She and her husband spent nearly two years as nomads in the US and then New Zealand before moving to New Zealand in 2022. She’sa big fan of travelling, languages, pilates, hiking, gardening, cooking, wine, and dogs.

The Fasting Highway News

Our Patreon Supporters Community

Please consider joining the Fasting Highway Patreon community.

I strongly urge you to do so if you need more accountability and support for not a lot each month, as it is helping so many people to do that.

It has become an excellent add-on to our patrons' IF lifestyle, who enjoy a lot of bonus content to support them living an IF life, and it supports me in getting the podcast out and running the Facebook group.

For less than a cup of coffee a month, you can join and support your own health goals.

Please go to www.patreon.com/thefastinghighway to see the benefits you get back and how to join.

Private coaching by Graeme.Graeme is available on a limited basis for private one-on-one coaching and mentoring sessions with you. He can help you with those burning questions about how to get started or overcome issues no matter what phase you are up to on your intermittent fasting journey. Get accountable and come and have a chat with Graeme, who is vastly experienced in all areas of intermittent fasting and the mindset it takes.

To book a time, go to the website and click Get help/coaching.www.thefastinghighway.com

Graeme's book The Fasting Highway can be found at your local Amazon store in paperback and Kindle.Disclaimer: Nothing in this podcast should be taken as medical advice. All content is the opinion of the host and guest only.

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This week, Graeme answers some listener questions and gives some advice about living an intermittent fasting lifestyle. Our guests will return next week in a great line-up for 2024. Thank you to all of our listeners. We are looking forward to bringing you some great IF stories this year.

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THE AUDIOBOOK IS HERE!!! I am excited to share that the audiobook for The Fasting Highway is now here and available on Apple Books, Tunes, Spotify, Kobo, and Audiobooks.com. Hooplah, Barnes and Noble, Books A Million -BAM and many more platforms. It is not yet available on Audible.Our Patreon Supporters Community You can win a mentoring prize, get exclusive early access to the podcast audio series Patreon members Plus, bonus content and bi-monthly Zoom accountability meetings for our patrons to support your fasting journey, which Myself hosts and facilitates. Please consider joining the Patreon community. I strongly urge you to do so, as it is helping many people. It has become an excellent tool as an add-on to our patron's IF lifestyle. Given the benefits you get back, it will be the best five or ten dollars a month to spend on your health.

Please go to www.patreon.com/thefastinghighway to see the benefits you get back and how to join.

Private coaching by Graeme.Graeme is now available for private one-on-one coaching and mentoring sessions with you. He can help you with those burning questions about how to get started or overcome issues no matter what phase you are up to on your intermittent fasting journey. Get accountable and come and have a chat with Graeme, who is vastly experienced in all areas of intermittent fasting and the mindset it takes. To book a time, go to the website and click Get help/coaching.www.thefastinghighway.com

Graeme's book The Fasting Highway can be found at your local Amazon store in paperback and Kindle.Disclaimer: Nothing in this podcast should be taken as medical advice. All content is the opinion of the host and guest only.

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As we transition into 2024 and step back into the recording studio we replay episode 180 All about the Carnivore Lifestyle with coach and fasting success story Emily Harveaux. We will be back next week with all new episodes in 2024. Happy New year to you and all in your circle.

Emily Harveaux is a passionate fasting and carnivore coachspecializing in mindset, goal-setting, and creating a thriving lifestyle. She has lost 150 pounds by combining intermittent fasting and the carnivore diet. Emily has seen improvements in mood, energy, and outlook by using the ancient healing tools of fasting and carnivore. She serves as a coach in a large online community committed to encourage and educate members to make decisions to feel their absolute best. She shares her approach and success tips on Instagram @healedbymeat and can be found on youtube @emilyharveaux

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THE AUDIOBOOK IS HERE!!! I am excited to share that the audiobook for The Fasting Highway is now here and available on Apple Books, Tunes, Spotify, Kobo, and Audiobooks.com. Hooplah, Barnes and Noble, Books A Million -BAM and many more platforms. It is not yet available on Audible.Our Patreon Supporters Community You can win a mentoring prize, get exclusive early access to the podcast audio series Patreon members Plus, bonus content and bi-monthly Zoom accountability meetings for our patrons to support your fasting journey, which Myself hosts and facilitates. Please consider joining the Patreon community. I strongly urge you to do so, as it is helping many people. It has become an excellent tool as an add-on to our patron's IF lifestyle. It will be the best five or ten dollars a month you could spend on your health, given the benefits you get back.

Please go to www.patreon.com/thefastinghighway to see the benefits you get back and how to join from 0.17 cents or 0.33 cents per day, which, given the cost, you get a lot in return for that.

Private coaching by Graeme.Graeme is now available for private one-on-one coaching and mentoring sessions with you. He can help you with those burning questions about how to get started or overcome issues no matter what phase you are up to on your intermittent fasting journey. Get accountable and come and have a chat with Graeme, who is vastly experienced in all areas of intermittent fasting and the mindset it takes. To book a time, go to the website and click Get help/coaching.www.thefastinghighway.comDisclaimer: Nothing in this podcast should be taken as medical advice. All content is the opinion of the host and guest only.

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By Chrissy Carter I have struggled with my weight since I was a teenager; after school, when I started working, I started dieting. I lost weight and got pregnant with my first; I only put on 2kgs my whole pregnancy, and I was lighter after I had her. I spent my 20s either pregnant or breastfeeding. After four children, I thought I was done, so I returned to the gym and lost weight, eating six small meals daily. I then stopped working at the gym, stopped working out, and then got pregnant again. After I had my last daughter, I struggled again to lose the weight I would lose then gain. Doing all the things I knew. Then, my marriage ended abruptly, and my weight piled on. When I met my now husband, I was at my heaviest, 120kgs, despite my age and weight being against me. At 44, I became pregnant with our son. I lost 10kgs when I was pregnant with him. Towards the end of 2019, I started Keto and, over six months, lost 30kgs.Then, due to lots of stress and not having time to look after me, I put it all back on. Three months before my 50th birthday I decided to start fasting again, I eat whole foods in my eating window. I wanted to lose 10kgs before my birthday, but I lost 20. Over the next six months, I lost another 15 kgs and have kept that off within 3kg on either side. I have lowered my BP and dropped from a size 20 to a size 12. I am blessed to walk along the beach at least 12km daily, sometimes double that. I am so grateful to Graeme Currie and the Fasting Highway family, who keep me on track.

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THE AUDIOBOOK IS HERE!!! I am excited to share that the audiobook for The Fasting Highway is now here and available on Apple Books, Tunes, Spotify, Kobo, and Audiobooks.com. Hooplah, Barnes and Noble, Books A Million -BAM and many more platforms. It is not yet available on Audible.Our Patreon Supporters Community You can win a mentoring prize, get exclusive early access to the podcast audio series Patreon members Plus, bonus content and bi-monthly Zoom accountability meetings for our patrons to support your fasting journey, which Myself hosts and facilitates. Please consider joining the Patreon community. I strongly urge you to do so, as it is helping many people. It has become an excellent tool as an add-on to our patron's IF lifestyle. It will be the best five or ten dollars a month you could spend on your health, given the benefits you get back.

Please go to www.patreon.com/thefastinghighway to see the benefits you get back and how to join from 0.17 cents or 0.33 cents per day, which, given the cost, you get a lot in return for that.

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Bio By Kathryn Sternfels

I am 65 yrs. old. 5’1”. HW ever 250lbs. SW 221 lbs. CW 196 lbs. Loss of 25 lbs. since July 2023. I cut my insulin level from a 15 to an 8 in 3 months. On Dec. 13th, I’m having labs drawn, and I look forward to seeing the results and comparing them with last time. Cholesterol panel especially, as well as A1C.

I am a retired registered nurse, and I was raised in the Northeast USA, in New England, in the State of Rhode Island. I am 5 years old. My dog Buddy and I moved to the coastal area of South Carolina.

My weight started going up following my divorce, which was in 1991. I did not see that coming, and with two very young daughters, it completely shattered my hopes & dreams. I was suddenly in a life I didn’t recognize and never thought I’d be in. I admit I didn’t handle it well. Eventually, I settled into the 230-235 lbs. and stayed there for decades. I used food to take my emotional pain and to shield myself from the world.

In 2019, I attended the wedding of my cousin Lisa’s daughter. We don’t get to see each other much in person, and I couldn’t believe how GREAT Lisa looked. Of course, I asked, and she said “intermittent fasting,” to which I was inertly horrified at hearing this and thought “, Oh! No way in hell would I even CONSIDER such a thing like that? Who would DO that???”. I felt that because I realised that I had always thought I knew what I was doing all my life. Ha! THAT joke was on me.

During the following three years or so, I “dabbled” in IF. I read/internet searched/you, tubed/podcasted Jason Fung, Gin Stephens, you and anyone else whose name I heard mentioned by these people. Anything and everything I get my hands on to learn about IF and all the other health-related rabbit holes leads one down.

I’ve taken part in the Zoe study, which was enlightening, and now I am entering my 2nd month of a 3-month subscription to Nutri and & am utilizing a CGM for the data. I am not diabetic.

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Bio By Lisa Evers I don’t even know where to begin, But all my life, I have haddigestive issues, so I have always been aware of what I was eating to notice how I felt. When I was young, it was IBS-d, then moved to constipation. I was diagnosed with hypothyroidism in my early 20s. After that diagnosis, I was worried that weight gain was going to be a side effect, so I started to do thingsto make sure that didn’t happen. I felt like I was becoming obsessed with staying the way I was. I have never had a weight issue, and I almost became “obsessed” with making sure I didn’t get one! I did all the things not to gain weight and stay fit while trying to monitor my digestive issues. I was on someof the “plan” all the time, which led to a diet brain even though I had no weight to lose. This went on for almost 30 years; I found IF, and the rest of my story is about freedom! All my obsessions are starting to fade, and my mind is clear to think of the things that are important to me. The Fasting Highway NewsTHE AUDIOBOOK IS HERE!!! I am excited to share that the audiobook for The Fasting Highway is now here and available on Apple Books, Tunes, Spotify, Kobo, and Audiobooks.com. Hooplah, Barnes and Noble, Books A Million -BAM and many more platforms. It is not yet available on Audible.Our Patreon Supporters Community You can win a mentoring prize, get exclusive early access to the podcasts, and access to the Fasting Highway audiobook at the top tier level. Plus, bonus content and bi-monthly online coffee catch-up via Zoom for our patrons hosted by myself to support your fasting journey. Please consider this, as we must get the support of the listeners to bring it to you each week commercial-free. Please go to www.patreon.com/thefastinghighway to see the benefits you get back and how to join from 0.17 cents pr 0.33 cents per day, the cost of a Grand Latte a month!Private coaching by Graeme.Graeme is now available for private one-on-one coaching and mentoring sessions with you. He can help you with those burning questions about how to get started or overcome issues no matter what phase you are up to on your intermittent fasting journey. Get accountable and come and have a chat with Graeme, who is vastly experienced in all areas of intermittent fasting and the mindset it takes. To book a time, go to the website and click Get help/coaching.www.thefastinghighway.comDisclaimer-Nothing in this podcast should be taken as medical advice. All content is the opinion of the host and guest only.--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/graeme-currie/message

Maryanne Liess is a repeat guest, and we talk about all things ADF Alternate Day Fasting and the right and wrong reasons to do it.

Maryanne is a moderator on The Fasting Highway Facebook community. She is known as Fifi Di Foofi and has had a fantastic journey with ADF.

She divides her time between her homes in Germany and France, and in this episode, she tells us just what her transformation has done for her in so many ways.

She gives an excellent overview of ADF and how she has had great success with it.

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Michelle Foster is a writer and researcher who lives inIllinois with her husband and three teenagers. She hasstruggled with her weight since about age 12, and has had manyhighs and fewer lows, but always concerned about her weight. Obesityruns in her family, and she tried many things over the years forweight control, including tracking calories, running, WeightWatchers and various types of fasting. She had success losing 40+pounds more than once, but over time the weight always crept back onand she felt worse than before. In 2022, she decided to try“clean” fasting after hearing about it for a couple of years. She waspretty skeptical it would be any different than any other fastingstyle, but she was wrong! She has lost more than 50 pounds evenwhile going on vacations, holidays and other life stressors,and has now been maintaining her loss for more than 3 months.She has no plan to go back to a “regular” style of eating! Michelle loves hiking and outdoor activities such as kayaking and cross-country skiing. It's easier to move and play with less weight, and she's looking forward to years of activity, ableto maintain her weight loss with fasting.

The Fasting Highway NewsTHE AUDIOBOOK IS HERE!!! I am excited to share that the audiobook for The Fasting Highway is now here and available on Apple Books, Tunes, Spotify, Kobo, and Audiobooks.com. Hooplah, Barnes and Noble, Books A Million -BAM and many more platforms. It is not yet available on Audible.Our Patreon Supporters Community You can win a mentoring prize, get exclusive early access to the podcasts, and access to the Fasting Highway audiobook at the top tier level. Plus, bonus content and bi-monthly online coffee catch-up via Zoom for our patrons hosted by myself to support your fasting journey. Please consider this, as we must get the support of the listeners to bring it to you each week commercial-free. Please go to www.patreon.com/thefastinghighway to see the benefits you get back and how to join from 0.17 cents pr 0.33 cents per day, the cost of a Grand Latte a month!Private coaching by Graeme.Graeme is now available for private one-on-one coaching and mentoring sessions with you. He can help you with those burning questions about how to get started or overcome issues no matter what phase you are up to on your intermittent fasting journey. Get accountable and come and have a chat with Graeme, who is vastly experienced in all areas of intermittent fasting and the mindset it takes. To book a time, go to the website and click Get help/coaching.www.thefastinghighway.com

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Kieth Mcdonald steps into the hosts seat to talk to Graeme about his journey with intermittent fasting and the evolution of the Fasting Highway Podcast and a candid discussion about IF and all that transformation brings with a bit of humor.Our normal format with amazing guests will resumé next week.The Fasting Highway NewsTHE AUDIOBOOK IS HERE!!! I am excited to share that the audiobook for The Fasting Highway is now here and available on Apple Books, Tunes, Spotify, Kobo, and Audiobooks.com. Hooplah, Barnes and Noble, Books A Million -BAM and many more platforms. It is not yet available on Audible.Our Patreon Supporters Community You can win a mentoring prize, get exclusive early access to the podcasts, and access to the Fasting Highway audiobook at the top tier level. Plus, bonus content and bi-monthly online coffee catch-up via Zoom for our patrons hosted by myself to support your fasting journey. Please consider this, as we must get the support of the listeners to bring it to you each week commercial-free. Please go to www.patreon.com/thefastinghighway to see the benefits you get back and how to join from 0.17 cents pr 0.33 cents per day, the cost of a Grand Latte a month!Private coaching by Graeme.Graeme is now available for private one-on-one coaching and mentoring sessions with you. He can help you with those burning questions about how to get started or overcome issues no matter what phase you are up to on your intermittent fasting journey. Get accountable and come and have a chat with Graeme, who is vastly experienced in all areas of intermittent fasting and the mindset it takes. To book a time, go to the website and click Get help/coaching.www.thefastinghighway.comDisclaimer-Nothing in this podcast should be taken as medical advice. All content is the opinion of the host and guest only. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/graeme-currie/message

A revisit podcast this week as we prepare episode 200 hosted by my forever girl which will be out next week.

I have just returned from vacation and looking forward to bringing some great episodes to you in the future.

A great relisten and reminder from Gin as we talked about her own IF journey and pathway to becoming a bestselling author.

Next Sunday we resume normal transmission on the fasting highway podcast super excited about bringing up episode 200 it has been quite the ride.

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For Intermittent Fasting Coach and Author Laurie Lewis, menopause dealt a crushing blow: brain fog, lack of balance, memory loss, and the sudden gain of 50 pounds. She tried everything she knew to feel better, and the methods that worked in the past made no difference.After struggling for many years, Laurie stumbled upon Intermittent Fasting and started having an Eating Window that same day. The menopausal fog lifted in less than one week. She had more energy and felt more “like herself.” She lost 51 pounds in 15 months and has kept it off for over five years.Now, at 60 years old, Laurie has kept an Eating Window every day for 6.5 years. Through her business, Fast Forward Wellness, she is changing lives through her group classes & 1:1 personal coaching and is recognized globally as a go-to Intermittent Fasting expert. Laurie and I take a look at long term intermittent fasting and challenges that brings.--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/graeme-currie/message

Elaine Heyworth was last on the podcast in episode 104. Elaine has had an incredible journey with IF, including some bumps in the road with regain while maintaining,

After a chat with Graeme, she knuckled down, and as you will hear in the episode, she got back on the road to her continued success.

The Fasting Highway NewsTHE AUDIOBOOK IS HERE!!! I am excited to share that the audiobook for The Fasting Highway is now here and available on Apple Books, Tunes, Spotify, Kobo, and Audiobooks.com. Hooplah, Barnes and Noble, Books A Million -BAM and many more platforms. It is not yet available on Audible.Our Patreon Supporters Community You can win a mentoring prize, get exclusive early access to the podcasts, and access to the Fasting Highway audiobook at the top tier level. Plus, bonus content and bi-monthly online coffee catch-up via Zoom for our patrons hosted by myself to support your fasting journey. Please consider this, as we must get the support of the listeners to bring it to you each week commercial-free. Please go to www.patreon.com/thefastinghighway to see the benefits you get back and how to join from 0.17 cents pr 0.33 cents per day, the cost of a Grand Latte a month!Private coaching by Graeme.Graeme is now available for private one-on-one coaching and mentoring sessions with you. He can help you with those burning questions about how to get started or overcome issues no matter what phase you are up to on your intermittent fasting journey. Get accountable and come and have a chat with Graeme, who is vastly experienced in all areas of intermittent fasting and the mindset it takes. To book a time, go to the website and click Get help/coaching.www.thefastinghighway.comDisclaimer-Nothing in this podcast should be taken as medical advice. All content is the opinion of the host and guest only.

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Jackie

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Hello, I am Neil Shultz, 58 years old. I never really had much to be concerned about regarding my weight until, while serving in the National Guard, I realised that my uniform is no longer fit. This was around the year 2000. I went to my supply Sergeant's office to order a bigger uniform. My first introduction to IF was my wife doing a form of it and explaining it all to me. I wrote it off as just another diet. It wasn't until November 2020 that my sister sent me a message and said you gotta listen to this, she said she was hooked on it. A 20-minute interview with Dr Jason Fung on YouTube was the beginning of my life change.. From there, I read all i could on intermittent fasting.

I would say the beginning of fasting for me was rather reckless, I would do OMAD, a three-day fast, OMAD for a few days, a five-day fast, OMAD for a few days, a three-day fast, OMAD and on and on for quite some time until several months later I found that OMAD and clean fasting is the way to go. I now maintain my weight from an all-time high of between 210 to 220 pounds. Currently, I am maintaining 140 with up to a 5-pound variance.

I gave up all sugar after listening to the Netta Gorman Podcast.for a considerable amount of time. Currently, my sugar intake is limited to a few times a month.

My name is Susi Shultz; I am 55 years old, and I have always struggled with my weight, always knowing that I was different from my sister and cousin, who were both thin in elementary and high school. While in high school in the mid-80s I went on a “diet” which unknown to me was really intermittent fasting, I would eat only one meal a day. My family and friends thought I was starving myself, but it worked! I even joined the field hockey team! After starting to eat 3 meals a day again I regained the weight. I also hid food; in elementary and high school my family didn’t buysnacks or sugary cereals, but I would create my own sugary snacks. I secretly would mix peanut butter and brown sugar and eat it. I also would pour sugar on my cereal in the mornings. Then, after having my son at age 21, I ballooned up bigger than ever and stayed that way until my son was 11 or 12. I thought“This is it” and went on another “diet”. I then lost 100 pounds just by eating one hot dog and one potato a day, not realizing that what I was doing was intermittent fasting. I thought I was “calorie counting”. Again, the weight returned after going back to “regular” eating. Then, in 2013, I had gastric sleeve surgery in which I lost 85 lbs., not realizing this was a form of fasting- at least for me. After three years, the weight started returning; it was very disappointing and embarrassing because I was so proud of losing all the weight to see it creep back on. Then, In 2021, my husband and I learned about intermittent fasting, and we jumped headfirst into the lifestyle with hope and enthusiasm. There was something that promised so much for so little! Learning about insulin, spikes, and how they affect weight gain more than calories was/is a game-changer for us! It makes sense now how I lost weight those other times and ultimately gained back because I went back to “normal” eating. Also, a couple of years after my sleeve surgery, I started drinking a lot of red wine; in 2019, my husband and I read “This Naked Mind” by Annie Grace. After reading this book, we never had another drink. Also, thanks to the urging of Graeme Currie, with whom I booked a one-on-one coaching session, I now drink my coffee black; I never thought that would even be possible. Because Graeme explained the importance of “clean fasting”, he made me realize how even something like cream could break a fast. Now, I can’t even drink coffee with cream in my window; it makes me feel too full. I am forever grateful to Graeme Currie and the fasting community for the support and help in maintaining a 75 lb. weight loss.

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Jane is a 61-year-old mother of two grown-up daughters from the UK. She has struggled with maintaining weight loss after trying almost every known weight loss route throughout her adult life. She was a Registered Nurse for over 40 years and, after reflecting during the Covid pandemic, decided to take retirement at 59 and move to Yorkshire to be nearer to her daughters. She had been interested in gut health (the microbiome)for some years and followed Zoe on social media for information. In October 2022, she joined the Zoe Big IF study and found how wonderful fasting could be. She found The Fasting Highway Facebook group through the Podcast and joined the Patreon community, which she has found exceptionally inspiring and supportive. Alongside fasting, she tested with Zoe, changing her eating habits to incorporate foods matching her needs. A year later, she has lost 85lbs (39kg or just over 6st) and gained vitality and a new zest for life.

The Fasting Highway NewsTHE AUDIOBOOK IS HERE!!! I am excited to share that the audiobook for The Fasting Highway is now here and available on Apple Books, Tunes, Spotify, Kobo, and Audiobooks.com. Hooplah, Barnes and Noble, Books A Million -BAM and many more platforms. It is not yet available on Audible.Our Patreon Supporters Community You can win a mentoring prize, get exclusive early access to the podcasts, and access to the Fasting Highway audiobook at the top tier level. Plus, bonus content and bi-monthly online coffee catch-up via Zoom for our patrons hosted by myself to support your fasting journey. Please consider this, as we must get the support of the listeners to bring it to you each week commercial-free. Please go to www.patreon.com/thefastinghighway to see the benefits you get back and how to join from 0.17 cents pr 0.33 cents per day, the cost of a Grand Latte a month!Private coaching by Graeme.Graeme is now available for private one-on-one coaching and mentoring sessions with you. He can help you with those burning questions about how to get started or overcome issues no matter what phase you are up to on your intermittent fasting journey. Get accountable and come and have a chat with Graeme, who is vastly experienced in all areas of intermittent fasting and the mindset it takes. To book a time, go to the website and click Get help/coaching.www.thefastinghighway.comDisclaimer-Nothing in this podcast should be taken as medical advice. All content is the opinion of the host and guest only.

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Allison Woods was last heard on the podcast in episode 81. Since then, she has strengthened her Intermittent Fasting identity, having lost more than 140 pounds, significantly improved her health, and has logged over 100 Non-Scale Victories (NSVs). Allison is also a Certified Health Coach, the Founder of Your I.F. Coach, and a contributing author of the book Women Action Takers Who Gained by Losing, Inspirational and Motivational Stories from Women Who Use Intermittent Fasting and Will Never Diet Again. Allison teaches, guides, and supports her clients to no longer feel stuck and hopeless regarding their health goals. She wants to help everyone discover the freedom that comes with Intermittent Fasting to live a vibrant and healthy life! Allison lives in Sacramento, California, with her wife Lana, their active 8-year-old son, and two dogs. With her new-found energy from Intermittent Fasting, Allison enjoys bike riding, golfing, swimming, and dancing. You can connect with Allison at www.YourIFCoach.com or send an email to Allison@YourIFCoach.comThe Fasting Highway NewsTHE AUDIOBOOK IS HERE!!! I am excited to share that the audiobook for The Fasting Highway is now here and available on Apple Books, Tunes, Spotify, Kobo, and Audiobooks.com. Hooplah, Barnes and Noble, Books A Million -BAM and many more platforms. It is not yet available on Audible.Our Patreon Supporters Community You can win a mentoring prize, get exclusive early access to the podcasts, and access to the Fasting Highway audiobook at the top tier level. Plus, bonus content and bi-monthly online coffee catch-up via Zoom for our patrons hosted by myself to support your fasting journey. Please consider this, as we must get the support of the listeners to bring it to you each week commercial-free. Please go to www.patreon.com/thefastinghighway to see the benefits you get back and how to join from 0.17 cents pr 0.33 cents per day, the cost of a Grand Latte a month!Private coaching by Graeme.Graeme is now available for private one-on-one coaching and mentoring sessions with you. He can help you with those burning questions about how to get started or overcome issues no matter what phase you are up to on your intermittent fasting journey. Get accountable and come and have a chat with Graeme, who is vastly experienced in all areas of intermittent fasting and the mindset it takes. To book a time, go to the website and click Get help/coaching.www.thefastinghighway.comDisclaimer-Nothing in this podcast should be taken as medical advice. All content is the opinion of the host and guest only .--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/graeme-currie/message

Jude’s Bio.

Jude grew up being active – played netball, basketball, and swimming carnivals. Always had the eat what was on your plate mentality, but weight never used to be a focus for her until her early 40s, and then it was the mentality of eating less and moving more to try and lose weight. The weight slowly started to pile on, and the usual strategies were not working. And she had resolved that this was just what happens as you get older. She didn’t feel good about herself, and her clothes were not fitting; her body was aching, and she started not to want to go out. After hearing about IF in October 2022, listening to audiobooks, and getting some information, she decided to try it as a last resort. After a few months, she lost several kgs, and her body wasn’t aching as much. Her initial focus was just to lose weight, but as time went on, she noticed other areas that improved, such as more energy and mental clarity, but also how much changes in mindset and how she viewed things made a difference. In February 2023, after having a 1:1 Zoom call with Graeme Currie TFH this helped her to establish her way to make a better plan to move forward along the journey. Mindset change was key to helping her move forward. Jude reached her goal weight in July 2023 but has gained so much more from the IF lifestyle.

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Our Patreon Supporters Community You can win a mentoring prize, get exclusive early access to the podcasts, and access to the Fasting Highway audiobook at the top tier level. Plus, bonus content and bi-monthly online coffee catch-up via Zoom for our patrons hosted by myself to support your fasting journey. Please consider this, as we must get the support of the listeners to bring it to you each week commercial-free. Please go to www.patreon.com/thefastinghighway to see the benefits you get back and how to join from 0.17 cents pr 0.33 cents per day, the cost of a Grand Latte a month!

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Karen is 63 years old and has tried just about every diet you can think of – The Scarsdale Diet, Atkins and keto diets, Weight Watchers, Noom, cabbage soup,

Healthy Inspirations, grapefruit diet, Whole30, Slim-Fast, South Beach, Green Smoothie Diet, Nutrisystem, hCG – if one has heard of it, Karen probably was on it.

Some of these diets brought Karen temporary success, and others caused her to gain weight or slow her metabolism. None of them were sustainable, and the weight always crept back. One day in the summer of 2020, Karen was perusing Facebook and saw a photo of her sister-in-law, Dedra Campbell. Karen thought Dedra had posted a “Throwback Thursday” photo, as her sister-in-law looked young, slim, and glowing. Karen was shocked to learn the photo was recent, so she immediately called her sister-in-law to find out what she did to lose weight and, seemingly, age backwards. Dedra told her the secret was Intermittent Fasting, which brought up negative thoughts and feelings in Karen. However, with her sister-in-law’s encouragement, she listened to the basics of the program and bought the book she recommended, “Fast.Feast.Repeat.” by Gin Stephens. Karen read the book and said she would try it for one day to see how it went. On August 13, 2020, Karen did an 18/6 fast. When Karen spoke to Dedra about her “trial”, she said it went well and that she would “Start on Monday”. Dedra encouraged Karen to start right away – after all, she’d just completed her first day of fasting. Karen agreed and continued fasting with 18/6 since then and has never looked back. Karen has been faithfully fasting every day since her “trial”. Karen is 5’5”, and her highest weight ever was 208 pounds. At that weight, she could not bend over to tie her shoes and was always out of breath. Karen’s IF starting weight was 175.4 pounds, and she set her goal weight at 160 pounds (because she didn’t think at her age, she could get below that number without struggling). On July 3, 2023, Karen weighed 149 pounds, a weight she hadn’t seen in almost 20 years. The best thing – there was no struggle. Yes, it did take nearly three years to lose the weight, but Karen is a Type II Diabetic and has insulin resistance and is menopausal. While Karen didn’t experience the rapid weight loss that some people are fortunate enough to experience with IF, Karen trusted the process and kept going, sharing NSVs all the time. Intermittent fasting changed Karen’s life and it’s a lifestyle she will stay with forever, as it’s effortless for her.

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You can win a mentoring prize, get exclusive early access to the podcasts, and access to the Fasting Highway audiobook at the top tier level. Plus, bonus content and bi-monthly online coffee catch-up via Zoom for our patrons hosted by myself to support your fasting journey. Please consider this, as we must get the support of the listeners to bring it to you each week commercial-free. Please go to www.patreon.com/thefastinghighway to see the benefits you get back and how to join from 0.17 cents pr 0.33 cents per day, the cost of a Grand Latte a month!

Private coaching by Graeme.

Graeme is now available for private one-on-one coaching and mentoring sessions with you. He can help you with those burning questions about how to get started or overcome issues no matter what phase you are up to on your intermittent fasting journey. Get accountable and come and have a chat with Graeme, who is vastly experienced in all areas of intermittent fasting and the mindset it takes. To book a time, go to the website and click Get help/coaching.

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By Karen Cahill

I am 59, and I was born in England, but my parents emigrated to NZ when I was 9. I went through school and Teacher’s College in Christchurch, NZ and taught elementary school for a few years before heading overseas. I lived for four years in Japan and four years in Seoul, Korea (teaching English) before settling in the US. I have travelled extensively and loved living in and learning about other cultures. I live outside Atlanta, Georgia and work in the advertising and marketing industry. I am lucky enough to have my mum and sister live 3 minutes away. My extended family is in the US and the UK, but I am still in touch with friends I have made worldwide. I love cooking (and eating), reading, and travel.

Karen has had a remarkable journey with IF, as you will hear in the episode, losing over 130 pounds and 60 Kg, a fantastic feat and one that has inspired many others. She is a ray of light in the Fasting Highway Facebook group, where all truly appreciate her insights and help. Karen was last on the podcast back in episode 117. Earlier this year, Karen got some news that is every parent's worst nightmare. We honour the memory of Karen's son in this episode.

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THE AUDIOBOOK IS HERE!!! I am excited to share that the audiobook for The Fasting Highway is now here and available on Apple Books, tunes, Spotify, Kobo, and Audiobooks.com. Hooplah, Barnes and Noble, Books A Million -BAM and many more platforms. It is not yet available on Audible.

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You can win a mentoring prize, get exclusive early access to the podcasts, and access to the fasting highway audiobook at the top tier level. Plus, bonus content and bi-monthly online coffee catch-up via Zoom for our patrons hosted by myself to support your fasting journey. Please consider this, as we must get the support of the listeners to bring it to you each week commercial-free. Please go to www.patreon.com/thefastinghighway to see the benefits you get back and how to join from 0.17 cents pr 0.33 cents per day, the cost of a Grand Latte a month!

Private coaching by Graeme.

Graeme is now available for private one-on-one coaching and mentoring sessions with you. He can help you with those burning questions about how to get started or overcome issues no matter what phase you are up to on your intermittent fasting journey. Get accountable and come and have a chat with Graeme, who is vastly experienced in all areas of intermittent fasting and the mindset it takes. To book a time, go to the website and click Get help/coaching.

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I can’t remember when I was not focused on my body image. Growing up in Southern California in the 80s as a teenager, imagine was everything. We were bombarded by MTV videos with pictures of beautiful skinny models living life to the extreme yet maintaining a perfect body. I developed very young and was constantly reminded that I was a curvy girl. After having some weight issues as an adolescent, going through puberty, and having my two best girlfriends move away, I can clearly remember the day I discovered I could use food as comfort. I was eating a bag of Doritos while watching TV and felt how the food immediately gave me a sense of relief and a numbing feeling. So, I ate and ate and became chubby. But once I started High School, I felt the pressure of Hollywood nearby, the influence of MTV, and I became a bit boy crazy, so I reeled in the eating and was able to maintain a smaller size; what I kept a secret was I was really binge eating and purging all through high school and into my early 20’s. After a very emotional break-up with my high school boyfriend, I reached my all-time lowest weight. I barely ate anything, and my eating disorder was out of control. The sad thing was nobody even noticed because our toxic society at the time encouraged us to be thin. Being thin was also considered to be desired in my family. Fat people were viewed as being out of control and not disciplined. I do not blame my family or have any negative feelings regarding my childhood. My parents were doing their best and passing on their upbringing.

I started clean fasting in November 2021 and have fasted every day since. I lost the first 20 pounds in the first few months doing a 16/8 approach but then had to do deep dives to find the root causes of my continued health issues. I have fired my primary doctor and found a very helpful endocrinologist who helped me discover that I had zero hormones, had thyroid antibodies and had already gone through menopause. My bloodwork in the previous years was explained to me as “normal,” but what wasn’t described was the numbers were typical for a post-menopausal woman. I had no idea because, in my early forties, I had an ablation surgery that stopped my cycles yet allowed me to have hormones. I had no tell-tell signs of menopause except the weight gain and a feeling of complete despair. So, between fasting and starting HRT, I have successfully lost all my weight gain, and I’m now just living my lifestyle without fear of gaining it back. I’m incredibly grateful to all those who have supported me on this journey. From all the supportive medical professionals to the people like me who successfully found their way back to health and are now sharing their stories to inspire others, I thank you!

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Our Patreon Supporters Community You can win a mentoring prize, get exclusive early access to the podcasts, and access to the fasting highway audiobook at the top tier level. Plus, bonus content and bi-monthly online coffee catch-up via Zoom for our patrons hosted by myself to support your fasting journey. Please consider this, as we must get the support of the listeners to bring it to you each week commercial-free. Please go to www.patreon.com/thefastinghighway to see the benefits you get back and how to join from 0.17 cents pr 0.33 cents per day, the cost of a Grand Latte a month!

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Neil is 55 years old. He is a Sales Engineer from Pennsylvania in the US and does a good amount of travelling for work. He has two grown children and enjoys taking his dog on long walks. He is married to our longtime Fasting Highway member, Belle Swartz and started fasting at the beginning of 2022. Neil was a three-meal-a-day type of guy with some snacks in between. He became interested in fasting after his wife, Belle, had been fasting for about four years. He was intrigued by the ability to reduce the number of meals a day from three to two due to time issues. Neil jumped on the fasting bandwagon once he realized that he felt better with fewer meals and less food in general. He has never looked back!

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THE AUDIOBOOK IS HERE!!! Excited to share that the audiobook for the fasting highway is now here and available on apple books, tunes, Spotify, Kobo, and Audiobooks.com. Hooplah, Barnes and Noble, Books A Million -BAM and many more platforms. It is not yet available on Audible.

Our Patreon Supporters Community

You can win a mentoring prize, get exclusive early access to the podcasts, and access to the fasting highway audiobook at the top tier level. Plus, bonus content and bi-monthly online coffee catch-up via Zoom for our patrons hosted by myself to support your fasting journey. Please consider this, as we must get the support of the listeners to bring it to you each week commercial-free. Please go to www.patreon.com/thefastinghighway to see the benefits you get back and how to join from 0.17 cents pr 0.33 cents per day, the cost of a Grand Latte a month!

Private coaching by Graeme.

Graeme is now available for private one-on-one coaching and mentoring sessions with you. He can help you with those burning questions about how to get started or overcome issues no matter what phase you are up to on your intermittent fasting journey. Get accountable and come and have a chat with Graeme, who is vastly experienced in all areas of intermittent fasting and the mindset it takes. To book a time, go to the website and click Get help/coaching.

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Health & Wellness Coach Karen Finn started her intermittent fasting lifestyle five years ago at age 50 to tackle undesirable menopausal symptoms and return to feeling like herself again. She had spent several years struggling with various symptoms, including weight gain, after being diagnosed as postmenopausal at age 43. Although she had tried other "get healthy" regimens that promised boundless energy and weight loss, nothing delivered a sustainable solution. However, when Gin Stephens' book, Delay, Don't Deny, was recommended through a women's menopause Facebook group, things changed.

Karen wanted to lose the extra menopausal weight that had crept up, but she was mainly keen to improve her overall health and find more energy. After reading Gin's book and joining her DDD Facebook group, Karen jumped in with a 16:8 and never looked back.

Within the first several months, Karen lost the extra weight – around 6kg – and has maintained her ideal weight ever since. She also noticed some menopause-related "non-scale victories", like better sleep, more energy, more stable mood, less bloating, greater mental clarity, lower inflammation and fewer aches and pains.

Within two weeks of starting IF, and before she'd lost weight, friends started commenting that she looked well and were asking what she was doing differently. As her friends started experiencing menopausal symptoms, they came to her for advice. This led Karen down a new career path from health journalist to supporting menopausal women. A lot of Karen's friends followed suit with IF under her guidance. She was so blown away by her and her friends' transformations that she decided to make her career change official and retrained as a health & wellness coach.

Karen continues to write about menopause and intermittent fasting and is a regular contributor to Menopause Matters magazine and co-author of the best-selling book "Women Action Takers Who Gained By Losing: Inspirational and Motivational Stories from Women. Who Use Intermittent Fasting and Will Never Diet Again". She's passionate about helping women regain their old selves – those who felt vibrant, fun, sexy and had a zest for life – by using simple intermittent fasting and self-care strategies. Her most popular offering is the 6-week online course, The Fasting4Menopause Kickstart Programme, which has been very well received.

You can connect with Karen at www.karenfinn.net and follow her on Instagram at @KarenFinnHealth.

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THE AUDIOBOOK IS HERE!!! Excited to share that the audiobook for the fasting highway is now here and available on apple books, tunes, Spotify, Kobo, and Audiobooks.com. Hooplah, Barnes and Noble, Books A Million -BAM and many more platforms. It is not yet available on Audible.

Our Patreon Supporters Community

You can win a mentoring prize, get exclusive early access to the podcasts, and access to the fasting highway audiobook at the top tier level. Plus, bonus content and bi-monthly online coffee catch-up via Zoom for our patrons hosted by myself to support your fasting journey. Please consider this, as we must get the support of the listeners to bring it to you each week commercial-free. Please go to www.patreon.com/thefastinghighway to see the benefits you get back and how to join from 0.17 cents pr 0.33 cents per day, the cost of a Grand Latte a month!

Private coaching by Graeme.

Graeme is now available for private one-on-one coaching and mentoring sessions with you. He can help you with those burning questions about how to get started or overcome issues no matter what phase you are up to on your intermittent fasting journey. Get accountable and come and have a chat with Graeme, who is vastly experienced in all areas of intermittent fasting and the mindset it takes. To book a time, go to the website and click Get help/coaching.

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A 36-year-old mother, wife and “chaos coordinator” juggling a busy phase of life with multiple activity schedules and a demanding career while continuing a wellness journey committed to overall health. It’s an absolute must to make myself a priority through the daily stressors of this busy phase of life as I let food be my comfort through decades of trauma comfort and since starting clean intermittent fasting in October 2019, I cannot see living my life any other way. Intermittent Fasting over the last 3.5 years has laid the foundation for wellness for me and has allowed me to release 145 lbs. This lifestyle is a true passion of mine. I am committed to sharing my story as I am a different person today than I was when I started this journey. Physically yes, but so much more about me has changed as well. Living a life of body positivity and being able to move in ways I never could before was always just a dream if Intermittent Fasting saved my life from disordered eating and food obsession. It may help anyone that can take the time to listen to this podcast episode, too.

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THE AUDIOBOOK IS HERE!!! Excited to share that the audiobook for the fasting highway is now here and available on apple books, tunes, Spotify, Kobo, and Audiobooks.com. Hooplah, Barnes and Noble, Books A Million -BAM and many more platforms. It is not yet available on Audible.

Our Patreon Supporters Community

You can win a mentoring prize, get exclusive early access to the podcasts, and access to the fasting highway audiobook at the top tier level. Plus, bonus content and bi-monthly online coffee catch-up via Zoom for our patrons hosted by myself to support your fasting journey. Please consider this, as we must get the support of the listeners to bring it to you each week commercial-free. Please go to www.patreon.com/thefastinghighway to see the benefits you get back and how to join from 0.17 cents pr 0.33 cents per day, the cost of a Grand Latte a month!

Private coaching by Graeme.

Graeme is now available for private one-on-one coaching and mentoring sessions with you. He can help you with those burning questions about how to get started or overcome issues no matter what phase you are up to on your intermittent fasting journey. Get accountable and come and have a chat with Graeme, who is vastly experienced in all areas of intermittent fasting and the mindset it takes. To book a time, go to the website and click Get help/coaching.

www.thefastinghighway.com . All times you see available are in your local time. You will also find information on the website on how to obtain a copy of his book The Fasting Highway with links to the Amazon store or how to buy it direct from Graeme if in Australia or New Zealand.

Disclaimer-Nothing you hear on the podcast should be taken as medical advice. Please always consult your doctor before beginning any health plan.

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Alan Zerbe Bio:

He lives in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, about 50 miles north of Philadelphia and 70 miles West of New York City. He is 58 and is Married; he has three grown daughters and twins. He currently works as an Art Director in marketing for a University. ". As a kid, he was often described as "skinny." And always struggled to gain weight at 17, he was 6'1", about 175 lbs. (or 79 Kilos). During his 20, 30's, 40's and 50's, He kept gaining until he reached his highest recorded weight of 294 lbs. (or 133 Kilos) on his 6'2" frame. His fasting journey began in May 2018, and he has not stopped for the past five plus years It has been a fantastic journey of learning and experimenting. It all started with him reading Jason Fung's book The Obesity Code and was interested in learning if his weight issues could be controlled with fasting. While his path has been far from perfect, he battles daily, doing the best fasting work that day! He has gotten as low as 189 lbs. or (86 Kilos). He is working hard in the maintenance phase. He loves the lifestyle and believes it to be life-changing in more ways than his exterior image might reflect. Deep inside, he knows he has become a better version of himself.

In this episode, we follow up with Alan, where he is now since episode 103—many NSVS, and one in particular that will inspire us all.

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THE AUDIOBOOK IS HERE!!! Excited to share that the audiobook for the fasting highway is now here and available on apple books, tunes, Spotify, Kobo, and Audiobooks.com. Hooplah, Barnes and Noble, Books A Million -BAM and many more platforms. It is not yet available on Audible.

Our Patreon Supporters Community

You can win a mentoring prize, get exclusive early access to the podcasts, and access to the fasting highway audiobook at the top tier level. Plus, bonus content and bi-monthly online coffee catch-up via Zoom for our patrons hosted by myself to support your fasting journey. Please consider this, as we must get the support of the listeners to bring it to you each week commercial-free. Please go to www.patreon.com/thefastinghighway to see the benefits you get back and how to join from 0.17 cents pr 0.33 cents per day, the cost of a Grand Latte a month!

Private coaching by Graeme.

Graeme is now available for private one-on-one coaching and mentoring sessions with you. He can help you with those burning questions about how to get started or overcome issues no matter what phase you are up to on your intermittent fasting journey. Get accountable and come and have a chat with Graeme, who is vastly experienced in all areas of intermittent fasting and the mindset it takes. To book a time, go to the website and click Get help/coaching.

www.thefastinghighway.com . All times you see available are in your local time. You will also find information on the website on how to obtain a copy of his book The Fasting Highway with links to the Amazon store or how to buy it direct from Graeme if in Australia or New Zealand.

Disclaimer-Nothing you hear on the podcast should be taken as medical advice. Please always consult your doctor before beginning any health plan.

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Bio From Episode 40.

Juliette Osborne has been a Christian for 25 years. During that time, she married her favourite person, Michael and had four terrific kids. She became sick during her 3rd pregnancy. Lupus, fibromyalgia, Reynaud, IBS, joint pain, brain fog, pericarditis, migraines, and unbearable fatigue became part of her daily life. Every day was a challenge to achieve any sense of wellness. She decided to choose joy in the struggle. Her family embraced her health trials with love and endurance.

When a friend shared DDD, she jumped in with both feet. After 15 months, her health transformation is just short of miraculous! While she wouldn't trade the last 12 years of illness, she loves her new life on the fasting highway. She often tells her story while reaching out to others to share her faith and the IF lifestyle. She has gone from a size 18 to a ten and dropped 26 lbs in a year. But it was the healing that bears mentioning. She packed up her walker and wheelchair, which she hasn't used in over a year. She has 1 or 2 migraines a month instead of daily. No joint pain, no brain fog, no naps, only great sleep, terrific energy, and blood work to confirm what she already knew. She isn't sick any more! Best of all, she doesn't obsess about anything diet or exercise related. She embraces every day as a blessing, every meal as a treat, and every fast as a time of miraculous healing. She wants to encourage you to do the same.

"Be blessed...and fast on." Juliette

Juliette returns in this episode to update us on her journey, and some real twists and turns unfold, which inspired me, and I know they will you. I will let Juliette update us.

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THE AUDIOBOOK IS HERE!!! Excited to share that the audiobook for the fasting highway is now here and available on apple books, tunes, Spotify, Kobo, and Audiobooks.com. Hooplah, Barnes and Noble, Books A Million -BAM and many more platforms. It is not yet available on Audible.

Our Patreon Supporters Community

You can win a mentoring prize, get exclusive early access to the podcasts, and access to the fasting highway audiobook at the top tier level. Plus, bonus content and bi-monthly online coffee catch-up via Zoom for our patrons hosted by myself to support your fasting journey. Please consider this, as we must get the support of the listeners to bring it to you each week commercial-free. Please go to www.patreon.com/thefasting highway to see the benefits you get back and how to join from 0.17 cents pr 0.33 cents per day, the cost of a Grand Latte a month!

Private coaching by Graeme.

Graeme is now available for private one-on-one coaching and mentoring sessions with you. He can help you with those burning questions about how to get started or overcome issues no matter what phase you are up to on your intermittent fasting journey. Get accountable and come and have a chat with Graeme, who is vastly experienced in all areas of intermittent fasting and the mindset it takes. To book a time, go to the website and click Get help/coaching.

www.thefastinghighway.com . All times you see available are in your local time. You will also find information on the website on how to obtain a copy of his book The Fasting Highway with links to the Amazon store or how to buy it direct from Graeme if in Australia or New Zealand.

Disclaimer-Nothing you hear on the podcast should be taken as medical advice. Please always consult your doctor before beginning any health plan.

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I am a 53-year-old woman, mother of two young adult daughters and wife. My husband, Julian and I work for the US government. We initially got into government work after moving from California, USA. We moved to southern Japan, where we finally got a hold of our nutrition, exercise and found intermittent fasting.

At the beginning of March 2018, I went to the dentist to get my teeth cleaned at the military base we worked on. I started intermittent fasting on March 19. I had been in Japan since September 2017 after selling our house in California. I hadn't had my teeth cleaned in a long while. When I went to get my teeth cleaned, I was told that I had a cavity that needed to get filled. However, they couldn't do the filling because they found that I had high blood pressure. They had me see a doctor right there on the base, and he told me I had hypertension. He wanted me to get a blood pressure monitor and gave me a prescription for Lysinopril that day. I bought a blood pressure monitor like the doctor told m. Following the doctor's instructions, my husband helped me track my BP twice daily. However, not once did I take a single dose of that Lysinopril. I knew I had turned my weight around before and could do it again. However, the stakes were higher this time because I could clearly see my health decline. It scared me straight because my dad survived a heart attack when I was in high school, and my mom died of a heart attack just a few months after I graduated college in 1993.

March 19, 2018, is when I first started intermittent fasting. My starting weight was 278. My husband had already begun watching Thomas Delauer videos looking for ways to help our health. Somehow, YouTube pointed me to a Dr Berg video regarding fasting. A couple of his videos got me started with IF. I remember that day I told Julian I was going to eat dinner. I was kind of shy about it, but he immediately said OKAY, I'm going do that too. He was already researching how we could get our health back on track. He was concerned about his because he knew he was pre-diabetic.

We both had several fitness and weight loss ups and downs. In September 2009, he took a job in Iraq, and while he was there, I started Jenny Craig. While there, he gained much weight and reached his highest weight. When I returned, he talked me into doing the P90X workout program with him. We were doing very well with that. But in the Fall of 2011, I fell on some steps at work. I was feeling energetic and was trying to jog up some stairs in heels. I fell on a stage and cracked my patella in my left knee. That kicked off a new decline in health, with minimal exercise.

In May 2015, my father died after a five-year bout of Dementia and Alzheimer's. I also went through a massive layoff in Auto Finance that same month. We didn't turn things around between 2011-2017.

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John Beaver, now 53 years old, came to Intermittent Fasting in August of 2020 – partly searching for a solution to his increasingly troublesome migraines and partly looking for some change to a lifelong struggle with weight and obesity. The results were beyond expectations on both fronts! The migraines have faded to very rare occurrences and his weight began to drop off almost immediately from a beginning weight of 293 pounds down to less than 180 by April of 2022.

Over 110 pounds lost in a short 20-month period after a 40 plus year struggle – thanks to embracing the clean fast and following the tenets put forth in “Fast, Feast, Repeat” and “The Fasting Highway.” He first appeared on The Fasting Highway podcast in Episode 54 during his weight loss phase back in March of 2021.

John is most proud to have been able to share intermittent fasting with his son, who also lost over 100 pounds with this way of life in short order. Both of them continue in maintenance range more than 12 months later while embracing all the adventures that life brings them - with far fewer limitations thanks to their intermittent fasting journeys.

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THE AUDIO BOOK IS HERE!!! excited to share that the audio book for the fasting highway is now here and available on applebooks, I tunes ,Spotify, Kobo ,Audiobooks.com. Hooplah, Barnes and Noble, Books A Million -BAM and many more platforms. It is not yet available on audible.

Our Patreon Supporters Community

You can win a mentoring prize get exclusive early access to the podcasts and get access to the fasting highway audio book at the top tier level. Plus, bonus content and bi-monthly online coffee catch up by zoom for our patrons hosted by myself to support your fasting journey. Please consider this as its vital we get the support of the listeners to bring it to you each week commercial free. Please go to www.patreon.com/thefasting highway to see the benefits you get back and how to join from 0.17 cents pr 0.33 cents per day the cost of a Grand Latte a month!

Private coaching by Graeme.

Graeme is now available to have a private one on one coaching and mentoring session with you. He can help you with those burning questions. How to get started or overcome issues no matter what phase you are up to on your intermittent fasting journey. Get accountable and come and have a chat with Graeme who is vastly experienced in all areas of intermittent fasting and the mindset it takes. To book a time go to the website click get help/coaching.

www.thefastinghighway.com

Click on get help/coaching and book a time and date to suit you. All times you see available are in your local time. You will also find information at the web site on how to obtain a copy of his book The Fasting Highway with links to the Amazon store or how to buy it direct from Graeme if in Australia or New Zealand.

Disclaimer-Nothing you hear on the podcast should be taken as medical advice. Please always consult your doctor before beginning any health plan.

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My name is Susan and I just celebrated my third fastiversary at the age of 53! I’m wife to Doug (aka theSaint) J and, kitty cat mommy to the precious and sometimes naughty and knotty boys Leo, Louie, and Simba.I had the pleasure of being a guest on episode 109 of the Fasting Highway podcast. I hope to share some updates and encouragement for the listeners and community. Just to recap a bit, I have a very long history of dieting! Check out the graph image I’ve included with my recent pictures. The graph shows about 40 of my 53 years. I didn’t develop a real weight problem until my late twenties, but I started dieting to lose “vanity” pounds while in high school. My drill team instructor weighed us all and I was told I needed to lose 7 lbs to reach the weight of 135. I’m 5’7” tall. At the recording of episode 109, I had lost nearly 80 lbs (about 36 kilos) and weighed about 176 lbs. I’ve continued to lose weight to reach a loss of 90 lbs +/- (about 41 kilos). On a “good” day more J, on a “bad” day less! I joke a bit, but a lot of us have been there… where the scale dictates how we feel! I remind myself that 90 lbs, or any amount, lost AND maintained is a victory!

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THE AUDIO BOOK IS HERE!!! excited to share that the audio book for the fasting highway is now here and available on applebooks, I tunes ,Spotify, Kobo ,Audiobooks.com. Hooplah, Barnes and Noble, Books A Million -BAM and many more platforms. It is not yet available on audible.

Our Patreon Supporters Community

You can win a mentoring prize get exclusive early access to the podcasts and get access to the fasting highway audio book at the top tier level. Plus, bonus content and bi-monthly online coffee catch up by zoom for our patrons hosted by myself to support your fasting journey. Please consider this as its vital we get the support of the listeners to bring it to you each week commercial free. Please go to www.patreon.com/thefasting highway to see the benefits you get back and how to join from 0.17 cents pr 0.33 cents per day the cost of a Grand Latte a month!

Private coaching by Graeme.

Graeme is now available to have a private one on one coaching and mentoring session with you. He can help you with those burning questions. How to get started or overcome issues no matter what phase you are up to on your intermittent fasting journey. Get accountable and come and have a chat with Graeme who is vastly experienced in all areas of intermittent fasting and the mindset it takes. To book a time go to the website click get help/coaching.

www.thefastinghighway.com

Click on get help/coaching and book a time and date to suit you. All times you see available are in your local time. You will also find information at the web site on how to obtain a copy of his book The Fasting Highway with links to the Amazon store or how to buy it direct from Graeme if in Australia or New Zealand.

Disclaimer-Nothing you hear on the podcast should be taken as medical advice. Please always consult your doctor before beginning any health plan.

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Marty Kendall is an engineer who seeks to optimise nutrition using a data-driven approach.

His interest in nutrition began over twenty years ago to help his wife Monica gain control of her Type 1 Diabetes. Since then, he has worked to develop a systematised approach to nutrition tailored to various goals.

Marty shares his learnings at OptimisingNutrition.com and his Optimising Nutrition Podcast.

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THE AUDIO BOOK IS HERE!!! excited to share that the audio book for the fasting highway is now here and available on applebooks, I tunes ,Spotify, Kobo ,Audiobooks.com. Hooplah, Barnes and Noble, Books A Million -BAM and many more platforms. It is not yet available on audible.

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The Fasting Highway News

Graeme is now available to have a private one on one coaching and mentoring session with you. He can help you with those burning questions. How to get started or overcome issues no matter what phase you are up to on your intermittent fasting journey. Get accountable and come and have a chat with Graeme who is vastly experienced in all areas of intermittent fasting and the mindset it takes. To book a time go to the website click get help/coaching.

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Click on get help/coaching and book a time and date to suit you. All times you see available are in your local time. You will also find information at the web site on how to obtain a copy of his book The Fasting Highway.

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Emily Harveaux is a passionate fasting and carnivore coach specializing in mindset, goal setting, and creating a thriving lifestyle. She has lost 150 pounds by combining intermittent fasting and the carnivore diet. Emily has seen improvements in mood, energy, and outlook by using the ancient healing tools of fasting and carnivore. She serves as a coach in a large online community committed to encourage and educate members to make decisions to feel their absolute best. She shares her approach and success tips on Instagram @healedbymeat and can be found on youtube @emilyharveaux

The Fasting Highway News

THE AUDIO BOOK IS HERE!!! excited to share that the audio book for the fasting highway is now here and available on applebooks, I tunes ,Spotify, Kobo ,Audiobooks.com. Hooplah, Barnes and Noble, Books A Million -BAM and many more platforms. It is not yet available on audible.

Please consider supporting the podcast and get some great benefits back!

If you enjoy these episodes and want to help me to get it out to the world, please consider joining our patreon supporters' community. Without the help from our patrons to bring you the podcast each week it won't be sustainable to keep doing them.

For details on the two levels of support from just $5.00 a month please go to

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You can win a mentoring prize get exclusive early access to the podcasts and get access to the fasting highway audio book at the top tier level. Plus, bonus content and bi-monthly online coffee catch up by zoom for our patrons hosted by myself to support your fasting journey. Please consider this as its vital we get the support of the listeners to bring it to you each week commercial free.

The Fasting Highway News

Graeme is now available to have a private one on one coaching and mentoring session with you. He can help you with those burning questions. How to get started or overcome issues no matter what phase you are up to on your intermittent fasting journey. Get accountable and come and have a chat with Graeme who is vastly experienced in all areas of intermittent fasting and the mindset it takes. To book a time go to the website click get help/coaching.

www.thefastinghighway.com

Click on get help/coaching and book a time and date to suit you. All times you see available are in your local time. You will also find information at the web site on how to obtain a copy of his book The Fasting Highway.

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My name is Bobbi. I’m 53, I have 3 amazing kids and 1 adorable Granddaughter. I have been struggling with my weight since 1997. At that time I was 27 and had just had my second daughter. I weighed in at 230lbs. I was a busy Mom and lived my life for my kids, never taking care of me. In 2017 My Mom passed from complications of her type 2 diabetes and numerous other health problems. I wanted to lose weight but had no idea how. I tried diets and lost a bit but gained it back. Fast forward to October 2021. I was having some health issues. My doctor told me it was probably menopause since I was 51 now. He retired. This became a turning point for me. My new doctor started by doing a full physical on me. The blood work came back with an A1C of 17.8. I had extremely high blood sugar and was diagnosed as type 2 diabetic. The doctor immediately prescribed 4 Metformin and 3 glyburide a day to bring my sugars down. It was that day that I made the decision that I wanted to be healthy, I wanted to live to watch my kids and future grandkids grow up. I did not want to die at 68 like my Mom had. So, I decided to make radical changes. I immediately stopped all sugar and dropped carbs. After 6 months, I added in strength training twice a week. In December 2022, I found a 12 week program to help me beat the diabetes. I had gotten my A1C down to 6.3 but had not been able to drop it further or get off the medication. At my first meeting with the doctor she mentioned my fatty liver and that she wanted me to start IF to help lose the fat. By this time I weighed 187lbs. Only 2 days after this doctor mentioned IF I met a guy for a date. It turned out he has used IF to lose more than 100lbs! So, with the help of the program and Keith, I started doing 12 hour fasts. Within a week I was at a 16 hour fast. I changed my diet a bit more and recently started weightlifting 4 days a week and walking more. Today I weigh 178lbs. While that doesn’t seem like much, it’s huge for me. It’s less than I weighed when I was in my 20’s. More importantly for me are the non-scale victories. In the last 4 months I have gone from XL tshirts to medium and size 14 jeans to size 8. My blood sugars are stabilizing and I’m getting a quicker insulin response…and I’m currently only taking 2 Metformin a day! Within the next couple weeks, I will be stopping the Metformin all together. IF has really helped me to get there

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The Fasting Highway News

Graeme is now available to have a private one on one coaching and mentoring session with you. He can help you with those burning questions. How to get started or overcome issues no matter what phase you are up to on your intermittent fasting journey. Get accountable and come and have a chat with Graeme who is vastly experienced in all areas of intermittent fasting and the mindset it takes. To book a time go to the website click get help/coaching.

www.thefastinghighway.com

Click on get help/coaching and book a time and date to suit you. All times you see available are in your local time. You will also find information at the web site on how to obtain a copy of his book The Fasting Highway.

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Ed Pienta (pee-n-tah) has struggled with his weight since grade school. Everyone called him Husky, and family and friends made excuses for his weight by saying "He was always big boned." He was always active playing sports but always found food as a reward. His childhood doctor even prescribed drugs for weight control. As he entered adulthood, he tried several hospital programs and also Weight Watchers, losing 75 lbs., but continued to struggle with emotional eating, snacking all day, and eating fast food. The rollercoaster of losing and gaining weight continued, and then on Jan. 1st, 2022, the time was right to retire. Almost 70 years old and 252 lbs, he decided to get fit and healthy. Living now in a 55+ community with many options to be active, he decided to work out by walking and swimming. In 10 months, his weight went down to 240 lbs, but then plateaued. Feeling frustrated, he joined a group weighing in weekly at the Lodge; being held accountable might be an answer. After little progress, he met a woman named Phyliss, noticing she had lost a considerable amount of weight. She said she was Intermittent Fasting. He had tried IF in the past but gave up after not seeing any progress after 2 weeks. Phyliss said "Give it time." He started fasting that day with a 16:8 program. Ed purchased Gin Stephens Fast Feast Repeat and Graeme Currie’s The Fasting Highway books. Graeme’s book had an author picture, but Ed felt something was different. After several weeks of 16:8, he moved to 20:4 and saw some progress in the way his clothes fit and how good he was feeling. He began eating healthier while still eating things he liked. No counting points or carbs. While feeling better and clothes fitting better, he started to see weight coming off. On March 31, 2023, the scale read 198.8 -- the first time he was under 200 lbs in 50+ years! He now continues his quest to 185 lbs or so and is more active than ever, swimming 30 laps every other day and walking 2 to 3 miles a day. On May 21st he will play baseball for the first time since 1999 in a 65+ league. It’s now the middle of May, and while the weight loss has slowed a bit, fluctuating plus/minus 3-5 pounds, he is not worrying. About it, he considers Graeme’s book the driving force for a lot of his success.

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You can win a mentoring prize get exclusive early access to the podcasts and get access to the fasting highway audio book. Plus, bonus content and a monthly online coffee catch up by zoom for our patrons. Please consider this as its vital we get the support of the listeners to bring it to you each week commercial free.

The Fasting Highway News

Graeme is now available to have a private one on one coaching and mentoring session with you. He can help you with those burning questions. How to get started or overcome issues no matter what phase you are up to on your intermittent fasting journey. Get accountable and come and have a chat with Graeme who is vastly experienced in all areas of intermittent fasting and the mindset it takes. To book a time go to the website click get help/coaching.

www.thefastinghighway.com

Click on get help/coaching and book a time and date to suit you. All times you see available are in your local time. You will also find information at the web site on how to obtain a copy of his book The Fasting Highway from your Amazon store or direct from him if you live in Australia or New Zealand.

Disclaimer-Nothing you hear on the podcast should be taken as medical advice. All views expressed are those of the guest and host.

Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/graeme-currie/message

We are Hannah and Abbey, two sisters from Dunedin, New Zealand. We’re in our mid-twenties and both work in local government. Abbey found the intermittent fasting lifestyle first, beginning around March 2021, however this was somewhat inconsistent. Things got easier once Hannah got on board a yearlater. After a stint of complete doubt that skipping any meal would ever work,Hannah quickly found that not only was skipping a meal possible, it came with awide array of benefits and was much easier than anticipated! Growing up, we were never skinny, and found it hard to find the clothes we wanted in our size (this remains one of our big motivators today). After years of trying to lose weight through various diets and gym regimes, we had varying degrees of success, but in an unsustainable manner. It was actually our mum who set us on the path to finding IF, first by recommending the book ‘A Life Less Sugar’, and then ‘The Fasting Highway’ by Graeme Currie when she saw it pop up on Facebook. We are really excited to have finally found a sustainable lifestyle we know we can maintain. Both of us have been focusing on being healthier through reducing sugar, building exercise into our routine, and now we are settled into the OMAD lifestyle. Another goal for us is being fit for ski season, and to be able to buy stylish snow gear for the slopes – which can be hard to come by in the plus size range. This year, we are excited coming into ski season, having just bought new gear, and being our lightest weights since high school. There’s still a long road ahead, but so far between us we are more than 50kgs down and we are feeling healthier and more determined than ever! Finding IF at such young ages has given us a new lease on life, and we are so excited about the future.

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If you enjoy these episodes and want to help to get it out to the world, please consider joining our patreon community. Without the help from our patrons to bring you the podcast each week it won't be sustainable to keep doing them. So please, if you enjoy them become a patron of the podcast.

For details on the two levels of support please go to ⁠The Fasting Highway | Intermittent Fasting Podcast & Community | Patreon⁠You can win a mentoring prize get exclusive early access to the podcasts and get access to the fasting highway audio book. Plus, bonus content and a monthly online coffee catch up by zoom for our top tier patrons. Please consider this as its vital we get the support of the listeners to bring it to you each week commercial free.

The Fasting Highway News

Graeme is now available to have a private one on one coaching and mentoring session with you. He can help you with those burning questions. How to get started or overcome issues no matter what phase you are up to on your intermittent fasting journey. Get accountable and come and have a chat with Graeme who is vastly experienced in all areas of intermittent fasting and the mindset it takes. To book a time go to the website click get help/coaching.

www.thefastinghighway.com

Click on get help/coaching and book a time and date to suit you. All times you see available are in your local time. You will also find information at the web site on how to obtain a copy of his book The Fasting Highway from your Amazon store or direct from him if you live in Australia or New Zealand.

Disclaimer-Nothing you hear on the podcast should be taken as medical advice. All views expressed are those of the guest and host.

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I am a 71-year-old retired CEO of an 84-year-old family business. I have been retired for about 15 years. My passion is to do whatever I can to spread the word about the incredible health benefits of intermittent fasting. I have lost about 50 pounds on my own customized plan along with intermittent fasting. I have maintained my weight loss for about 15 years. In my retirement, I kept the title CEO, but changed the description to the “Chief Eating Officer.” Ibelieve everyone should be the “Chief Eating Officer” of their own mind, body, and spirit. I discovered intermittent fasting on December 20, 2020, when I read “Fast, Feast, Repeat,” by Gin Stephens. It was great timing because I was looking for a sustainable way to maintain my 40-pound weight loss. I also read “The Obesity Code” by Jason Fung, “The Fasting Highway” by Graeme Currie, and listened to numerous other podcasts. Becoming an intermittent faster was one of the easiest decisions I have ever made. I adopted a 20-24 hour fasting window during the first week and have been practicing it for almost 2.5 years. I have lost an additional 10 pounds with intermittent fasting and have successfully maintained the 50-pound weight loss. I was CEO of my familybusiness for 35 years. When I made my irrevocable commitment to lose weight I wrote my own plan. I used the CEO skills I had used my entire adult life. I taught myself how to eat, how not to eat, how to think, and how to use tiny habits to correct all 17 bad habits I acquired during the first 10years of my life. As the Compassionate Chief Eating Officer, I created my mission, vision, and my core values. My Mission is to get people out of “Diet Hell” forever. My Vision is customized permanent weight loss and lifestyle plans for all. My 10 Core Values are to be calm, creative, imaginative, positive,kind, truthful, and to have belief, commitment determination and patience. I want to do everything I can to help people get healthy and reach their unlimited human potential.

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The Fasting Highway News

Graeme is now available to have a private one on one coaching and mentoring session with you. He can help you with those burning questions. How to get started or overcome issues no matter what phase you are up to on your intermittent fasting journey. Get accountable and come and have a chat with Graeme who is vastly experienced in all areas of intermittent fasting and the mindset it takes. To book a time go to the website click get help/coaching.

www.thefastinghighway.com

Click on get help/coaching and book a time and date to suit you. All times you see available are in your local time. You will also find information at the web site on how to obtain a copy of his book The Fasting Highway from your Amazon store or direct from him if you live in Australia or New Zealand.

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SandiPeiffer (Pie fur) has been happily married to her best friend for 36 yrs. She is a 58yr old mother of 4 (ages 18-31) and grandmother of 2(ages 2 and 1) wholives on the Atlantic coast of Florida. She is a veteran homeschool mom of 26 years, her youngest is graduating this year. She enjoys walking, reading,crafting, cooking and spending time with her family. As an adult Sandi has tried most of the diets, we have all heard of… Weight Watchers, Susan Powter Stop the Insanity, TOPS, The Zone Diet, 40-30-30, Shake diets, Suzanne Somers “Somersize”, South Beach, Atkins, The Rosedale Diet, etc.Her real struggle with weight started when she went on an anti-depressant for anxiety. Then the pounds really started to pack on. 120 lbs by the time it wasall said and done. She found intermittent fasting after a diagnosis of Type 2. Diabetes with an A1C of 8.4, and a fasting glucose of 237. Though weight losshas been a nice side benefit, she really has had the focus of reversing her diabetes. Starting IF in Dec. 2018, at 5’4” and 300 lbs. Now after 1565 days ofclean fasting, she is currently at 240 lbs, but more importantly to her, her A1C is 6.2 and her fasting glucose stays in the 120’s, without diabetes.meds. She started IF by dipping her toe in the water, so to speak. With her previous health issues, especially her recent bout with Adrenal Fatigue, she wasdetermined to be gentle with her body. So she started with 14:10, clean fasting, and didn’t change her way of eating at all. After a couple of weeks, went up to15:9, then did the same to get to 16:8 and 17:7. She actually lost most of her weight at 17:7, even though she went on to 18:6 and eventually 19:5. DoingOMAD, “restaurant style” at 18:6 and 19:5. After 3 yrs of 19:5 OMAD, her body apparently said that was too stressful. Her cholesterol jumped very high, aswell as triglycerides and measures of inflammation. So, through working with a functional medicine Dr., she changed her IF schedule to 16:8 and her diet to amodified Paleo plan. That did the trick and the problems have corrected, and she’s taken off an additional 10 lbs. We are all an experiment of one, andsometimes we have to “tweak” how we practice IF. Listening to our bodies is so important!

Her husband also practices IF and has lost 65 lbs.

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If you enjoy these episodes and want to help to get it out to the world, please join our patreon community. Without the help from our patrons to bring you the podcast each week it won't be sustainable to keep doing them. So please, if you enjoy them become a patron of the podcast.

For details on the two levels of support please go to The Fasting Highway | Intermittent Fasting Podcast & Community | PatreonYou can win a mentoring prize get exclusive early access to the podcasts and get access to the fasting highway audio book. Plus, bonus content and a monthly online coffee catch up by zoom for our top tier patrons. Please consider this as its vital we get the support of the listeners to bring it to you each week.

The Fasting Highway News

Graeme is now available to have a private one on one coaching and mentoring session with you. He can help you with those burning questions. How to get started or overcome issues no matter what phase you are up to on your intermittent fasting journey. Get accountable and come and have a chat with Graeme who is vastly experienced in all areas of intermittent fasting and the mindset it takes. To book a time go to the website click get help/coaching.

www.thefastinghighway.com

Click on get help/coaching and book a time and date to suit you. All times you see available are in your local time. You will also find information at the web site on how to obtain a copy of his book The Fasting Highway from your Amazon store or direct from him if you live in Australia or New Zealand.

Disclaimer-Nothing you hear on the podcast should be taken as medical advice. All views expressed are those of the guest and host.

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I am 52 years young (!) living in rural area in Quebec, Canada near Montreal. I am blessed to have a beautiful family with 2 daughters who are 12 and 14 and my wife we shared lives together since 1995. I have struggled with my weight all my life. I currently work as a professional engineer keeping busy withimplementing and operating industrial composting facilities to make quality. compost from municipal food wastes and green wastes. As a teenager I was very active working on dairy farms, riding.my bike and kept busy all the time. Entering University, I was spotted by the Athletics department and was directed to their rugby team which I trained for and played during the first year. But I dropped this from 2nd year because studying for my engineering training became too much intense. My energy expenditures lowered but it seems not my food (and beer!) intake… and weight started to add on. In August 2006, I threw down the sink my last can of soda! In January 2008 had a gall bladder attack. I needed surgery in May and was told I had very fatty liver and I should lose weight on low lipid diet. Did not work. I’m 6ft (183cm) tall and highest weight was then 330lbs (150kg) from my medical record. In 2013, I suffered severe gout attack. Again, I should lose weight...Then in 2014, I came across Dr Robert Lustig in Sugar: The Bitter Truth. I threw adder sugar and processed foods out of the kitchen. I read Dr. Fung’s Diabetes Code in Summer 2020 and learnt about fasting for health and weight loss for the first time. And on August 24th,2020 I fasted 24h for 1st time in my life. But I did not know about clean fasting back then, so it was not sustainable the way I implemented it. On 1st October 2022, after reading The Fasting Highway by Graeme Currie, I resumed (now clean) fasting, doing OMAD 23-1,7/7. And that has been a true Eureka moment, on a path to a healthy new me!

The Fasting Highway News

Graeme is now available to have a private one on one coaching and mentoring session with you. He can help you with those burning questions. How to get started or overcome issues no matter what phase you are up to on your intermittent fasting journey. Get accountable and come and have a chat with Graeme who is vastly experienced in all areas of intermittent fasting and the mindset it takes. He also by experience can offer some real and practical advice around overcoming issues with sugar and highly processed food issues. Graeme has helped people from all over the world with his simple and practical approach to trouble shooting issues and has a great insight into the mindset into living a successful long term intermittent fasting lifestyle. To book a private session one on one with Graeme go to.

www.thefastinghighway.com

Click on get help/coaching and book a time and date to suit you. All times you see available are in your local time. You will also find information at the web site on how to obtain a copy of his book The Fasting Highway from your Amazon store or direct from him if you live in Australia or New Zealand.

Disclaimer-Nothing you hear on the podcast should be taken as medical advice. All views expressed are those of the guest and host.

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Tania & I started our Intermittent fasting journey back at the end of 2019. Tania lost 10kg (22 pounds) & I lost 22kg (46 pounds)

Our IF lifestyle developed into a journey of discovery of health and eating nutritious foods that served us best. During covid, food security became an important aspect in our life, and we decided to chase a dream of growing our own food.

Our search for a property led us to a small farm of 38 acres on the south coast of NSW Australia. We found a place that had good bones but needed a lot of work. We have since developed a Belted Galloway cattle stud and grow nearly all our own food. We have 17 Black Face Suffolk sheep, around 100 chooks for eggs, meat &pasture management to run behind the cattle & sheep. Tania has a green thumb and grows a great variety of vegetables, berries & fruit.

If you had of told me 3 years ago that we would be doing this, I would have laughed as I was too unwell to even think of trying to tackle such a task. Not only have we regenerated ourselves but are regenerating the soils on our farm to keep us and some of the people around us with nutritious food.

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The Fasting Highway News

Graeme is now available to have a private one on one coaching and mentoring session with you. He can help you with those burning questions. How to get started or overcome issues no matter what phase you are up to on your intermittent fasting journey. Get accountable and come and have a chat with Graeme who is vastly experienced in all areas of intermittent fasting and the mindset it takes. He also by experience can offer some real and practical advice around overcoming issues with sugar and highly processed food issues. Graeme has helped people from all over the world with his simple and practical approach to trouble shooting issues and has a great insight into the mindset into living a successful long term intermittent fasting lifestyle. To book a private session one on one with Graeme go to.

www.thefastinghighway.com

Click on get help/coaching and book a time and date to suit you. All times you see available are in your local time. You will also find information at the web site on how to obtain a copy of his book The Fasting Highway from your Amazon store or direct from him if you live in Australia or New Zealand.

Disclaimer-Nothing you hear on the podcast should be taken as medical advice. All views expressed are those of the guest and host.

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Sarah Wilbow is a 49-year-old writer and public servant who lives in Canberra, Australia, with her husband and two primary-school aged children. Sarah has an arts Degree majoring in English Literature, a Law degree, and a master's in law.

After a lifetime of over-eating and failed diets, Sarah discovered intermittent fasting in September 2021, and has gone on to lose 35kg (about 66lbs). Sarah was so inspired by the power of intermittent fasting that she wrote a novel about it, called 'The Skinny Spell,' which is available from all good book sellers.

Sarah's fasting regime has ranged from 16:8 through to OMAD and finally ADF. After some fluctuations in weight while maintaining, Sarah has more recently been focusing on cutting back on sugar, grains and processed foods.

Sarah is committed to fasting as a long-term way of eating and continues to be interested in reading information about the benefits of fasting, such as the potential impacts on mental health and diseases of old age.

Get a copy of Sarahs book The Skinny Spell from Amazon and all good book sellers.

The Fasting Highway News

Graeme is now available to have a private one on one coaching and mentoring session with you. He can help you with those burning questions. How to get started or overcome issues no matter what phase you are up to on your intermittent fasting journey. Get accountable and come and have a chat with Graeme who is vastly experienced in all areas of intermittent fasting and the mindset it takes. He also by experience can offer some real and practical advice around overcoming issues with sugar and highly processed food issues. Graeme has helped people from all over the world with his simple and practical approach to trouble shooting issues and has a great insight into the mindset into living a successful long term intermittent fasting lifestyle. To book a private session one on one with Graeme go to.

www.thefastinghighway.com

Click on get help/coaching and book a time and date to suit you. All times you see available are in your local time. You will also find information at the web site on how to obtain a copy of his book The Fasting Highway from your Amazon store or direct from him if you live in Australia or New Zealand.

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I am a 41 year old wife and mother. My husband Chad and Ihave been together since 2001. We have two beautiful daughters; Leigh is 19 and Brooke 18 years old. Leigh moved out last August, so it is just Chad, Brooke and myself at home. We have an American bulldog name, Lucy and a cat, Baby, in thehouse. Brooke has a goat named Biscuit and a FFA steer name Bullseye. We live in rural Missouri on 11 acres. With our original 2 acre yard, last August we bought the 9 acres of woods that touches our backyard. I love being outdoors and enjoy hunting, camping, side-by-side riding, boat riding, fishing and hiking; every chance I get. I also enjoy, putting in a vegetable garden, every spring. Now that we have the extra 9 acres, we started putting in a food plot for the deer and turkey. We have a game camera on our food plot and have been feeding the wildlife all winter. I have been working for the same Credit Union out ofRolla Missouri for 13 years this coming May. I love my job and am what we like to call “lifers”. My career plan to retire from Riverways. I have been struggling with my weight for 18 years after my last pregnancy. I have tried multiple plans and diets in the past. I could lose the weight, but never keep it off long term. Fasting is the only lifestyle that has worked. I lose weight like a turtle. Slow and steady wins the race. I have been fasting since August 14 of 2020. My doctorwas the one who said I should give it a try in June of 2020. It took me a month and a half to ponder on the idea of fasting when not doing keto. “IF” quicklybecame the best way that I could have ever improved myself and my mindset. Before fasting I was not in the best place mentally, and had a few healthissues. I had severe allergies with sinus infections, at least every other month, and had G.I. troubles. My G.I. troubles became severe enough that Ithought I was having a gallbladder attack. Turns out it was not my gallbladder and after lots of testing I still don’t know what was wrong. I do know that fasting has greatly improved my G.I. and I no longer have allergies.

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Graeme is now available to have a private one on one coaching and mentoring session with you. He can help you with those burning questions. How to get started or overcome issues no matter what phase you are up to on your intermittent fasting journey. Get accountable and come and have a chat with Graeme who is vastly experienced in all areas of intermittent fasting and the mindset it takes. He also by experience can offer some real and practical advice around overcoming issues with sugar and highly processed food issues. Graeme has helped people from all over the world with his simple and practical approach to trouble shooting issues and has a great insight into the mindset into living a successful long term intermittent fasting lifestyle. To book a private session one on one with Graeme go to.

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I live in the Northern Suburbs of Perth Western Australia, I’m 48 years old, almost married to the incredible Terry (hopefully we will get married this year as I kept telling him I wouldn’t marry him while I was overweight) we been engaged for 8 years. I’m a mother to a 21 year old and 19 year old twins, all gorgeous young men now. Fur Mum to an Old English Sheepdog Benson and our baby a 1 year old rescued German Shepherd who has severe leg problems due to such severe malnourishment before being rescued. I own and run my own business selling energy cleansing & lifting products, I was a Hairdresser in my past life. I’ve had weight issues my whole life, at 17 I was diagnosed with PSOS, now at the other end in peri menopause. I went through 18 cycles IVF to have my beautiful boys. At my highest weight (after IVF and the baby’s) I was 130kg (290lbs) and at my lowest 55kg (121lbs) when the twins where about 7 years old, from a strict calorie deficit and running addiction, looking back at photos I think I was too thin at this weight. My height is 160cm (5’3”) so I’m a shorty 😐 Over the last 6 years the weight has just kept creeping on, and nothing has worked including running 10km a day etc.… until I found IF six months ago. Lorraine.StatsSW: 91.6kg (201.7 lbs.)CW: 70kg (154 lbs.)GW: around the 60 - 64kg mark (132 - 141 lbs.) going to let my bodyfigure it out. Lost: 21kg (46 lbs.) IF Starting Date 3rd October 2022Currentlydoing OMAD and loving it. The Fasting Highway NewsGraeme is now available to have a private one on one coaching and mentoring session with you. He can help you with those burning questions. How to get started or overcome issues no matter what phase you are up to on your intermittent fasting journey. Get accountable and come and have a chat with Graeme who is vastly experienced in all areas of intermittent fasting and the mindset it takes. He also by experience can offer some real and practical advice around overcoming issues with sugar and highly processed food issues.Graeme has helped people from all over the world with his simple and practical approach to trouble shooting issues and has a great insight into the mindset into living a successful long term intermittent fasting lifestyle.To book a private session one on one with Graeme go to. www.thefastinghighway.com Click on get help/coaching and book a time and date to suit you. All times you see available are in your local time. You will also find information at the web site on how to obtain a copy of his book The Fasting Highway from Amazon or direct from him.Disclaimer-Nothing you hear on the podcast should be taken as medical advice. All views expressed are those of the guest and host.--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/graeme-currie/message

Back story: Christmas 2019: my sister had lost a bunch of weight and she looked fabulous plus my health insurance premiums were being determined by some biometrics and I could save money by getting them down. I knew what to do after all my years of yo-yo dieting. Eat less, move more, right? I started tracking my calories and exercised like crazy. In 9 months, I had lost 40#. I stayed at my goal weight for 2 whole weeks before I started gaining it back. A year later I had gained back 27#. There had to be a way to keep it off that had eluded me every other time. Two of my best friends on their own weight loss journeys told me about Jason Fung’s book The Diabetes Code and Gin Stephens’ Fast Feast Repeat. I loved the science stuff in Dr.Fung’s book and the easy how-to of Gin’s.

Then they told me about the Fasting Highway. I joined the Facebook group and devoured your book The Fasting Highway. My first fast (a clean one, always) was 16 hours. I’m not a breakfast eater and I love black coffee so I was halfway there already. Every couple of days I said, “that was easy, I’ll add another hour” and fell into OMAD pretty quickly. I lost back 30# in 3 months and have maintained for 14 months.

Stats: age 61, height 5’4”. Highest weight 183# (82kg), starting fasting weight 170# (77kg), current weightfluctuates between 140-145# (65kg).

More in the episode.

Lisa

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Graeme has helped people from all over the world with his simple and practical approach to trouble shooting issues and has a great insight into the mindset into living a successful long term intermittent fasting lifestyle.

To book a private session one on one with Graeme go to.

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By Christine Field.

I have been intermittent fasting for about five years in addition to trying countless other methods of weight loss. Initially, I did it wrong. Unclean. Uneducated about how to properly fast etc. all of the same things you hear your guests say. I have been overweight my entire life. As a child I was always the biggest one. I believe that I suffer from insulin issues that go undetected through typical medicine. My highest weight was 358 pounds (162Kg). My current weight is178 (80 Kg). I am 5’8”. I went from a size 26 Womens to a size 8. A couple of years ago I bought Gin’s book and started listening to her podcasts. That led me to your podcast. Although I love you both, in some ways I relate to your life story. I clean fast every day. I have been doing this for about 18 months. I give myself a 4–6-hour window. I am currently trying to cut back on sugars. My tastes have changed. My life has changed. Fasting reconnected me with life again. Taking the food away and all the noise that goes along with it put me in a place of openness and readiness to live my best life. I glow. I wake up every day ready to tackle life. Things that might scare me or give me anxiety in the past, no longer bother me. It’s bizarre and beautiful! You often speak about how your weight affects your parenting. I resonate with that deeply because I have three sporty children. coach basketball. I want to be agile and fit. I want to be a great example of health and fitness to them and to other children as well.

Christine

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Graeme has helped people from all over the world with his simple and practical approach to trouble shooting issues and has a great insight into the mindset into living a successful long term intermittent fasting lifestyle.

To book please go to the fasting highway website below.

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Hey friends! Bud’s story is fantastic- as I began seeing his transformation, and even the way he spoke about his experience, it reminded me of a Connecticut version of Graeme Currie! I introduced Bud to IF and even gave him your book in the parking lot of a funeral home before going into the service- I remember thinking I shouldn't look so happy walking into a funeral, but I had never had anyone else ask me about it. I actually found IF because I was looking for an alternative to going on meds for ADHD! I was (very easily and quickly) diagnosed at 46 (I just turned 49). My weight has only fluctuated slightly -maybe 5-10 pounds- but I am a clear: Non-Scale Victory story proving that IF is not just about weight loss.

Tammy

Buds story.

I am 59 years old a single parent of three adult children and a grandfather to two. I live in Old Saybrook Connecticut in the USA, a small town on the shoreline in the New England section of the United States. I work in sales management as a customer business manager for a consumer products company inthe confectionary industry and have worked in the industry for the past 30 years. Prior to covid I was on the road traveling almost weekly, living in airports, Marriott hotels, and rental cars. The past year, post covid, I’m traveling around 50% of pre-covid. When I was younger, as a child, I never had weightissues, I was thin, and it was not until my early to mid-forties did weight start to become an issue for me. It added up slowly I would yoyo diet, eat low-fat, workout, lose the weight only for it to go back on plus. I did this a few times over the past 15 to 18 years, I knew it was not healthy and each time I’dlose weight, I would say to myself, this is it not coming back on. Only for the weight to come back plus additional pounds. My high point was March 2021 at 267lbs. or 121 kilograms. It was most likely higher than 267, I was avoiding scales at the time. I knew I had to lose weight and when my father said to mein early March 2021, he wanted to see me lose weight, I knew I could no longer avoid the situation. I went on a low carb high protein diet and consulted with a nutritionist with Ideal Protein, this was my second round at the rodeo on Ideal Protein as I lost a lot of weight in 2016 only for it to all go back on. My weight went down from 267 lbs. to around 195 lbs. by December 2021. During the month of November and December, my father took sick, ended up in hospital and passed away December 2021. I knew I could never put weight on. one in honor of my father, who motivated me on my journey and also because I knew how unhealthy the weight was. My biggest fear was putting the weight back on, it literally scared me. I was not sure where to turn to find a lifetimesolution. My friend Tammy Sinebaldo had been doing IF for around a year and a half and was doing very well with it. I reached out to Tammy and asked her if she was still doing IF, she said yes, sent me a lot of information, including your POD cast. I started IF the same day January 12th, 2022. I lost another 25 lbs. (11.25 KG). on IF and my weight for the first time in decades went down to 175 lbs. (78.75 kg). I’ve been within the 170 to 176 lb. (76.5 kg -79 kg). range for the past year in maintenance living a IF lifestyle. More in the this episode.

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I live in Poulsbo, Washington, USA. I began IF September 2017 after a phone call from a friend on vacation on the East Coast. She told me about a book by Gin Stephens her nephew had read and had lost 50 pounds.

I got copy and could not put it down. I started losing weight right from the beginning. Over the next 4 years, I would get close to my first goal and then I would go up a few pounds. From July through September 2021, I had managed to gain back 13 pounds. I still clean fasted but I was overeating in my OMAD meals including lots of sweets. Finally, I decided I needed to make a change. First, I needed to admit I was a sugar addict. So, in September 2021 I eliminated processed sugar goodies. I also added two 42 hour fasts weekly to my already 20–23-hour OMADs. I gave myself a year to reach my goal by my 80th birthday in September 2022. I reached my goal and lost even more. So by my birthday I was already doing maintenance. I have maintained my weight loss over ten months, which in itself is a miracle. I am still doing 20–23-hour OMADs fasts with a 42 hour fast weekly if needed. I have lost a total of 65 lbs. over 5 years.

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My book the fasting highway is available from your local amazon store. If you are in Australia or New Zealand, you can get it direct from me at the web site.

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My story- I am a 41-year-old mom of 2 boys (ages 5&8) and wife to my wonderful husband for 10 years. We live in Lake Mary, FL (suburb of Orlando). I am a full-time stay-at-home mom for the last 4 years, formerly a paralegal (for 15yrs) and most recently a podcaster & fasting coach! I started yo-yo dieting around age 16. Since then, I have struggled with my weight. In college, instead of the “freshman 15” I gained about 40lbs…. when I graduated, I lost it by working out 6 days a week, calorie counting and depriving myself constantly. I didn’t eat meat, carbs, sugar and honestly was miserable. I maintained (not so effortlessly) a healthy weight for about 4 years until I got married at age 30. This is when the weight started to pile on. I finally found comfort in a man that loved me for me, the comfort of marriage set in and before I knew it, I put on about 20lbs. Then I became pregnant with our first son in 2014 and gained a good 60lbs, lost it all rather quickly after giving birth but this time by joining a weight loss MLM (so embarrassed of this!) and using supplements and body wraps…hundreds of dollars a month to sustain and I lost only around 10lbs over the next THREE years! Fast forward to 2016-17 – I was pregnant now with my second son. I was gaining just like the first time but at 28 weeks was diagnosed with gestational diabetes. Due to having to have an extremely strict diet to control my blood sugar, I didn’t end up gaining as much. It was what came in the next 2 years that was the worst.

Fast forward to January 2020...I’m getting my hair done and overhear the client next to me chatting about how she lost 30lbs doing IF. I went home that day and began researching. A friend of mine invited me to your Delay Don’t Deny FB support group where I lingered for about a week before deciding to start 1/24/20 and have been clean fasting every day since. About a week into my journey, I ordered Delay, Don’t Deny and read it in about an hour – this book would completely change my life (followed by Feast Without Fear, Fast Feast Repeat and Cleanish!). I’ve lost 50lbs meeting my original goal of 140lbs in late October 2020 and have been maintaining now for over 2 years bouncing between 135-140. Almost every single health issue I had before, gone now.

Clean IF has truly saved me. The amount of gratitude I have for you and this community has now turned into my work and passion. In February 2022, I launched my podcast, Fast and Fabulous, which has already around 15k downloads with only 25 episodes in. I love sharing my story and helping others find this unbelievable freedom. I also run an advanced spin-off Delay, Don’t Deny support group on FB with about 12k members, growing by the day and I try to cultivate inspiration and information on Instagram as well.

The links for my website and IG are below as well as my stats and transformation.

https://fastandfabulouspodcast.com

IG-@cleanfastingmama

Stats

SW 190

CW 140 GW

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Sean L. Dipple South Carolina, USA I was born in 1971 in Columbus Ohio and lived in Central Ohio until I was 12 years old. My father worked in the office equipment industry and quickly worked up through the ranks. When I was halfway thru middle school he was promoted and moved the family to the Chicago area and we lived in the NW part of Chicago until I was 18. I was always a slender child and was never overweight. I didn’t play organized sports but was very active with snow skiing, water skiing and neighborhood sports like football and Ice Hockey on neighborhood ponds in the winter. Eating was never a priority for me and I remember my mom was always forcing me to come in for each meal. I graduated High School in 1989 and weighed 170 lbs. (I am 5’11”). Food and eating out became a priority only when I got married and my focus and priorities changed. I got married when I was 18 to a girl, I met in High School who thought she couldn’t have children. A month after we got married, she got pregnant (yes, the math works out) and my whole life changed. I worked any job I could to provide for her and my child. Food and alcohol quickly became the only thing that relaxed and soothed the stresses that you can imaging were very quickly a daily part of my life. Even though I was consuming a lot of food and sometimes alcohol I only gained 10 or 15 lbs. because I was a commercial electrician and worked very physically hard. I also made $9.00 an hour so going out to eat or eating a lot just wasn’t an option. We really struggled financially. It wasn’t until 1994 that I got a job in outside sales that I really started to gain weight. The physical labor was no longer a part of my daily life and most of my time was driving in the car sitting on my butt. Fast and cheap food was the daily menu. I quickly got over 200 lbs. and haven’t been under that weight since I was 25 years old. Currently I am 51. Since then, I have been in sales management which still involves a lot of sitting. My weight has fluctuated from 272 down to 245. I once got down to 207 but I always seem to self-sabotage myself and return to that self-soothing food, alcohol and the dreaded sugar! I had a very dysfunctional childhood with a father that was very verbally abusive as well as sometimes physically. Once during my childhood my father was overweight and got into running and taking care of himself. He lost a lot of weight and became very arrogant and condescending of anyone that was overweight. I think this is why once I start losing weight that I quickly do whatever I can to gain it all back. Diets and exercise are always a short-term fix to a long-term problem. IF has started to change all of that and I have been able to lose close to 20 lbs. since Jan of last year. Inconsistency is what has prevented me from taking this journey to the next level and that’s why I reached out. I am ready to see this thru from a diet to a full-time lifestyle and tackle the demons that sabotage my progress. I am hopeful that “The Fasting Highway” family can benefit from my story as I am sure it is more common than we realize.

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For all information on my private one on one coaching go to www.thefastinghighway.com to book a private zoom call. All times you see available are in your local time zone worldwide.

My book the fasting highway is available from your local amazon store. If you are in Australia or New Zealand, you can get it direct from me at the web site.

Details and links to the fasting highway Facebook community can also be found at the web site. If you would like to be a guest on the podcast please submit a request on the web page.

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Linda Dicker Bio.

Height 5’4” (163 cm)

SW 253 lbs. (115 kg)

CW 197 lbs. (89 kg)

GW 133 lbs. (60 kg)

Linda is a 58-year-old stay-at-home mom with 8 children. She and her husband live in the US, in rural Virginia. For the past 29 years Linda has used her degree in education to homeschool all of her children through high school, with her youngest graduating this spring.

Weight gain has been a struggle for Linda since childhood. As a teen she always felt bigger than her thin friends and began dieting at the age of 15. As an adult, Linda always had a desire to be healthy, and to feed her family a healthy diet, but her love of sugar and her emotional dependence on food often sabotaged her efforts to lose weight.

Linda tried multiple diets over the years, a few times losing a substantial amount of weight, only to regain more afterwards. Her weight increased gradually over the years no matter what she tried. Other than weight issues and some back pain, she felt pretty healthy, but about 7 years ago she began to feel pain and numbness in her feet, which turned out to be pre-diabetes and neuropathy. She knew that years of obesity were catching up to her. By 2021, Linda topped 250 lbs. (115 kg) on her 5’4” (163 cm) frame. She knew she had to do something or 300 lbs. would be the next stop.

In 2018 Linda came across Dr. Fung online and IF made a lot of sense to her. She began to dabble in fasting with hit-and-miss results. Then in April of 2021 she came across Graeme’s book, The Fasting Highway online and bought it. Something about his story just really resonated with her, and by the end of the book she was ready to commit to IF.

Shortly into her weight loss journey, Linda had a setback when Covid nearly took her life. She spent months in recovery, but in the end learned to value her own health even more. A short time later, a friend gave her the book, Alive! by Dr. Scott Stoll, that gave her a new vision for eating a whole foods diet. Without the sugar and processed foods driving her cravings, Linda was able to use her eating window as an opportunity to refuel her body with the nutrients she needed with a calm self-control that had escaped her before. Although she still doesn’t feel she has all the answers, Linda has begun to make progress on a path she firmly believes she can maintain for the rest of her life.

To date, she’s lost 56 lbs. (25 kg), over halfway to her first goal to lose 100 lbs. (45 kg), but she ultimately would like to get down into the low 130’s, which would be a total weight loss of about 120 lbs. (54 kg).

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Graeme is now available to have a private one on one coaching and mentoring session with you. He can help you with those burning questions. How to get started or overcome issues no matter what phase you are up to on your intermittent fasting journey. Get accountable and come and have a chat with Graeme who is vastly experienced in all areas of intermittent fasting and the mindset it takes. He also by experience can offer some real and practical advice around overcoming issues with sugar and highly processed food issues.

Graeme has helped people from all over the world with his simple and practical approach to trouble shooting issues and has a great insight into the mindset into living a successful long term intermittent fasting lifestyle.

To book go to www.thefastinghighway.com Click on get help and book a time and date to suit you. All times you see available are in your local time world wide. You will also find information at the web site on how to obtain a copy of his book The Fasting Highway direct if in Australia or New Zealand or your local Amazon store elsewhere in the world.

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Kiri is a 43-year-old registered nurse, professional dancer, mango farmer and mother of two girls 12 and 14. She resides in a small town called Kununurra, on Miriwoong country in the remote East Kimberly of Western Australia.

Kiri was the chubby baby who turned into the even chubbier toddler, becoming the obese child who transitioned into the desperately dieting teenager and adult. At 13 years of age weighing 93kgms/205 pounds (172cms/ 5.7’ tall), she embarked on her first diet- Weight-Watches and so began the lifelong battle of the diets and calorie restriction. Like many, she had tried it all, from low to high fat, low to high carb, vegetarian to keto and everything in between.

Her highest weight was in 2008 at 110kgms/198 pounds and after the birth of her second child she made the commitment to take control of her weight once again. Years of restrictive diets and excessive exercise regimes, saw her maintain her weight around 75kgms/165 pounds, but as Kiri headed into mid age, years of restrictive diets and exercise along with a high cortisol lifestyle, meant weight management was becoming harder and less sustainable. Other ailments such as skin disorders, osteoarthritis and carpal tunnel were becoming more prominent and debilitating.

In October 2020 she was discussing health issues to a good friend and a TFH FB group member. The friend directed her to read Fast Feast Repeat by Gin Stephens and The Fasting Hwy by Graeme Currie. Having always been invested in healthcare and deeply interested by science, she went on to devour these books and several more, having never looked back.

Becoming Adipose adapted was a challenging process for Kiri. She started with 16:8 and white knuckled it for 3 months, watching her weight go up 3.5kgms/7.7 pounds in that time. Without the support of The Fasting Highway Facebook group, she is doubtful as to whether she would have made it through the first three months.

Although she only lost 7kgms/15.5 pounds with IF, the inches and NSV are many. Freedom from demonizing food has helped heal her relationship with food and herself and gives her the extra time to work on being her best self.

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Graeme is now available to have a private one on one coaching and mentoring session with you. He can help you with those burning questions. How to get started or overcome issues no matter what phase you are up to on your intermittent fasting journey. Get accountable and come and have a chat with Graeme who is vastly experienced in all areas of intermittent fasting and the mindset it takes. He also by experience can offer some real and practical advice around overcoming issues with sugar and highly processed food issues.

Graeme has helped people from all over the world with his simple and practical approach to trouble shooting issues and has a great insight into the mindset into living a successful long term intermittent fasting lifestyle.

To book-www.thefastinghighway.com

Click on get help and book a time and date to suit you. All times you see available are in your local time. You will also find information at the web site on how to obtain a copy of his book The Fasting Highway.

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Tonya Kortekaas lives in Pontiac, Michigan with her husband Michael of 10 years. She is mom to 3 adult sons and “bonus” mom to Michael’s 3 adult children as well.

Tonya spent most of her adult life as a stay-at-home mom of 3 growing boys and self employed as a portrait photographer. She felt that her most important mission in life was to raise her children and give them all the care and love they deserved. She has been good at putting her family before her own needs, but the costs of that have been not taking care of her mind and body as she should. As her children have become adults and she has had more time to work on herself she has entered back into the full-time working world and currently works for Oakland University. In her free time, she enjoys outdoor walks, kayaking, biking, going to the gym, watercolor painting and teaching herself the piano.

Tonya has struggled with her weight since her early adult years. Her weight has fluctuated from 25 lbs. overweight to morbid obesity of 180 lbs overweight. She realizes that emotional eating and overindulging in sweets have been her issues. She has tried countless diets, which have allowed her to lose weight but eventually gain it all back and more over the years. At her annual physical exam in March of 2022, she was confronted with the highest weight of her lifetime at 349 lbs. and a BMI of 51. Her blood pressure was soaring to a dangerous high and her blood tests showed she was pre-diabetic. She knew at that moment it was time for a big change. She was sick of living life with this ongoing weight struggle and longed deeply to be a “normal” sized person. Little did she know that change was going to lead her to an intermittent fasting lifestyle and complete freedom from her struggles with eating. To date, she’s been intermittent fasting for 6 months and has lost 91 pounds (or 41 kilos).

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By Anne Henley

I live in South Carolina on Lake Murray outside Columbia (the capital). I am married, and we just celebrated 30 years in October. I have two grown children, one is in his first year of graduate school in Michigan and the other just got married (Oct 29, 2022).

Back story.

I became complacent and tired. I have always been an active person, and actually have a degree in health fitness from Springfield College in Springfield Massachusetts. The year I graduated is not important (Ha HA).

I never really got what I consider huge, but I did my biometrics for my health insurance and I saw the word obese under my BMI.

We moved into our forever home the summer of 2018, and my youngest started college that August. My oldest was in graduate school and living in downtown Columbia. I was by myself a lot and enjoying the empty nest.

We (husband and I) ate when and what we wanted. Keep in mind I am only 5’ 1’’ so a small amount of extra weight really shows on me. My husband is 6’ 4 “and pretty much eats what he wants, and his eating habits are horrible. He just recently was diagnosed with Diabetes and has had to revamp his whole life. His GP had told him several times he was pre-diabetic and gave him Mediterranean diet info.

Fast forward to April of 2019, my son and daughter were home for Easter. I felt unattractive, bloated, and none of my clothes really fit. Keep in mind I was still exercising (walk at lunch) after work, Nordic trac ski machine before work, however I was overindulging by rationalizing that I had exercised.

Well, we had pictures taken for Easter, the kids and I outside Church after service. I looked at it, did not recognize myself and was totally disgusted with myself. By Tuesday (4/23/19) after Easter I had stumbled across Intermittent Fasting online. I read about it, and it made sense. I immediately order Gin’s book (Delay, Don’t Deny) off amazon. I actually started fasting before I received the book.

April 23, 2019 is what I consider my starting date, I weighed 167 pounds, and I was mortified and so disappointed in myself.

I started with 16:8 and it was so relatively easy. I found the FB support group and off I went. The hardest thing for me was black coffee. I chocked it down the first couple of days, but I got the hang of it. My husband kept asking are you sure it was worth it.

I weighed every day and I still do.

So, looking back at my progress

4/23/19 – 167 lbs.

4/25/19 -162 lbs.

4/30/19 -160.4 5/11/19- 155.3 (my daughters grad school Graduation)

5/23/19 – 142.7 (one month and I lost 24 pounds)

10/23/19 -123 ( 6 months) forty-four pounds lost.

Anne.

The Fasting Highway News.

My book about my own story The Fasting Highway is available on Amazon in both paperback and kindle. The Fasting Highway: Graeme Currie takes you on a journey through the highs and lows of beating a crippling food addiction by losing 60kg (132 pounds) living an Intermittent Fasting Lifestyle.

For Australian and New Zealand residents, you can buy the book direct from me at www.thefastinghighway.com. For the rest of the world Amazon is your best option.

You can follow me on Instagram at graemecurrie_63 or join The Fasting Highway Facebook Community.

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Tracey Mack lives in Taylor, Michigan a small city outside of Detroit.

Tracey currently works for the U.S. Government, and she also served in the U. S. Army.

Tracey has been yo-yo- dieting since the age of 25 when she started gaining weight after giving birth to her second child.

Tracey has tried every diet known to man including working out in the gym for hours at a time.

She reached her highest weight and became pre-diabetic in 2020 during the pandemic while working from home.

Tracey is very passionate about finding a solution for her health and weight-loss that she started keeping a journal about it and turned it into a book.

The Fasting Highway News.

My book about my own story The Fasting Highway is available on Amazon in both paperback and kindle. The Fasting Highway: Graeme Currie takes you on a journey through the highs and lows of beating a crippling food addiction by losing 60kg (132 pounds) living an Intermittent Fasting Lifestyle.

For Australian and New Zealand residents, you can buy the book direct from me at www.thefastinghighway.com. For the rest of the world Amazon is your best option.

You can follow me on Instagram at graemecurrie_63 or join The Fasting Highway Facebook Community.

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Graeme.

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Leslie Taylor is a stay-at-home mom and grandma and has worked as a medical website content developer. She enjoys taking complicated medical information and presenting it in a creative and easy-to-understand manner for the general public. She is currently writing a book on fasting called Fast Well Feast Well and will be releasing the content of the book in a free weekly newsletter called FastWell.

Leslie was a healthy weight until her 30s when a stressful cross-country move caused her to suddenly gain 25 lbs (11kg). This is when her dieting history began. She tried Weight Watchers and other calorie-restrictive diets. Each time she lost some weight initially but then regained back even more. She tried keto in 2018 but found it too restrictive, losing only 10 lbs. and then plateauing. Then her dad passed away in January of 2022 from heart complications from having type 2 diabetes for 30 years. She got on the scale and found she weighed 180 lbs. (81 kg), which was 50 lbs. (23 kg) above her comfort weight. Her blood sugar numbers were pre-diabetic. She knew something had to change. She had heard about fasting from her sister. Also, her dad had reversed his diabetes through fasting in 2018 but this was too late since his heart damage was irreversible. She began doing OMAD in January of 2022 and faithfully did OMAD every day for 6 months but lost no weight or inches. Then on August 1st of 2022 she started ADF. She is now down 34 lbs., her blood sugar numbers are healthy again, her fasting insulin serum number is A+, and she has numerous NSVs. For those who want to subscribe to her free weekly newsletter go to fastwell.substack.com and enter your email address. You can easily unsubscribe at any time.

The Fasting Highway News.

My book about my own story The Fasting Highway is available on Amazon in both paperback and kindle. The Fasting Highway: Graeme Currie takes you on a journey through the highs and lows of beating a crippling food addiction by losing 60kg (132 pounds) living an Intermittent Fasting Lifestyle.

For Australian and New Zealand residents, you can buy the book direct from me at www.thefastinghighway.com. For the rest of the world Amazon is your best option.

You can follow me on Instagram at graemecurrie_63 or join The Fasting Highway Facebook Community.

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Belle is 57 and lives just outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the United States. She has been married to her husband for 25 years and has a 22-year-old son, a 20-year-old daughter and a Pitbull named Louie.

She works remotely full time, for a home care agency in New York City where she is a Client Account Manager. She has a part time job on the weekends at a women’s clothing boutique that she does for fun, and she also has a love for dogs and volunteers for a dog rescue in her free time.

Belle likes to keep active and tries to get some form of exercise daily whether it be a long walk with her dog, a power walk with a friend, or a strength training video on You tube. She has recently started playing pickle ball and is really enjoying that too!

She enjoys hanging out with family and friends and especially loves to cook, bake and entertain! On weekends she likes to dine out with friends or have friends and family over for dinner. She also enjoys outdoor events where she can bring her dog, shopping, reading, playing Canasta and watching Netflix series with her husband.

Belle began intermittent fasting in August of 2017 and now thinks of it as a lifestyle. Belle was a previous guest on the podcast back in episode four.

The Fasting Highway News.

My book about my own story The Fasting Highway is available on Amazon in both paperback and kindle. The Fasting Highway: Graeme Currie takes you on a journey through the highs and lows of beating a crippling food addiction by losing 60kg (132 pounds) living an Intermittent Fasting Lifestyle.

For Australian and New Zealand residents, you can buy the book direct from me at www.thefastinghighway.com. For the rest of the world Amazon is your best option.

You can follow me on Instagram at graemecurrie_63 or join The Fasting Highway Facebook Community.

Enjoy The Show

Graeme.

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I am a 42-year-old mom of three amazing kids ages 15, 13, and 10. I am a wife of 19 years to my best friend Steven. We are both teachers who have been in the classroom for almost 20 years. We enjoy life in a tiny house on 3 acres—a little slice of “country” in crowded Northern California. We grow our own fruits and veggies and currently have about a dozen chickens.

I was first introduced to IF in 2015 by a co-worker who told me she only ate between the hours of 12 and 6. At the time, I thought she was completely insane, but looking back on it, I realize how healthy and vibrant she looked and must have felt. Fast forward to May 2022 when I stepped on the scale and saw almost 180 lbs., a weight higher than I’d been at nine months pregnant with any of my children. On a whim I googled Intermittent fasting and decided to just jump in (what did I have to lose??) I began with a 20 hour fast and haven’t missed a day of fasting since. I’m currently down 50+ pounds on my IF journey.

The Fasting Highway News.

My book about my own story The Fasting Highway is available on Amazon in both paperback and kindle. The Fasting Highway: Graeme Currie takes you on a journey through the highs and lows of beating a crippling food addiction by losing 60kg (132 pounds) living an Intermittent Fasting Lifestyle.

For Australian and New Zealand residents, you can buy the book direct from me at www.thefastinghighway.com. For the rest of the world Amazon is your best option.

You can follow me on Instagram at graemecurrie_63 or join The Fasting Highway Facebook Community.

Enjoy The Show

Graeme.

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Heather is a 43-year-old mom of 2 and has been married to her husband, Branden, for 10 years. She is a Kindergarten teacher from Southwestern Ontario, Canada.At the end of October 2021, a friend sent her a video of Graeme in a podcast interview. She listened to it and had a “lightbulb” moment and immediately ordered Graeme Curries book, “The Fasting Highway”. After reading Graeme’s story in less than a day, she immediately started clean fasting on Monday, November 1st, 2021. It was the perfect day to start! She started OMAD with clean fasting, and the clean fast made all of the difference in the world. Something just clicked for her, and she has clean-fasted every single day for over a year now.In the past, Heather had a lot of success with a Ketogenic diet, but the stressors of teaching online during a pandemic took their toll. She regained some of the weight she had lost with Keto and was feeling a sense of desperation about her weight. IF gave her the freedom to eat a wider variety of healthy foods and eliminated the guilt that came along with eating out or enjoying “treats'' once in a while. She has shifted towards more of a low carb/paleo eating style and includes things in her window that she had previously thought were off limits for the rest of her life because they weren’t considered “Keto.” She limits sugar, bread, pasta, etc., and focuses on real, whole foods. She is still working towards her ultimate weight goal, and realizes that this is her lifestyle now, so it will take as long as it takes, and that’s ok! She can’t imagine NOT clean fasting every day for the rest of her LIFE!The Fasting Highway News.My book about my own story The Fasting Highway is available on Amazon in both paperback and kindle. The Fasting Highway: Graeme Currie takes you on a journey through the highs and lows of beating a crippling food addiction by losing 60kg (132 pounds) living an Intermittent Fasting Lifestyle.For Australian and New Zealand residents, you can buy the book direct from me at www.thefastinghighway.com. For the rest of the world Amazon is your best option.You can follow me on Instagram at graemecurrie_63 or join The Fasting Highway Facebook Community.Enjoy The ShowGraeme.Disclaimer all views expressed in this podcast episode are those of the guest and host. No part of this podcast should be taken as medical advice. Please consult your medical professional before starting any health plan.--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/graeme-currie/message

I’m 49-year-old mother, wife, sister, auntie and great aunt living in Belfast NI. I changed my lifestyle in Jan 2022 to incorporate intermittent Fasting due to an increase of metabolic health issues. I was trying to juggle my work life balance of being a mother, CEO and living with peri menopause. IF has been life changing ❤️

We take a look over the past year as Grainne takes us through her incredible health transformation journey.

The Fasting Highway News.

My book about my own story The Fasting Highway is available on Amazon in both paperback and kindle. The Fasting Highway: Graeme Currie takes you on a journey through the highs and lows of beating a crippling food addiction by losing 60kg (132 pounds) living an Intermittent Fasting Lifestyle.

For Australian and New Zealand residents, you can buy the book direct from me at www.thefastinghighway.com. For the rest of the world Amazon is your best option.

You can follow me on Instagram at graemecurrie_63 or join The Fasting Highway Facebook Community.

Enjoy The Show

Graeme.

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I’m 51. Always have struggled with my weight. Grew up in Winnipeg Canada. Suppose the weight issue has been related to anxiety and been addicted to eating to sooth. Weight didn’t get to out of control until I started trucking in 96. Married in 99 not a healthy relationship. We had Mitch in 2008 when he was born, I had gotten down briefly to 220ish. (Atkins). Weight went out of control at that point still long-haul trucking Winnipeg to Toronto to Vancouver every week. Changed jobs in 2012 probably weighed 350 a scale wasn’t my friend. Worked a couple of seasons for local municipality running equipment. 2014 started working for the province’s highway department. Marriage was crumbling living in separate rooms etc. last time i stepped on a scale was before Christmas of 18 and it was 370#. Of course, I did the I’ll start in new year. Ate like normal until then. I didn’t know of intermittent fasting at that time but only ate lunch and supper 16-8 but was still having sweetener and flavored creamer in my coffee. Weight came off pretty quick the first 5 months. Officially separated and moved to my little 16x20 cabin no indoor plumbing in June. Was down to 330 Ish and able to start walking my dogs. Pretty regimented with diet chicken and salads have been my constant. Low carbs always have worked well for me. The more weight I lost the more I was able to walk and slowly my miles per day increased. Divorce was finalized last year, and I was able to move a house in on my family property and got internet etc. discovered audiobooks and the world of IF. Has set a goal of being below 200 by my 50th birthday and barely made it (still dirty fast). I couldn’t get my head around no cream in my coffee. Hit 199 prior to my 50 but rebounded too 215ish. Podcasts became part of my life the beginning of this year and I was able to wrap my head around no cream in my coffee. Exercise and diet are a huge part of the change. Black coffee has let me experiment with longer fasts and I enjoy the spiritual aspect of fasted runs or bike rides. I work out every day now and feel great. I needed to be a better man for my son (Mitch). I’m in the exercise bike every morning before work for 30 minutes. As I write this it’s -32. I got to 185 in November this year with clean fasting and have settled in to Omad with a longer 48-68 hours once a month.

The Fasting Highway News.

My book about my own story The Fasting Highway is available on Amazon in both paperback and kindle. The Fasting Highway: Graeme Currie takes you on a journey through the highs and lows of beating a crippling food addiction by losing 60kg (132 pounds) living an Intermittent Fasting Lifestyle.

For Australian and New Zealand residents, you can buy the book direct from me at www.thefastinghighway.com. For the rest of the world Amazon is your best option.

You can follow me on Instagram at graemecurrie_63 or join The Fasting Highway Facebook Community.

Enjoy The Show

Graeme.

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Rachel Awad lives in Cairo Egypt and is an expat from the US. In today's episode we recap Rachels journey and what has transpired over the last two years since she was last on the podcast in episode 6. We delve into ADF and OMAD and the differences that Rachel has found from both protocols. Rachel is experienced with intermittent fasting and has served as a moderator in popular online fasting communities. Rachel has had some ups and downs on her fasting journey over the past two years as she shares candidly in this episode. As a long-term faster, two of Rachel’s key messages are 1) give yourself grace. IF isn’t about quick weighloss or perfection – it’s about clean fasting as it fits into your life. And 2) learning to recognize satiety and closing your window when you feel those signals is lifechanging, especially for those of us who have been struggling with overeating for much of our lives.

The Fasting Highway News.

My book about my own story The Fasting Highway is available on Amazon in both paperback and kindle. The Fasting Highway: Graeme Currie takes you on a journey through the highs and lows of beating a crippling food addiction by losing 60kg (132 pounds) living an Intermittent Fasting Lifestyle.

For Australian and New Zealand residents, you can buy the book direct from me at www.thefastinghighway.com. For the rest of the world Amazon is your best option.

You can follow me on Instagram at graemecurrie_63 or join The Fasting Highway Facebook Community.

Enjoy The Show

Graeme.

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Netta was desperate to overcome her debilitating health issues. She struggled with chronic constipation, headaches, achy joints, uncomfortable extra pounds, energy slumps, anxiety, mood swings, and more. By the age of 45, she’d tried everything… except for one solution! Cut sugar. But she resisted it – until she realized that “nothing changes if nothing changes”. It started as a temporary 2-week experiment to cut sugar, flour and sweeteners in July 2015. And to her amazement, Netta started feeling so much more energetic and vitalized that she carried on… and it’s been 7 years and counting! Now Netta shares her voyage of self-discovery that transformed her relationship with sugar and her need for comfort foods. Netta is also the creator of the 12-week Life After Sugar Program, which empowers people who are open-minded and slightly rebellious to let go of sugar for good. She also offers a safe, private community that provides support and accountability in the After Sugar Club membership. Her passion is to guide people who struggle with cravings and mindless eating, so that they can learn to let go of sugar, gain energy and confidence, and make their intermittent fasting lifestyle easy and natural. Find Netta here: aftersugarclub.com Press kit available upon request to contact Netta: netta@aftersugarclub.com As featured in: Life After Sugar Netta is inspiring thousands as the host of the Life After Sugar podcast, ranked in the US Top 100 nutrition podcasts with over 200K downloads in its first two years

Connect with Netta.

www.aftersugarclub.com

Netta was also on episode 64 of the fasting highway podcast.

The Fasting Highway News.

My book about my own story The Fasting Highway is available on Amazon in both paperback and kindle. The Fasting Highway: Graeme Currie takes you on a journey through the highs and lows of beating a crippling food addiction by losing 60kg (132 pounds) living an Intermittent Fasting Lifestyle.

For Australian and New Zealand residents, you can buy the book direct from me at www.thefastinghighway.com. For the rest of the world Amazon is your best option.

You can follow me on Instagram at graemecurrie_63 or join The Fasting Highway Facebook Community.

Enjoy The Show

Graeme.

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We have a different host this week as Graeme Currie is the one being interviewed by his wife Lou Collins in this special 150th episode of the Fasting Highway. They talk about what's coming up in the future for Graeme and he mentions his future plans for the fasting highway and his new career in helping people to find auto pilot wellness. Graeme also answers some listener questions that have been sent in and he recaps his journey with intermittent fasting.

The Fasting Highway News.

My book about my own story The Fasting Highway is available on Amazon in both paperback and kindle. The Fasting Highway: Graeme Currie takes you on a journey through the highs and lows of beating a crippling food addiction by losing 60kg (132 pounds) living an Intermittent Fasting Lifestyle.

For Australian and New Zealand residents, you can buy the book direct from me at www.thefastinghighway.com. For the rest of the world Amazon is your best option.

You can follow me on Instagram at graemecurrie_63 or join The Fasting Highway Facebook Community.

Enjoy The Show

Graeme.

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By Ava Brodie

I’m married to Terry he is so lovely and supportive, we met late in life, we have a golden doodle dog he is a cutie, and we live in the United Kingdom.

I was a very skinny child eating whatever I like especially sugary stuff and this addiction continued into my adult life.

When I reached my 30s my weight started to become an issue, I remember walking into my first weight watchers' group, I spent the next 25 years in and out of slimming clubs. I’ve spent a small fortune trying to control my weight without any success! I’d lose the weight but before I knew it, it was back again and a lot more.

I’ve always loved exercising, especially walking and using weights.

2016 I came across Jason Fung and I was fascinated by IF loved the science behind it and read the Obesity Code.

I then found Gin Stephens DDD and started fasting, I was really enjoying this way of eating and thought that in my window I could eat whatever I wanted but realised that I couldn’t, so I spent quite a long time trying different fasting protocols, also I wasn’t clean fasting so really didn’t have much success.

Through Gins books I came across Graeme Currie who wrote The Fasting Highway, reading his story really resonated with me, I think I nodded through most of his inspiring story, I got excited and thought if this man can get through all of his struggles, lose 132lbs in 14 months then I was certain that I could finally get a grip on my weight once and for all and lose my excess weight.

As soon as I started clean fasting, I felt different, previously I’d stuck to 16.8 or 18.6 so I upped it to 23.1 and my weight started to come off, my NSVs were fantastic!. I gave up sugar in 2020 and have not looked back.

Reduced blood pressure medication

Lower cholesterol

A mole that was growing. disappeared

Skin tags gone

More confiden

Energy through the roof

Losing 8 inches off my waist

Stronger nails and hair

Stats update since episode 57.

Starting weight 168lbs (76kg)

Now 116lbs (53kg)

Ava

The Fasting Highway News.

My book about my own story The Fasting Highway is available on Amazon in both paperback and kindle. The Fasting Highway: Graeme Currie takes you on a journey through the highs and lows of beating a crippling food addiction by losing 60kg (132 pounds) living an Intermittent Fasting Lifestyle.

For Australian and New Zealand residents, you can buy the book direct from me at www.thefastinghighway.com. For the rest of the world Amazon is your best option.

You can follow me on Instagram at graemecurrie_63 or join The Fasting Highway Facebook Community.

Enjoy The Show

Graeme.

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Ruth is 55 years old, and she is from Melbourne Australia, she is the mother of two wonderful sons. (Fifteen and twenty y.o). Ruth works as a psychotherapist and Soul Companion primarily with people encountering death, dying, grief and loss. When she started her IF journey, she felt like it was the last throw of the dice in a lifelong struggle to be in a healthy, happy body. She feels she is about midway along, after 9 months of the IF lifestyle, which she started during a highly stressful period in her life and wants to encourage others to start exactly where they are. She is very much focused on progress and not perfection.

Stats

Age 55

HW 130kg (290lbs) 2/02/2022

CW 96.5kg (212lbs) 18/09/2022

= 33.5kg (74lbs)

B - 124cms - 109 = 15cm

W - 123cms - 95 = 29cm

H - 154cm - 123 = 32cm

I'm very much a work in progress.

The Fasting Highway News.

My book about my own story The Fasting Highway is available on Amazon in both paperback and kindle. The Fasting Highway: Graeme Currie takes you on a journey through the highs and lows of beating a crippling food addiction by losing 60kg (132 pounds) living an Intermittent Fasting Lifestyle.

For Australian and New Zealand residents, you can buy the book direct from me at www.thefastinghighway.com. For the rest of the world Amazon is your best option.

You can follow me on Instagram at graemecurrie_63 or join The Fasting Highway Facebook Community.

Enjoy The Show

Graeme.

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Cara Straughn lives in southwestern Missouri, USA. She is a 39-year-old mom of 3 and has been married to her loving husband, Mike, for 17 years. Cara has struggled with her weight ever since junior high. She learned at the young age of 17 that she had developed PCOS (Poly Cystic Ovarian Syndrome) and struggled with the emotional and physical issues that come along with that over the next 2 decades. Over that time, she tried so many different ways to lose weight, all working in the short term, but too expensive and difficult to stick with in the long term, so the weight always came back on with a vengeance. By her mid to late 20’s she had reached her highest recorded weight of 261 pounds. She would go on to try more ways to lose weight, getting down to 165 pounds at one point, but got tired of tracking and counting and struggling, so she eventually gave up and found herself back up to 250 pounds. After struggling for years with infertility, she and her husband decided to become foster parents. They welcomed 2 boys into their home in 2017 and was able to adopt them in 2018. That same year she tried to lose weight again, first doing weight watchers, then seeking the help of a weight loss doctor, who would prescribe her appetite suppressants and tell her to eat just once a day. She dropped 65 pounds in 10 months and then suddenly found herself pregnant! Over the next 9 months she would go on to gain 70 pounds during her pregnancy! Over a year later, she was at 245 pounds and decided it was time to crack down and lose weight again. In October 2020, she discovered intermittent fasting, and she finally found something that not only worked, but was easy to stick with for the long term. After losing 97 pounds over the last 2 years, she has just switched over to maintenance and is looking forward to a long, healthy, and active life with her husband and children.

The Fasting Highway News.

My book about my own story The Fasting Highway is available on Amazon in both paperback and kindle. The Fasting Highway: Graeme Currie takes you on a journey through the highs and lows of beating a crippling food addiction by losing 60kg (132 pounds) living an Intermittent Fasting Lifestyle.

For Australian and New Zealand residents, you can buy the book direct from me at www.thefastinghighway.com. For the rest of the world Amazon is your best option.

You can follow me on Instagram at graemecurrie_63 or join The Fasting Highway Facebook Community.

Enjoy The Show

Graeme.

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Kevin and Rindi Trainer have been married for almost 37 years and live in the great state of Texas in the United States. They have raised two children who are now adults, and they became grandparents in August of 2022 to a sweet baby boy.

To back up a bit, in March of 2020. Rindi went for her yearly physical and was not completely surprised to find out she was pre-diabetic. Her weight was up, blood pressure was up, she just knew she wasn’t in a good, healthy place. Family history of losing her mom and maternal grandmother to diabetes in their 50s motivated her to start researching changes. That led her down the Keto/Low Carb rabbit trail, but she decided Keto was too restrictive and low carb was going to be challenging enough. Nothing really changed until after a July 2020 vacation to South Dakota and looking at the pictures reminded her that she really needed to make a change. In August 2020, Rindi shared with her husband, Kevin, that she was going to be making some changes and he could join her in the journey or not. They had both tried and lost weight on Weight Watchers before and calorie counting, and Kevin had even done an all-liquid diet at one time. He lost weight but gained it back when he started eating food again. Kevin has struggled with weight issues since he was about 13 years old, and in 2020 he was 59 years old at that time. Their health journey initially started with just a low carb diet, cutting out things like bread, chips, tortillas, sugary things, but quickly introduced intermittent fasting. Initially, they worked on keeping total carbs below 100 grams per day and fasting 12-14 hours per day. A few months in and they had lowered total carbs to about 50 per day and were regularly fasting about 16 hours per day. Unfortunately, they had not heard about clean fasting yet, so they were definitely not doing that. Between August of 2020 and July of 2021, they lost a combined total of about 150 pounds. Rindi losing 40 and Kevin losing 110. From July 2021 to present, they haven’t lost any more weight, but their bodies continue to experience recomposition and their clothing sizes have changed without any weight loss happening. They are more active and have more energy now than they did ten years ago. Fasting is definitely the plan for the rest of their lives and Rindi is no longer pre-diabetic.

The Fasting Highway News.

My book about my own story The Fasting Highway is available on Amazon in both paperback and kindle. The Fasting Highway: Graeme Currie takes you on a journey through the highs and lows of beating a crippling food addiction by losing 60kg (132 pounds) living an Intermittent Fasting Lifestyle.

For Australian and New Zealand residents, you can buy the book direct from me at www.thefastinghighway.com. For the rest of the world Amazon is your best option.

You can follow me on Instagram at graemecurrie_63 or join The Fasting Highway Facebook Community.

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Graeme.

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Farnoosh is published author with 4 books, runs her own company with her husband for the last 11 years, and does a ton of work around Mindset & Leadership with Universities (especially STEM programs) and Companies. Also passionate about yoga + fasting + getting stronger & leaner & healthier as we get older & wiser :)

In this episode we talk about mindset which Farnoosh is an expert on. We also take a deep dive into ADF and why fasting is not just about weight loss.

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My book about my own story The Fasting Highway is available on Amazon in both paperback and kindle. The Fasting Highway: Graeme Currie takes you on a journey through the highs and lows of beating a crippling food addiction by losing 60kg (132 pounds) living an Intermittent Fasting Lifestyle.

For Australian and New Zealand residents, you can buy the book direct from me at www.thefastinghighway.com. For the rest of the world Amazon is your best option.

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I am the third son of three boys born in 1961 (the three youngest in diapers at the same time). We were a typical family and as we grew my mother really became a great cook. Her specialties were homemade breads, cookies, cakes, pies, and our favorite Swedish Tea Rings. Most of the time what she produced would only last a few hours unless she hid them high in the pantry. There was always plenty to eat and being the little chunky one, seconds were normal and always room for dessert. We were always active playing outside from sunup to sundown, riding our bikes, playing wiffle ball in our backyard "stadium", and "kick the can" until it was time for bed.

As I got older, we got involved in organized sports. In the fall we played football, in the winter it was basketball, and then throughout the summer baseball. In the 8th grade I was introduced to weight training for football which became my favorite sport. I do remember my mom commenting at times that I needed to watch what I ate (portion control) and then offer me a piece of pie or whatever she had made for dessert. There was always dessert!

Everything changed in my mid-twenties when my metabolism changed. I was putting on a few extra pounds even though I remained highly active with cycling, golfing, and adult fast pitch softball. I was introduced to my first weight loss program through a friend, and I only remember it was a type of tea product (I don't remember the name of the company). That didn't work and soon after was introduced to Body Wise, which didn’t work. Tiring of MLM's I began to explore other diets, here are a few.... Beverly Hills Diet, Fit for Life, South Beach Diet, Atkins, Keto, and the entire store-bought shakes and bars.

Then I got married and the next thing you know I'm over 300 lbs. A friend began posting on Facebook some amazing results that he was having (dropping 100+ pounds) and I gave him a call. I was desperate and needed help, so I began doing the Medifast program through Take Shape for Life. In 4 1/2 months I dropped 85 pounds and began coaching others to do the same. Not only was I losing weight I was creating a good income, enough to consider giving up my remodel business. Thank God I didn't. After a year of eating 5 of the soy-based meals per day I began to suffer debilitating gallbladder attacks. Soon after that I had to stop the program all together, have my gallbladder removed and the weight came right back.

Years later I met up with good friends Stephen and Rachel Bush and she told me how she had just lost 50+ pounds doing IF. I was intrigued and they told me to read TFH and that changed the game!! I started on 8/1/22 and within 3 weeks I was down 15 lbs. I am now down 25 lbs. in 6 weeks. What I love about IF is the freedom and the guiltless ability to tweak things as you go and really learn how your body responds to what I put or not put into it. Oh, and the greatest thing is that it is free and we’re saving money at the grocery store!!!

The Fasting Highway News.

My book about my own story The Fasting Highway is available on Amazon in both paperback and kindle. The Fasting Highway: Graeme Currie takes you on a journey through the highs and lows of beating a crippling food addiction by losing 60kg (132 pounds) living an Intermittent Fasting Lifestyle.

For Australian and New Zealand residents, you can buy the book direct from me at www.thefastinghighway.com. For the rest of the world Amazon is your best option.

You can follow me on Instagram at graemecurrie_63 or join The Fasting Highway Facebook Community.

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Anita Downes is from Perth Australia and lives with her wife and children who are super supportive of her IF lifestyle. Anita has had a roller coaster ride with her weight and has lost and regained over the years. Anita at one point considered weight loss surgery. It was her sister Monica that pleaded with her to give intermittent Fasting a try before having surgery. It turned out the best decision she has made for her health as in just ten months she has lost an astonishing 33 Kg -70 pounds. Her passion and zest for IF shines through in this episode as does her resilience and determination.

The Fasting Highway News.

My book about my own story The Fasting Highway is available on Amazon in both paperback and kindle. The Fasting Highway: Graeme Currie takes you on a journey through the highs and lows of beating a crippling food addiction by losing 60kg (132 pounds) living an Intermittent Fasting Lifestyle - For Australian and New Zealand residents, you can buy the book direct from me at www.thefastinghighway.com. For the rest of the world Amazon is your best option. You can follow me on Instagram at graemecurrie_63 or join The Fasting Highway Facebook Community. Instagram graemecurrie_63

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Rachel is from Birmingham, Alabama USA. She’s been married to her amazing husband, Stephen for 22 years, and together they have 7 Wonderful children, 4 girls and 3 boys, ranging in age from 1 year to 19 years old. Rachel is a full-time homeschooling momma, who loves her family more than anything. She feels that she was born to be a momma, and break many of the old patterns of motherhood that have continued in her family for generations. Upon her journey of seeking healing, growth and the right way of parenting, she discovered Intermittent Fasting, and what a treasure chest of blessing it has been.

The Fasting Highway News.

My book about my own story The Fasting Highway is available on Amazon in both paperback and kindle. The Fasting Highway: Graeme Currie takes you on a journey through the highs and lows of beating a crippling food addiction by losing 60kg (132 pounds) living an Intermittent Fasting Lifestyle - For Australian and New Zealand residents, you can buy the book direct from me at www.thefastinghighway.com. For the rest of the world Amazon is your best option. You can follow me on Instagram at graemecurrie_63 or join The Fasting Highway Facebook Community. Instagram graemecurrie_63

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No part of this podcast should be taken as medical advice. Please consult your medical professional before starting any health plan.aling, growth and the right way of parenting, she discovered Intermittent Fasting, and what a treasure chest of blessing it has been.

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"Jacqui Lewis lives in San Francisco, CA, in the USA, right near the famous bridge. She is 65 years old and feels as if she has finally found the best tool in the world to erase a lifelong poor body image through the magic of Intermittent Fasting. Youngest In family of 5...growing up w/ her two slim blond sisters, Jacqui felt awkward & insecure of her muscular, dense body type and black hair. She attributes this poor body image insecurity to trying every crazy diet that came along.

After discovering exercise in university, this helped Jacqui feel more confident in her skin, but she says she had to watch every morsel that went into her mouth.

After university Jacqui sailed around the world on a large cruise ship working as a journalist writing the daily newspaper. She continued her travels after the ship and lived & worked in Greece for a spell. She came back to the USA and eventually worked as a crime reporter with the Washington Post Newspaper group. It was during this time she met her forever love and they moved to San Francisco.

Marriage, two babies and a crazy, busy life with her own growing business, and the weight/diet/exercise focus was hard to maintain. Enter twenty to thirty extra pounds that padded her small 5'2' for many years

She had weight loss success with WW but fell completely in love with marrying IF with the good choices WW taught her.

The Fasting Highway News.

My book about my own story The Fasting Highway is available on Amazon in both paperback and kindle.

The Fasting Highway News.

My book about my own story The Fasting Highway is available on Amazon in both paperback and kindle. The Fasting Highway: Graeme Currie takes you on a journey through the highs and lows of beating a crippling food addiction by losing 60kg (132 pounds) living an Intermittent Fasting Lifestyle.

For Australian and New Zealand residents, you can buy the book direct from me at www.thefastinghighway.com. For the rest of the world Amazon is your best option.

You can follow me on Instagram at graemecurrie_63 or join The Fasting Highway Facebook Community.

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Tracey Dixon-Neale is a 43-year-old Mum of 4 living in the small farming community of Onewhero in the Waikato region of the North Island of New Zealand. As an 11-year-old girl Tracey was sexually assaulted by a family friend which was prolonged by a yearlong court case. In the following years her stepmother left her and her father, she dropped out of high school and eventually moved in with her mother.

As her weight started to climb her mother suggested trying the diet pill Duromine. After some time on diet pills, Tracey was offered Speed and Methamphetamine. This eventually spiraled out of control and led to a crippling addiction which spanned over the course of a few years. With the love and support of her now husband Tracey got clean and has remained clean for over 19 years. Shortly after getting back on track Tracey became pregnant with her first child. Two weeks after finding out she was pregnant her father was diagnosed with terminal Cancer. After nursing her father and best friend through his illness and following his death her weight started to climb again. After two more children, enduring the loss of two babies and welcoming her fourth and final child, Tracey's weight was at an all-time high of 115kgs. (253 pounds)

At a Doctor's appointment her general practitioner suggested she try Intermittent Fasting. She went home, googled Intermittent Fasting and started that night. In the two and a half years since then she has not missed a single fast and so far, has managed to lose over 43kg. (95 pounds)

Tracey has gone from having a self-proclaimed 'allergy to exercise' to joining the gym as a reward for losing her first 40kg. She now enjoys daily cardio on the cross trainer/elliptical machine and daily weight/strength training. She is also a moderator on The Fasting Highway.

Tracey's relationship with food has completely changed over the past two and a half years although she still remains a passionate Cook and Baker. She is focused and determined that she will happily remain a Faster for the rest of her life and help educate as many people as she can along the way.

The Fasting Highway News.

My book about my own story The Fasting Highway is available on Amazon in both paperback and kindle. The Fasting Highway: Graeme Currie takes you on a journey through the highs and lows of beating a crippling food addiction by losing 60kg (132 pounds) living an Intermittent Fasting Lifestyle.

For Australian and New Zealand residents, you can buy the book direct from me at www.thefastinghighway.com. For the rest of the world Amazon is your best option.

You can follow me on Instagram at graemecurrie_63 or join The Fasting Highway Facebook Community.

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John Jerry Saunders Jnr is an inspiring man to listen to and is from Columbus Ohio in the United States. He has been living an intermittent fasting lifestyle for over 8 years seriously after dabbling for two years. JJ is a long term intermittent faster who has lived an incredible lifestyle change over that time. He lost a staggering 45.5kgs ( 100 pounds) over the first two years of his journey and has maintained that now for over 6 years. JJ gives us a great insight into living an intermittent fasting lifestyle and making it sustainable for life. JJ tells us about his daily fasting routine and exercise and how he applies mindset to living his best life.

JJ has some great advice for beginners and experienced fasters and shares his knowledge and wisdom around that with us. We discuss the health benefits that come from intermittent fasting. He truly is a shining example of this way of life.

He discusses his views on exercise and explains, in his view that you don't have to do a lot, but just be consistent and you will see body changes. JJ gives some great advice around fasting to make it sustainable for the long term.

The Fasting Highway News.

My book about my own story The Fasting Highway is available on Amazon in both paperback and kindle. The Fasting Highway: Graeme Currie takes you on a journey through the highs and lows of beating a crippling food addiction by losing 60kg (132 pounds) living an Intermittent Fasting Lifestyle.

For Australian and New Zealand residents, you can buy the book direct from me at www.thefastinghighway.com. For the rest of the world Amazon is your best option.

You can follow me on Instagram at graemecurrie_63 or join The Fasting Highway Facebook Community.

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In this episode we re-connect with Fifi di Foofi (Maryann Liess) who was last heard on episode 36. The Fasting Highway facebook page moderator discusses how she has handled maintenance and her ADF routine since our last discussion in December of 2020.

The different ADF methods, the negatives and the positives, NSVs and health benefits are also touched on in this episode.

If you’re interested in an ADF lifestyle, or simply just curious what it feels like to lose 130 pounds, sit back, relax with a cup of black coffee or tea and have a listen.

The Fasting Highway News.

My book about my own story The Fasting Highway is available on Amazon in both paperback and kindle. The Fasting Highway: Graeme Currie takes you on a journey through the highs and lows of beating a crippling food addiction by losing 60kg (132 pounds) living an Intermittent Fasting Lifestyle - For Australian and New Zealand residents, you can buy the book direct from me at www.thefastinghighway.com. For the rest of the world Amazon is your best option. You can follow me on Instagram at graemecurrie_63 or join The Fasting Highway Facebook Community. Instagram graemecurrie_63

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I’m Candice, 41 year wife, Mom and working part time outside of the home. We are an Air Force family nearing military retirement with 3 kids. Our eldest son is 23 currently serving in the Florida National Guard, a 16 year old son and our youngest daughter is 9.I started my IF journey the summer of 2018 when we were stationed in Illinois. I originally started the process of getting weight loss surgery at the beginning of that year. Before I hit my “that’s it” wall…. I really had accepted that I would just be overweight the rest of my life and ignored it.I had not struggled with my weight or any body image issues when I was younger/school age. I was probably 125/ 130lbs in High School. I don’t even think we had a scale. Maybe I tried the subway diet to drop a few lbs at some point lol. It was never something I really worried about. I wasn’t super athletic but I did play sports.

My husband and I had our son earlier than we would’ve planned. So I was a young Mom at 18. After the birth of my first son I gained allot of weight rather quickly (like 80lbs). It never even crossed my mind during pregnancy that weight would even be an issue. My Mom had always been in amazing shape and the women in my family were small for the most part. Same on my Dad’s side. I personally believe it had allot to do with my hormones. I had really never had any breakout/acne before but my skin went crazy with painful cystic acne at that time too. It definitely had a negative emotional effect on me. I ended up doing a round of medication/acutane and it cleared up my skin issues for the most part. My weight continued to start to climb from there over the years.

More of Candice and her inspiring story in the episode.

The Fasting Highway News.

My book about my own story The Fasting Highway is available on Amazon in both paperback and kindle. The Fasting Highway: Graeme Currie takes you on a journey through the highs and lows of beating a crippling food addiction by losing 60kg (132 pounds) living an Intermittent Fasting Lifestyle - For Australian and New Zealand residents, you can buy the book direct from me at www.thefastinghighway.com. For the rest of the world Amazon is your best option. You can follow me on Instagram at graemecurrie_63 or join The Fasting Highway Facebook Community. Instagram graemecurrie_63

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Jenni Zielke, 61, lives in Green Valley, Arizona, in the United States, about 30 miles from the Mexican border with her husband Larry. Jenni and her husband are originally from Wisconsin and only moved to Arizona in 2019, where they are partially retired. Jenni’s career in Human Resources for manufacturing plants has meant working intimately with other people and their careers. This has been both a blessing and a curse, as Jenni navigated her own journey as a Highly Sensitive Person in a leadership role.

Being partially retired, Jenni had more time on her hands, when she could eat more and become unhealthier, or find a new life. The new life she found is IF. Jenni was diagnosed 10 years ago with: T2D, Non-Alcoholic-Fatty-Liver, high BP, and diverticulosis. She also had intense joint pain in her feet, knees, hips, and neck.

Jenni has been overweight since puberty. She remembers at 12 years old, seeing the boys wrestling team’s weights posted in the hallway at school. This was the first time she realized her weight was way higher than the highest weighted boys older than her. Since then, Jenni continually gained weight up to her highest of 247 lbs/112 kgs. As a child, Jenni was often reminded she was overly sensitive, which she grew up believing was a character flaw. It is only through IF, that Jenni was able to fully appreciate her people-pleasing sensitivities were literally feeding her food addiction. Most importantly, The Fasting Highway has provided Jenni the tools to appreciate the blessings of being a highly sensitive person. With the help of TFH, Jenni is finally able to be sensitive to her own emotional needs. Jenni refers to herself as a recovering people-pleaser and works daily to keep her emotions separate from her food relationship. Jenni has found a supportive home in TFH group, along with new daily practices to support her new life as an IF’er.

61 years old

5’6”

HW 247 lbs/112 kgs

SW 225 lbs/102 kgs

CW 181 lbs/82 kgs

GR maybe 170-175 lbs/77-79 kgs

The Fasting Highway News.

My book about my own story The Fasting Highway is available on Amazon in both paperback and kindle. The Fasting Highway: Graeme Currie takes you on a journey through the highs and lows of beating a crippling food addiction by losing 60kg (132 pounds) living an Intermittent Fasting Lifestyle.

For Australian and New Zealand residents, you can buy the book direct from me at www.thefastinghighway.com. For the rest of the world Amazon is your best option.

You can follow me on Instagram at graemecurrie_63 or join The Fasting Highway Facebook Community.

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I’m a happily retired wife, mom of 3 adult children, pet mom, and volunteer. Over the years I’ve been a mental health case worker, special Ed teacher, stay at home mom, preschool teacher, and child protection case worker. I’m 60 years old, and have been clean fasting since 9/12/19. I reached my goal of losing 22 lbs in 11 months, and have been in maintenance mode for over a year and a half. My weight was fairly stable for most of my life, with a few predictable exceptions, like the freshman-15 and the child bearing years. I’ve always been active, and never really dieted until after my third child was born in 1994. I resolved to lose the baby weight once and for all, and achieved that goal within 6 months thorough an extreme low fat diet and over-exercising. Living that way was not sustainable for me however, and certainly not healthy. I eventually abandoned that way of life, and managed to remain at a healthy weight through consistent exercise and always watching what I ate. In 2003, I was diagnosed with Hashimoto’s disease. Along with many debilitating symptoms, my weight slowly began to creep up. The thyroid medication I was prescribed helped only minimally, and I continued to struggle with symptoms for over 10 years. In 2013, following a cross country move, my health crashed completely. I was in constant pain, had zero energy, and could barely function. I worked my way through several doctors before discovering functional medicine, and that was when my true healing journey began. Fortunately, I was able to make great strides in my health through a functional approach, because in 2017 we made another cross country move, and shortly thereafter my husband was diagnosed with lymphoma. Had I not regained my strength as much as I had before the move, I’m not sure how I would have made it through that very difficult time. Thankfully, his treatment was successful, and he achieved full remission. But almost before we could celebrate, we discovered our house had a serious mold problem. I knew I was highly sensitive to mold, but had no understanding of what a dangerous toxin it is. I also learned that genetically, I am one of the approximately 25% of people that are unable to process toxins well. As a result, I became very sick again, which was demoralizing after making so much progress. My Dr. immediately put me on several detox protocols, which have evolved over time and continue to this day. The story of how I discovered IF is a fun one, that I’ll save for the podcast. ;) From the moment I began fasting, it felt magical to me. I was eating more, exercising less, and still losing weight. It felt like I was cheating the system somehow, and I wanted to share it with everyone. I started with 16/8, but moved to a minimum of 18/6 when the pandemic hit, in order to compensate for the constant baking and alcohol drinking. I hit a few plateaus, but continued to steadily lose, until I reached my goal in August of 2020. After maintaining my goal weight for a year, I suddenly regained 5 lbs, due to inflammation caused by the mold detox. although it was frustrating, I gave myself grace by accepting that it’s all part of the process. I’ve maintained this new set point for 9 months now, and I’m sure the extra weight will leave me when my body fully heals. I also have no doubt that I would have gained a lot more than 5 lbs, had I not been fasting. I listen to my body and stick to a daily eating window that ranges anywhere from 16/8 to 19/5, depending on life circumstances and/or my appetite. I never count calories, macros, or carbs, I’ve lost all traces of “diet brain”, and I feel tremendous freedom around food. IF has truly been one of the easiest things I’ve ever done, and I know I’ll be a clean faster for life.

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Florence lives in LA with her husband and 4 children. She's from the UK, but was partly raised in Spain where she met her husband who is Peruvian. Florence trained as an opera singer, and now is the Publisher and Co-Founder of an arts and culture magazine in LA.

In common with many IFers, Florence has struggled with her weight since she was a child/pre-teen and spent all of her adult years trying different diets and ‘lifestyle changes’. After each baby she would retain most of the pregnancy weight and even gain more in the first year postpartum! After baby number 4 in 2018 she reached her highest weight and after a lifetime fighting with food and dieting, assumed she just had to accept it.

Then Covid-19 hit. Florence got some sort of respiratory infection in April 2020, which may or may not have been Covid, but it suddenly became clear to her that she wasn’t going to allow her kids to become motherless from only one pre-existing condition - being obese.

Florence had dabbled in IF for a month the previous summer to ‘lose some weight’ before a trip to visit family because she was ashamed of how overweight she was. But after the trip the pressure was off, then the holidays came, and IF went by the wayside. With the sudden impetus to live to see her kids grown, Florence started her IF journey in earnest in June 2020 and has never looked back. She will never go back to what she now refers to as ‘poisoning herself with food’.

Florence originally found IF from a random comment from a friend. It had sounded completely bizarre to her, but she’d looked it up at some point later and joined Gin Stephens’ facebook group. From here she found The Fasting Highway and Graeme’s supportive community. Being on this sudden determined mission of health in 2020, she jumped straight into OMAD and thanks to the clean fast, found it easy enough. From here she has tried many different protocols, released 70lbs, become a daily runner, tapped into appetite correction, healed her relationship with food, and has settled into an intuitive flexibility with her IF.

The Fasting Highway News.

My book about my own story The Fasting Highway is available on Amazon in both paperback and kindle. The Fasting Highway: Graeme Currie takes you on a journey through the highs and lows of beating a crippling food addiction by losing 60kg (132 pounds) living an Intermittent Fasting Lifestyle.

For Australian and New Zealand residents, you can buy the book direct from me at www.thefastinghighway.com. For the rest of the world Amazon is your best option.

You can follow me on Instagram at graemecurrie_63 or join The Fasting Highway Facebook Community.

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My name is Keith McDonald and I am currently living in Vernon,BC, Canada. . I have struggled with weight since the age of 4! My basic reason to diving into fasting started July 2019, I was in the middle of a Celiac Attack as I had a wheat exposure at a friend’s house. I was tired of feeling so much pain afterwards. I said, I am just not going to eat. That same day, I went to a thrift store, and found the book “A Guide to Intermittent Fasting, by Dr. Jason Fung” I knew about fasting in the past, as I had heard about it. I said why not, as I am not eating anyways. From that point forward, I learned everything I could about fasting.

From July 2019 to Dec 2019 I dropped over 60lbs. Today I have dropped a total of 85lbs from my fasting starting date. My highest weight was November 2008, I was at 317lbs! I have struggled with being overweight my entire life.

Keith was on episode 50 of the podcast if you want to hear more of his earlier journey with IF. In this episode we hear keith has been through some very stressful times since he was last on the podcast .Keith shares some great insights into staying on track in stressful times. He also shares his incredible mindset techniques with us in this episode.

The Fasting Highway News.

My book about my own story The Fasting Highway is available on Amazon in both paperback and kindle. The Fasting Highway: Graeme Currie takes you on a journey through the highs and lows of beating a crippling food addiction by losing 60kg (132 pounds) living an Intermittent Fasting Lifestyle.

For Australian and New Zealand residents, you can buy the book direct from me at www.thefastinghighway.com. For the rest of the world Amazon is your best option.

You can follow me on Instagram at graemecurrie_63 or join The Fasting Highway Facebook Community.

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Graeme.

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My name is Tim Shephard. I’m 54 y/o and I live in Northern California with my two children. I work in the IT industry for over 25 years. I’ve also have a podcast and I am the author of a book on restoring vintage airstreams. I’ve been obese per the BMI charts most of my life and have lost the same 50lbs several times over 30 years. I’m grateful to find IF and feel I can make it a lifestyle. The Fasting Highway News. My book about my own story The Fasting Highway is available on Amazon in both paperback and kindle. The Fasting Highway: Graeme Currie takes you on a journey through the highs and lows of beating a crippling food addiction by losing 60kg (132 pounds) living an Intermittent Fasting Lifestyle. For Australian and New Zealand residents, you can buy the book direct from me at www.thefastinghighway.com. For the rest of the world Amazon is your best option. You can follow me on Instagram at graemecurrie_63 or join The Fasting Highway Facebook Community. Enjoy The Show Graeme. Disclaimer all views expressed in this podcast episode are those of the guest and host. No part of this podcast should be taken as medical advice. Please consult your medical professional before starting any health plan.

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I’m 64 years old, married for 44 years, mom of 2 adult daughters and Grammy to 2 amazing granddaughters, ages 7 and 4. Retired last year after 44 years as an RN in critical care and ER. I live on Lake Champlain in the Adirondack Mountains of New York State. I enjoy spending time with friends and family (especially my grandluvs!), walking, reading, boating/kayaking/swimming in the summer and snowshoeing/relaxing by the fireplace in the winter. Hoping that retirement will allow more time for traveling and exploring new places. I have vacillated between normal weight and 20-40 lbs overweight most of my adult life since the birth of my second daughter. Having two small children, 14 months apart, working full time opposite shifts of my husband, returning to school for my BSN = STRESS! Many diets tried, usually with success of varying lengths of time. Generally the same pattern…lose the weight to goal/near goal followed by gradual abandonment of an unsustainable commitment to maintain resulting in weight creep back to or above starting weight. Daily walking (3-5 miles) and light weight workouts 3x/week do not compensate for overeating. Discovered IF July 2020…it clicked/resonated…”What is this magic?!” Diminished hunger, mood stability, heightened mental clarity and focus, soaring energy, improved health, pounds and inches melting off, clothing sizes dropping. Started with 16:8 and quickly progressed to 18:6 and 20:4. Soon added meal-less Monday and ultimately 4:3 ADF. Achieved goal weight of 125 by end of 2020; maintaining goal range (115-120) for almost 1 ½ years ~ mostly 5:2 ADF. I weigh daily and track weekly average to keep me accountable, adjusting my fasting schedule as needed. Graeme Curries phrase “Vigilance without Obsession” is my maintenance mantra. Family support has been critical to my success. My husband, daughters and sonin-law all do some form of IF; collectively we have lost about 270 lbs. In addition, the IF podcasts, books and FB groups provide immeasurable support and guidance.

My Stats

Height 5'4 (162.56 cm)

SW 161 Pounds (73 kG)

GW 125 Pounds (56.7 Kg)

CW 118 Pounds (53.5 Kg)

Maintenance Goal Range.

115-120 Pounds (52-54.4 Kgs)

Karen

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Sheree Moon is a Texan through and through, but with a Filipino heart after serving 37 years in the Philippines as a missionary. She has a wonderful, God-given family of children she was privileged to raise who continue their studies and work in the Philippines.

A graduate from Southwestern Assemblies of God University with her Master of Science, she has been part of a gifted team who developed ministries to children and continues to serve as a long distance mentor in her retirement.

During her time of service, Sheree helped develop children’s discipleship curriculum and programs and served on the board of children’s homes, feeding programs, as well as helping to develop training for children’s workers throughout the Asia Pacific.

She continues to travel overseas in short term service as well as speaking here in the U.S. She loves caring for her puppies, reading, and being an active part of her family’s lives in Texas.

A personal priority for Sheree has been learning about and applying healthy living lifestyle changes the last three years. She is passionate about living an overcoming life in her own physical, spiritual and mental health and being supportive of friends and family on the journey to health, through mentoring, writing and speaking.

Sheree is also a co-author of the book Women action takers who gained by losing.

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Harold Rose, 46, lives in Gulfport, Mississippi, in the United States with his wife of 22 years, Stella and their two children ages 20 and 18. Gulfport is about an hour east of New Orleans, home of Mardi Gras in the United States. He is a public school teacher with over 20 years of experience. He has helped coach girls' volleyball at his school since 2018. Harold began intermittent fasting in December 2021, and as of June 2022, he is down over 100 lbs or 45 kilos. He started at 315 pounds and is now under 215. Harold used a form of ADF mixed with OMAD along with weight training and walking.

Harold struggled with being overweight for much of his life. After growing up on the “husky” side of life, Harold seemed to be constantly “dieting” or “watching: what he ate. As he neared high school graduation, Harold was 6’4” and almost 300 pounds. He began a crash diet and exercise program to attempt to join the military. Harold needed to drop down below 240 to enlist. With low calories and exercise, the weight was lost, but he failed the eye exam.

From that point in 1994, Harold went on to college. Slowly but surely, the weight came back. Through college, his early teaching career, after marrying his wife, Stella, and the beginnings of growing their family, Harold’s weight crept up and up. By 2007, following Hurricane Katrina, Harold’s weight was around 350 pounds. Harold doesn’t know his highest weight because he didn’t get on a scale for years.

From 2008 to 2014, Harold worked a second job part-time overnight at the local newspaper. With a lack of consistent sleep and stress, Harold surprisingly lost weight. His wife called it his “push away diet” – he pushed back away from the table when he was full and stopped going back for seconds. By 2012 Harold was back down to around 240 pounds. In 2014 he picked up running, even by 2016 and 2017, running some half marathons and two full marathons*. His weight dropped as low as 178. In 2017 Harold quit smoking and began to get back on the weight-loss roller coaster going up and down between 280 and 200 pounds with different diets.

After a mild case of COVID in November of 2020, Harold’s running slowed down, and the weight quickly went back up. A mixture of overeating, overdrinking, and lack of exercise led to a scale weight of 315 the day after Christmas 2021. That is when Harold decided to look for an answer, and he found IF.

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Certified coach, Laurie Lewis, has changed the lives of thousands through her coaching of Intermittent Fasting. Utilizing time-tested (and science-tested) principles, Laurie takes on individual clients as well as leading her group programs Live on Zoom. She helps determined, exasperated, busy people (who are tired of dieting!) from the United States to New Zealand to Ghana to Israel to Scotland.

Stubborn hormonal fat hit hard in 2012, causing her to suddenly gain 50 pounds. For years, she tried everything and none of the old tricks worked. She hit rock-bottom and almost resigned to the “fact” that she would keep getting heavier and feeling worse and worse forever. At a particularly despondent time in 2017, a video unexpectedly popped up which would turn the course of her life. She stayed up all night learning about Intermittent Fasting, and started that very next morning.

Laurie has just celebrated her five year anniversary living an intermittent fasting lifestyle .In this episode Laurie recaps her amazing journey and gives some great insights and advice.

Connect with Laurie www.fastforwardwellness.com for information on her books and podcast appearances.

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My book about my own story The Fasting Highway is available on Amazon in both paperback and kindle. The Fasting Highway: Graeme Currie takes you on a journey through the highs and lows of beating a crippling food addiction by losing 60kg (132 pounds) living an Intermittent Fasting Lifestyle - For Australian and New Zealand residents, you can buy the book direct from me at www.thefastinghighway.com. For the rest of the world Amazon is your best option. You can follow me on Instagram at graemecurrie_63 or join The Fasting Highway Facebook Community. Instagram graemecurrie_63

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I am a 56-year-old married mother of two adult daughters. I spent the first half of my life at a very appropriate weight, but I never believed I was small enough or in shape enough. I did not appreciate the gift of a healthy body and spent far too much time criticizing how I looked. After my daughters were born, I began struggling a little more with weight and proceeded to do all the things I heard about that might help. I worked out, joined Weight Watchers, used the My Fitness Pal app and tried other strategies to, somewhat successfully, slow the weight gain that seemed inevitable.

As my 50th birthday approached I had big plans to lose weight, but that goal date came without any change in my size. During the pandemic I gained even more. About two years ago I heard the term Intermittent Fasting for the first time. I tried it without understanding the clean fast and failed miserably after two days. My oldest daughter became engaged in May 2021. I was so happy for her, but I immediately began worrying about how I would feel walking down the aisle at the highest weight I had ever been. Three months passed with me paralyzed by indecision and worrying that nothing would work, not to mention a sinking feeling that any weight lost would immediately return post wedding.

At 9 months to the wedding, I began searching the web for help. I remembered the term Intermittent Fasting from my failed attempt over a year ago. I googled the term and found Gin Stephens. After downloading Fast, Feast, Repeat and devouring it immediately, I began IF on August 22, 2022. The Fasting Highway podcast and Facebook page became my best friends because I waited many weeks before I told anyone what I was doing! I was able to release 40 pounds by the week before the wedding! I am so thankful for the way IF has changed, not just my body, but my entire outlook on life. Intermittent Fasting is a gift I give myself every day. I am thankful to have an opportunity to share that gift of health and hope with others.

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My book about my own story The Fasting Highway is available on Amazon in both paperback and kindle. The Fasting Highway: Graeme Currie takes you on a journey through the highs and lows of beating a crippling food addiction by losing 60kg (132 pounds) living an Intermittent Fasting Lifestyle - For Australian and New Zealand residents, you can buy the book direct from me at www.thefastinghighway.com. For the rest of the world Amazon is your best option. You can follow me on Instagram at graemecurrie_63 or join The Fasting Highway Facebook Community. Instagram graemecurrie_63

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My name is Jammie Behrendt, I am 52 years old, I live in Northern California. I am a proud mother of two boys and I have an amazing supportive husband who tells me that I am beautiful, even at my heaviest. I have had challenges with my weight my whole life.

I have tried every diet plan, Weight Watchers, liquid soup diet, extreme exercise, the Zone diet, and more. I have yo-yoed the same 50 plus pounds on and off over the past 30 years. March of 2021 was when I weighed the heaviest I had ever been. It scared me because I am a breast cancer survivor. I had the most common type of breast cancer, estrogen positive. As a part of my treatment was a medication with lots of side effects, and a weight gain of 91 pounds. I was scared because I was told by my doctor that fat cells produce estrogen. The more fat you have, the more estrogen it produces. So here I was taking this medication to stop the production of estrogen, yet it was causing me to gain weight that would create more estrogen in my body.

I was desperate to lose weight. I decided to give a plant based diet a try. Three months later, I had lost 15 lbs, which was also when I was told I could stop my meds. At the same time I remembered a colleague mentioning intermittent fasting to me. I started to read everything I can get my hands on. I have lived in my own personal hell, in this overweight body, and I just needed to be free of the weight. October 1, 2021, when I stopped my meds, I also started intermittent fasting! I never looked back! 45 lbs down, a total of 60 lbs since March 2021. Some days I feel like ”how the hell am I ever going to get to my healthy weight?” as I have 65 more pounds to go. Then I just listen to The Fasting Highway podcast. The stories have given me the courage to share my story.

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My book about my own story The Fasting Highway is available on Amazon in both paperback and kindle. The Fasting Highway: Graeme Currie takes you on a journey through the highs and lows of beating a crippling food addiction by losing 60kg (132 pounds) living an Intermittent Fasting Lifestyle - For Australian and New Zealand residents, you can buy the book direct from me at www.thefastinghighway.com. For the rest of the world Amazon is your best option. You can follow me on Instagram at graemecurrie_63 or join The Fasting Highway Facebook Community. Instagram graemecurrie_63

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My name is Debbie Young from Bend Oregon USA and intermittent fasting saved my health!!

When I found fasting I was insulin resistant, obviously overweight with a blown thyroid after living in a moldy home and I was very ill.

With fasting I lost 30 lbs and counting and I gained so much more including a job that I love.

I am a mid 50s post menopausal women and I feel better than I have my entire adult life, thanks in large part to IF.

As a certified holistic health coach my passion is to help and guide women to love themselves enough to heal and then thrive. The reality of 2022 is stressful and complicated, fasting allows us to simplify so many areas of our life and regain health.

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My book about my own story The Fasting Highway is available on Amazon in both paperback and kindle. The Fasting Highway: Graeme Currie takes you on a journey through the highs and lows of beating a crippling food addiction by losing 60kg (132 pounds) living an Intermittent Fasting Lifestyle - For Australian and New Zealand residents, you can buy the book direct from me at www.thefastinghighway.com. For the rest of the world Amazon is your best option. You can follow me on Instagram at graemecurrie_63 or join The Fasting Highway Facebook Community. Instagram graemecurrie_63 Enjoy The Show Graeme. Disclaimer all views expressed in this podcast episode are those of the guest and host.

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Born the lightest baby but grew up to be the largest in the family. Growing up I was the chubby kid . We grew up with three meals a day with snacks which consisted of biscuits, lollies, and ice cream, the normal confectionary that time. As a child I have had issue with my body due to remarks from others which stuck in my mind as a kid that made me feel more insecure about my built. As a kid it was hard to hear negative comments about personal appearance coming from people. And reality does hurt your feelings

As time went on I would watch the scales go up and down. Travelling to see relatives, I would try to lose some weight but it always come back on when returning from overseas and some more, the plane table would never sit flat it was a mission trying to eat the food off the tray. I can remember one time we flew to Christchurch and boarding the plane I split my long shorts as they were 6xl they caught on a arm of the seat.

Buying clothes would always put me on a low especially seeing my size going from 5 and 6xl, that would always motivate me to start losing again. The things that were holding back my body from losing weight were the snacks. The 4 slices of toasts with cheese and jam toppings lunches being brought from the bakery every work day. The sugar filled smoothies, the vanilla slices, the fried food and the evening meal plus pudding, yes you guessed it ice cream and fruit juice lots of that and fizzy drink. When it came to Friday and Saturday nights takeaways even Sunday’s with that added sugary drinks milkshakes were a favorite. I would finish band practice and drink a large chocolate shake at 9pm so the body was processing that sugar late into the night.

Suffering from severe gout attacks I was put on medication to control it. I would only have to look at a slice of brownie and get a gout attack. I also have high blood pressure once again being controlled by medication which I hopefully can come off one day in the future.

2018 was when I made the change to my life as I needed a hip replacement. I needed to lose weight and have BMI of 40, or else my operation won’t go ahead. I had been waiting for this operation for about 5 years so I thought I would put something into action.

Starting with 16.8 i had lost 10.6 kilo’s (23 lbs) in seven weeks, working with two meals a day my body was reacting to the reduction of high sugary drinks and foods, plus my motivation was going through the roof. As months went by I started to raise the bar increasing my fasting window, managing to get to 18 hours fasting, there are many obstacles in my way with working in retail. There were a lot of supplier evenings where food and alcohol available also, with my social life being invited out most weekends. I didn’t want to withdraw from my social events because like IF i have to learn to deal with obstacles .

The moment I lost 30 kilo (66 lbs) it made me feel pumped but holding it was a problem. Putting back on 10 kilo’s thinking here I go this isn’t going to work. It was a few weeks after my operation I took control again taking my fasting to 23.1 took me several months to drop the weight. I won’t lie it was hard trying not to jump off and say can’t be bothered with this anymore. What kept me going was the great feed back from others around me. My family, friends and many of my customers were commenting on the way I was looking that helped a lot it kept my boost going.

. Learning to keep my eye on what I’m doing rather than what others are doing is the most important. I continue on my journey to a healthier me.

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Charlie Cifarelli is a businessman from Long Island, New York. After rising through the ranks in several maximum-security prisons in Nebraska, he tapped into his entrepreneurial spirit starting his own business and also becoming the co-founder of a non-profit organization also a board member of a first responders non -profit. Charlie speaks at various business and social awareness functions, and has been featured in newspaper, magazine, radio, podcasts, and TV. The Dad to world famous Star the Dog.

From his earliest childhood memories, Charlie always wanted to eat and drink more. A fast metabolism and active lifestyle kept the weight off, but by his twenties found himself in the obese category. Charlie lifted weights and did cardio to outrun the compulsive eating, but without success. He tried a 12-step program to get a hold of his food obsession but still found the desire to eat far outweighed the desire to be healthy physically fit. At the age of 55, Charlie used a great deal of his life struggling with food. He found an Intermittent Fasting group on Facebook and immediately joined. He started this new journey and felt better almost immediately. There were stumbles on his first try, but he re-committed and chose to live a healthy lifestyle.

Charlie is now approaching 1,000 consecutive fasts and maintains a minimum daily fast of 20 hours, and will often average 22-23 hours for reflection & clarity. Like anything, the IF lifestyle will work for you if you put the time in. Slow and steady wins.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_(dog)

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Hello my name is Dorcas Muhia, i like to go by Dee. Am 34 years old , born and raised in kenya until 2013 when i relocated to the USA. Am a nurse by profession here in Northern California and a blessed mommy to 2 beautiful children, a 16 months old son and a 12 year old step daughter. I love the outdoors activities like hike, go to the beach, travel, wine tasting and recently running after the weight loss.

Throughout my life I have always been on the heavy side. This didn't bother me at all in my childhood because coming from Africa, been chubby was a sign of good health and strength among the other children. Later on after pursuing a career in the health industry I saw the need to loose weight. I worked in a cardiac clinic back in 2010 and found it ironic to tell a patient to loose weight in order to control their diabetes or hypertension yet I was obese and saw decided to live by example. My heaviest at that time was around 200 lbs (90 kg) at only 22 years of age. I cut down on fried foods and carbohydrates and walked alot which helped me reduce to 180 -170 lbs (81-77 kg). It was such a huge achieving for me to see the scale go down as opposed to what i was used to my entire life.

3 years later in 2013, i relocated to the USA as nurse and with it came a lot of weight gain. This was due to long working hours at the hospital , wanting to try out the different American foods including fast foods which resulted in all the weight I had lost creeping back up again. In 2014 i weighed a good 210 lbs (95 kg) .

I have always loved the outdoors so kept myself active and moving and even joined a HIIT gym for 2 years doing strenuous cardio. I lost a few pounds to un to 175 lbs ( 80kg) and stagnated there. I still wanted to loose more and ended up getting too exhausted with the HIIT gym as it wasn't sustainable I was always too sore and tired and decided to focus on just walks and jogging.

In 2019 i met my now lovely husband who happened to come across Gin's podcast and shared the IF concept with me . At first i found it so hilarious and almost impossible not eating for 16 hrs but because i was so desperate to loose weight, I decided to give it a shot. I started off with 16;8 then gradually increased to 20;4.

4 months later after beginning the IF journey, we discovered i was pregnant in February of 2020 so had to put IF on hold. By then, i had lost a total of about 20 lbs as i was weighing 155 lbs( 70 kg) then. Then with that also came COVID and with the 2 combinations of pregnancy and pandemic, I put up so much weight. One month after baby's arrival in 2020 December I checked the scale and I weighed 208 lbs. I ate healthy and did walks regularly and when I weaned my son off breastfeeding, I started IF again in May of 2021 weighing 194 lbs ( 88 kg). My fasting window was 16;8 for the longest time before increasing it to 20;4 and 18;6 on the weekends or when we go out on vacation. This is my current fasting window since am on maintenance.

SW 194 lbs (88 kg)

GW 135 lbs (61 kg)

CW 122 lbs (55 kg)

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Jeanette Brovold Bio. I am 58 years old, 5’6” Retired in October 2020 from 31 years as a Bank Manager Live in beautiful Port Dover Ontario with my amazing husband Keith and my jack russell dog Abbie SW 240 lbs February 2, 2021where I started a diet where you count calories On March 23 2021 down 6 pounds I came to realize I wouldn’t be able to sustain this lifestyle and started IF CW 162 lbs GW ?? maybe 150 lbs Weight has always been an issue for me for as long as I can remember and like most have tried all the diets. I have successfully lost the weight several times to put it right back on, never made it to maintenance as always thought I can do this on my own as usually was tired of spending the money. I have always loved sports, I love to walk, I have done a marathon, 1/2 marathons, did a 220 km bike ride over 2 days for charity, however my weight caused me to have sore knees, back, hip and even had planters fasciitis more than once and eventually gave up all of that as it was just too hard on me and continued to gain weight. I almost gave up on myself and accept that I was going to be this obese sad person until the day I found IF, it will be a day I will never forget. My why? In 2019 started not feeling well, was having hard time focusing, lots of headaches, pains in side of my head, ringing in my ears and no energy. Went for many tests to find nothing wrong with me and I figured I would just have to live with it. My biggest thing is that my mom is in the last stages of Alzheimer’s and there is some science behind that IF can help, prevent or slow down the process and if that is possible why wouldn’t I try to prevent this from happening Jeanette The Fasting Highway News. My book about my own story The Fasting Highway is available on Amazon in both paperback and kindle. The Fasting Highway: Graeme Currie takes you on a journey through the highs and lows of beating a crippling food addiction by losing 60kg (132 pounds) living an Intermittent Fasting Lifestyle - For Australian and New Zealand residents, you can buy the book direct from me at www.thefastinghighway.com. For the rest of the world Amazon is your best option. You can follow me on Instagram at graemecurrie_63 or join The Fasting Highway Facebook Community. Instagram graemecurrie_63 Enjoy The Show Graeme. Disclaimer all views expressed in this podcast episode are those of the guest and host. No part of this podcast should be taken as medical advice. Please consult your medical professional before starting any health plan.

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Colleen:

Weight was never an issue for me. Everyone in my family was slim and I was a pretty small child. At one point my pediatrician told my mom that I was too small. It wasn’t until around 2013 that I slowly began adding weight on. I have never been someone who weighs every day, but I began to notice that every season I’d have to buy bigger clothes. I could tell I was getting bigger and I didn’t like to look in the mirror or have my picture taken but that was never really enough motivation to do anything about it.

Then in June 2020 Jeremy’s younger brother, Jason, died unexpectedly from a massive heart attack. That was the wakeup call we needed to get our lives back in order. We had a young toddler and knew we had to find a way to lose weight and get healthy for her.

I was 244 pounds when we started. My results were immediate, I lost 20 pounds in the first month of fasting. I was down to 186 pounds by April 2021.

Jeremy:

I was born into an obese family. “The Bryant’s are big people” is a line I’ve heard many times over the years. I had two brothers who looked like the other Bryant’s but I was thin and “scrawny.” My entire childhood, I felt left out and always wanted to be the size of the other Bryant’s. It wasn’t until my metabolism slowed down after high school that I put on a bunch of weight and became obese. I loved it.

When I was 24 and, in the Army, I weighed 260 and was 50 pounds heavier than the maximum weight the Army would allow someone of my height. I was given an ultimatum: lose the weight and keep it off or leave the Army. I lost 50 pounds by cutting calories and eating 3 meals with snacks between, and exercising. I quickly gained back all of those 50 pounds. Instead of trying to lose the weight again, I chose to leave the Army early.

For the next 20 years, I never got below 280, maxing out at 308. Whenever I would get past 300, I would buckle down and lose 20 pounds or so, only to gain it back.

My two brothers and I were all diagnosed with diabetes in our early to mid-40s. In 2020, just after Covid hit, one of my brothers had a heart attack that he survived, and my little brother had a heart attack that he did not survive. He was 47.

My older brother had been reading Dr. Fung’s books and told me and my wife all about them. We immediately started OMAD, but even doing OMAD, I wasn’t always eating healthy foods when I would eat. I ate a ton of sweet Thanksgiving and Christmas goodies at the end of 2021 and had my bloodwork done at the doctor on December 27. My A1C was 13.2!!! I was shocked!!! Even with OMAD, my diabetes was out of control. On the night that the results came in the mail, my wife and I sat down and had a heart to heart about my health. I had hit bottom and was ready to change my life. My wife had read the Fasting Highway, and went and grabbed it and read me some excerpts from it. I could relate to everything, including the secret car binges, etc. I made a vow that evening to stop eating sugar, in all its awful forms. I made list that night of things that I would improve. There were no goals. I just stopped doing them.

Since making the change, we immediately started losing weight again. In 3 months, my A1C dropped to 7.0. I’ve lost 46 pounds.

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Name: Mac McKew Home: Portland, Maine USA Age: 62 (November 6, 1959) Height: 6’ 1” Current Weight: 170 lbs. I am a 62 year-old business professional, former high school baseball coach and current high school & college baseball umpire. In October of 2019, one month shy of my 60thbirthday, I had hip replacement surgery. At the time of my surgery I weighed 215 lbs. The typical recovery from hip replacement surgery is three months until you are back to about 85% and then another nine months (one year from the surgery) until you are back to the point of “as good as it will be.” The holidays of 2019 followed my hip surgery where my mobility was limited, but my appetite for holiday food was not. On January 1st of 2020, I weighed in at 230 lbs. Not long after that the pandemic known as COVID-19 arrived in the United States. I believed there would be one of two responses to the pandemic with many businesses (including gyms) shutting down and people working remotely. One response would be to fall into a state of depression, feel sorry for myself and eat junk food for my medication…or, a second response, use the pandemic to inspire myself to get after it and develop good habits. Thank God I chose the latter. My wife and I put together a home gym in our basement with equipment like kettlebells, bands and TRX straps. We created a three day on - one day off workout plan. It was great; however the nutrition piece was still missing. In late February I purchased the book Atomic Habits by James Clear. The book was a gamechanger for me in many ways. One of them was the authors use of intermittent fasting. I had first heard of IF when I was with a couple of my assistant coaches a few years ago, and we went out to breakfast together. We sat down to order breakfast and when one of them only ordered black coffee; I asked if that is all he wanted? I was then introduced to IF; frankly I thought he was wacky. Little did I know then that intermittent fasting was going to be my nutritional gamechanger. I really started applying it in March of 2020. I weighed 225 lbs. On June 13th I weighed in at 193 lbs. and on September 24th the scale read 172 lbs. Since then I have maintained my weight between 170-175 lbs. I have not been at that body weight since I was playing college baseball back in 1982. Bullet Points: · Primarily 18:6 faster. Have also utilized 20:4 and OMAD along with some 36 hour fasts during the Christian season of Lent. Getting to be intuitive at this point. · Clean fasting while getting to goal weight. Occasionally incorporate MCT oil with coffee now. Minimized sugar & breads. Use electrolyte packs also. · Highest recorded weight was 250 lbs. in November of 2016. · NSVs – Mostly mental. Needed a new wardrobe (pants size dropped from a 42-40” to 32-34” waist) · Exercise in a fasted state majority of the time. · Tools used in conjunction with intermittent fasting: Apple Watch, MyFitnessPal nutrition tracker, bio-impedance scale. · Mentoring a 23 year-old (son of a close friend) using IF to get his health back: 47 lbs. lost in 66 days. · I believe you can do IF at any age. · IF is a lifestyle for me now approaching two years in maintenance phase

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Lori Morton Biography

I’m a daughter, sister, aunt, and dog mom. My struggle with weight began in middle school. Fast food, candy, and desserts were my downfall. After graduating college I accepted a position as a 5th grade teacher. Teaching and careers in education are rewarding, but also are stressful. I responded to the stress by eating and as a result my battle with weight grew over the years. I happily retired in 2015 from my last position as an elementary school principal. After retiring, I was determined to lose the weight I gained over my 30 years in education.

Losing close family members to Diabetes, Dementia, and Sarcoidosis has been the catalyst for my weight loss and fitness journey. My older brother who had type 1 diabetes since the age of 13 died at the age of 52 from colon cancer. The death of my younger, seemingly fit and healthy 47 year old sister was a wake up call. Also, watching my mother slowly deteriorate from Alzheimer’s disease added to my trauma. She died two years after my sister. To make sure I was there for my family and my sister’s children in particular, I rejoined WW in 2016 and followed the program successfully for several years, but was frustrated that I couldn’t get past a plateau that lasted about 1 ½ years. During that time I was yo-yoing up and down 10-15 pounds.

From the beginning of the pandemic February 2020 to April 2021 I gained an additional 35 pounds. That’s when I decided to get back on track. After resetting, I lost only a few pounds before my weight seemed to hit a plateau again. I was worried that I had a problem with my metabolism. My frustration led me to research other ways to lose weight. I was of the opinion that if you do what you’ve always done, you will get what you’ve always gotten. While researching obesity and how to lose weight, I found information about intermittent fasting and Dr. Jason Fung’s book, The Obesity Code. Reading his book I had many aha moments. Everything he described was my experience, so I decided to give IF a try, beginning June 2021. I also searched for how to implement Intermittent Fasting to maximize my results. That’s when I found and read Gin Stephen’s book, Fast, Feast, Repeat. After that I searched for fasting groups on FaceBook and the Podcast app. That’s when I found Graeme Currie’s The Fasting Highway group, book, and podcast.

To date, I’ve lost 58+ pounds (22.6 K) while fasting.

Lori.

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Bio- By Karen Cahill

I am 58 and I was born in England, but my parents emigrated to NZ when I was 9. I went through school and Teacher’s College in Christchurch, NZ and taught elementary school for a few years before heading overseas. I lived for 4 years in Japan and 4 years in Seoul Korea (teaching English) before settling in the US. I have traveled extensively and loved living in, and learning about other cultures.

I currently live right outside Atlanta, Georgia and work in the advertising and marketing industry. I have one grown son who lives in Chicago, and I am lucky enough to have my mum and sister live 3 minutes away from me. My extended family is in the US and the UK, but I am still in touch with friends I have made all oThe Fasting Highway News.

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Jackie Fletcher is the founder of Fabulously Keto and co-host of The Fabulously Keto Podcast.

In May 2017, Jackie was at her heaviest weight at 231lbs (105kg). Having been overweight all her life, she had given up on diets as she no longer felt she had any motivation or will power. Even though she had no intention of going on another diet, she purchased ‘Why We Get Fat and What to Do About It’ by Gary Taubes.

This book transformed her life. She began by making some simple changes and then transitioned to keto in 2018 by incorporating time restricted eating, intermittent fasting and some longer fasts.

Today, she has maintained a 50-56lbs (22-25kg) weight reduction.

As co-host of The Fabulously Keto Podcast, she interviews many people in the keto, low carb, real food, carnivore and fasting space from doctors and surgeons to people who have changed their lives.

Through Fabulously Keto, Jackie coaches others to improve their metabolic health, gain more focus and energy and create a vibrant life.

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Louise is a military wife to Andrew and mum to three adult sons. In her working life, she was the first Australian female paramedic to gain her PhD and has moved into higher education roles. Since late 2015, she and Andrew have used low carb ketogenic way of living to address a number of health issues along with maintaining their respective weight losses and manage chronic pain after sustaining critical injuries from a motorcycle accident. In 2018 she was living and working in the UK when she met Jackie Fletcher, which together they co-host the Fabulous Keto podcast.

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Sarah Kull is a New Zealand Registered Nurse. She has been working with intermittent fasting for many of her clients since early 2018, in particular, to support those with Type 2 Diabetes or obesity related health concerns.

Sarah has been working in General Practice for over 18 years and as such has a background in chronic care management and diabetes as well as the many health risks associated with obesity. With a growing epidemic of type 2 diabetes and obesity related health issues in NZ, Sarah was looking at alternatives to the old “calories in vs calories out” advice that has not made an impact on global health since its inception. She came across the work of Dr Jason Fung, a Canadian nephrologist and world leading expert on intermittent fasting for type 2 diabetics. Having been taught throughout her career that type 2 diabetes is a long term, chronic disease that worsens with time, the results from Dr Fung’s work was phenomenal. Sarah went on to look at intermittent fasting as a solution to New Zealand’s growing crisis and so spent time researching and learning about fasting as an option in her work.

Now with over 4years experience in working with clients and intermittent fasting, Sarah not only has a fantastic knowledge base on IF, but she also has some phenomenal and life changing stories and case studies to show the incredible health benefits that come with IF. From complete reversal of type 2 diabetes, dramatic weight loss, improvement in fatty liver and blood pressure to improved sleep, wellbeing and energy the results speak for themselves.

Sarah continues to work in a couple of clinics in South Auckland supporting many patients to start their IF journey and improve their health outcomes. She also runs a Facebook group with over 6000 members and growing daily as well as running courses for fasting education and support for the general public as well as seeing private clients.

In her spare time, Sarah enjoys Pilates, horse riding and is the CEO for a medical charity in her local community and of course, she practices intermittent fasting! Sarah has two young children and enjoys camping and spending time with friends and family.

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I live in Niverville, Manitoba, Canada which is around a ½ hour drive south from Winnipeg. I am turning 50 soon. I am a single dad of two girls – Ashley (20) and Samantha (16). I have lost weight 3 times in my life before I tried intermittent fasting. Right after high school I lost around 20 pounds and quickly gained it back. At 30 years old I lost around 50 pounds and kept it off for about a year. At 40 years old I lost around 75 pounds and kept it off for about 5 years. Even though each time I became more successful in maintaining the weight loss for longer, maintaining has been my biggest battle. Each time I had success in weight loss in the past it was from a low-calorie diet and exercise.

In 2016 - 2021 I slowly gained my weight back. I tried many times to get back on track but was unable due to many stresses I was struggling with. During this time, I missed work for over half a year and wasn’t mentally able to return to my regular shift work position until February 2020. I was convinced that I would be able to maintain my weight and health for the rest of my life and felt like a failure when I gained a lot of it back. To be honest that period in my life with stress and mental struggles were just too overwhelming. I had the most incredible support team during this time. My girlfriend, mom, dad, sister, daughters, friends, co-workers, employer, and just simply time have allowed me to re-build and be able to focus again on my health. So, I attempted to try a 4th time to lose weight with the addition of the fear of not being able to maintain it. So, the 4thtime I attempted to lose weight I did it with a much different approach than low calorie and exercise. In early January 2021 I started off doing strict clean keto.

I tracked everything and really focused on consuming less than 20 grams of carbohydrates daily. I was concerned that this would not be sustainable for me, but I was desperate and needed change. After a few months of practicing clean strict keto, I developed a much different experience towards hunger. I felt the most in control of hunger than any other time in my life. I stumbled across a few articles that mentioned intermittent fasting and then researched it further. I listened to every audiobook I could find on the subject and started right away. I soon went into a 2-hour eating window daily. It was a seamless transition. I started out clean fasting right from the beginning. I consider myself an intermitted faster and no longer consider myself keto.(more in the podcast)

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Jacqui is from sunny south Florida, has been married 17 years and is currently a stay at home mom to three young daughters. Jacqui was put on her first diet by a doctor at 11 years old. This started a life long battle of weight. Decades on and off diets all while gaining more and more weight while losing self esteem and confidence. In 2010 she thought she found the answer to health and happiness when she was cast on a weight loss reality show. While she did lose a great deal of weight on the show, it was by over exercising and severely limiting calories. This did lead to a smaller body but keeping it off was a daily challenge and she did not feel her best. She was continually in a binge/restrict cycle which took it’s toll mentally and physically. She knew there had to be something more to the puzzle. She spent the next years of her life trying to figure out true health. This journey led her to Intermittent Fasting.

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Jane Wood Branam, age 69. Married 35 years and I have 3 Granddaughters. I have taught at 4 universities and have a PhD. For the last 20 years, I have run a successful business with my husband. We are working part-time now and trying to retire this year. My highest weight was 201. I am in maintenance for about a year and a half now. I have lost all the weight many times with very restrictive eating plans and weighing and measuring my foods. But eventually I would regain. But ever since I started IF in September 2019 at 180, I knew that it was sustainable and could be a way of life for me. I had very rapid weight loss with 2 mad and have maintained at 136-140 and with body recomposition stay a true size 6 in pants and medium top..

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My fasting journey began in March 2021. I had dinner with a good friend from Houston who was in town for work and when I got to the restaurant I didn’t recognize her! She looked so thin but more than that....she looked healthy and happy. Of course I asked her what she was doing and she said she would not even talk about it unless I promised to read the book Fast Feast Repeat. I am an avid reader and I tend to get on tangents with topics and will read everything I can find on that topic. So reading a book did not intimidate me! I downloaded the audible version in the parking lot on the way home and listened to it over the next 24 hours.

By that Sunday, March 28 I did my first fast. I actually didn’t tell my husband or anyone else until I was about 2 weeks in. I was worried with his medical background he would think I was starving myself, but he was actually very encouraging as long as I was still feeling better. 10 months later, I’ve lost 27 lbs and 33 inches. I feel totally transformed.

I have always been insecure about my weight even though by most peoples standards I was not overweight. One poignant memory is from 7th grade when a boy told me and my best friend that the perfect girl would have her body and my face! I was like “what’s wrong with my body?” But I didn’t look like the other girls. I have always had a curvy figure and carried my weight in my hips, thighs and booty.

Another memory is when I was in high school and on drill team (think dance team that wears boots and hats and performs on the football field—-very Texas, I know). We performed in a kick line to enter the field every game and we were always on the same yard line marker. Well, my spot was between the 2 girls who had the thinnest legs on the team. My mom used to tell people they could find me on the 40 yard line as I was the chubby thighs between the 2 thin ones. It was a joke and at the time it didn’t bother me…but it stuck.

In 2019 our family went through an extremely hard transition with my husbands job that affected us all. I now see that I was dealing with depression and anxiety that was affecting not just my mood and outer appearance, but was literally making my body sick. I was gaining weight because yes, I was making poor food choices and drinking way to much, but also because I believe my body was adding extra "protections" by keeping everything instead of releasing the weight. In March of 2020, I was desperate enough to do a blood test to check for food sensitivities since at that point, I believed maybe it was the type of food I was eating. I had also been experiencing heart palpitations and wore a heart monitor for a few weeks. I was diagnosed with a slight arrhythmia, but stress test did not show any underlying symptoms. Again, stress, depression and anxiety were at the root.

Obviously, March of 2020 affected the entire world but actually offered a bit of respite for me. It was not that I enjoyed lockdown, but the TIME it gave me to not have to rush from one event to the other, spend time at home with my kids, and my husband started a new job that he was really enjoying. It was such a strange experience to have the whole world in this dumpster fire, and yet my heart finally felt calm. The thief of joy is comparison and time away from the rest of the world to just BE in my house with my family is exactly what I needed to reset my joy.

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I have been married for almost twenty years to a wonderful, kind-hearted man of German/Italian descent and we have three teenage kids: two daughters and a son. A few of my favorite pastimes are gardening, photography, traveling, flower arranging, taking walks in nature, reading, learning foreign languages, and just spending time with my family. I have also always loved cooking and for a few years was an avid baker and cake decorator too.

Being a true foodie at heart and preparing and indulging in decadent meals and desserts all the time, weight management was always an issue for me. Considering I am only five feet tall, I don't have the luxury of carrying a lot of weight without it "showing" easily. To put it shortly, trying to become fit was a major struggle. I also told myself I loved food too much to be able to lose any weight and keep it off long term. Additionally, being pregnant three times within five years and not fully getting rid of the "baby weight" three times in a row compounded my weight problem. Eventually, I managed to reach obesity by the age of 43. I had given up trying, I didn't even own a scale anymore and had no clue what I weighed. I knew, however, that my clothing size had been steadily climbing up: from 6 to 8, to 10, to 12, reaching 14 in the summer of 2019.

Then, that Christmas I ended up having to visit an orthopedist for a frozen shoulder and needed to be weighed in the doctor's office. I was shocked to find out I had reached 172lbs! I was heavier than my six-foot husband who weighed 168lbs at the time. At that moment, I knew I had to do something, soon. I happened to mention my health concerns with a family member over the Christmas holidays and he shared that he had done intermittent fasting that same year. He had successfully lost 35lbs doing IF and suggested I try it out too. I was intrigued. I had free time because I was on winter break from school, so I spent a few days watching YouTube videos on intermittent fasting, researching as much as I could, and decided to give it a try and see how it goes for me. So on January 1st, 2020 I began following a 16:8 IF protocol, eating two meals and a snack between 11AM and 6PM. The rest of the time, I drank different kinds of herbal and fruit teas and water. I April, I read "Delay, Don't Deny" by Gin Stephens and learned about the clean fast, as well as different IF protocols. I switched to strictly black or green tea, which are clean fast approved, and transitioned to a one meal a day lifestyle. I also began to really appreciate food as fuel for my body and started turning my OMAD into a special occasion that is rich in nutrients and a delight for all the senses. By October of that year I had lost 55lbs and have been maintaining that weight loss for over 15 months now. IF has truly been life changing for me!

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By Susan Oxley

Hello, I’m a 52-year-old wife to an amazing man and mommy to two very precious kitty cats. I’ve always felt that I was extremely blessed to have lived what many would call a charmed life. I grew up in a loving family and had all the opportunities someone could ask for, but like many of us, I found myself struggling with my weight as I made my way into my 30’s, 40’s, and 50’s.

Over the years, I tried many diets and exercise regimes that allowed me to lose a good amount of weight (40, 50, even 65 lbs). I found losing weight to be pretty easy because I was good at sticking to whatever calorie restriction/counting plan I adopted. However, eventually, I would tire of the restrictions and/or required exercise and go back to my prior habits regaining the weight and then some. I really tried to hold on to the hope that I would find a solution, one day! I reached a point in the last few years where I was approaching morbid obesity. I was successful in so many other pursuits, marriage, career, friendships, etc. but managing my weight just seemed to be the impossible challenge.

A couple of months into the pandemic, on May 25, 2020, I came across the mention of IF and the Delay, Don’t Deny book in a Facebook group. I remembered a couple of people I knew in real life that were successful IF-ers. Their stories had planted a seed, but I wasn’t ready at the time. It sounded way too hard! But that day, that magical day, I decided to listen to the Delay, Don’t Deny book on Audible and so it all began…

IF has allowed me to shed 75 lbs from my 5’7” frame. I am very excited to see what the future brings as I continue to practice IF

Susan

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Jeff Gerken

Albany, NY, USA

Age 56

Start weight 230 Pounds -14 Kg

Began fasting January 2020

Goal weight 165 Pounds-75 Kg reached June 2021

Jeff grew up skinny as a kid, and stayed skinny until about age 25. Always active and in sports, being thin seemed normal, without having to limit any type or amount of food at all. But after age 25, his weight increased, and pants started to seemingly shrink. Jeff tried to stay somewhat active in sports as an adult. He was a ski instructor for a while, and then later a youth soccer coach, but the weight didn’t stop increasing. By age fifty, heading toward 230 pounds, it seemed that old age, obesity, and declining health had caught up and it was time to withdraw from any athletic activities and just sit on the couch. Even walks outside became short, infrequent, and labored.

Jeff is married to Amy, and they have a teenage son. There is always plenty of food and snacks in the house. Both Jeff and Amy like to eat, and their son does too. The son stays naturally skinny and athletic just like Jeff used to (but no longer can), eating unlimited amounts of food. When Jeff started fasting and began to lose weight, then Amy eventually decided to join him and she has also since lost weight through fasting. They now eat one meal a day. Jeff prefers 23/1, while Amy chooses a longer window. Their son of course eats whenever he wants.

All health problems went away, and energy increased. This is true particularly for Jeff, but also true for Amy. Both currently enjoy biking and running. In the winter, they also enjoy cross-country skiing

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I am a secretary in a high school. Being around students keeps me young at heart, but my body started feeling old, tired, and frumpy. Over the years I put on a few pounds a year and I got to the point where I thought I needed to just accept my weight gain as part of aging. In April of 2021 someone posted a picture of me on Facebook and I couldn't believe it was me! I felt like I really let myself down but didn’t know what to do about it. I have never done a “diet plan” as I don’t like to cook, and I have no willpower to give up foods I like. So, I was never a Yo-Yo dieter.

Around the same time that picture was posted, I randomly found Jason Fung on YouTube and watched his video on Intermittent Fasting. I thought what Dr, Fung had to say made sense and was something I could try. I now look at finding that video not as random at all but maybe a divine intervention! Over the next four months, I would also find Gin Stephens podcast and Graeme Currie with the Fasting Highway podcast and started listening every night. I started reading books on fasting to learn all I could. I fast an average of 19 hours per day with various lengths of eating windows and to my amazement lost 30. pounds in four months and went from a size 12 to a size 6. My physical body now matches my mind and I feel better at 58 than I did at 48. I willingly share with my friends about IF and the fact they don't need to settle in the body they are in, if it is not the one that is making them happy.

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About Gin Stephens Gin Stephens is the author of Clean(ish) (2022), Fast. Feast. Repeat. (2020), an instant New York Times and USA Today bestseller, and Delay, Don’t Deny: Living an Intermittent Fasting Lifestyle (2016), an Amazon #1 best seller in the weight loss category. Gin has been living the intermittent fasting lifestyle since 2014. This lifestyle shift allowed her to lose over 80 lbs. and launch her intermittent fasting website, Facebook support groups, four self-published books, and three top-ranked podcasts—Intermittent Fasting Stories, where Gin talks to a variety of intermittent fasters from around the world, The Intermittent Fasting Podcast, with cohost Melanie Avalon, and Life Lessons, with cohost Sheri Bullock. Gin graduated from the Institute of Integrative Nutrition’s Health Coach Training Program (2019). She earned a Doctor of Education degree in Gifted and Talented Education (2009), a Master's degree in Natural Sciences (1997), and a Bachelor's degree in Elementary Education (1990). She taught elementary school for 28 years, and has worked with adult learners in a number of settings. She splits her time between Augusta, Georgia and Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, where she lives with her husband and their three cats. Gin is also a mother to two adult sons (and she is thankful every day for the intermittent fasting lifestyle that makes her life easier

Connect with Gin at www.ginstephens.com

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Amanda Collins is a writer, poet, sound healer and musician who lives on a hill in Taungurung Country in Central Victoria, Australia. She is the author of Not Dead Yet, a practical guide for the dying and those who are supporting them, and she is currently working on an account of the first year of her fasting lifestyle, (Working title, On The Way Down). Having spent the past decade living with chronic illness, Amanda is passionate about living well until you die.

Some places to find Amanda:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49336676-not-dead-yet (her book)

https://www.thecuriouscreative.com.au/support (her sound healing)

https://www.facebook.com/amandathecuriouscreative(her stuff)

https://www.instagram.com/amandathecuriouscreative/(her other stuff)

https://twitter.com/HopefulTravels(wait, what?)

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Elaine Heyworth – Bio

I’m Elaine Heyworth, 55 years of age, married with two grown-up daughters – 20, and 22. I started intermittent fasting in September 2019, the day I left my youngest daughter at university – and came home to an empty nest. My weight was 221lbs.

All my life I had been overweight. Thirty years ago I joined Weight Watchers, and lost four stone (56lbs) in six months. Six months later I started putting it back on again. Then I met my husband to be (Julian), and we settled into what I call our “contentment lifestyle” – food seemed to celebrate the great things going on, and cheered up the horrible things that happen. That 56lbs soon came back, with reinforcements. Then came children, and I put on a stone (14lbs) with each child (which wasn’t much, according to my doctor), but that meant two more stones where I didn’t need them!

I was always pretty sensible about my dieting life – I didn’t do diets that demonised food. My two favourite diets were Weight Watchers and Slimming World – both plans allowed you eat all the foods, with their own brand of compensation for ‘treating’ yourself. You know, even thirty years later, I still weigh 75g of rice or pasta before I cook it – my top tip from Weight Watchers – so I think I learned some useful stuff there.

IF has been a revelation to me. I started with 16:8, and lost 12lbs in the first three weeks – I know how lucky I was. Then I tried 18:6 for a couple of weeks, then found my sweet spot at 19:5, where I lost another 30lbs. COVID was a game changer – once I was working from home, within five steps of my kitchen, I had to change to 20:4, because food was too easy to find. Lost my final 14lbs between March and June of 2020 and hit my goal of 165lbs at the end of June 2020. So exciting!!!!

My husband and daughters have been very supportive, although I do sometimes hear ‘don’t lose any more weight Mum!!”, I know it’s said with love in their hearts.

Elaine

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Alan Zerbe lives in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania which is about 50 miles north of Philadelphia and about 70 miles West of New York City. He just turned 57 is Married and has three grown daughters ages 26 and twins who just turned 24. He currently works as an Art Director in marketing for a University.

As a kid he was often described as “skinny.” And always struggled to gain weight at 17 he was 6'1" about 175 lbs. (or 79 Kilos). During his 20, 30's, 40's and 50’s he kept gaining until he reached his highest recorded weight of 294 lbs. (or 133 Kilos) on his 6'2" frame.

His fasting journey began in May of 2018 and he has not stopped the past three and half years. It has been an amazing journey of learning and experimenting. It all started with him reading Jason Fung’s book The Obesity Code and was interested in learning if his weight issues could be controlled with fasting. While his path has been far from perfect, he battles everyday doing the best fasting work he can do that day! He has gotten as low as 189 lbs. or (86 Kilos). He is working hard at the maintenance phase with a goal of staying between 195 and 205 lbs.

He loves the lifestyle and believes it to be life changing in more ways than his exterior image might reflect. Deep inside he knows he has become a much better version of himself.

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My name is Diana Stephens and I'm a mother of two teenage girls. I've been married to my husband for 19 years. We live in a small town in Manitoba, about ten miles from the USA border. I've been a Registered Nurse for 25 years. I work part time in a personal care home as well as have my own mobile foot care business. I have been overweight much of my life. I've tried exercise and watching what I eat and have had success, only to let the food addiction take over once again. I've had a hard time keeping the weight off! I was diagnosed with leukemia in 2014. I had Chemo and eventually a stem cell transplant in April 2015. I lost around14kg ( 30lbs) at the time. I was put on hormone replacement therapy for chemo induced menopause, which possibly caused blood clots in both lungs. I was off work for three years. I've been doing very well since my transplant but my motto of "life is short, eat the cake" caught up to me. I had foot pain, back pain and was short of breath with little exertion and was at my highest weight of 252lbs ( I am 5"9 tall ). I also had high blood pressure. My inside voice was not kind, especially in front of a mirror or even sitting in a chair. I saw Greg Curries post on Facebook about his weight loss success and I connected with him. He suggested reading The Fasting Highway and I started 16:8 right after that. I have always been a strict 3 meals a day type person and if someone would have told me that I would be skipping breakfast everyday I would have told them they were nuts!! Here I am feeling so much better! I am off blood pressure meds, I've got more energy and a much more positive mind set. I have lost 32lbs in 6 months with the help of Intermittent Fasting and cardio. I am looking forward to the rest of the journey. News. My book about my own story The Fasting Highway is available on Amazon in both paperback and kindle. For Australian and New Zealand residents, you can buy the book direct from me at www.thefastinghighway.com. For the rest of the world Amazon is your best option. You can follow me on Instagram at graemecurrie_63 or join The Fasting Highway Facebook Group. Enjoy The Show Graeme. Disclaimer all views expressed in this podcast episode are those of the guest and host. No part of this podcast should be taken as medical advice. Please consult your medical professional before commencing any health plan.

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I am a homeschooling mother of 3 who also teaches private voice lessons and directs musical theater for students in middle school and high school and I have a very supportive husband in all of that! We enjoy the beautiful outdoors in Colorado! We enjoy camping as well and hiking, paddle boarding and kayaking. Fasting has given me the freedom and the energy to finally truly enjoy these things with my family! I have fasted in the past. It actually helped me to lose weight in the past but I didn't know why or if it was really working because I was also training for a triathlon at the same time, in 2012, after having my 3rd child. I am not an athlete but I was trying to find acceptance in my body and prove that I could do something athletic! Unfortunately, this change didn't last long and I gained my weight back and kept it on for 8 more years! In June of 2020 I was ready for a change! I was tired of being tired and overweight. But I had sworn off diets and did not know what to do. That is when Delay, Don't Deny came into my life through my dear friend. I read that book in one sitting on June 20 and started that day! My first fast was 18 hours and I have been fasting at least 16 hours, but mostly 18-20 hours for 470 fasts now, I am closing in on 500 fasts! I have lost 30 pounds and kept it off! And I keep losing inches! I was in a tight plus sized 18W jean and am now in a regular size 14 jean. And I wore plus sized 1X shirts and now wear a Small or Medium.

Sincerely,

Carmen Brown

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Graeme Currie overcame a chronic sugar and fast-food addiction that had affected his entire adult life. Because he has actually lived through the highs and lows of a weight loss journey, his story is relatable and easily resonates with everyday men and women who are in a similar situation and want to change their lives. Graeme lost a staggering 60 Kg 132 pounds by living an IF lifestyle and overcoming his addictions.

He has successfully lived a healthy life and has easily maintained his current weight for well over two years . Graeme is the author of the best selling book "The Fasting Highway" in which he writes in a raw, and honest way without overcomplicating what is an easy to follow simple process.

He has guided countless people around the world, has built up a huge following across social media platforms and is the regular host of the "The Fasting Highway Podcast” which has nearly half a million plays in over 40 countries globally. Graeme has also the founder of the fast growing Facebook community The Fasting Highway Podcast and book. He has become known around the world as one of the most passionate advocates for intermittent fasting. In todays podcast we take a quick look back at how his success came about and answer some questions that listeners in the Facebook group have put forward. We also discuss Graeme's plans for 2022.

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My book about my own story The Fasting Highway is available on Amazon in both paperback and kindle. For Australian and New Zealand residents, you can buy the book direct from me at www.thefastinghighway.com. For the rest of the world Amazon is your best option. You can follow me on Instagram at graemecurrie_63 or join The Fasting Highway Facebook Group.

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Paulus van Eeden is a Colonel in the South African Police Service. He was born in Durban ON 11 February 1971, he is 50 years old and grew up in Gauteng where he is currently also residing and working. He enjoys nature and goes camping when there is time to relax in his busy schedule. He is married with two daughters, one is 3RD year at university and the other is in grade 9.

During the nineties he was very active and participated in cycling as a sport. He also become a cycling “spinning” instructor. As life continued from 2014 he slowly had fallen into a pattern of eating the wrong food especially treats and fast foods. Gradually he gained weight until he weighed 125 kg due to long working hours in the Law Enforcement environment. In September 2020 he decided to make and change and be healthy before his 50th birthday in February 2021. The birthday went pass and he carried on with his life and bad eating habits. He was also having constant heartburn as a result of being overweight. By that time still weighing 122kg.

His blood pressure was high as well as cholesterol levels. He started getting blackouts due to high blood pressure and ended up in hospital. In hospital the final decision was made to take control again of his eating habits. A few weeks later a friend told him about intermitted fasting and he joined the fasting highway Facebook page and started following the 13/11 fasting routine. He has been on the 13/11 fasting plan since April 2021. The journey require discipline every day to make the correct food choices.

He was inspired by those who shared their fasting success stories on the Fasting highway as well as other wellness Facebook pages. The main inspiration was to take back control of his health and correct the high blood pressure and cholesterol with weight reduction and not medication. Since he lost weight his blood pressure returned to normal as well as normal cholesterol levels. The constant heart burn is also gone. Energy levels improved.

His fasting routine include a small breakfast with oats or similar and a fruit. During fasting only water. Dinner consists of protein, starch and vegetables / salad. Sugar, alcohol and snacks were eliminated from his diet as well as coffee due to high blood pressure.

On weekends if there is a social event he adjust the plan to have a bigger breakfast or change breakfast for lunch. He monitors his weight constantly and if he see there is an increase (for example when the family goes on holiday and eat special treats) he goes back to the strict intermitted fasting plan to reduce weight.

His weight loss statistics are as follow:

SW 125kg

CW 93

GW between 92 and 88 Kg

Age 50

Height 193 cms

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My book about my own story The Fasting Highway is available on Amazon in both paperback and kindle. For Australian and New Zealand residents, you can buy the book direct from me at www.thefastinghighway.com. For the rest of the world Amazon is your best option. You can follow me on Instagram at graemecurrie_63 or join The Fasting Highway Facebook Group. Thank you for listening to the podcast and for getting the book it helps to keep the podcast free from commercials.

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Neva is a realtor in the Dallas Fort Worth area. Her weight got to the point where, in July of 2020, she seriously wondered if she could handle showings houses in 100 degree summer temps that are typical of the area. As Neva describes it, "We run into houses, up the stairs, down and out, and on to the next one. The stairs were the killer. I was worried. And the work really only starts with the showings - then you run home and start writing the contract paperwork. My brain had to be online." Neva is a fiend for architecture, to the point that she got the Historic Homes Specialist certificate. From the modest mid-century ranch homes, to the full-fledged Mid-Century Moderns, to Craftsman Bungalows, to Victorian Painted Ladies, it's a passion of hers. Before getting into real estate, Neva was a techie in the corporate world, and she says those skills come in handy. She says Excel is her favorite "game." Perhaps that explains her love of entering the numbers into ALL the apps AND her own spreadsheet. But she owns to a good bit of OCD too. A self-avowed recovering crazy cat woman, at one time Neva cared for dozens of cats, and was active in pet rescue. Now the number approaches something more normal, and vet bills are more manageable. She still points people towards resources, and fields random questions about cat behavior. Scratching posts need to be where?? When she comes up for air, Neva does enameling as a hobby and has a kiln and a hydraulic press as part of her setup. And then there's music: Neva is avid about live music - bluegrass, rockabilly, blues, jazz, classical. She worked at a club near Washington, DC in her youth. She's looking forward to more energy for all of these activities from her success with IF.

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My book about my own story The Fasting Highway is available on Amazon in both paperback and kindle. For Australian and New Zealand residents, you can buy the book direct from me at www.thefastinghighway.com. For the rest of the world Amazon is your best option. You can follow me on Instagram at graemecurrie_63 or join The Fasting Highway Facebook Group. Thank you for listening to the podcast and for getting the book it helps to keep the podcast free from commercials.

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My name is Lisa Davey. I am from Cedarville Ohio. My husband & I have 2 grown adult sons 34 & 29. We have been blessed with 2 beautiful daughter in law's and our first grandson. I own my own small business. I handcraft organic & vegan bath and body products.

I am 56 years old, prior to my 40's my weight management journey was very good. I have always been a very active person and work out 6 days a week for as long as I can remember. Once I hit my forties things began to change and my weight started to creep up.

A friend invited me to join Weight Watcher's in 2004. I thought it couldn't hurt so why not. I was successful in loosing 20 pounds with the program and kept the weight off until 2017.

It was then that I had my fill of counting points with their program and writing down everything I ate. Years of that kind of dieting took its toll on me as far as enjoying the lifestyle and my mindset. It was a daily chore to constantly figure out what I was going to eat.

I gave up Weight Watcher's and continued to exercise and eat as healthy as possible. As I entered my 50's everything changed once again. Menopause hit and one more time the weight began to creep on. It was in 2011 that I was diagnosed with Asthma. I then began my journey into finding out what the triggers were when I had frequent asthma attacks.

I was put on twice daily prescribed medicine. I kept thinking there has to be a natural way to reduce symptoms or rid them all together. Fast forward to March 2021. I was researching ways to help asthma. I stumbled across intermittent fasting.

There were a few examples of IF helping reduce inflammation in the lungs and asthma symptoms. I decided to give it a try.

I started out 16/8 although not clean fasting and after a few weeks went to 18/6 and then on to 20/4. During the first few weeks I came across Gin Stephens book Fast Feast Repeat and read about clean fasting. That was a game changer for me. My protocol varies from day to day and my body responds well. I have reduced my asthma medication by almost 100%.

I have experienced many NSV's along with an 18 pound weight loss and an exciting body recomposition. I am not sure if I have decided I am at goal. I'm giving it a little more time to see what my body will do.

While listening to Gin's podcast I heard Graeme's interview and immediately joined the fb group. There is something about Graeme that drew me in. I heard him mention his book "The Fasting Highway" on this podcast. I ordered it and have read it through twice with more rereads to come.

It was Graeme's book that gave me the final push and realized IF is more than just weight loss

Lisa

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My book about my own story The Fasting Highway is available on Amazon in both paperback and kindle. For Australian and New Zealand residents, you can buy the book direct from me at www.thefastinghighway.com. For the rest of the world Amazon is your best option. You can follow me on Instagram at graemecurrie_63 or join The Fasting Highway Facebook Group. Thank you for listening to the podcast and for getting the book it helps to keep the podcast free from commercials.

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My name is Marcy Lemasters. I’m from Middletown, Missouri where i live with my husband of 33 years. I have two adult boys age 31 and 21. My dieting journey began basically from birth. I jokingly say, “If anyone has an excuse to be overweight, It’s me. I was born overweight.” I weighed in at 11 lbs. 10 oz when I was born in 1969. I’m the youngest of 4 children. My mom was diabetic during her pregnancy with me and each child had just gotten bigger and bigger. The first diet I ever remember being on was the summer of 1986, between my junior and senior years in high school. I’m 5’4” and weighed 150 lbs then. I got down to around 120 once I started college, by just eating frozen yogurt, granola bars and Diet Soda. From then on, I was on a roller coaster of dieting my entire life. I didn’t discover Intermittent Fasting until a few years ago. I had fasted off and on before this, but only for religious reasons. The most drastic was probably 19 years ago, when I fasted for 25 days and only ate one meal a day, which was a very small meal and I lost 25 pounds in 25 days. After that I went right back to regular eating and my weight was up and down. I tried Keto 3 times, for 3 months each time, but hated it. 167 pounds was the highest weight I got. I counted calories and started running in January of 2015. That got me down to 109 at my smallest. Due to injuries, I could no longer run, so my weight crept back up to 162. Since starting IF this year on June 10th, I’ve lost 21 lbs. I’ve been plateaued for a month, but my entire attitude has changed and I plan to be IF for life. I love it!

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My book about my own story The Fasting Highway is available on Amazon in both paperback and kindle. For Australian and New Zealand residents, you can buy the book direct from me at www.thefastinghighway.com. For the rest of the world Amazon is your best option. You can follow me on Instagram at graemecurrie_63 or join The Fasting Highway Facebook Group. Thank you for listening to the podcast and for getting the book it helps to keep the podcast free from commercials.

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I’m Margrèt I’m 30 years old I’m from Iceland but live in Ireland with my Irish partner and 3

small kids! I work as a makeup artist. Ive always struggled with my weight since I was about 12-13 years old…I’ve always been starting or coming off a diet! I’ve done it all! I’ve counted calories..I’ve done the replacement shakes.. I used a food delivery service… I did keto for a while that did work for a bit but I had a bit too much fun with the stevia chocolate! And was eating all day hence I only lost a little bit of weight!

I first heard about fasting from a good friend of mine. She lost 18kg and I honestly didn’t buy into fasting then it all sounded too simple to be honest.. didn’t get how eating in a smaller time frame would help me loose weight! But then this was the one thing I hadn’t tried! Why not try this! I started with 18:6 and started loosing weight straight away! I was so surprised that this was actually working so I decided to do more research on this and a whole world just opened up to me! I found the IF story’s podcast from Gin Stephens and there I learned about the clean fast and how important it is long term and read her book and became part of her Facebook page and then your page and honestly being active in those groups has kept me going! I started my journey in the first lockdown August 2020 and I was just after having my 3rd baby in 3 years and I was morbidly obese

SW 135kg 298lbs

CW 75kg 165lbs

GW 75kg 165lbs

I’m 175cm 5’9

I’m someone who’s always been overweight and have yo-yo’d from being overweight to obese and then morbidity obese. I’ve never been at a happy weight… until now!!

I did 18:6 at the start did that for good 5-6 months and then that evolved into 20:4 I reached my goal weight in August 2021 so 1 year I managed to do this!

IF has been unbelievable healing process for me.. when I started fasting it’s like something was finally plugged in! I finally understood my body! And I was finally able to listen to my body.. where as before it’s been a constant battle and a real disconnect between me and my body! Now there’s a great connection and almost like a spiritual awakening! I sound like a right hippie now ! Haha! But with every fast it’s like my body says ahh thank you! I needed that rest from digestion!

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My book about my own story The Fasting Highway is available on Amazon in both paperback and kindle. For Australian and New Zealand residents, you can buy the book direct from me at www.thefastinghighway.com. For the rest of the world Amazon is your best option. You can follow me on Instagram at graemecurrie_63 or join The Fasting Highway Facebook Group. Thank you for listening to the podcast and for getting the book it helps to keep the podcast free from commercials.

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"Chip is from Avon, Indiana, USA, 44 years old, and 6'2" (188 cm) tall. He is married and the father of two, teen-aged girls. He has always been a healthy person but has struggled with weight since elementary school. After the low-fat, eat-less-move-more 80s and 90s, Chip weighed over 270 lbs (123 Kg) in high school and college. He discovered Atkins and ketogenic diets his senior year of college and lost 80 lbs (36 Kg), reaching a weight of 197 lbs (90 Kg). Despite generally following keto, with age and time, he slowly put on weight through his 20s and 30s. In his 30s he was diagnosed with gout, and in his 40s he was diagnosed with pre-diabetes. During the Covid19 pandemic, he was nearly diagnosed as diabetic and reached his highest weight, 294 lbs (134 Kg) in July 2020. Refusing to go down the diabetes road, Chip realized he needed to make several lifestyle changes to address the insulin resistance and systemic inflammation at the root of all of his metabolic syndrome-related issues. Through those changes, including adopting intermittent fasting, he reversed both the onset of diabetes and the gout from which he had suffered for over a decade. Additionally, he lost over 100 lbs (45 Kg), and is currently 192 lbs (87 Kg).

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My book about my own story The Fasting Highway is available on Amazon in both paperback and kindle. For Australian and New Zealand residents, you can buy the book direct from me at www.thefastinghighway.com. For the rest of the world Amazon is your best option. You can follow me on Instagram at graemecurrie_63 or join The Fasting Highway Facebook Group. Thank you for listening to the podcast and for getting the book it helps to keep the podcast free from commercials.

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By Lexi Waters

I was born and raised in Northern California. I attended BYU in Utah and met my husband after graduating and moving back to California. We have moved around a bit, and now have recently landed in the Boise, Idaho area. I have 4 boys, ages 5,9,12, and 14. I started homeschooling in 2016 and I love it.

I never struggled with weight as a child, and not even as a young adult. But after I got married and quickly started to have children, the weight started to creep on. I would lose it, gain it back in the next pregnancy, and then repeat the cycle, adding a little bit more onto my baseline each time. I felt sluggish, always in a brain fog, and stuck in a perpetual cycle of over-restriction and lack of control. I definitely came to a point of helplessness where I felt that my only options were to succumb to a life of perpetual weight gain and increasing health issues, or to be so strict and rigid to always deny myself the foods that I enjoyed.

I found some success on the keto diet, but it was still a lot of back and forth, on and off, gaining and losing for me. Through keto I discovered intermittent fasting, and some other influencers that helped me to steer toward that path. After an experience of re-gaining weight I had lost very quickly once again, I decided to commit to intermittent fasting and make it work. At first I struggled to find a daily window that worked for me (also not clean fasting). Then I decided to commit to ADF for 6 months, doing the 4:3 method, where I fast MWF, eat Sun, Tues,Thurs, Sat. I ended up loving it and continuing past the 6 months. I lost 35 lbs (16 kilos) in 9 months, going from 209 lbs (94 kilos) to 174 lbs (78 kilos). At the end of 2020 I re-gained a little bit and my body has been a bit stubborn about getting it back off, but I have maintained at least a 25 lb (11 kilo) loss since then. I am okay with it taking a while to get back to goal weight, because this is a lifestyle in which I feel at peace with food and in control of myself, and I’m pretty sure I’ll do it forever!

Lexi

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My book about my own story The Fasting Highway is available on Amazon in both paperback and kindle. For Australian and New Zealand residents, you can buy the book direct from me at www.thefastinghighway.com. For the rest of the world Amazon is your best option. You can follow me on Instagram at graemecurrie_63 or join The Fasting Highway Facebook Group. Thank you for listening to the podcast and for getting the book it helps to keep the podcast free from commercials.

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My name is Kirsty, I’m a 39 year old from Melbourne, Australia. I am a busy Mum to two amazing little boys, work part time as an occupational therapist and support my husband running his renovation and extension business. I have struggled with my weight for as long as I can remember. I was always ‘bigger’ than all of my friends even though I was always trying to do something about it, but it just didn’t seem to matter, I so easily constantly gained weight no matter what. I have successfully lost a significant amount of weight on a number of occasions over the years, but every time, I always regained it and then some! There have been many times when I have just thrown my hands in the air out of defeat and just given up… and the weight kept creeping. I lost 47kg (103lbs) before falling pregnant with my first son and felt fantastic! I swore I would never go back! But 4 years, 2 pregnancies and 56kg later, I found myself at my heaviest weight ever at 130kgs (286lbs). I felt so ashamed of myself for regaining the weight I had worked so hard to lose and I felt worse than ever. I struggled with pelvic pain post pregnancy, and entered a cycle of chronic inflammation. I was overweight, miserable and feeling like I was living in the body of an unhealthy 60 year old in my mid thirties. Something had to change, and a friend introduced me to Michael Moseley’s “Fast 800” diet in May 2020. I started the fast 800 diet on 1st June 2020 and experienced significant success with a combination of fasting and restricting my daily calories. I made a connection between my insulin resistance and my lifetime of weight struggles and felt like I had finally uncovered the key to my success. For the first time in forever I didn’t feel like something was ‘wrong’ with me. I enjoyed understanding the science and dived right into understanding it more. I learned a LOT in this space over the coming months as I continued to experience success. I soon moved to OMAD and adopted a low carb/keto style diet and stopped counting calories. I felt full for the first time in forever and I was eating less and less often than ever before. Weight was quite literally falling off me for the first time in my life. From June 2020 to December 2020 I successfully lost 58kg (127lb). In 6 months I dropped from a size 22/24 to a size 8/10. I’ve been maintaining my weight loss for 9 months now and I have regained my life. No longer am I living life from the sidelines, no longer am I ‘making up’ for the shame I felt about my size by over compensating and overachieving in other ways. I feel free to be entirely, unapologetically me for the first time in my adult life and it feels free! Fasting has given me the tools I will use for the rest of my life to keep feeling this way.

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My name is Megan Kreizenbeck, I am a 38-year-old Mother of two beautiful girls and wife of an amazingly supportive man. I have been intermittent fasting since January 2020 with only one hiccup. I have lost 60 lbs and have gone from a US size 14/16 to a size 4/6. (I started at 220 lbs and am now 160 lbs) I work for the Idaho State Police in a Civilian position as Project Coordinator in the Commercial Vehicle Safety unit. When I am not at work, I am heavily involved in a local Vintage Volkswagen Car club working on the board and planning events to keep our community infested with Slug bugs. Between work and the car club being a mother is where I thrive the most and I try my best every day to be the most supportive spouse I can to my husband. Every fall we head to the mountains of our great state and do our best to harvest some wild game to fill our freezer. We butcher all of our own meat and I have cultivated many recipes to best suit the game we harvest. My hobbies are not a short list, I am a person that keeps herself overwhelmed with projects. I love to cook, sew, Paint, draw, and make colorful graphics that I make into shirts and other textiles. I love to help restore old beetles, my jobs tend to be interior work and I am instructed on where I need to get my smaller arms to do the tedious greasy work my husband can’t reach. If you have listened to the Life lessons podcast, they read a letter that I wrote for their good news segment on episode 15. I encourage everyone to listen to it because it is a beautiful story and may be the epitome of what I believe humanity to be.

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By Lizzie Akers.

I am a 37 year old mother of two, young girls. I have been married for 12 years and a teacher in the classroom for 11 years and now on my second year at a charter school. I have lived all over the United States but currently live outside of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. I live on several acres and enjoy gardening, traveling and laying in my hammock reading. I homeschool my children and assist in homeschooling many more. My days are filled and very busy. I am an avid swimmer and enjoy hiking and taking nature walks. I have struggled with my weight since adolescence. I dealt with an eating disorder from high school to college and finally got help and counseling in college. When I met my husband I was at the lowest weight I had been since high school. I was running and watching my calories. After meeting my husband and starting my career, enjoyed food a little more and stopped running as much and put on 60 plus pounds. When we decided to start a family, I was able to carry both my children with healthy pregnancies but found myself 100 lbs. over weight. In February 2021, I had a friend on Facebook post about her journey on Intermittent fasting so I decided to hop in full force. I started February 2nd 2021 and have fasted every day since. I enjoyed the flexibility and the easiness of fasting. I am doing this for my comfort level. I am a naturally very healthy person and even my doctor told me I do not have to lose weight for health reasons but it is always a good thing to be at a healthy weight for you and your family. I have followed a OMAD protocol (usually in the afternoon) but I for the month of September I am trying to do MADF at least 2 days a week. I have lost over 70 lbs. and I will never go back. I enjoy using my vibration plate every day and playing with my children.

Lizzie

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Nambee Ragavan

33 years old

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

SW 118 KG (260 pounds)

CW 78 Kg (171 pounds)

My Intermittent Fasting (IF) journey began back when the pandemic hit Malaysia. As we went on a lockdown, I realised that this is going to be a few challenging months ahead dealing with the pandemic, and as someone living alone, it was a challenge on its own.

Having the idea that I want to do something for myself during this lockdown, many ideas were going around the internet, many were suggesting to pick up new hobbies, learn a new language etc, but none of them appealed to me. I did try to sign up for some online courses but realised I didn’t have the discipline to follow through it.

As March went by, many were already complaining that they are putting on weight considering all of us are homebound and lacked physical activities. This was my turning point, as I scrolled social media and saw everyone talking about putting on weight, I decided that I want to come out of this pandemic in a very different way, to try something that I have never done before or people have seen before – me at my ideal body weight.

I have always been overweight, as far as I can remember, I can’t recall when was the last I was at my ideal weight, it was probably during my Primary school (Grade 1-6) days. Since my high school, I have been on the overweight category which led to obesity as time went.

So with the motivation to come out of this pandemic very differently from others, to also be a fuel for my positivity, I started my IF journey with me realising I was doing IF. It all started with me planning to eat lesser and I wanted to cut down my dinner. And as a person who generally don’t like to eat breakfast, I was only left with lunch to eat, but I had also had the habit of snacking.

As I wanted to find a proper diet regime, I discovered IF. I did some research and realised that I am already doing this by not having breakfast, so all I have to do is cut the dinner and stop the snacking.

16 months later, almost at my ideal body weight, I am still experimenting what is going to be best moving forward as I am reaching my ideal body weight

Nambee

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My name is Hannah. I'm a 37 year old nurse, married and mother to one five year old boy. I've been overweight my entire life...not morbidly obese, I was just always the chubby friend even as a child. I can remember as a child my grandma giving second portions of dessert to my cousin's, but never to me because I always had a "weight problem." I played sports in high school and even at that time I would not have called myself slim or athletic. I really struggled with this through my teenage years and into my twenties. I had a few boyfriends, but I was never the girl boys wanted to date. My grandma always said I was more of a breeding mare than a racing horse. Lol!

I used various coping mechanisms to deal with this. Primarily alcohol. I found that it was a very effective social lubricant. I could be the super fun party girl and mask all the pain I was carrying about my self hatred and frustration with not being able to lose the weight. I tried my best to be what other people thought I needed to be, without working on myself or what I needed. As a teenager, I remember doing weight watchers with my momma but never really lost more than 10lbs. I had some brief success in my early 20s where I worked out nonstop and made it down to 170, but I hate working out and it just wasn't sustainable so I gained everything and then some back.

I had an entire career in banking. I worked my way up to teller manager and personal banker in the industry, but I still struggled with alcohol and there were many days where I went to work still intoxicated from the night before. I woke up one morning and realized I had to make a change. This wasn't all that life had in store for me and it was up to me to change it. I moved back home and enrolled in college to become a nurse. I was 25 at the time. Those four years of college, I was an incredibly dedicated student and spent my days studying from dusk until dawn in the library. I wasn't thinking at all about what I was eating or physically working on my body. I was singularly focused on my goal so I put on a significant amount of weight. I was using food as a reward system. If I did good on a test, I would go through the drive through and buy myself a meal as a treat. Your book really resonated with me because I've always been a closet eater. No one ever knew about these extra treats I would buy myself. I'd eat small portions in front of my mom and go finish eating in private where no one could see.

Starting Weight: 247lbs /112kgs/17.6 stone, size 20W US Current Weight: 167lbs/75.7kg/11.9 stone, size 10 US Goal Weight: 150lbs/68 kgs/10.7 stone

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Susan Metz

At 46, this web developer and digital marketing specialist has found a place where I love who I am, where I am, and what I do. My future is sparkling with possibilities. I’m originally from Stratford, New Zealand, newly married and living with my adoring husband in Maryland, USA.

I grew up in a large family with 4 adopted brothers, 2 biological sisters and a multitude of foster children. It was a busy home with lots of mouths to feed. When I hit puberty, I started putting on the weight and it never seemed to leave. I had a very negative body image and over the years the weight crept up.

By my mid-20’s, I had reached my highest weight of 95 kgs (210 pounds). It was time to make a change. I started eating healthy foods on a calorie restricted diet. I lost 22 kgs (50 pounds), felt great but knew I still had a long way to go. Over the next 18 years I bounced up and down but could never find the magic answer to sustainable weight loss.

In 2015 I sold my house, closed my real estate business and moved to the US. In the last 6 years I’ve completed a degree, found a great job at a leading company and met my husband. He is an amazing cook. An American cook. Cheesesteak hoagies, pizza, jambalaya, tacos, shrimp linguine, smoked pork and ribs, potato and meatloaf, po’boys… the list goes on. And so did the weight.

Thankfully, my mother-in-law came to the rescue. In December 2018 she introduced me to Gin Stephen’s Delay, Don’t Deny. It clicked with me because it was the way my body had always told me it preferred to be fed. I was never a breakfast or lunch eater. Before I even finished the book, I jumped straight into 20:4 and have been doing that ever since.

To begin with I was just happy not to be putting on the weight. Then the weight slowly started dropping. It took 18 months to reach my goal and I’ve been maintaining for the last year. I’ve learned to listen to my body and stop listening to those who don’t know better.

Susan.

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Hi! My name is Yari (pronounced Yadi) Toleno, 46 year old Southern California transplant mom of two girls, ages 23 and 11. I currently live in Cupertino, California, about 36 miles outside of San Francisco. I enjoy time with my husband who works for Facebook, traveling, having fun and being a dedicated stay at home mom who always volunteers for everything. Yes, I am that PTA mom. My latest exercise craze is riding the Peloton, which I really enjoy.

During college I gained the Freshman 15, which quickly went to the Sophomore 40.The heaviest recorded weight was 240 pounds, but my body likes to stay around 220. I have been on numerous diets beginning when I was around 19 years old, but have always remained active. I have a muscular build so it was bit easy to hide some weight, but once I got over 200 I can no longer hide the fact that I was obese. I seem to lose the same 20 pounds consistently. When I was pregnant with my second child I was diagnosed with gestational diabetes. It went away after she was born, but I went back to my old eating habits and became a diabetic within one year.

I started my IF journey when I changed doctors because I got a very scary blood work report and realized I was heading towards insulin and death. My new doctor is through Stanford and introduced me to Dr. Fung’s book Obesity Code. I started IF that day, October 19, 2020 and never looked back. I have lost 40 pounds, went from a size XL, 16 to small, medium 8/10. My husband has lost 60 pounds doing this journey alongside with me. My IF protocol tends to be 20 hours, but I have been known to open my window at 18 hours. The last two blood test reports show I have completely reversed my diabetes (within three months) and confirmed it is gone (6 month mark). I also no longer have fatty liver and cholesterol has lowered. Overall I am quite healthy now and have more energy than before, and that is saying a lot, since most friends comment on how much energy I have to do all I do. The IF lifestyle is life changing and has been a lifesaver…wow that is a lot of life in this sentence, but it is so true. IF is amazing!!!

Yari

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By Robert Santamaria

I really like learning about the science and nutrition of intermittent fasting as I had a lot of interesting comments at the start from very well educated people. I was a self employed builder for around 30 years and now look after some of the facilities I helped build.

I hung up my tool bag about 11 years ago. I now work in a very science based industry where we manufacture radioactive isotopes for injecting into patient before they have a PET scan for cancer diagnostics and look after 6 facilities in Australia and NZ.

Tania is a Maternal Child Health Nurse. She started as a nurse, doing her training in Invercargill, NZ and moved to Australia when she became a Midwife and now a Maternal Child Health Nurse.

We met in the UK and to cut a long story short ended up married now for 33 years and have four children 3 boys and 1 girl and now have 2.5 grandchildren.

Back Story - Me
- 60 years old, 175cm tall.
- Ex Builder now Facility Manager
- Starting weight – 88kg -194 pounds Sept 2019
- Started IF 28th Dec 2019
- Goal weight range – 66-68kg -147-149 Pounds
- In maintenance since July 2020
- Fasting regime – OMAD 3 Course meal style.
- Occasional Meal less Monday
Back Story - Tania
- 55 years old, 165cm tall.
- Nurse/Midwife/MCH
- Starting weight – 66kg 144 Pounds Sept 2019
- Started IF 8th Sept 2019
- Goal weight range – 55-57kg 121-123 Pounds
- In maintenance since Feb 2020
- Fasting regime – OMAD
- Occasional Meal less Monday
- Snack & Meal is my OMAD style.

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By Josie Aggett

I've been one of those dieters, who for the past 25 years has had my main goals as:

Lose weight with a well-known diet group that I pay to belong to.
Once at goal, shout about it to everyone.
Feature in an article where I look amazing having spent the day with a stylist.
Feel an enormous sense of wellbeing and achievement.
Never have to diet again.

So, in 25 years this has never happened and even if it had, I am under no illusion that probably within a year I would have gained weight back and felt like such a failure....

With 2020, all my goals have been revisited.

Two things happened, first, I saw a photo of myself at Christmas 2019, isn't it ALWAYS a photo that starts things and secondly I received a phone call from a relative telling me I could potentially need a major health check as she had been diagnosed with SCAD, Spontaneous coronary artery dissection, an uncommon emergency condition that occurs when a tear forms in a blood vessel in the heart, causing a heart attack, abnormalities in heart rhythm or sudden death, yes, very scary. Both my parents passed away suddenly in 2016, Mum, a healthy living 70 year old, from heart related issue and then my Dad, age 69, 7 months later, again heart related; I believe he was very much 'broken' after Mum died. SCAD isn't really known about or spoken about so I began a very fast journey through medical checks and thinking I was suddenly living with a time bomb attached to me, with a young family my stress levels went through the roof.

As I hit this low point and thought to myself, everyone is talking about the 2020 lockdown 14 pounds, I couldn't afford to gain any more weight, I was already grossly overweight at 212lbs. I typed in the search bar, Gin (meaning the drink) and weight loss and Gin Stephens, author and intermittent faster popped up. I know it is a cliche and I've heard many others say this before, but Graeme you really have, I believe, changed my life and the life of my friends for the better, in fact, you might have even saved mine, so thank you!!

I have enjoyed and learnt so much from reading The Fasting Highway , listening to your podcasts and then going on to follow Gin’s podcasts and others. I know that IF is something I can do for life, this is just me now. Initially I made mistakes and learnt about my body and reactions to certain food groups but eventually the weight began to come off. I'm now 40lb down and delighted!!! I feel like a new person. Despite being on a plateau for a few months I'm now trying ADF and with a weight trending app I can see how although the weight has slowed down, I am slowly losing again, which is great. I know eventually I will achieve my goal of 150lbs

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By Kirsten Duncan.

I'm 51 years old from Southern New Hampshire in the USA. Proud mom to 3 great young adult children. Married 25 years to one of the strongest men I know who has supported me through my IF journey while he himself was battling leukemia during the pandemic. We would lay in bed every night listening to The Fasting Highway & Intermittent Fasting Stories podcasts, unable to sleep from all the uncertainties going on in our lives. Those podcasts became a big source of strength & comfort during such a difficult time.

While not overweight as a child, for as long as I can remember I've never felt good enough or thin enough. That insecurity left me an easy target for a bully in middle & into high school. Coming home from school I would seek comfort in food & would eat until my mother came home. That led to weight gain & the beginning of my ride on the dieting rolling coaster.

Eventually needing 3 different blood pressure medications to control my hypertension. It was one of those meds that led me to being hospitalized & thinking I was having a heart attack at the age of 46. A doctor performing my stress test said, "you need to get this weight off, you have a lot of life left in you." So I joined Weight Watchers again & was successful at losing 100lbs. At the same time my son was going through the stressful college baseball recruiting process. Sadly, things didn't go as planned & seeing his D1 college baseball dream crumble was more than I could handle. I turned to food again & gained all but 10lbs of the 100lbs loss back. I was humiliated & defeated.

December 2019 motivated by a trip I managed to drop @ 20lbs before our lives were turned upside down. Torn between knowing I needed to grab my own health back from the brink but wanting the comfort of my "old friend" food, it was ultimately my son who said something that profoundly resonated with me. I knew at that moment I was done being obese. I joined Weight Watchers yet again but went searching for more. It was that search that ultimately led me to IF. I'm 110lbs lighter today than my highest known weight & never looking back.

Life is short, health is wealth and family is everything is my new mantra.

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My Story My name is Candee and I have been battling my weight for what seems like forever. My dieting history started at the age of 10 when my parents put me on my first diet at the recommendation of my pediatrician. I was switched to skim milk and limited to one helping of dinner and no dessert. It was then that I learned how to sneak food. At 12 I asked to go away to “fat camp”. I found one in California and my parents agreed and I went to San Diego for 6 weeks. I lost approximately 25 pounds through severe calorie restriction and exercise. I think it took me about 12 weeks to gain it back and then some because I didn’t really learn how to follow the program and my parents didn’t do it for me. I have done every diet under the sun. I always started a diet when I was around 40 pounds above my weight. I’ve lost 40 pounds numerous times. In 1999 I joined WW after a friend lost around 50 pounds. I was successful and lost 42 pounds and was even approached about coming on staff. I joined the WW staff in 2000 and worked for them for over 16 years. During my tenure I was able to maintain my weight except for my three pregnancies in which I gained over 40 pounds and successfully lost the weight each time. I left WW due to poor management. When I stopped working for them I gained around 30 pounds and decided to do keto. Keto wasn’t a great fit for me because I love to eat all kinds of foods and it was very limiting. I heard about IF during that time, but didn’t really know too much about. In 2018 I was desperate. My weight was up again and I was creeping up to the 40 pound mark. I was working in health care and a mutual friend/patient came in and looked amazing. We talked about IF and she told me about DDD. I purchased the book before she was out of the parking lot and read it throughout the day. I started fasting that day. With IF I have been able to lose around 30 pounds. I am not sure exactly how much I have lost at this point because I have broken up with my scale. My focus right now is health. I turned 50 this year and for me it is about a feeling. If my clothes fit, I know I am on the right track. I pretty much follow OMAD except for once a week I do mealless monday ( currently). I run, practice yoga and walk. Most days my fasting protocol is 20/4 or 22/2. I am learning what foods make me feel good and which don’t. My goal is to continue to be active and be a great example for my boys. I want to keep up with them. I have started my own FB group to help and encourage others.

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The Fasting Highway: Graeme Currie from Australia takes you on a journey through the highs and lows of beating a crippling food addiction by losing ... living an Intermittent Fasting Lifestyle

We’re Katy and Amy Miller, two sisters who live together in Lower Hutt, New Zealand. We’ve both lost and gained weight over the years – we’d count calories, eat smaller portions and healthy snacks, lose weight and then slowly but surely fall off the wagon and gain it back.

This year we decided to be proper grown-ups (we’re both in our 40s, for the record) and actually go to our doctors for a check-up. It was well overdue given our family history of hypertension and diabetes (Mum had been nagging us for ages, which we’re now grateful for!). It turns out that we both have high blood pressure and Katy’s blood sugar levels were at a diabetic level.

Advice from a diabetes nurse and panic-googling led Katy to Dr Jason Fung’s YouTube channel. The science just made sense to us – and it explained our previous failed attempts to keep weight off. So we started on the fasting highway in February and we haven’t looked back. We both do anything from 16:8 to OMAD – it depends on how busy we are that day and how hungry we are.

We’re pairing it with a keto diet in order to get the best results in relation to blood sugar – and it’s working! Katy’s blood sugars had come down to the normal range at her next bloods three months later.

We’re foodies – we love food and cooking. When we first approached our new way of eating we were slightly worried that it would take the joy out of cooking. We couldn’t have been more wrong! Fasting has made food both more and less precious. We love the meals we have, but we don’t haveto eat. And there’s incredible keto recipes out there.

Since starting this way of eating in February, Katy’s lost 19 kgs (42 lbs), and Amy’s lost 20 kgs (44 lbs). Katy’s only a few kilos from her goal weight, and Amy’s got another 19 kgs (42 lbs) to go. We have no intention to stop what we’re doing when we get to our respective goals though, we’re having too much fun!

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Allison has been intermittent fasting since May 2019. As of July 2021, she has released over 135 pounds and logged over 100 non-scale victories (NSV’s)! Allison had been morbidly obese for most of her adult life. At a top weight of 369 pounds, she had a gastric bypass in 2011. She initially lost weight, but quickly regained more than half of those pounds back. After once again trying numerous diets and weight-loss plans, she discovered intermittent fasting and never looked back! Allison wants to help everyone discover the freedom that comes with intermittent fasting to live a vibrant and healthy life! With her personal experience, education and professional credentials, Allison wants to be your intermittent fasting coach. Allison holds a Masters Degree in Public Health (MPH), specializing in Health Education, and a Doctorate of Psychology (PsyD) in Organization Development. She has many years of experience in health education and training, individual and executive coaching, facilitating groups, and career counseling. You can connect with Allison at: https://yourlifecoach.ck.page Please note: Allison is an organizational psychologist, not a medical doctor or therapist. Allison lives in Sacramento, California, in the United States with her wife, their very active 6 year old son, and 2 dogs. With her new-found energy from intermittent fasting, Allison enjoys bike riding, golfing, swimming, and lifting weights. She is an organization development consultant as well as an intermittent fasting coach. She is also an avid crafter and hobby baker.

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I am a 46 year old wife and mother of three teenagers (14, 17, 19) and live in a suburb of Minneapolis, Minnesota USA. I used to work as a Registered Nurse in the Intensive Care Unit but have been at home, full time, for the past 7-8 years.

I never had issues with my weight until after having children. I would say that after each pregnancy I would keep about 10-15 pounds of baby weight as my "new normal". I also began drinking soda following my first pregnancy. It was my way of getting caffeine since I was not a coffee drinker. It is a habit that I still struggle with today to kick.

I have never been a dieter. I grew up with my mother dieting all the time and I think it was a turn off to me to ever want to be like that. Even after gaining and keeping some pregnancy weight over the years, I was still satisfied enough with myself and my appearance. It wasn't until I was 39-40 years old, when my weight just started to creep up on it's own without changing anything about my lifestyle, that I started to get bothered. I assume it was due to hormonal changes, but in one year I was up 5 pounds. Then another 5 the next. And the next and so on until reaching my heaviest weight of 198 pounds (90kg) at 5'5" tall.

I have a friend that had lost weight with intermittent fasting, and at the end of January this year (2021) I decided to google search and learn about what IF was. I stumbled upon Gin Stephens' Delay, Don't Deny and downloaded the audiobook. WIthin two days I had listened to the whole thing. It all made perfect sense to me, and on February 1st I began my IF journey. My husband has recently joined me in this lifestyle and is still the only person I have brought myself to tell what I am doing.

To date I have lost 29 pounds (13kg) doing 18:6.

Renee.

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Beth worked for 16 years as a faculty member at the college level teaching literature, writing, and communications classes. But for the last ten years, she has owned and operated Capital Pawn & Couture with her husband Adam. They have three grown children who work in the business alongside them. Born and raised in the stunning Willamette Valley in Oregon, she is a lover of trees and watching the wildlife from her deck in her back yard. Beth is passionate about her family, friends, reading, learning, traveling, food, shoes, handbags, and anything Pawn or Disney related. Her husband jokingly calls her a “professional intermittent faster”

Congratulations Beth on your first year anniversary living an intermittent fasting lifestyle.

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My Backstory

So, my journey in weight was a struggle even in childhood and adolescence. I was so embarrassed to hear a doctor tell my mother I needed to “lay off the greasy food” when I was child at a doctors appointment. As a teen I always weighed my age x10. So by 18 I was around 180. At 19 1/2 and at 200 pounds I experienced my first dramatic weight loss going from 200 pounds to 150 in 24 weeks by cutting out flour and sugar and counting calories. I was 157 at my wedding in June, 1993. From 1993- 2017 my weight went up and down the scale.... losing, gaining, ever trying to have success in mastering my health. My highest weight was nearing 300 pounds right before my 4th child was born. But I often weighed around 275 which was my weight when I learned about fasting in 2017. A friend told me about the book “The obesity code”. I had a torn meniscus injury at the time and was unable to exercise. It seemed like the perfect time to try Fasting ! I also read Delay Don’t Deny soon after, but the part about clean fasting was not what I wanted to hear. I practiced clean fasting often but not always. I lost 30 pounds in the several months of fasting! What an encouraging time. In the next year 2018 I lost another 50 pounds totaling 80 pounds lost in just over a year. The next two years I had trouble making progress and getting into a maintenance lifestyle. I believe that’s because I had forgotten my old friend, the clean fast! Well my friend is back! I am committed to clean fasting daily, eating low carb, and enjoying the process as I shed the last little bit. I am most hopeful and excited to learn and love a clean fast maintenance lifestyle ! My total weight loss currently is 103 pounds! I’m very close to a maintenance weight and my day to day fasting routine is easy, energizing, and completely enjoyable. I have incorporated the carnivore lifestyle into my fasting and experiment with longer fasts and am starting ADF to see where that takes me.

Emily

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The Fasting Highway: Graeme Currie from Australia takes you on a journey through the highs and lows of beating a crippling food addiction by losing ... living an Intermittent Fasting Lifestyle

My name is Candice Maechling I'm a 34 year old wife and stay at home mom to two young kids (4 and 8 years old). I've been clean fasting and working myself from low carb to carnivore since Febuary 23rd 2021. I vary my fast depending on what is going on in my life, I go between omad, tmad, and ADF. Since I have struggled with binging in the past I don't put too much pressure on myself to do one specific thing. I just give myself the rules of I will eat the meat I enjoy that makes me feel good and I will practice IF in some form daily. I have lost 103 pounds total, 52 of that since beginning clean IF. I am no longer pre-diabetic and my blood pressure is in the normal range. From a young age I struggled with over eating, I remember being in 2nd grade and the teacher weighed us all in front of each other I was 100 pounds and i felt such shame at comments from the other kids, that was the first time it really hit me that my weight was a problem. In late 2010 after being unsuccessfully treated for fertility, losing hope of becoming a mom and not knowing what to do with my life I found low carb and began to work out for the first time in my life, I lost 124 pounds in a little over a year and unexpectedly became pregnant with my son in 2012. Over the next 8 years through one more pregnancy and lots of life changes I bounced up and down depending on how well I followed low carb but hunger and stress always got the best of me. I finally discovered the fasting highway Facebook group around January and listened to all the podcast trying to work my way into clean fasting. I didn't find success with until I managed to lose the rest of the sugar and sweeetners in my diet. I have since kept listening to the podcast and read the Fasting Highway book for motivation. I still have somewhere around 50 to 60 pounds to go but I have no doubt IF and carnivore or meat heavy keto will keep me on the right path.

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By Rondi Lee

I am a 60 year old retired flight attendant and Bed and Breakfast owner. I am happily married to my high school sweetheart, Jay, and have a wonderful grown son, Zack.

I have always struggled to keep my weight within a normal range, but as I got older, nothing was working. In spite of trying every diet under the sun and continuing to diligently exercise/work out, my weight crept up and I found myself in a continual yo-yo dieting situation. I accidentally stumbled on a podcast about Intermittent Fasting, thought I would give it a try, and began 12/1/20. It was a perfect fit for me and within 5 months I lost 35 pounds. The Intermittent Fasting lifestyle has freed me from a lifetime of yo-yo dieting and worrying about my weight and what to eat to keep the scale from going up. I know what to do now. My life has truly been changed by Intermittent Fasting and I plan to be a faster for life.

The Fasting Highway dedicates this podcast episode to Rondis father who recently passed.

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By Sarah Morrissey

I grew up in Liverpool UK, and also spent years of my childhood and early teens, living in Saudi Arabia.

I studied Chemistry at University of Birmingham, and have stayed living and working around the Midlands ever since.

Kevin, my husband and I now live in Derbyshire, close enough to help our kids out with their kids! I have one son, step mum to 5, and grandparent to 6.

We have two rescue dogs who we adore. I am very blessed.

I am 53 years old, and my weight battle rollercoaster started really at the age of 19 with my first ovarian cyst . The PCOS that I have subsequently suffered with has led to 30 years of weight loss/gain; more gain; that whole negative cycle which then led to the mental health challenges of life as an obese person.

I have tried every diet, fad, shake, club, book, gym going. And I am here to say they do not offer a sustainable way of life – not for me anyway.

I have had spells of looking better and feeling OK about how I looked, but those times happened after losing the same 20/25 lbs that always went back on, with extra to boot.

I have had so many hurtful comments made about my weight I cannot tell you – not from family, but from thoughtless friends, and of course strangers . It amazes me that people feel they have permission to comment – yet they do.

My husband, my rock, has always told me that I am beautiful, and adores me, but it didn`t help me to feel better when I looked in the mirror.

I have spent a life avoiding the camera, dreading conferences where a photo collage appears at the end and I feel sick at the sight of my image. Being invited to speak at several national and international meetings, where I should be proud of the achievements that got me there instead of just dreading how I will look.

STATS:

CW 225 lb, 16st 1lb, 102.2kg

GW 150lbs, 10st 10lbs, 68kg, but I’m not too precious about the end number, as long as I am happy and healthy in my own skin.

PROTOCOL: settled after playing around from 16:8, to 18:6 to now at 22:2 or mostly 23:1

Sarah

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My name’s Brie Hargans,

I grew up in and around Sydney NSW Australia and have lived here most of my life.

I love travel, Margaritas and Mexican food!

I’m a mother of two gorgeous little girls 3 and 1 and recently returned to work as a travel agent which I’ve been doing for the last 9 years.

I’ve been self-conscious of my body and looks for as long as I can remember. I’ve never been the “skinny girl” and have always compared myself to others.

In the past I’ve gained weight and lost it through rigorous workouts 5-6 days a week, combined with severe calorie restriction. Which I wasn’t able to maintain. As soon as I stopped going to the gym or ate a treat the weight would come back on.

When I met my husband 11 years ago I was a similar size to what I am now. I considered myself to be a fairly healthy eater with bouts of being active here and there. However, over the years I gradually gained a few kilos each year leading up to our wedding, then the babies came and before I knew it I was more than 20 kilos overweight and according to my BMI obese.

After having my second baby I knew whatever I did had to be maintainable! I didn’t have time for the gym and I knew that weight loss was primarily found through diet. So I was on a mission to find the perfect “diet”.

I found IF! I knew as soon as I read the science in the Obesity Code that IF was the key I had been looking for my whole life. It just made sense to me. I knew my body didn’t want to be obese.

I started fasting straight away and have fasted every day since.

After reading the Obesity Code I was so hungry for information. I read all of Jason Fung’s books. Donna Dube her book was pivotal for me because she encouraged her readers to join FB groups which was instrumental in my success. Then I read Delay Don’t Deny and the rest of Gin Stephens books, which lead me to…… the Fasting Highway!

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Christy Conn is a busy, married mother of three from Southeast, Michigan, United States. She is a Director of Human Resources, and an active volunteer including serving in her role as an elected school board member.

Christy is 39 years old and as long as she can remember has been concerned about her weight. Having started intermittent fasting just before the pandemic, Christy feels it helped her move through the trying times of the past 16 months and instead of gaining the COVID 19, she lost 51 pounds (23 kilograms). At 5’9” (175 centimeters) Christy started out at 239 pounds (108 kilograms) and in the first 6 months lost 40 pounds. Over the subsequent six months she lost an additional 10 pounds (4.5 kg) and has maintained that weight loss in addition to slowly losing more.

As life “returns to normal” Christy has had a lot of fun seeing people face to face for the first time in over a year. She is thrilled to have found intermittent fasting at a relatively young age and is hopeful for a healthy, long-lasting future with the positive trajectory of IF.

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Lesley is from the UK and is a 61 years old who suffered from obesity most of her life.

Lesley was born a normal healthy weight but by the time she was 3 months old she was overweight and remained so for the whole of her childhood, at 7 years old she was 98 pounds, 45 kgs, at 10 she was 140 pounds, 73.5 kilos.

This weight gain continued till she was 13, she then suffered an acute illness, ulcerative colitis, and her weight loss was fast and severe, down to 98 pounds 45kg

After the illness and being on steroids Lesley’s weight increased rapidly, and low calories diets and bulimia followed.

By the time Lesley was 17 she was completely messed up weight wise, life was either severe food restricting or binging.

Weight came on and was dieted off until her limit was reached when she was 40, Lesley weighed 320 pounds 145 kg, and at 5ft 2” this was a very large unhealthy weight to be.

Needless to say a restrictive diet followed and the weight came off, and stayed off for a few months. But the same old story, the weight came back, in desperation Lesley paid to have a gastric bypass operation, again the weight came off and stayed off for a while but then started creeping back on.

May 17th 2020 Lesley was discussing on a FB group how she needed to loose the 14 pounds she had gained and how disappointed she was with herself that she couldn’t get started on a low calorie diet. This was the first time she heard the phrase Intermittent fasting.

That afternoon she downloaded Delay Dont Deny by Gin Stephens, and she started her fasting lifestyle the very next day.

Lesley reached her goal of 30 pounds loss by November 2020 but has since then lost more weight. She has now lost a total of 47 pounds 21.5kgs and has gone from 170.5 pounds to 123 pounds.

Lesley is now confident her weight is now under control, she has clean fasted from the first day and loves the IF WOL!

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Chantel Ray's Biography Chantel Ray, the owner of multi-million dollar real estate company CanZell Real Estate and author of Amazon best seller Waist Away - The Chantel Ray Way, Fasting to Freedom - The Gift of Fasting, One Meal And a Tasting, and Freedom From Food - A Six Week Bible Study Course. Chantel is an accomplished speaker and with her inspiring, passionate warm sense of humor has entertained, trained and motivated thousands of Christians based on her books. She is passionate about her work and her success as a speaker is evidenced by the many positive comments by those who have attended her seminars, talks, presentations, and workshops.

Chantel has an informative and inspiring approach, and has inspired many, encouraging religious following and self-confidence. She instills practical coping skills with charm, warmth and humour. Her presentations include keynote speaking to ladies groups, church programs, biblical speaking.

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By Maureen LeClair

Maureen is a 61 year old woman, who lives in rural Alberta, just north of Edmonton Canada. She grew up in the area, and has very strong ties to the community. She is the second youngest of five children, and weight has been a “concern” for as long as she can remember. She has lost, gained back, lost, gained back weight multiple times throughout her life – starting as a child of around 8 years of age. Following traditional Calories In/Calories Out – low fat diets. Her mom was a nurse, and was continuously on / off diets, trying different weight loss techniques - never “obese”, 20 – 40 lbs overweight. Dad always maintained healthy weight. Siblings were all “normal healthy” weight in their youth. She doesn’t have any underlying health issues, blood sugar, cholesterol, BP levels all within normal ranges. Exception is an underactive thyroid, has been on medication for approximately 15 years. Maureen acknowledges she was an emotional eater; food was a source of comfort. Salty snacks, breads were her drug of choice. She also embraced a lifestyle that involved a lot of socializing and drinking. Not one for fast foods, soda drinks, sugary treats actually had a very healthy diet for the most part. Whole, unprocessed foods were always her preference. Considers herself blessed to have strong relationships with her brother and his family; nieces / nephews, great nieces / nephews. Has many long-term friendships, many of whom have offspring that are like family to her as well. Has had a very diverse work history, lots of rewarding life experiences. Found her “calling” as a health and safety professional about 20 years ago, absolutely loves and is passionate about her work. Loves being outside, traveling and exploring Canada, scenic walks or hikes, working in yard or garden, star gazing, campfires, water activities. Life has thrown Maureen some curve balls, and she has found a resilience she never knew she had. She is exceedingly grateful for where she is now, and the new found HOPE she has discovered through the intermittent fasting way of life and way of eating.

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By Kelly Manning.

I am a working Mum of 3 kids (9, 6, 3) with supportive husband and I live in a small rural town in Western Australia.

I have been overweight for most of my life even though I was an active child, participated in sports and still do.

Became morbidly obese after having 3rd child. I have tried many programs over the years, some have worked and then I piled the weight back on with a bonus.

I have a sweet tooth which probably started when I was sick regularly with tonsillitis as a child.

In 2020 I made an appointment with a Metabolic Health Clinic in Wembley (Perth). They got me onto intermittent fasting 16:8. They shared a podcast of Graeme’s story with Bett Lucas on Facebook.

Since then I started following The Fasting Highway and bought Fast, Feast, Repeat by Gin Stephens. I started the 28 day challenge on the 18th November 2020 after I read the book (in 3 days) and haven’t looked back. I have also read Graemes' book The Fasting Highway.

In 2021 I made the decision to cut out alcohol as my main goal is to get my health back!!

To date I’ve lost 9.4kg since I started clean fasting.

I’m excited to see what 2021 will bring as I am confident I can get my health back.

Starting weight: 121.2

Current weight: 111.8kg

Heaviest weight :135kg ~ 2018

Goal weight: anywhere from 60-70kg, I’ll find out when I get there

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By Missy Reynolds Burkett.

I am a 53 year old woman from Callands Virginia USA, my husband and I live with 2 bossy little dogs and 3 rescue cats in a very rural community. I work full time as a title clerk for an auto dealership and have been doing that type of work for about 25 years, prior to that I worked in the banking industry, so I have always had sedentary jobs. I never really struggled with weight issues until my early 30’s it was at that point that I began a weight loss roller coaster that would engulf my entire adult life until I found intermittent fasting about 15 months ago, since that time I have lost 41kg ( 91 pounds) and could not be more thrilled with the absolute freedom this way of life gives you.

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By Vanessa Avalos

My name is Vanessa Avalos and I’m 38 years old living in Bridgeport, CT. I work with adults in the mental health field and enjoy it very much. I have two children, ages 6 and 4, and a partner who is super supportive of my intermittent fasting lifestyle. I enjoy helping others learn about it as well. I’ve been intermittent fasting since June 2019 and will continue to do so for the rest of my life. I have not always been obese. I started becoming obese in my mid to late 20s. I was very lucky that I never developed any health issues but always knew that I could because of family history of diabetes, high blood pressure and high cholesterol. But I did offer from constant sinus infections, respiratory infections, nausea, and acid reflux. I wanted to change the course of my life in the hopes of preventing diseases and live longer for my children. No one can tell me IF doesn’t work because I’m living it and will continue educate others on it. Everything I used to suffer from before, I no longer do because of IF.

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By Joshua Berntsen

I’m a stay-at-home dad that homeschools my 3 children. I’ve always been a heavy kid/guy. I’m 6’5”. I peaked a 436 lbs and ended up having 2 weight-loss surgeries (lap band and then the gastric sleeve). My weight got all the way down to 259 lbs and then rebounded to about 315 lbs. At that point I began a health program (and became a health coach) and lost a bunch of weight. I got down to about 270 lbs, but then again the weight crept back up. I got up to 330 lbs when I began IF back in November of 2020. Since then, I’ve lost about 30 lbs. I just returned from Spring Break where I was able to pretty much maintain. I’m loving the intrmittent fasting lifestyle.

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Until the age of 45, Netta had always eaten "normally"... that is, 3 meals a day, sometimes a snack or two, and treats on special occasions. She was a self-identified sweet tooth. Not a day went by without her eating chocolate, cookies, or some kind of sweet dessert. And she didn't have a problem with that. She was lucky in that she hardly put on weight - maybe an extra 15lbs over the years, at the most. But weight isn't the only sign of health issues. From her early thirties Netta had been suffering from a very slow digestion, with bloating and pain, as well as infertility issues, depression and mood swings, achy joints, and signs of a fatty liver. It was only when she tried cutting out sugar, sweeteners and flour in 2015 for a period of two weeks in the hopes of improving her digestion that she realized just how much sugar in its various forms had been hijacking her health.

It started off as a temporary experiment to cut down sugar, but after only a few weeks she ended up feeling so much better that she just carried on and never looked back. And it's been almost 6 years!

Yes, she lost her extra pounds, but more than that, she gained more energy, her digestion and liver went back to normal, her spare tire melted away, she felt 20 years younger and her whole relationship with sugar and herself changed!

She also learned how to make her own probiotic (fermented) foods and drinks for her gut health, like yogurt, kefir, kombucha and lacto-fermented sauerkraut. Intermittent fasting came naturally as a result of appetite correction about a year after she cut sugar. Now she eats once or twice a day, and enjoys her food like never before.

Because she's a teacher, she started giving workshops to help other people break free from sugar and get back their energy for life... and now she has an online program, a website and a podcast called Life After Sugar!

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David Williams Biography.

I was born in the United States 55 years ago and grew up in the Detroit suburbs. After university and military service I married a Canadian and have lived in Toronto for more than 25 years. I’ve enjoyed various careers from teaching in public schools, working for a foodbank, and information technology. Just prior to the pandemic, I completed a 20 year career in IT with the justice system. I first became obese as an adolescent. While in the military, I used diets and lots of running to stay within prescribed weight limits but was usually overweight. As the most overweight officer on the ship, I was put in charge of other overweight sailors (AKA, the Fat Boy Program) to lead them in lunchtime exercise. Once I ended my military service, my weight took off and I gained another 60 lbs so fast I got stretch marks. Fortunately, marriage and home cooking stopped my expansion and I settled into being 50-90 lbs overweight ever since. Together, my wife Barb and I have tried a few diets. Of the two of us, I’m much more of a tinkerer and have tried additional more restrictive diets including the 4 hour body (Slow carb) and Dr. Fung’s extended fasts. I didn’t find any of them sustainable long term, though they did help prepare me for success with IF. I’ve always been a stress eater and drinker and work stresses were usually my trigger. The foods and alcohol that temporarily soothed me were always processed high carbs and sugar which ultimately left me more stressed and sad. A year ago, I was near my highest weight and experiencing daily bouts of reflux and bad snoring. I knew my obesity was leading to serious medical issues and that I had to make a change. However, my high carb eating and drinking made it impossible to stick to any of my old diets for more than a couple days. In November, Barb discovered The Fasting Highway Face Book page and podcast. After reading Graeme Currie and others posts, I immediately started the diet by copying Graeme Curries example precisely. I read Feast, Fast Repeat and understood just how healthy IF can be as a way of life. I started on November 19thand I think I will remember it as one of the most important days of my life.

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By Farnoosh Brock.

I am Farnoosh Brock, the founder and president of Prolific Living, a company I started in 2011 after a long corporate career at a Fortune 100. I quit my job at Cisco when I realized that my contribution to the world lies in other gifts that I've been able to express through coaching, speaking, writing, and training. Together with my husband, Andy, we left the employee mindset behind and became full-time entrepreneurs and have never once looked back! I'm the author of 4 traditionally published books, 3 blogs, 1 podcast (The Daily Interaction Show), ebooks, and several programs on career advancement, mindset, and self-empowerment. I'm also a crazy avid yogi and a proud Intermittent Faster! On my foray into fasting: I've been extremely gifted with amazing health all my life, and maybe that's why I am obsessed with the idea of health, vitality, longevity, and fitness. I was big into juices & smoothies & healing drinks for years but as I entered my 40s, my body stopped responding to the old 'health tools' and my relationship with food became a love-hate and I felt so confused about how to stay vigilant & feel great. Fasting has truly healed all of that and more. Farnoosh. How to connect with Farnoosh. Instagram Farnoosh Brock (@prolificliving) • Instagram photos and videos Prolific Living | Smart Habits for Rich Living.

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By Alison Jones

I am 55 years old and I have been overweight or obese since childhood. My first attempt to lose weight was under the care of a hospital dietician. I was 10 years old. My weight really started to be an issue after having my children. I dieted a low calorie plan, lost some, then gained it all back. My highest known weight was 158 kg in 2003. Mostly my weight sat around 127 kg.

I developed type 2 diabetes and lymphedema in both legs At my worst,( in 2003), my left calf measured 93 cm.

By the summer of 2020 I was taking over 100 units of mixed insulin a day and my weight had risen to 142 kg. August 2020 I started Intermittent Fasting at either 16:8 or ,18:6. September 1st I started OMAD. Within days I stopped insulin. My Hba1c has fallen to 5.7 (39) below the diabetes threshold. My lymphedema is greatly improved. I have lost 30kg and numerous dress sizes.

I have a long journey still, but this works!

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By Shagen Ganason

My name is Shagen and as far as I can remember, I have always been overweight. My BMI normally borders on obese. Over the years, I have tried very hard to lose weight but to little effect. I do cardio at the gym 7 days a week but it didn’t help. I have tried all types of diets, again to no effect. When I was in my 30s, I over 110kg. I am in my 50s now and I need to bring my weight down before I get health complications. A friend of mine suggested that I do IF. I tried it once last year but not eating breakfast did not appeal to me and I gave up. But late last year, when I did a health check my doctor told me that if I didn’t bring my weight down, I am likely to have other health issues. That was a wake up call. So, I tried it again in November last year. I started 16:8 initially for almost 2 months and felt my clothes becoming loose. I then increased my fasting by an hour gradually to 20:4 now. I feel better, have more energy and find that I am now more alert. My goal is to reduce my weight to 70kg so that my BMI shows that I am in the healthy weight range.

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By Lisa Jasunas.

I am a 34 year old, working mother of two from Buford Georgia USA, living with PCOS; a hormone disorder that is a leading cause to insulin resistance, infertility & weight gain. Struggling with self-esteem, anxiety and depression growing up, food was always a constant. After my first born son unexpectedly passed away in 2010, I continued to fill the void with food. I have always been career driven which led to a fast paced lifestyle, often traveling and for four years I was a single mother to my second born son. Needing convenience, my eating choices did not make weight loss any easier. For the 10 year death anniversary of my son, I devoted the special year to getting my life back & being the best version of myself for my husband and two children. I not only had tanked my metabolism and confused my appetite from years of diet fads, overeating, and a yo-yo life of the gain/loss of the same weight, I had been living in sadness and there was no better time to address it. Little did I know I was going to have to face one of the biggest feats of my life during a pandemic. I was introduced to Intermittent Fasting by Gin Stephens’ Delay, Don’t Deny book in October 2019 by my mom, who had seen me through my unhealthiest years. After hearing that by timing your eating windows you could help correct metabolic issues, I couldn’t wait another day and started my new journey to health on October 13th, 2019. I have spent the past 17 months learning about this way of life and gaining my life back one clean fast at a time. I’m down 132 lbs, 95 lbs since starting IF. Every pound lost has been a pound of weight off my shoulders after eating my way through many emotions that I couldn’t force myself to deal with. Intermittent fasting has been my anchor. My goal is that by sharing my story I can influence just one life; because my life has been saved.

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Layla is from Fort Dodge Iowa and has lost and gained 45 kg ( 100 pounds) twice. In this episode, she freely talks about the struggles she had with weight and the emotional roller coaster of weight loss and gain. Layla tells us how she tried alternative day fasting and found it did not suit her. She explains why in this episode.

Layla talks us through the Zoe study and offers some fantastic insights into living an intermittent fasting lifestyle. She has just celebrated her second anniversary with intermittent fasting and has lost an astonishing 45kg (100 pounds). Layla also gives a fascinating insight into her mindset while living an intermittent fasting lifestyle. We wrap the episode up with Layla offering some motivational words and advice for newcomers starting out and for those on the journey.

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Ava Brodie from the UK is a 63 year old married to the lovely Terry whom she met late in life. She was a very skinny child eating whatever she liked especially sugary food and this continued into her adult life.

When Ava reached her thirties, her weight started to become an issue. She remembers walking into her first weight watchers group. She spent the next 25 years in and out of slimming clubs. Ava knows she has spent a small fortune trying to control her weight without any success. She would lose the weight with the programs, but, before she knew it, it was back again and a lot more. Luckily, Ava always loved exercising, especially walking and using weights.

In 2016 Ava came across Jason Fung and his book, "The Obesity Code". She was fascinated by the science behind it and then found Gin Stephens "Delay, Don't Deny" and she began fasting. She was really enjoying this way of eating and thought, that in her window, she could eat whatever she wanted, but Ava soon realised that she couldn’t. Ava spent quite a long time trying different fasting protocols. When she wasn’t clean fasting she learned that she really didn't have much success.

Through Gins books Ava came across "The Fasting Highway" by Graeme Currie. Reading his story really resonated with her and she found herself nodding through most of his story. She thought, if this man can get through all of his struggles, lose 60kg ( 132lbs)in 14 months then Ava, was certain that she could finally get a grip on her weight once and for all.

As soon Ava started clean fasting, she felt very different. Previously, she had stuck to an 16.8 or 18.6 protocol and upped it to a 23.1 protocol and the weight started to finally come off.

Ava Brodie has experienced some amazing NSV's, which she said is fantastic. They include; reduced blood pressure medication, lower cholesterol, a mole that was growing disappeared, skin tags are gone, her energy is through the roof, she has stronger nails and hair and I has lost a whopping seven inches off her waist!

Her starting weight was (76kg) 168lbs and she now weighs (57kg) 126lbs. Ava is 5 ft 3 inches tall.

She is a wonderful advocate for The Fasting Highway Facebook group and is an inspiration to many members.

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Chris is a technology professional from Moonee Ponds, Victoria Australia, and is a hardcore foodie that loves a good BBQ and he is a busy dad of 2 kids. He is at the start of his Intermittent fasting journey and is a great example of the non-scale victories (NSV's) that can be achieved in a short period of time. In 3 months of fasting he reversed his type 2 diabetes, among many benefits.

Chris has a great take on intermittent fasting and a great attitude. The reversal of his health issues and losing 11kg (22 pounds) in a short space of time is incredible.

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By Greg Currie

I have lived my entire life in the rural area of South central Manitoba about 90 minutes south of Winnipeg along the US border.

My wife Tracey and I were High school sweethearts and have been together for 43 years now

Married 38 years and have raised 6 children and have 8 grandchildren

I have always worked in the Agricultural industry and more recently (2013) manage the Municipal recycling and waste program in our area.

Along with Tracey we love to do Videography of which we have made a side line business out of . ( Weddings.Graduations,Special events ,etc etc)

Tracey is a retired Registered Nurse who has gone back to work part time due to staff shortages ( covid and politics)

I was always active growing up playing hockey and baseball and although a little overweight for my height it wasn't until I reached my late 20's I started gaining weight that never seemed to go away. Tried numerous ways of losing between my 40's up to about a year ago with no success. Could always lose but it always came back plus a few pounds.

In May of 2020 at 267 lbs and 5 ft 9 I discovered fasting through Delay Don't Deny and have never been happier about the simplistic and easy approach to so far losing 23Kg- 50 lbs of weight and improving my health. My biggest NSV has been an overall improvement in my mental and physical being.

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John Beaver is the father of two sons and a manager for a wholesale electrical supply business in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. He has had a lifelong struggle with his weight, topping out at 387 pounds in late 2007 just before having bariatric surgery (VSG) in May 2008. Prior to and after the surgical intervention, John lost over 180 pounds, likely saving his life and shrinking to a low weight of 204 in early 2009 before beginning to slowly (and not so slowly!) regain the weight in spite of the physical realignment of his anatomy.

John’s younger son, now 18, lives with cerebral palsy and has severe disabilities requiring constant care, which drove him to look for ways to improve his own health and longevity as he passed his milestone 50th birthday in 2019. He had regained the weight back to around 136kgs (300 pound) and had begun to suffer frequent terrible migraines.

He attempted keto/low carb with little success, despite having had some success on the plan in earlier years. He found it to be unsustainable as a lifestyle. Intermittent fasting came into his view first in early 2020 from some acquaintances in the weight loss surgery community, and he attempted it with little to no information and found it discouraging and impractical. He happened upon the New York Times bestselling book " Fast, Feast, Repeat" at the local library and started in August 2020 just after his 51st birthday using the “clean fast” method.

He then joined multiple Facebook groups and became a podcast junkie, and hasn’t looked back since. The migraines have virtually disappeared, and he is nearing an “overweight” BMI for the first time in his adult life. He anticipates intermittent fasting to be an ongoing lifestyle for gaining and maintaining a new healthy way of living.

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Steven is a lawyer by a day and a social entrepreneur by night. Originally from Vancouver, he has had an on-and-off relationship with fasting since 2017 when he was first introduced to Dr. Jason Fung his book the Obesity Code. Since getting married in 2018, his weight has slowly increased month-by-month and accelerated during COVID. When he stepped on the scale in July last year, he was at his highest weight ever and realised that he had to do something drastic to make a change.

This is an engaging chat with Steven who shares some personal battles and his "why" for wanting to be healthier. His passion shines through and we look forward to hearing about the next chapter of his journey.

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Health blogger and journalist Karen Finn resides in London in the UK. Karen started her intermittent fasting lifestyle about 2.5 years ago, to try and tackle undesirable menopausal symptoms, including weight gain. Although she had tried other “get healthy” regimens that promised boundless energy and weight loss, nothing delivered a sustainable solution. However, when Gin Stephens’ book, Delay, Don’t Deny, was recommended through a women’s menopause Facebook group, things changed.

Karen wanted to lose some extra menopausal weight that had crept up on her, but she was mainly keen to improve her overall health and find more energy. After reading Gin's book and joining her DDD Facebook group, Karen jumped in with a 16:8 and never looked back. Her husband joined her later, which made life much easier.

It didn’t take too long for Karen to take off the extra 5kg and stop the weight creep once and for all, but she also noticed some “non-scale victories”, like improved eyesight, lower cholesterol, better sleep, more energy, fewer hay fever symptoms, less puffiness and appetite correction. People also started commenting on her glowing skin and saying that she looked younger.

The natural next step was sharing her experience with friends who were curious about IF, especially those experiencing hormonal changes like peri-menopause and menopause. A number of Karen’s female friends have since become IFers themselves.

While not wanting to push her IF lifestyle on others, Karen is passionate about sharing her IF story and about debunking the myths around IF through her writing. Her recent blog post “Six Myths About Intermittent Fasting Debunked” was very well received and showed that there’s a need for easy-to-understand and well-researched content on the topic.

As a soon-to-be certified health coach, Karen is extremely excited about her plans to support female midlifers with intermittent fasting.

You can connect with Karen at www.karenfinn.net and follow her on Instagram at @KarenFinnHealth.

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Marilyn Passmore grew up in Canada on a cattle farm and immigrated to the USA as a young woman; She has been in the US 36 years and is a proud US citizen now and a dual-citizen in both countries. She currently lives in West Michigan.

Marilyn is a wife, Mum, Nana, sister, friend, etc - who works full time as a communications professional and in her spare time she loves to read, cook, dance and sing. She especially love to cook for her family!

She has been Intermittent Fasting and Alcohol Free since 1.1.2020. An inspiring testament to the intermittent fasting lifestyle from Marilyn who describes how she found 78 non scale victories on her journey so far. A great bonus besides her amazing weight loss also that she tells us about in the episode.

An engaging chat with many gems offered by Marilyn make sure to have pen and paper at the ready.

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My name is Keith McDonald and I am currently living in Vernon,BC, Canada. I am a 40 year old father of 2 girls, aged 5 and 7, and I have been married to my wife Anne for over ten years. I have struggled with weight since the age of 4! My basic reason to diving into fasting started July 2019, I was in the middle of a Celiac Attack as I had a wheat exposure at a friend’s house. I was tired of feeling so much pain afterwards. I said, I am just not going to eat. That same day, I went to a thrift store, and found the book “A Guide to Intermittent Fasting, by Dr. Jason Fung” I knew about fasting in the past, as I had heard about it. I said why not, as I am not eating anyways. From that point forward, I learned everything I could about fasting.

From July 2019 to Dec 2019 I dropped over 60lbs. Today I have dropped a total of 85lbs from my fasting starting date. My highest weight was November 2008, I was at 317lbs! I have struggled with being overweight my entire life.

My primary catalyst drivers to continue this way of life, I have many different autoimmune conditions that fasting is able to keep 100% under control, and my youngest daughter has a host of health issues, where to the point, down the road we may have to consider a kidney donation. I will be the first to donate my kidney to her. My health prior to fasting was far too bad to even be considered a donor. Now I can be considered as a donor, and I will be there for my daughter if the need arises.

I will not be ever going back to the way I used to eat and behave! Fasting is now part of my life!

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By Dana Berliner (DanaMarie}, 59 yrs., Female, 5’8”

From Pennsylvania in the United States

My Back Story

When I was 25 yrs old, life as I knew it forever changed over the next 34 yrs. I lost 4 siblings, my mom, step mom and mother-in-law. I also moved my dad from Florida to be near me to help care for him after his wife past. He’s been through 4 different cancers, the most recent being double lung cancer. In the year 2000, our first born was diagnosed with lung cancer at the age of 11 (she is married and doing great now!)

After the birth of our 3 kids, I tried all things diet related to try and lose the excess weight that piled on over these stressful years. I tried, Nutrisystem, Jenny Craig, Weight Watchers, Slim fast, diet pills from a Dr. (bad, bad decision!)

Yes, I would lose “some” weight in the short term, but then once I went back to regular food, I’d put the weight back on and then some. I wasted a ton of money on these weight loss programs for I bought literally into their media messages.

Our kids (3) at a young age each began travel fastpitch softball and baseball programs. We were a divide and concur family, plus my husband head coached each of our kids teams up until they were probably in the 12 and under category, then he turned them over to other coaches.

During this time, convenience foods came onto the market, lunchables, bagel bites, hot pockets, toaster strudels, a multitude of cereals, bakery items, SAMS club bulk buying, cases of cokes, cases of Gatorade, any convenience food was easier on me with their schedules. Drive-thru's, Starbucks, eating at restaurants became the norm. Back then we didn’t KNOW about all of the harmful effects of preservatives, additives, and the multitude of hidden sugars in everything. My weight got out of control, and I didn't even realize it

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Shana Hussin, RDN, worked as a nutrition therapist for 15 years in conventional medicine prior to her son falling ill with a severe and chronic digestive disorder in 2016. Upon diagnosis, Shana was told by several doctors nutrition had no bearing on his illness, and he would need lifelong medications to manage his debilitating symptoms.

Shana began searching for the root cause of many chronic disease states, and left work in conventional medicine. Through relentless research and trial and error, she healed her son using an unconventional therapy. Throughout the process, Shana gained extensive knowledge in holistic health and natural healing approaches, including the hormonal key to burning fat rather than storing it, by using intermittent fasting and clean eating.

Shana has worked with many people to help them lose weight and improve their health. Most have suffered from chronic obesity and related health challenges for decades. All have tried countless strategies and programs to lose weight with no long-term success. Clients who implement Shana's strategies most often experience weight loss and countless noticeable non-scale victories. Shana has witnessed many previously struggling with binge eating and emotional eating adapt normalized eating patterns after implementing time-restricted eating. Their decades-long negative relationship with food becomes positive and healthy. As a practitioner, Shana felt it her calling to bring these unconventional nutritional therapies to light, and she wrote the book Fast To Heal. Using her signature Nutritional PEACE program, she has developed a step by step, natural process for people to gain their health back. Restoring hope and health to those she educates is a rewarding gift she has been honored with. Best of all, clients are noticeably happier, with renewed hope their bodies can heal! Connect with Shana

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By Roxi Moreno

I live in the most obese city in the United States. My parents are both diabetics and my father is insulin dependent. When my doctor said that my fasting blood glucose, Hemoglobin A1c and fasting insulin were high, it was a real wake up call.

I read Delay, Don’t Deny by Gin Stephens and started my first fast that evening. I joined Gin’s groups and started IF, I followed a 20:4-22:2 schedule and lost 20 pounds and gained my life back! In 10 short months, I reversed all of my prediabetic numbers and even reversed my NAFLD.

I lost 20 pounds in 15 months. But, I hit a weight plateau for 7 months. It was time to “trust the process”. I had to tweak ❤️

I received an advanced copy of Fast. Feast. Repeat. and devoured it. It is an awesome book. I’ve read every fasting book on the market, listen to every podcast on Apple podcast about fasting, watch credible YouTube videos and NOT one thing I’ve ever come across is as thorough as FFR. It re-lit a fire 🔥 in me after 15 months of fasting.

I had attempted 4:3 at 6 and 10 months into my journey. It never felt right.

After reading FFR, I decided to do one longer fast a week. I chose Monday’s because eventually my goal was to complete 2 down days a week: Monday and Thursdays. But, I would start with baby steps. Monday’s first.

Gin gave me the opportunity to create a post dedicated to that on a weekly basis. The group’s goal was to use thread to make longer fasts seem a little less intimidating and daunting in a safe and supportive environment. I felt so blessed to have so many seasoned ADFers contribute so willing to the post! Some have been following these patterns for months, if not years.

Roxi

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By Garry Metcalf

Starting weight 123kg (271 POUNDS) - current weight 67 kg 147 Pounds - started t using 16:8 but now on OMAD.

I was a fat kid when there weren't any other fat kids.

I was born in 1957, just after the end of of post-war sugar rationing.

I was brought up by my grandparents who used food to to assuage my abandonment issues.

I was mercilessly bullied at school because of my obesity.

I received no support of protection from the adults who were supposed to be protecting me. I understand now why this might have been, These adults would have lived through the war and enjoyed great deprivation in their own lives so they would have been very disapproving of my appearance and poor health, but I was just a child.

Being an obese child scarred me for life there is no doubt about that. It has negatively affected every aspect of my life from, my relationships, to my career and has ruined my self image.

Obesity has cost me friendships, career opportunities and even a marriage. Please listen to the rest of Garrys amazing story in the episode its very inspiring and moving.

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By Andy Watson- From London in the United Kingdom.

At the age of 46, and with the UK in lockdown I was watching my already large frame rapidly gain weight, reduced exercise and easy access to the fridge were beginning to take their toll. Having had some reasonable success switching to a plant-based diet a few years previously I was still too heavy and wasn’t losing anymore. I had resigned myself to the fact I was always going to be big and was resigned to the health issues that were related to this.

I have always been big. There have been times where I have lost significant amounts of weight, but this has been following a regime of huge calorie deficit and lots of exercise and ultimately not maintainable and the weight has slowly returned. I have run marathons and done Ironman events.

Having been diagnosed with depression 6 years ago, my life had felt like a struggle, with it feeling as though I was simply dragging myself through the day and through life. My knees were painful, and I couldn’t walk down the stairs properly. I had also developed psoriasis on my fingers which was painful and unsightly.

I heard about IF from the Gin Stephens and Melanie Avalon “The intermittent fasting podcast”. I have no idea why I had downloaded it, or why I decided to listen on my dog walk. I am so glad I did, I started fasting immediately. It was the 13th May 2020 and I weighed 115.6KG I had total faith that the process was going to work.

I have lost 40kg and gone from clothing size xxxl to small.

I have slowly tweaked my window, the foods that I eat, the timing of my fast, I am now settled on 22/2 omad. I weigh myself daily. I can walk down the stairs, my psoriasis has gone, and my mood has lifted significantly, I feel happy, I am confident. I can think and concentrate, I feel fantastic.

Heaviest weight 133kg 294lb

Starting weight 115.6 kg 255lb

Current Weight 75 Kg 165ib

Goal Weight 75 kg 165lb

Weight Lost 40 Kg 88lb

Andy.

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Dr. Avishkar Sabharwal, M.D., Dipl. ABOM, Dipl. ABLM has trained in Internal Medicine both in India and the US, and is board certified in Obesity Medicine and Lifestyle Medicine. His focus area has always been lifestyle diseases, especially obesity. His experience in India made him profoundly interested in the effects of nutrition on health and disease. He researched metabolic syndrome, which is often the outcome of obesity, during his MD in India. Dr. Sabharwal is a member of the Obesity Medicine Association wherein he has been actively involved in the Speaker’s Bureau Committee. He is also a member of the Lipid Association of India and has been a speaker at various webinars throughout the country, highlighting the importance of recognizing obesity and metabolic syndrome in cardiovascular health.

Please note. Dr. Sabharwal would like to clarify the following discussed in the show.

I mentioned that the A to Z study showed no benefit of any diet over the other. I have gone back and checked this again and I want to inform you that this was factually wrong. Having said that, the fact that the diet has to be individualized with consistency being paramount remains true.

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Life lessons is a new online community founded by Sheri Bullock and Gin Stephens, who host a podcast of the same name. This week we discuss how it came about and why it has become so popular. We also touch on intermittent fasting and how life fits around that daily. A fun filled coffee style chat, as we discuss life is not all just about our fasting protocols.

Introduction and Bios

Sheri Bullock

I am a wife, mom, and healthcare worker with a passion for problem solving and helping others. I have lived an intermittent fasting lifestyle for over 5 years now. Once I found fasting, I was able to truly relax in life, for the first time, allowing me to explore other passions and find greater balance in my life. I love bringing people together, and getting people excited about learning and new opportunities.

Gin Stephens

Gin Stephens is the author of the New York Times and USA Today bestseller Fast. Feast. Repeat., published by St. Martin’s Press, and Delay, Don’t Deny: Living an Intermittent Fasting Lifestyle, an Amazon #1 best seller in the weight loss category. Gin has been living the intermittent fasting lifestyle since 2014. This lifestyle shift allowed her to lose over 80 pounds and launch her intermittent fasting website, Facebook support groups, four self-published books, and three top ranked podcasts—Intermittent Fasting Stories, The Intermittent Fasting Podcast with cohost Melanie Avalon, and the Life Lessons podcast with cohost Sheri Bullock. Gin splits her time between Augusta, Georgia and Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, where she lives with her husband and their four cats. Gin is also a mother to two adult sons (and she is thankful every day for the intermittent fasting lifestyle that makes her life easier).

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Mich Faith is 57 years old who works and lives in Alberta, Canada. She has been married to her wonderful husband for 34 years and has a 20 yr old son. Mich has worked in community corrections for the past 28 years. Working with individuals experiencing homelessness, mental health issues and addiction.

Mich has been obese most of her adult life and suffered off and on with severe lower back pain. Mich knew something had to changed, her back pain had become intense and more frequent. At times she had difficult walking. Everything changed 3 years ago when Mich read Delay Don't Deny by Gin Stephens.

By Mich Faith

I tried every diet under the sun. You name it I tried it. I spent thousands of dollars on diet clubs, gym memberships and boxed diet foods. I was always looking for a magic recipe that would make me look "skinny". I use "skinny" because being and looking healthy never entered my mind. I gained and lost the same 60 pounds over and over again until my weight ballooned to 265 pounds and was wearing a tight size 24/26. I did achieve short term success with a popular low carb diet. I lost 60 pounds and kept it off for less than 6 months. I was exhausted, felt crappy but I looked "skinny". However, I knew I couldn't keep up with that way of eating and gain all the weight back plus more.

My health started to decline in my 50s. I suffered from extreme lower back pain and was put on powerful painkiller along with many physio appointments. At times I couldn't walk without assistance. My fear was I would have to depend on a walker to get around. I was also diagnosed with Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver disease ( NFLD). It was a low point in my life. I was exhausted, in pain and had low self-esteem.

Fortunately, I happened on to Gin Stephen book Delay Don't Deny which I finished reading in one night. Everything I read spoke to me and it changed my life.

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By Michelle Montone

My story- I am a 39 year old mom of 2 boys (3&6), wife to my wonderful husband for 9 years. We live in Lake Mary, FL (suburb of Orlando). I am a full time stay-at-home mom, former paralegal (15yrs).

I am someone who started dieting around age 16. Since then I have struggled with my weight. Gained about 40lbs in college and lost it by working out 6 days a week, dieting which was depriving myself constantly. I didn’t eat meat, carbs and honestly was miserable. I maintained (not so effortlessly) a healthy weight for about 4 years until I got married at 30. This is when the weight started to pile on. I finally found comfort in a man that loved me for me, the comfort of marriage set in and before I knew it, I put on about 20lbs.

Then I became pregnant with our first son in 2014 - gained a good 60lbs, lost it all rather quickly after birth but this time by joining an MLM and using weight loss supplements and body wraps, hundreds of dollars a month. I lost around 10lbs over the next THREE years 🤦🏻‍♀️

Fast forward to 2016/7 - pregnant now with my second son. I was gaining just like the first time but at 28 weeks was diagnosed with gestational diabetes. Due to having to have an extremely strict diet to control my blood sugar, I didn’t end up gaining as much. It was what came in the next 2 years that was the worst.

I tried to go back to work (I am NOT the stay at home type) when my youngest was 7 months old. It was an absolute disaster. My husband got a big promotion 9 months later and I was forced to quit my job and stay home with an infant and 3yo in a town we just moved to. I fell into a horrible depression and developed a pretty nasty sugar addiction...you know the kind, when you’re eating an entire bag of candy in hiding, trying to cover up the wrappers in the trash. I ate fast food constantly not to mention always eating out.

Over those 2 years I gained another 25 (ish) lbs. I am 5’3” and my highest weight was around 185...although I’m not 100% as I never weighed myself. I believe I hit 200lbs at some point probably.

So many health issues started piling up at this point...I lived at the doctors office but none could give me any answers....and not ONE mentioned weight loss.

I tried everything to lose this weight...I would lose 5-6lbs then it would come right back. This went on for awhile before I accepted that this is who I was now and that I would be unhealthy and miserable.

An old friend of mine had been telling me about IF for about a year at this point. I thought he was NUTS. How could anyone not eat for 16-20 hours?! I was someone who carried snacks in my purse long before I had kids because I was taught to keep your metabolism going you should eat 6 times a day!

Fast forward to January 2020...I’m getting my hair done and overhear the client next to me chatting about how she lost 30lbs doing IF. I went home that day and began researching. A friend of mine invited me to Gins giant FB IF group where I watched for about a week before deciding to start 1/24/20 and have been clean fasting every day since. I’ve lost 45lbs meeting my original goal of 140lbs about 2 months ago. I’m currently working on my second goal (135lbs). Almost every single health issue I had, gone. The best for me though- I have completely tossed diet mentality in the trash!

IF has truly saved me. I love sharing my story and helping others find this unbelievable freedom . I have a small DDD spin off group on FB with about 2000 members, growing by the day.

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Juliette Osborne has been a Christian for 25 years. During that time she married her favorite person, Michael and had 4 terrific kids.

She became terribly sick during her 3rd pregnancy. Lupus, fibromyalgia, reynauds, IBS, joint pain, brain fog, pericarditis, migraines, and unbearable fatigue all became part of her daily life. Every day was a challenge to achieve any sense of wellness.

She decided to choose joy in the struggle. Her family embraced her health trials with love and endurance.

When a friend shared DDD, she jumped in with both feet.

After 15 months, her health transformation is just short of miraculous! While she wouldn't trade the last 12 of illness, she certainly is loving her new life on the fasting highway. She often tells her story while reaching out to others to share her faith and the IF lifestyle.

She has gone from a size 18 to a 10 and dropped 26 lbs in a year. But it was the healing that really bears mentioning.

She packed up her walker and wheelchair which she hasn't used in over a year. She has 1 or 2 migraines a month instead of daily. No joint pain, no brain fog, no naps, only great sleep, terrific energy, and blood work to confirm what she already knew. She isn't sick any more! Best of all she doesn't obsess about anything diet or exercise related. She embraces every day as a blessing, every meal as a treat, and every fast as a time of miraculous healing. She wants to encourage you to do the same.

"Be blessed...and fast on." Juliette

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Marty Kendall is an engineer who seeks to optimise nutrition using a data-driven approach.

His interest in nutrition began eighteen years ago in an effort to help his wife Monica gain better control of her Type 1 Diabetes. But since then he has worked to develop a systematised approach to nutrition tailored for a wide range of goals.

Marty has been sharing his learnings at OptimisingNutrition.com and has developed Nutrient Optimiser and Data-Driven Fasting to guide people on their journey of nutritional optimisation.

A great chat with Marty who gives us an insight into what Data Driven fasting is all about and why knowing what to do with the data is important.

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Lindy Le Cornu is a 64-year-old retired Junior Primary teacher from Adelaide in Australia with a great passion for community theatre and travel. It was after a trip to the USA and Canada that she began her weight loss journey.

Lindy talks about her fasting and our chat is based around her intermittent fasting lifestyle. She likes to keep it simple and has a message for seniors out there that you are never too old to start.

She has tried various lengths of fasting but says she likes to eat every day and has tweaked her own fasting protocol which is working very well. She roughly does 20 and 4 on the weekends and Tuesday and Thursday then 23 and 1 on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. If she has a special occasion on she goes with it and then picks up her normal fasting protocol again the next day.

A great chat with Lindy that keeps it simple and who is a shining light for seniors doing the intermittent fasting lifestyle .

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Matt Hall is a 36-year-old Youth Minister in Silicon Valley and has been married for six years and has two kids.

He grew up skinny, oblivious to the struggles of weight but by the end of high school was bigger than he felt comfortable. From college onward, he would try to lose weight but slowly gained the weight over time. He finally came to Intermittent fasting and the weight started to come off. Whilst he is not at his goal weight, he knows how to manage his weight and will kick off toward his goal when his life allows, and he is in the space to do so. A refreshing looks at how to get to goal without feeling like you cannot stop or take a breath and hold weight at a number for a while while you re-group.

He talks about the ups and downs of his intermittent fasting journey and how, at times he was incredibly successful and other times where life got in the way and he became what he calls he calls “an occasional intermittent faster”. He is also a cancer survivor and talks about how he felt at that time with his diet and weight.

Matt is an incredibly passionate advocate about men’s health and has a group exclusive to men where they can discuss things that they may feel uncomfortable discussing in the company of women.

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Maryann Liess, or better known, as Fifi di Foofi on our Fasting Highway Facebook page, lives close to the city of Frankfurt in Germany. In this episode Fifi talks about her journey into obesity after the sudden and very unexpected death of her beloved father. She began to focus on caring for her mother, who was suffering from dementia and her three teenage children. During these years, Maryann says she lost herself and become engulfed in the act of caregiving. Her weight went from normal to morbid obesity in a relatively short period of time.

After being confronted with several photos and home movies from the past, Maryann was reminded of a time that she was comfortable in her own skin and content with herself. She hadn't felt this way in 15 plus years. In fact, she was ashamed of what she had done to her body and who she had become. But through these old photos and movies, Maryann found the spark that ignited her motivation to at least try and return to a healthy weight. She has been doing alternate day fasting ever since. After only 10 months, Maryann has lost an amazing 57 kilograms or 125 pounds! For years, she believed that mid-life weight loss would be extremely difficult, especially for perimenopausal and menopausal women. Maryann is living proof that that notion is just a fallacy"".

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Bill McElree is 54 years young and is from Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. He works as a Wedding Director (officiant, planner, DJ) and has done so for 25 years. Bills starting weight with intermittent fasting was 100.8kg ( 240lbs) and he has reached his goal weight of 79.4kg (175lbs).

It took Bill five months eating two meals a day, then he moved to one meal a day. He made some healthy choices and went from not being able to jog 2 minutes to now managing up to 30 minutes . He does not get winded tying his shoes and can “see his feet” as he put it. Bill went from wearing a size 40 pants to a size 33. Bill now likes what he sees in the mirror and finds it great motivation after really seeing himself in the reflection.

I had a great chat with Bill who is a super inspiring man who made some decisions around his health that have proven the right ones. He gave a great insight into living an intermittent fasting lifestyle. His dedication to doing the couch to 5 k and his determination is admirable.

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By Kim Rains

I am 61 years old, wife, mother and grandma of 4 with 5th one on the way. I live in Renton, Washington, outside of Seattle. I am a nurse with 40 years at the same hospital in Seattle, Washington. My current job is clinical coordinator for our joint replacement program.

Two of my favourite things that IF has enabled me to do is, one, being able to attend wine dinners with my husband. We both have a love for wine, visiting wineries, and dinners paired with wine. Second, the absolute energy to keep up with my grandkids who are 6, 5, 3, and 1 with another on the way.

Backstory

Last time I remember being a normal weight, I was 6 yrs. old in kindergarten. The following summer I had my tonsils taken out. That was a thing they did a lot back then, especially if you were sick a lot which I was. After that I was always what they called a chubby kid. My whole life I was never at “normal weight,” always 30 to 40 pounds overweight in my teens and early 20’s. Then, babies came, and I never lost that extra baby weight. During my 30s and 40s, Weight Watchers was my go-to for weight loss. However, during the numerous times I joined, I never made my goal weight. In my 50s, I tried exercise, road biking, running, and finally CrossFit just to find out you cannot exercise your way out of bad eating. Not till I came across Gin Stephens' “Delay Don’t Deny” and Jason Fung’s “The Obesity Code” did I find a way to lose weight and keep it off. February 2021 will be my 2-year anniversary with IF. I am down 43 pounds, which is not at my goal weight. I am pursuing another 30 pounds to get to my goal. However, I feel great, clothes feel good, and dropped my A1C from 5.8 pre-diabetic to 5.5 normal range. Last, I am never going to worry again that the weight will be coming back.

SW 218

CW 175

GW 145

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Exciting week my website has been launched for the podcast and my book "The Fasting Highway". All the podcast episodes are now able to be accessed and played from the web page, as well as your preferred platform. click here to take a look www.thefastinghighway.com

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By Billy Flanagan

My name is Billy Flanagan, I live in Minnesota, with my wife and daughter. My driving force in fasting and dedicating myself to becoming healthier is to be able to care for my special needs daughter, Seeley. She has autism and fetal alcohol spectrum disorders, and she is a very busy girl. Prior to my choice to fast, I struggled with keeping up. Now, I am able to play and manage her constantly changing needs.

In just over three months, I have been able to accomplish quite a bit and I am eager to connect with more people working toward the same goals I am. As a special needs dad, I run a page with my wife, and several groups dedicated to dads, I am looking to find like-minded people regarding health and wellness. If you'd like to read more about our journey, you can always find us at www.flanaville.com or on Facebook at FlanaVille.

Billy Flanagan

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Update- Billy has now lost a staggering 45kg (100 pounds ) since starting fasting last July- 2020.

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Happy New Year and thank you for all for the support in 2020. Thank you also to those buying my book "The Fasting Highway'' a story of my journey that has resonated with hundreds of people around the world. Follow the link below if you would like to buy a copy on Amazon.

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Written By Katrina Smith

Before IF I never would have imagined that I’d be at a point where I’m comfortable in my own skin. 2 years ago my husband and I went on vacation to Greece and when we got back I looked at the pictures of me and almost cried. I kept thinking how did I allow myself to get this big and why didn’t someone say something? I was barely wearing a size 12 and was on my way up to a 14. For someone with a smaller frame like mine, I knew I didn’t want to go to a 14. But what to do? I already was jogging 4 miles every day, going to the gym 4-5 times a week, packing 4-5 snack/meals and being incredibly frustrated as my weight continued to climb. So what were my options???

My life changed on October 9th when I listened to a podcast (non-fasting related) and the hosts had their functional family doctor on. She addressed how to lose weight and get fit over 40. As I listened she talked about Intermittent Fasting and Dr Jason Fung. Everything she said resonated with my very soul and I knew (without a shadow of doubt) this was the solution for me. It just made sense! I started IF on October 20, 2018. I sought out every YouTube video regarding IF and searched in FB for IF groups. When I found DDD, I knew I was home. I immediately read the book and embraced the clean fast (which honestly wasn’t that much of a struggle because I don’t drink coffee or tea- so water it was)! It was so straightforward and relatable- Gin could have been right there in my living room. The group was so motivating and encouraging, I knew it was the right fit for me. I started IF in October 2018 and by December 2018 had lost approximately 20 pounds to hit my first goal. Then I decided to go for another 10 pounds. That took much longer but I hit it October 2019...what a great IFversary present! Now I’m a size 2/4 and never would I have imagined I would be that size at this point in my life. I’ve been in maintenance for approximately 14 months and I absolutely love this WOL.

Height: 5’5”

SW: 158 -tight size 14

Initial GW: 135

Revised GW: 125

CW: 123 - size 2/4

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Thank you to everyone that has been buying my book on Amazon. Thank you for the great reviews and messages. Please see the link below below should you wish to purchase a copy. It is available in Kindle and paperback.

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Kim Smith lost 85 pounds with intermittent fasting, rendering her unrecognizable inside and out. She went on to co-author a motivational memoir called Unbelievable Freedom with her husband Ryan, and now publishes a workbook series called the Unbelievable Freedom Habit Guides. Kim’s grandmother continually encouraged her with the words Enjoy Your Life, which became a mantra. Her mission is to create books that support the enjoyment of life and the experience of freedom. A great chat with Kim who shares some inspiring insights into her weight loss journey. Kims Husband Ryan can be heard in episode 11 of the podcast. They are both truly inspiring people who have helped countless people around the world through their amazing transformations. News My book The Fasting Highway is out on Amazon and has been a multi #1 new release in a few categories since release. Thank you to all who read my story so far I am glad it has resonated with you so much. Here is the link below to purchase the book on Amazon should you consider doing so. https://www.amazon.com/Fasting-Highway-Australia-crippling-Intermittent/dp/0648965201/ref=sr_1_2?crid=146H6JIRWX8G7&dchild=1&keywords=the+fasting+highway&qid=1608790954&sprefix=the+fasting%2Caps%2C451&sr=8-2 Enjoy the Show Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Graeme

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For Intermittent Fasting Coach and Author, Laurie Lewis, menopause dealt a crushing blow -- brain fog, off-balance, memory loss, and the sudden gain of 50 pounds of stubborn hormonal fat. She tried everything she knew to feel better, and the methods that worked in the past made no difference.

After four years of struggle, she stumbled upon a video on Intermittent Fasting and Laurie started eating in a pattern of time that very same day. In less than a week the menopausal fog lifted and she felt more “like herself.” Laurie has restored her health, slender weight, and at 57-years old has turned her personal success into a thriving Intermittent Fasting coaching business.

With group programs and 1:1 personal coaching sessions, Laurie is recognized as THE Intermittent Fasting coach, having changed thousands of lives around the world. (Truly… around the world… England, Scotland, France, Germany, Ukraine, Japan, US, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia!)

Laurie’s desire to share her healing process led her to write an Intermittent Fasting workbook. Published this year on March 8th, International Women’s Day, it is the gift of hope, inspiration, and encouragement that every woman needs.

“Celebrating Your Vibrant Future: Intermittent Fasting for Women 44 to Forever.

She combines a no-nonsense coaching approach with her keen listening and authentic caring. One thing you’ll know for sure about Laurie is she’s always your biggest champion and celebrating YOU.

Connect with Laurie.

www.fastforwardwellness.com

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My Book The Fasting Highway is now available on Amazon in both Kindle and Paperback versions. See more at the link below. The book was #1 new release in 3 categories on Amazon in the first week of release. More information on the book along with reviews can be found at the link.

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Justin Claypool grew up in southern Oregon, and now lives in Clarkston, Washington in the USA. He is thirty years of age.

Throughout his late teens and early 20's, he shares that he really packed on weight and ended up being close to 181 Kg (400 lbs). He started his health journey in 2017 by committing to do a dietary reset program designed to help identify food intolerances called the whole30.

At that point, he bought a scale, moved from Oregon and began living a healthier lifestyle with a more active job. Over the next two years he used the weight loss program in an unintended manner and got into a vicious yo-yo weight cycle.

The health benefits and non-scale victories Justin talks about in this podcast are truly incredible. A young man who has taken his health back at an early age, overcoming morbid obesity. He is a role model for any young person looking to take their health back.

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My Book, "The Fasting Highway" about my own weight loss journey, losing 62 Kg (132 pounds) and overcoming sugar and fast-food addiction is available on Amazon at the link below.

The book made #1 New Release in three categories in the first week. Currently it is #1 New Release in Australian Biographies on the Amazon US site.

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Lisa is a retired vocal music educator and a professional musician. She is also a fitness enthusiast and is a long-distance runner and an avid hiker.

Lisa Glick started struggling with an eating disorder at age 14. She went from borderline anorexia getting down to 45 kilos (100 pounds) at 5'3" in high school to weighing 72 kilos (160 pounds) by the time she left college some years later. Years of fluctuating weight loss and gains followed. She managed to hover around 58 kilos (130 pounds) by severe diet restrictions and exercise. Fear of food was always an issue for Lisa.

After suffering for years with bouts of depression, Lisa was finally diagnosed at age 32 with bi-polar disorder. After a long, uneven road to recovery she realised that the eating disorder was a result of years of depression.

In 2016 Lisa found keto which then led to intermittent fasting. Lisa considers herself a recovered food addict and in remission. She is vigilant about her wellness. Her tools include running, hiking, dancing, singing, community service, eating whole foods and practicing gratitude always. Of course, she includes intermittent fasting in her impressive tool kit.

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My book about my journey and living an intermittent fasting lifestyle is now out on Amazon and Barnes and Noble online stores.

Link to buy the book below;

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Dan & Kelli Buckley live in Fort Wayne, Indiana in the United States . In this episode they tell us about some amazing health benefits that have come their way from intermittent fasting. They both fast together.

For Kelli, they included healing her fatty liver disease and curing chronic psoriasis on her body. For Dan, he got off his medication for diabetes only 9 months after starting IF. Dan also explains that he had vitiligo which has improved a lot . Some rather remarkable health benefits which Dan and Kelli will go into in more depth during the episode.

Dan talks about his struggles and stress working and the worries around that in a Covid world. Dan and Kelli both talk about the benefits of doing intermittent fasting as a couple. The love that is obvious between them radiates throughout the episode, which is delightful to hear. They are a great example of doing intermittent fasting as a couple.

News my book, "The Fasting Highway" is now out and available on all major Amazon platforms in Kindle and paperback.

The link below will take you to the book -note Australian and New Zealand readers it is now available on the Amazon Australia site. Thank you to all who have purchased it this far.

The web page for the fasting highway will be launched late next week. All the podcasts will be available there with guests photo galleries.

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Graeme Currie switches places this week with his wife Lou who hosts this podcast and asks the questions. The man behind the Fasting Highway discusses his book which has been released this week and already has people buzzing. They talk about what is in the book and what sort of emotions came out of writing his own powerful story. Graeme's insights and passion for intermittent fasting came from living a successful fasting lifestyle losing an incredible 62 kg 132 pounds himself. He has completely turned around his health in a stunning transformation over fifteen months.

He has an intimate understanding of what it is like to go on such a huge weight loss journey and live the highs and lows to finally find success and a healthy lifestyle, after being morbidly obese for nearly all of his adult life. He has been in maintenance for nearly two years now and has experienced health benefits that were unimaginable to him before he discovered this way of living.

He has mentored countless people and helped them find wellness through his easy to read story that he talks about about in this podcast. Graeme opens up in this episode about some dark chapters in his life which led to decades of food addiction issues. We talk about his top three ideas around intermittent fasting that help find success.

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"The Fasting Highway" book is now available on Amazon in both Kindle and Paperback. It made the #1 new release in 3 categories in the first week at various stages. Thank you to all who made that possible please share the read and get the message out.

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Tracey Dixon- Neale is from Onewhero in the Waikato region in the North island of New Zealand. in this episode she bravely shares her journey with us. At the age of 11 Tracey was sexually assaulted by a trusted family friend. In the years that followed she turned to food for comfort and gained weight for reasons she explains.

Tracey took a diet pill medication’ at her mothers’ suggestion because of her weight which put her on a pathway to a Methamphetamine addiction. After a few years, she lost everything, except her boyfriend and hit rock bottom. Tracey started to turn her life around with her loving partner and things started to get a little better. She married and is the proud mum of four beautiful children.

Tracey was shocked into doing something about her weight (115kg or 253 pounds) at a doctors’ visit earlier this year and, at his suggestion began intermittent fasting. She found early success and has lost an incredible 23kg (50 pounds) in six months.

I would like to recognise Tracey’s incredible courage for sharing with us her harrowing story and the adversity she has faced. This is a truly inspiring story of a person who has completely turned their life around in so many ways

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My Book “The Fasting Highway” made its debut on Amazon.com this week and I want to thank everyone for their support. It made the number 1 new release in three different categories during the initial launch period.

It is available in both Kindle and paperback on over 12 Amazon sites around the world. Australian buyers can buy the Kindle version at this stage.

News on the availability of the paperback in Australia will be out next week.

The Fasting Highway Web Page will be launched in the coming week and will feature all the podcasts guests’ photos and stories, along with other useful resources and interactive connectivity between the Facebook group and the web site.

I am truly grateful for this wonderful community’s support and love.

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Eddie is 60 years old, the eternally grateful son of a father and mother, both wonderful parents who have passed on, the youngest sibling of a sister and brother, husband to an amazing wife father of 4 great sons, a step-grandfather to 4 beautiful children, a partner in a law firm he is very proud of...trying to live The Golden Rule in all interactions with others... lives on Long Island in New York, about 30 miles outside Manhattan, a decades-long near-daily exerciser, long time IFer, currently, a vegan and always a spiritual seeker, fascinated by learning about new things, from psychoneuroimmunology and neuroplasticity to how to improve performance on his rowing machine and in his race walking.

Eddie sees tremendous value in IFing, thinks billions of people could benefit from it and hopes many, many people will learn about it and explore its benefits.

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Paige Davidson has been on the weight-loss roller coaster for 40+ years. She has tried every commercial weight loss program there is, experiencing initial success and losing some weight with each, only to eventually quit and regain the weight she lost, plus more. Not even weight loss surgery was successful long term for Paige.

She discovered intermittent fasting and began practising it June 2019, has lost 110 pounds and is in maintenance. Paige is working on earning an Integrative Health Coach certification, she offers virtual professional IF coaching services for both groups and individuals (fastwithpaige.com) and has written a book in order to help others combine the foundational practice of intermittent fasting with other health practices in order to make the necessary mindset and lifestyle shifts to be able to successfully lose weight and maintain that loss long term.

An engaging chat with Paige as she takes us through the highs and lows of her amazing weight loss journey.

https://www.amazon.com/Fast-Paige-Healing-Practices-Forever/dp/1954248008

News My Book The Fasting Highway Will be Launched next week. We will have a bonus episode to go through what readers can expect.

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Bill J Mc Kinney is from Denver Colorado in the USA and owns a Karate School which he operates at night and is a stay home dad to his three children during the day. In 2019 Bills tells us he was enjoying the best year of health in his life. After climbing a mountain, he suffered a major health scare on the descent down from the summit and was rushed to a local hospital.

After a series of tests that didn’t give him many answers, Bill then found that he had some intolerances to certain foods which he explains in detail. Based on his initial research and learning, Bill found his way to intermittent fasting he then asked some friends that he knew that did IF, for some more information. Three friends referred him to Gin Stephens and her book “Delay Don't Deny”. He got the audiobook and listened to it, and then immediately also then read Gins other book “Fast Feast Repeat”. He then committed to clean fasting after initially not clean fasting form the start and found it was instantly better. He explains he was then hooked on intermittent fasting.

Bills tells us he started IF by doing 18:6 after that point it just naturally shifted to 20:4 over a couple of weeks. The more he fasted the better he felt and he just wanted to keep going

He talks candidly about his struggle with weight from a very young age. He tells us how he got started in Karate after been encouraged by his Grandmother who was worried about him being bullied at school. Bill tells us of his love to be active and how his love for exercise evolved with him now teaching karate in his own school. He attributes his Karate training to helping him with mindset around intermittent fasting and adapted to it relatively quickly

In our chat, he gives us some great advice around exercise and what we can start doing and as a cook of some note he gives some great tips on simple meals and the importance of colour on our plates. Bill tells us that he started IF weighing 102 Kg -225 pounds 6 months ago with a goal weight of 81 Kg- 180 pounds and is now 75 Kg- 167 pounds His focus now is muscle growth and reducing body fat % by increasing muscle mass.

Bill is the founder of the Facebook group Fasted Fitness with Bill J McKinney and he has a genuine passion also for men’s mental health as he tells us about in this episode. An engaging chat with Bill who has a great take on living an intermittent fasting Lifestyle combined with fitness which is his passion.

News My Book the Fasting Highway is due for release in the next couple of weeks we will have an episode to discuss the book soon.

The Fasting Highway Facebook group is now up and running where we discuss all things Intermittent fasting.

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Episode 21 -Piper Brinkley From Struggling to Supercharged.

Piper Brinkley is a lifelong fitness, health, and happiness advocate. Her passion has been learning the complexity and the miracle of the human body and exploring that through science, movement and art. Piper is a mother of a 5-year-old boy, John and is a small business owner of an IT services company.

Piper created the “Intermittent Fasting & Alcohol-Free Lifestyle Facebook group" where the theme is to increase wellness with intermittent fasting and find the joys of sobriety. “The combo makes you supercharged”, Piper tells us in this episode.

Her favourite pastimes are eating, moving, and reading for joy. Piper spends her time divided between Upstate South Carolina and the beautiful mountains of Western North Carolina in the United States.

In this episode, Piper covers the following topics and gives us some great insights into living an intermittent fasting lifestyle;

The importance of listening to your body— Partner with your body, not work against it.
Pattern Evolution—Your body is not stagnant and your fasting shouldn’t be either. Tweaking is continuous. She has done 16:8 -ADF. Appetite is a signal for her as well. Piper tells us how to start with the least restrictive tweak and start there,
Discovering an intolerance to some foods led Piper to ADF —which she explains supercharged her fasting and, created clarity.
Quit One substance at a time!! Don’t trick out your tweaks!
Her fasting journey has produced some weight loss but more so great NSVs and health benefits. Piper has been in maintenance since 2017, but has continued to experience positive changes and continues to shrink in size.

News- my book, The Fasting Highway is due for release in the next 2-3 weeks. It is a story of transformation and motivation - one mans’ journey from morbid obesity to normality.

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The Fasting Highway Podcast Facebook group is up and running where we discuss intermittent fasting. We have some of the world's leaders in the international fasting community in the group willing to share and answer any newcomers’ questions. Come and join in!

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Daniel Deal is 47 years old and lives and works in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma USA. He Has been married to his amazing wife for 21 years and they have a 16-year older daughter. Daniel started IF in September of 2018 after a family vacation in where his weight kept him from being able to do some of the activities with his wife and daughter. After returning home, he was determined to find something he could do and stick with forever to get the weight off and keep it off.

After googling “why regular diets don’t work long term”, he came across some Dr Jason Fung videos on fasting and something clicked. He read everything he could about the subject and started on September 9 2018. So far, he has lost an incredible 72kg (160 pounds) and feels amazing.

Daniel told us that he has taken up running and since the interview, he just completed his first 5 k in a very respectable time. He tells of his passion to share information about fasting and has several family and friends who have followed his example and taken up intermittent fasting including his dad. Daniel is shining light for this lifestyle and gives a great account of his thought-provoking journey.

News. My Book the Fasting Highway will be out in the next 2-3 weeks. A special bonus podcast episode hosted by guest host Lou Collins will tell listeners what to expect along with some hints and tips around intermittent fasting.

Facebook Group. Don’t forget you can join The Fasting Highway Podcast Facebook Group come and discuss all things IF with some of the world’s leaders in the IF community.

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Episode 19 -Donna Waiariki, a mother of 7 children who lost 27 kg (59 pounds) with intermittent fasting and also found relief from Fibromyalgia.

Donna is 55 years old, originally from New Zealand and now calls Perth Western Australia home. She is a busy mum of seven children and they range from age from 33 down to a set of twins who are 14. Like so many people, she tells us that she feels like she has been dieting her whole entire life. After the birth of her twins, she put on quite a bit of weight and at one point got up to just over 100 kg (220 pounds) which is the heaviest she had ever been. Donna explains that in 2017 she read a book called The Obesity Code by Dr Jason Fung, and from there she just started searching for information about intermittent fasting and how to do it.

While searching for the information she came across the book Delay Don't Deny by Gin Stephens which she found when reading, it was like talking to an old friend. Donna started her fasting protocol with an 18-6. She fasted for eighteen hours and had a six-hour period where she ate in her day. After a few months, Donna started to see some differences and the weight started to fall off at a good rate.

Twenty-one years ago, Donna developed fibromyalgia. This was a huge shock and she explains that it took quite a few years to come to terms with that. She explains during this episode how fasting has changed her outlook on life and how her fibromyalgia management has greatly improved with intermittent fasting.

Donna and I talk candidly about why loving ourselves first is so integral to living a sustainable intermittent fasting lifestyle. Donna wraps up the show by giving some great advice for newcomers to the lifestyle and has some great tips for busy mums.

News – The fasting highway Facebook group is now open if you would like to join and chat with other members about the podcasts or Fasting, in general, we have some of the most knowledgeable fasters from around the world in the group.

My book The Fasting Highway is due to be released in the next few weeks we will have a launch bonus episode to discuss what to expect hosted by guest host- Lou Collins

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Jerry Nelson is a Postmaster for the US Postal Service and lives in south Texas USA. He has been married for 29 years and is a father of two, and grandfather of three and is a US Army veteran.

Jerry had pretty normal periods of weight loss over his life through calorie restriction and exercise but this was always followed by weight gain again. Every time he would lose weight though, he would get injured which unfortunately would lead to surgery. Coupled with a sedentary lifestyle after the surgeries, this was a recipe that led to weight gain. A frustrating story some can relate to.

Jerrys’ all-time weight high was in February 2001, around 210kg (465 pounds) and he had gastric bypass around that time which helped to save his life.

He had got down to low of 81kg (178 pounds) after that when injures again stopped him from exercising and through eating, being sedentary and also drinking he explains that he regained his weight back to around 161 kg (357 pounds). The injuries Jerry suffered were nearly all orthopaedic injuries Besides the gastric bypass, he has had 17 other surgeries - 14 knee, 1 shoulder, 1 fractured skull, and 1 arm surgery over that time.

He started intermittent fasting at around 162kg (357pounds) and is currently around 91kg (200pounds).

For the first time in his life, Jerry has finally got control of his health and he tells us that intermittent fasting is the reason. He shares with us stories from some of his time in the army and his transition to a dream job with the US Postal Service. He also proudly tells us about his love for his wife, who has supported him right throughout his journey. Jerry's transformation is simply stunning and is a great example of perseverance and determination. What a story this podcast is!

News

The Fasting Highway Facebook Group is now open to new members a great vibe and community that discusses the podcast and all things intermittent fasting.

My Book the Fasting Highway is Due for release late November/Early December. Stay tuned for a special bonus launch episode with guest host Lou Collins.

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Matt Sannes is from Minnesota in the United States and is a program manager for a medical device manufacturer. Matt is married and has three young children and is a keen golfer and runner. He talks about how fasting has really helped him with these sports. He takes us through his journey which began in July 2017 with intermittent fasting and how he lost an incredible 60 pounds (27kg) and has maintained that weight loss for nearly two years.

Matt and his wife both are intermittent fasters and he tells us of the great health benefits they have found through fasting together Because of their success with fasting they have a number of people who have started on their own journey once they saw the health benefits they were both enjoying. Matt talks candidly about his journey his love for his family and his passion for intermittent fasting shines through.

News

The Fasting Highway Facebook Group is now open for new members to discuss the podcast and all things intermittent fasting.

My Book, The Fasting Highway will be out later this month November 2020 and we will do a launch show and a preview of the book hosted by a guest host.

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Bett Lucas is a busy mom (of five) soon to be 6, a wife and businessperson. She works full time in the Energy industry and has won numerous awards for her leadership and charitable projects. Bett is from Gig Harbor WA in the United States.

Bett talks candidly in this episode about her life leading up to finding Intermittent Fasting and her health journey. She offers some fantastic advice hints tips and talks about juggling a busy home life with a career and fasting – I think we could call her an expert in that area with such a full life with so many responsibilities.

Her passion to help others find the success that she has in life and intermittent fasting shines through in this podcast with her infectious enthusiasm and joyful outlook. A great listen with some great takeaways and key messages. She is also the host of the successful podcast Living Your Big Bold Life and the founder of the Facebook group Motivate with my Betty Lou.

How to Connect with Bett

Link for Motivate with My Betty Lou Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/602418726853500

Link for Living Your Big Bold Life: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/living-your-big-bold-life/id1516880828

Instagram: bettlucas and bigboldlifepodcast

News

The Fasting Highway Facebook Group is now open and already we have some of the worlds’ best from the fasting community as members. Please feel free to join us on The Fasting Highway Facebook page and post some questions that you may have about your own journey which members are sure to be able to help with.

My Book the Fasting Highway will be released next month with a special bonus launch episode to inform people what to expect from it.

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Lyn Huston is a school teacher in a one classroom school in remote central Nevada in the United States. Lyn's journey has seen her lose an incredible 100 pounds in around two years. Now 54 years old, she has successfully maintained that loss for some two years now. She is an Elliptigo bike enthusiast and is training for the world Elliptigo Cycling Championships which sees her riding her bike over vast distances while training and competing as a top-level athlete in her sport.

Lyn takes us through her fasting journey from the beginning and gives us some great insights into living a successful intermittent fasting lifestyle and making it sustainable for the long term. Lyn also gives us some motivation and encouragement to the listeners in this podcast. Her experience now that she is a long term successful faster really shines through. Lyn is a popular member and contributor to online intermittent fasting Facebook groups including The Fasting Highway Podcast Facebook group. Her transformation is both inspiring and remarkable her focus and dedication to reach the top level of her sport is a testament to her incredible mindset and sheer determination.

News

The Fasting Highway Facebook Group is now up and running for anyone to join and discuss intermittent fasting and the podcasts. In that group, you can interact with the guests and me and ask all your fasting questions!

The podcast this week has just ticked over 20,000 plays for the series. I would like to say a huge thank you to all the listeners.

My Book, The Fasting Highway is due for release next month November 2020 a special bonus podcast will be released to celebrate the launch.

Episode 16 will come out this Sunday, November 1 with my guest Bett Lucas, host of The Living Your Big Bold Life Podcast.

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Star McEuen is 38, is from Pine-Top Arizona and is mum to 6 very active children. Star had to overcome some crippling issues with food as an adolescent and became a mother at a young age. Star explains how she tried a lot of various weight loss programs and found nothing was sustainable.

After ordering Gin Stephens book Delay Don’t Deny, Star started intermittent fasting in August 2019 and has not looked back. She has lost an incredible 80 pounds in about a year. Her story is both amazing and inspiring and she provides a heartfelt account of her early issues and provides a great insight into living a successful intermittent fasting lifestyle and how it has changed her life.

Stars energy and passion shines through when she speaks and she has become a leading light in the intermittent fasting community. This is a truly inspiring podcast conversation that I have had with her and a great testament to intermittent fasting as a lifestyle.

News

The Fasting Highway Facebook group is up and running. Come and join us and discuss fasting with likeminded people and get some great hints and tips along the way. We have some of the worlds leading fasters in the group who are happy to help.

My Book, The Fasting Highway will be released in November 2020. I will have a special launch show with a guest host to celebrate this on the podcast. Stay tuned!

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Jeff Barth has been a trucker for 29 years. He struggled with his weight all of that time. The hours on the road spent driving and eating out of boredom took their toll on him. Jeff, in his own words basically gave up on ever being healthy again. He tried low carb diets over the years and lost weight every time he tried but soon gained it all back.

Jeff stumbled across Gin Stephens book Delay Don't Deny and found his way to intermittent fasting. Jeff explains how fasting works so well for a trucker’s lifestyle especially since the pandemic has closed down so many places to eat. Jeff explains how Intermittent fasting has helped reduce swelling in his legs, reduced his foot pain and cured his acid reflux. Jeff is starting his fourth month of intermittent fasting and has lost an amazing 34 pounds.

He tells us how he found an online community of like-minded people and has found great support from family and friends, some of whom have taken up the lifestyle with great success. Jeff is a very articulate man and he and I have an engaging chat. He has a real passion for intermittent fasting and talks candidly about his journey. Jeffs dream is to walk into any department store and buy regular sized clothes with a choice of styles and colours. This podcast is a great listen for anyone starting out or an experienced faster as Jeff offers some fantastic advice around living an intermittent fasting lifestyle. A heartfelt account of Jeffs battle with weight and the joy of finding intermittent fasting.

News

The Fasting Highway Podcast Facebook Group is now live and open to all to join where we will discuss the podcasts and all things Intermittent fasting. Some very experienced fasters are members and more than happy to help you answer questions and share their journey in the group.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/223348665633025/

My Book The Fasting Highway is in the final stages of preparation and will be out next month November 2020 on Amazon.

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Enjoy the show Episode 14 out Sunday will feature the incredibly inspiring Star McEuen don't miss it Star is amazing.

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Sarah Kull is a New Zealand Registered Nurse. She has been working with intermittent fasting since January 2018, in particular to support people with type 2 diabetes and weight related health issues. Sarah graduated from Auckland University of Technology in 2003 with a Bachelor of Health Science (Nursing) and went straight into Primary care where she has been working for over 16years.

As a registered primary care nurse she has a background in chronic care management and diabetes as well as the many health risks associated with obesity. With a growing epidemic of type 2 diabetes and obesity related health issues in NZ, Sarah was looking at alternatives to the old “calories in vs calories out” advice that has not made an impact on global health since its inception. She came across the work of Dr Jason Fung, a Canadian nephrologist and world leading expert on intermittent fasting for type 2 diabetics. Having been taught throughout her career that type 2 diabetes is a long term, chronic disease that worsens with time, the results from Dr Fung’s work was phenomenal. Sarah went on to look at intermittent fasting as a solution to New Zealand’s growing crisis and so spent time researching and learning about fasting as an option in her work.

Sarah was able to gain the backing of the general practitioners she was working with to implement Intermittent fasting with her patients who were type 2 diabetic, pre-diabetic or suffering from weight related health concerns. Over the course of that following year, Sarah saw significant and impressive results in many of her patients whom have followed the intermittent fasting lifestyle. Patients have been able to reverse their type two diabetes, they have lost weight and maintained that loss, many have had a reduction in diabetes medications as well as fantastic improvements in blood results.

Sarah continues to work with clients privately and in clinics in South Auckland, an area known for its high rates of type two diabetes and obesity, to teach them about intermittent fasting. She is continuing to see the same great results with those who adopt the fasting lifestyle. Sarah runs an intermittent fasting Facebook support group where she helps many of her patients stay motivated and shares information and support for those who need it as well as encouraging success stories, and a sense of community. With well over 3000 members throughout New Zealand and growing daily, it is a fantastic resource to each and every member.

In her spare time, Sarah is a mum to two young children, she enjoys Pilates, swimming and of course Intermittent fasting. Sarah is the CEO of Pokeno Medical Charitable trust (an organisation she helped set up to support local families with significant health concerns) and when she is not organising fundraisers or charity balls for this trust, she enjoys camping and spending time with family and friends.

Connect with Sarah on her web page.

http://www.intermittentfasting.co.nz

Sarahs Facebook Group

https://www.facebook.com/groups/788903944796772/

News

My Book The Fasting Highway is not that far from release a special bonus episode will play on the launch date.

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As a child, Ryan Smith was captivated by comic books, horror fiction, and Greek Mythology. His belief in the transformative power of stories led him to a career in education where for 24 years, he shared his love of the written word teaching high school English. After decades of weight struggle, Ryan created his own personal transformation story after discovering the power of fasting. He and his wife Kim went on to co-author Unbelievable Freedom: How We Transformed Our Health & Happiness with Intermittent Fasting. He shares his life-changing fasting practice to encourage others to make positive changes in their own lives. Fasting is the Foundation: A Real Man’s View of Unbelievable Freedom is his second published work.

Ryan gives some great advice about intermittent fasting and provides a great insight into his journey. He tells us about his battle with weight and finding his groove with fasting and making it a long term sustainable lifestyle. Ryan tells us about how he and his wife Kim published Unbelievable Freedom. A highly successful book about there incredible health transformation as a couple. A fantastic listen from a highly respected member of the international fasting community.

News

My Book The Fasting Highway will soon be out on Amazon stay tuned for the book launch show with guest host Lou Collins.

I was interviewed by the inspiring Bett Lucas on her Podcast about my journey you can listen here -https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/living-your-big-bold-life/id1516880828

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Izzah Hemoo is a early 30s workaholic from Bristol in the United Kingdom who used to live to eat and was addicted to sugar and was the quintessential eater of her feelings, which had her bloat up to 110 kg at her heaviest. She discovered intermittent fasting because her working hours had her forgetting to eat for more than 16 hours some days and she realised she felt better somehow. She researched this and found Gin Stephens and the wonders of intermittent fasting, lost 40 kg over 2 years, and the rest is history. It was so easy!

Or so she thought.

Life happened and she stopped fasting, which saw her weight steadily increase up to 90 kg again by end of Dec 2019.

She went back to intermittent fasting in March 2020 and lost the weight and fat again. Intermittent fasting is like her old friend.

Nowadays she doesn't weigh, but believes in the power of fasting and relies on it to stay healthy. She does OMAD most days and throws in a 36:12 hour fast once a week.

She is not in maintenance yet but knows this is her path for life.

News

My Book The Fasting Highway is due for release in 2-3 weeks and a preview show about the book will air soon.

Next Week. Episode 11 is with Ryan Smith

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John Jerry Saunders Jnr is an inspiring man to listen to and is from Columbus Ohio in the United States. He has been living an intermittent fasting lifestyle for over 6 years and is a long term intermittent faster who has lived an incredible lifestyle change over that time. He lost a staggering 45.5kgs ( 100 pounds) over the first two years of his journey and has maintained that now for over 4 years. JJ gives us a great insight into living an intermittent fasting lifestyle and making it sustainable for life. JJ tells us about his daily fasting routine and exercise and how he applies mindset to living his best life.

JJ has some great advice for beginners and experienced fasters and shares his knowledge and wisdom around that with us. We discuss the health benefits that come from intermittent fasting. He truly is a shining example of this way of life.

He discusses his views on exercise and explains, in his view that you don't have to do a lot, but just be consistent and you will see body recomposition. JJ gives some great advice around fasting in the current pandemic. We talk about what to do if you are struggling with intermittent fasting and we chat about the time that is needed to see success.

News

My Book The Fasting Highway is in preparation for the release next month. Stay tuned for the launch show in coming weeks.

In next weeks Episode 10, we feature Izzah Hemoo from the UK who will speak about her own journey with intermittent fasting.

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Gin Stephens is a New York Times best-selling author, an intermittent fasting expert and is a retired school teacher from Augusta Georgia in the United States. Gin joins my podcast to discuss Fast.Feast.Repeat., her new book. Gin also talks about her own incredible weight loss journey where she lost an amazing 80 pounds living an intermittent fasting lifestyle.

Gin takes us back to the beginning of her wildly successful Facebook groups which have grown to over 400000 members worldwide. She tells us about when she began dabbling with intermittent fasting some 11 years ago in 2009. and how she started, what her protocol was and her eating style and how she learnt to identify certain foods that didn't work for her.

We discuss exercise and weighing Gin tells us about the numberless Shapa scale that she has been using and is perfect for those who battle with reading numbers on a scale that can sometimes be disappointing and confusing. We discuss maintenance, gut microbiome, set points and the whoosh theory.

Gin also gives some advice on fasting during the pandemic. We close the show with some words of wisdom and motivation from Gin about how to start intermittent fasting and things to do along the way.

Gins Podcast

www.intermittentfastingstories.com (I was episode 23 on this podcast)

News

My book The Fasting Highway about my journey is due for release late October early November a launch show will be scheduled for a preview.

Next week in episode 9 I interview John Jerry Saunders Jnr. JJ is the master of mindset and a long term intermittent faster for some six years. He gives a masterclass in living a long term intermittent fasting lifestyle and how it healed his body and altered his mindset.

My Facebook group The Fasting Highway and Web Page is expected to be up and running in a couple of weeks.

Feedback-email graeme@thefastinghighway.com feel free to contact me should you have a great story to tell or for any ideas, you would like to hear someone talk about on the show.

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Charlie Cifarelli is a proud New Yorker that now lives in Pennsylvania in the United States of America. Charlie began his career in corrections and now works as a consultant in waste management. I have been very fortunate in my life to have met and talked to a lot of amazing and inspiring people and he is right up there as one of the best. Charlie has just completed 365 consecutive days of clean fasting which resulted in a net weight loss of some 71 pounds or 32 Kg. Charlie had an unsuccessful earlier attempt at intermittent fasting but explains why he was not ready to commit at the time. He explains how journaling about his weight loss journey each day really changed the game and helped him develop a mindset to finally achieve his goals. Learning the difference between head hunger and belly hunger was also helpful in Charlie's success. He also tells us what tools and strategies he uses while fasting. The non-scale victories and health benefits that came Charlie's way are simply stunning including renewed hair growth among others. Charlie tells us about how freeing the IF lifestyle is and how he is at peace with himself and everything around him. He tells us of his new love of clothes for his new body and how he feels he has finally come out from behind the curtain and is proud of the way he now looks. At the end of the show, Charlie tells us about his miracle dog Star left for the dead on the streets of New York City after been shot by police. You can read about this incredibly heart-warming story here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_(dog) Enjoy the Show Graeme News Next week -Gin Stephens New York Times best-selling author joins us on the fasting highway to discuss all things fast feast repeat and about her own journey with intermittent fasting and some amazing insights about the IF lifestyle. Graeme's book The Fasting Highway is in the final stages of editing and launch date will likely be in October 2020. Feedback and Enquiries You can send in feedback to me graeme@thefastinghighway.com or if you feel you may be a candidate to tell your story I would love you to contact me. Cheers

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Rachel Awad gives a fantastic insight into alternate-day fasting and talks about her journey with intermittent fasting. This Podcast is an excellent insight from an experienced intermittent faster and highly respected member of online intermittent fasting communities. Rachel discusses with me why she thinks alternate day fasting can be a good idea and how it has worked for her. We talk about what are the right and wrong reasons to do or start alternate day fasting. ‘ She opens up about how sometimes the eating days are more complicated than the fasting days and why she thinks that is the case. We chatted about the fact that alternate-day fasting is not necessarily for everyone and no one should feel pressured to do the longer fasts. Rachel discusses the healing benefits that she has experienced with alternate-day fasting and the type of a person it may suit. Rachel and I also discuss the importance of the clean fast and why mindset is so important. We both stress that intermittent fasting is not just about the weight loss; it is also about the incredible health and healing benefits that come from doing it. We discuss why it’s important not to compare ourselves to other people and to keep our eyes on our own plate.

Rachel closes with some fantastic advice and words of wisdom based on her fasting experience. Enjoy the Podcast I love feedback. You can e-mail me at graeme@thefastinghighway.com. Please send in a question or tell me why you think you would like to be on a podcast with me. News My Book, The Fasting Highway about my fasting and weight loss journey is due for release late October on Amazon. More on that shortly. Gin Stephens -New York Times best selling author will be coming up on The Fasting Highway Podcast in a couple of weeks. Cheers Graeme Disclaimer -All advice in this Podcast should not be taken as medical advice; please consult your doctor before commencing any health plan.

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Tiffany Henschel lives in Northern Texas in the United States. Tiffany is the founder of the growing Facebook group- Fast Feast Repeat Intermittent Fasting with a low carb lifestyle and her passion is to encourage and empower others to take charge of their own health.

She is a 50-year-old English teacher and mom of four children and has six grandsons. Tiffany is an avid reader, writer and researcher.

In this episode, Tiffany tells us about her amazing weight loss journey where she lost a total of 130 pounds. Tiffany also talks about her mixed success with dieting prior to finding Intermittent fasting with weight loss and weight regain. Tiffany describes how sugar binges, a carb-heavy diet and heightened personal stress in her twenties combined in a perfect storm resulting in her reaching a top weight of 260 pounds (117kg). Tiffany was obese for 20 years and knew she had to make a change for her health after watching people suffer from age and weight-related issues. Tiffany was determined not to let this happen to her. Tiffany's experience and insights into reducing carbohydrates and sugar make for interesting listening. Tiffany stresses that not everyone is as restrictive as she is and respects the choices people make.

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Stay tuned also for the upcoming release of my book The Fasting Highway about my journey and overcoming sugar and fast food addiction.

Disclaimer. Any advice in this podcast should not be taken as medical advice please always seek your doctor's opinion before starting any health plan.

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Belle Swartz 54, first heard of fasting a few years ago and took it up as a lifestyle after trying everything to lose some stubborn pounds.. Belle has always been interested in nutrition but did not start fasting until she was 51.

She is married with two children 18-20 who are at college. Belle lives in the suburbs of Philadelphia in the United States and works from home full time. In her free time, Belle enjoys walking with her beloved dog exercising and listening to podcasts and watching great Netflix series.

In this episode, Belle talks about.

How she found her way to intermittent fasting

Her relationship with the scales

Having a window worthy meal

Tracking Food and Macros

Listening to your body

Exercise

Eating to Satiety recognizing the signals

Maintaining weight with intermittent fasting

Fitting intermittent fasting into a working and social life

Belle gives some great advice and tips and insights about living an intermittent fasting lifestyle

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Lauren from Boyanup Western Australia is a busy mum of two young boys and is a school teacher. She is a bit of a superstar as she managed to also return to her University studies and start intermittent fasting with some pretty spectacular results that some of us dream about. She is clearly one dedicated, determined lady. She started intermittent fasting three months ago and has lost 13kg or 27 pounds. At first, she was dirty fasting and made the switch to clean fasting with immediate results. We talk about the health improvements that she has seen, including how helpful IF has been to manage her mental clarity and improve her energy with her University studies. She now finds OMAD, one meal a day her favourite fasting protocol and is looking at doing ADF, alternate-day fasting on a weekly basis as she nears her goal weight. We talk about how her weight has affected her in the past and how she was affected and how alcohol consumption led to some poor food choices. She is now restricting her alcohol while she aims toward her goal. Lauren explains how intermittent fasting fits into her life. Lauren does not restrict foods and puts time into her window choices which for her must be worthy. As more friends and family notice her weight loss more of them are becoming curious and want to know more about IF. Laurens advice to newcomers is to keep it simple don’t beat yourself up and be patient. She doesn't focus on the scale so much and is now looking at a goal body instead of a goal weight. Lauren has seen her BMI come back into a normal range and is loving her intermittent fasting lifestyle. A great episode with some free flow chat and some hints and advise from Graeme and recollections from his own journey. Don’t forget you can e-mail us here at The Fasting Highway graeme@thefastinghighway.comfeel free to send in any feedback questions or requests for subjects about intermittent fasting you would like to hear on the show. If you would like to share your story on the podcast please send in a brief back story and contact details/ You can also follow Graeme on Instagram graemecurrie_63 See You Next Week on The Fasting Highway in coming weeks we move to experienced intermittent fasters and we get to talk to a New York Times bestselling author about Intermittent Fasting The Fasting Highway

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Bonus Episode

What The Fast! I take questions sent in from our listeners on a variety of subjects around intermittent fasting.

Including;

Did I have loose skin when I lost weight?
Was I worried about regaining weight?
How long did it take you to get rid of your psoriasis?
Did you restrict any foods on your intermittent fasting journey?
How do I choose the right fasting time to start?
What other diets did you try apart from Intermittent Fasting? Why did intermittent fasting work for you?
How do I tell people about my intermittent fasting?
Does intermittent fasting save you money?
What do you do on vacations when you are an intermittent faster?
Do you think there is any value in having a coach or mentor when you are learning intermittent fasting?
Do you do ADF Alternate Day Fasting or any type of extended fasting on your journey
Why haven't I lost any weight after two weeks on IF what am I doing wrong?

Next week we return to our interview format stay tuned for some great guests in the coming weeks.

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Melanie Gleeson from New Zealand gives an excellent insight into what it is like to begin an intermittent fasting journey. Melanie tells us how she found intermittent fasting after noticing a colleague doing it at work and how at the start she was dirty fasting with milk in her coffee to begin with, and how she coped when she found out that milk was breaking her fast. When she switched to the clean fast she found immediate and incredible benefits from making that one tweak to her daily fasting routine and we chat about what differences she is feeling now she is clean fasting and on the highway.

Melanie talks about the incredible energy bursts she had experienced in the short time she has been intermittent fasting and that she has not felt this good in years. She talks about her food tastes changing and how the extra energy has allowed her to get back into an exercise routine without feeling tired.

We talked about those hangry moments and white knuckling to her window early in her journey. She tells us how she has now found a good rhythm with her fasting schedule and is ready for the next step to go from a 16-8 fasting schedule to a 18-6 schedule .

We will be checking in with Melanie as part of our beginner series over the next few months. Graeme gives a few insights and tips in a candid and frank discussion.

Next Week we will be taking listeners questions in our WTF-What The Fast question and answer session so feel free to send one in by voice on the Anchor platform or e-mail a question to graeme@thefastinghighway.com or follow me on Instagram graemecurrie_63

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I interviewed my wife for a no filter account of what it is like to live with a committed intermittent faster when you aren’t always on the same page. It is a candid insight from a partner who has been on the journey from the beginning. We often forget what its’ like for our partners on the sidelines as we transform our health. We get so engaged in our journey everything around us sometimes gets lost as we focus on our health goals with single minded determination. Over the past 2.5 years my wife has had an up close and personal view of my major health transformation. I lost 60 kg 132 pounds through intermittent fasting and have successfully maintained that weight loss for over 12 months now. My wife has lived every bump in the road, every twist, every success and setback along the way. In this episode, we hear a raw and honest account of how the various aspects of my intermittent fasting journey affected her and what she truly thought about what I was doing from the beginning of the journey. Lou gives us an insight into what it was like watching the physical and mental changes unfold and how the healing of intermittent fasting convinced her that it was an amazing health plan for me. She talks about how it affected our daily home life and how it affected our social life. We chat about what her family and friends thought about what I was doing along the way. Lou offers great advice for partners of people living an intermittent fasting lifestyle and sums up her observations in a heartfelt account. Lou talks about how important it is for a partner to understand our journey and why we are doing it. Seeing is believing and no one sees our transformation closer than our partners. We chat about how we had to re structure our house and habits to suit what I was doing, and how she felt about that. Seeing her husband lose 132 pounds 100 pounds of that inside a year, she talks about what the physical changes were like to live with and how great it was watching my confidence and self-esteem bloom. I know how having a supportive partner in my corner has made a difference to my journey and given me the support i needed to retake my health .I hope you enjoy the podcast please feel free to give feedback and thank you so much for listening .Stay tuned for some great guests from the Intermittent fasting world coming up over the next few weeks as I have unfiltered chats to people who are on the journey, have had astounding success and everything in between. I also hope to share some tips and insights with you about how to make Intermittent fasting a sustainable way of life.

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An insight into living an Intermittent fasting lifestyle and making it permanently sustainable with host Graeme Currie from Perth Australia I am a person who lost 60 kg (132 pounds) and successfully kept it off. I will tell you exactly how I did it, and what it is like to live an intermittent fasting lifestyle. I cover my journey, about an ordinary bloke who has found a way to lose weight that is sustainable. Along the way, I found some amazing health benefits as well. I interview others, who wanted to try it for themselves and have had similar success. As well as interviews with considered leaders from the intermittent fasting community. Subscribe to not miss upcoming episodes.

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