Michelle Foster is a writer and researcher who lives in Illinois with her husband and three teenagers. She has struggled with her weight since about age 12, and has had many highs and fewer lows, but always concerned about her weight. Obesity runs in her family, and she tried many things over the years for weight control, including tracking calories, running, Weight Watchers and various types of fasting. She had success losing 40+ pounds more than once, but over time the weight always crept back...
Nov 19, 2023•47 min
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 News 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....
Nov 12, 2023•1 hr 13 min•Season 1Ep. 200
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....
Nov 05, 2023•1 hr 7 min
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 l...
Oct 29, 2023•50 min•Season 1Ep. 199
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 News 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. Ho...
Oct 22, 2023•51 min
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Oct 15, 2023•48 min
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 lis...
Oct 08, 2023•1 hr 5 min•Season 1Ep. 196
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 Octobe...
Oct 01, 2023•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 195
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...
Sep 24, 2023•1 hr 27 min•Season 1Ep. 194
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 w...
Sep 17, 2023•52 min•Season 1Ep. 193
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. On...
Sep 10, 2023•46 min•Season 1Ep. 192
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 in...
Sep 03, 2023•1 hr 12 min
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 ...
Aug 27, 2023•44 min•Season 1Ep. 190
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 re...
Aug 20, 2023•56 min•Season 1Ep. 189
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' boo...
Aug 13, 2023•35 min•Season 1Ep. 188
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 t...
Aug 06, 2023•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 187
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 l...
Jul 30, 2023•38 min•Season 1Ep. 186
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 endur...
Jul 23, 2023•56 min•Season 1Ep. 185
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 Sept...
Jul 16, 2023•51 min•Season 1Ep. 184
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 shor...
Jul 09, 2023•45 min•Season 1Ep. 183
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. Th...
Jul 02, 2023•54 min•Season 1Ep. 182
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 . Marty also runs Data-Driven Fasting and the Macros and Micros masterclasses to guide people on their...
Jun 25, 2023•48 min•Season 1Ep. 181
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...
Jun 18, 2023•56 min•Season 1Ep. 180
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 Octobe...
Jun 11, 2023•50 min•Season 1Ep. 179
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...
Jun 04, 2023•59 min•Season 1Ep. 178
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 year later. 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 a wide array of benefits and was much easier t...
May 28, 2023•59 min
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.” I believe everyone should be the “Chief...
May 21, 2023•52 min
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) who lives 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 D...
May 14, 2023•57 min
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 with implementing 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, ridin...
May 07, 2023•53 min•Season 1Ep. 174
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...
Apr 30, 2023•55 min•Season 1Ep. 173
