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...
Mar 11, 2021•57 min•Season 1Ep. 52
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 sin...
Mar 07, 2021•46 min•Season 1Ep. 51
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 sto...
Mar 04, 2021•54 min•Season 1Ep. 50
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 ma...
Feb 28, 2021•59 min•Season 1Ep. 49
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,...
Feb 25, 2021•1 hr 5 min•Season 1Ep. 48
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 predia...
Feb 21, 2021•54 min•Season 1Ep. 47
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 understan...
Feb 18, 2021•48 min•Season 1Ep. 46
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 t...
Feb 14, 2021•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 45
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 Medici...
Feb 11, 2021•50 min•Season 1Ep. 44
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...
Feb 07, 2021•1 hr 5 min•Season 1Ep. 43
Intro 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 time...
Feb 04, 2021•38 min•Season 1Ep. 42
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 ...
Jan 31, 2021•56 min•Season 1Ep. 41
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...
Jan 28, 2021•52 min•Season 1Ep. 40
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 nut...
Jan 28, 2021•54 min•Season 1Ep. 38
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 ...
Jan 24, 2021•45 min•Season 1Ep. 39
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 morb...
Jan 14, 2021•45 min•Season 1Ep. 36
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...
Jan 10, 2021•52 min•Season 1Ep. 35
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 e...
Jan 07, 2021•58 min•Season 1Ep. 34
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 ...
Jan 04, 2021•1 hr 1 min
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? ...
Dec 31, 2020•50 min
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 ...
Dec 24, 2020•39 min•Season 1Ep. 31
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 ...
Dec 20, 2020•54 min
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...
Dec 17, 2020•55 min•Season 1Ep. 29
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 sev...
Dec 13, 2020•47 min•Season 1Ep. 28
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...
Dec 10, 2020•56 min•Season 1Ep. 27
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 t...
Dec 06, 2020•45 min•Season 1Ep. 26
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 ...
Dec 03, 2020•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 25
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...
Nov 29, 2020•58 min•Season 1Ep. 24
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 c...
Nov 26, 2020•58 min
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...
Nov 22, 2020•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 22
