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...
Apr 23, 2023•52 min•Season 1Ep. 172
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 the house. 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 bac...
Apr 16, 2023•47 min•Season 1Ep. 171
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...
Apr 09, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 170
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 h...
Apr 02, 2023•46 min•Season 1Ep. 169
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 is 178 ...
Mar 26, 2023•1 hr 5 min•Season 1Ep. 168
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 f...
Mar 19, 2023•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 167
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 ove...
Mar 12, 2023•57 min•Season 1Ep. 166
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, cal...
Mar 05, 2023•59 min•Season 1Ep. 165
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...
Feb 26, 2023•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 164
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 dietin...
Feb 19, 2023•59 min•Season 1Ep. 163
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 a...
Feb 12, 2023•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 162
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 b...
Feb 05, 2023•49 min•Season 1Ep. 161
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)...
Jan 29, 2023•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 160
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 p...
Jan 22, 2023•53 min•Season 1Ep. 159
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 suddenl...
Jan 15, 2023•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 158
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. B...
Jan 08, 2023•1 hr 7 min•Season 1Ep. 157
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 s...
Jan 02, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 156
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 ...
Dec 26, 2022•1 hr 6 min•Season 1Ep. 155
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 How you can support the podcast and be ...
Dec 18, 2022•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 154
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 probabl...
Dec 12, 2022•1 hr 13 min•Season 1Ep. 153
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 sha...
Dec 04, 2022•48 min•Season 1Ep. 152
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 feeli...
Nov 27, 2022•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 151
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 How you can sup...
Nov 20, 2022•37 min•Season 1Ep. 150
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 co...
Nov 13, 2022•51 min•Season 1Ep. 149
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 perio...
Nov 06, 2022•56 min•Season 1Ep. 148
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, bu...
Oct 30, 2022•44 min•Season 1Ep. 147
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 m...
Oct 23, 2022•59 min•Season 1Ep. 146
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. Connect with F...
Oct 16, 2022•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 145
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...
Oct 09, 2022•53 min•Season 1Ep. 144
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. He...
Oct 02, 2022•54 min•Season 1Ep. 143
