I'm Amy, and I found IF right as the world was starting to catch on to the fact that COVID-19 was about to hit us: Hitting Asia (1st), then Europe (2nd) and N. American (Next), I felt I had hit an all-time low in energy levels towards the end of 2019. My weight was creeping up, I was anxious, my skin was dry and red, and my joints hurt - it was a hard realization to have. As a successful consultant, my business was going well; my kids were young and busy. The time I would be spending on myself w...
Jan 12, 2025•49 min•Season 1Ep. 255
Hello, I’m Tara, and I’m from Weyburn, Saskatchewan, Canada. I will have been fasting for four years on January 17, 2025. I am a 48-year-old mother of four children, ages eleven to twenty-two. Even with university and starting their first jobs, even the older ones are often home, and family life continues to be as busy as ever. Over the past 33 years, I have gained and lost weight with a 97lb range. (44kg) I battled with my weight on and off in my teens, starting around age thirteen and escalati...
Jan 05, 2025•38 min•Season 1Ep. 254
As the year winds up for 2024, our last Q and A session comes from questions that our Patreon members have sent in about living an Intermittent Fasting Lifestyle and related things. Thank you for being so supportive in 2024. We look forward to seeing you when our guests return next year to share more inspirational stories. You can join the Patreon community or check out what it's all about at the link www.patreon.com/thefastinghighway My book, The Fasting Highway, is available on Amazon in Kindl...
Dec 30, 2024•37 min•Season 1Ep. 253
The last five years have been one adventure or crisis after another. The only things that have stayed consistent have been her faith in Jesus, her marriage to a great guy, her four cool kids, and IF. She has fasted daily since October 28th, 2019, through all the following. Homeschooling four children, three of them through high school. Teaching art classes as art director of drama productions for four plays in which the three older children were actively involved with set design and prominent sp...
Dec 22, 2024•57 min•Season 1Ep. 252
John Beaver, now 55 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 infrequent occurrences, and his weight began to drop off almost immediately, dropping from a beginning weight of 293 pounds to less than 180 by April of 2022. As life went on, and Jo...
Dec 15, 2024•58 min•Season 1Ep. 251
As we take a break due to travel, we go back to Episode 151 with Netta Gorman,, in which she and I discuss issues with sugar and some practical advice and tips for dealing with it. We resume our regular podcast lineup next week when we return. Show Notes from Episode 151 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 45, she’d tried every...
Dec 10, 2024•1 hr 1 min
Episode 250 is hosted by my forever girl, Lou Collins, who has had some severe health challenges over the past two years, as you will hear in the episode. A candid chat about the milestone of 250 episodes, check-in with my journey, and how The Fasting Highway has evolved into a global community that practices Intermittent Fasting. I am super proud of Lou who reaches out in a very public place for help in such a brave way, Our Patreon Supporters Community Please consider joining the Fasting Highw...
Dec 01, 2024•33 min•Season 1Ep. 250
Bio by Karen Hobson It has been nearly 2 years since my first interview with Graeme -Episode 166 March 2023. I am now 82 and have been on maintenance since then. I initially lost 54 lbs. I was down to 128. During these last 2 years, my weight has gone between 129 and 132. The highest it has been was 134. I have been weighing daily to determine what foods cause water gain. My clothes still fit the same. Doing a 40-42 hr fast is the only way I can lose the water weight. It seems more challenging f...
Nov 24, 2024•38 min
Karen Cahill lives in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, and has appeared on the podcast in previous episodes. We checked back in to see how Karen is doing at the six-month point, maintaining a 180 pounds-88 Kg weight loss while living an IF lifestyle. Karen is hugely inspiring to all in our global fasting community and is always the first to help others find better health—more in the episode. Our Patreon Supporters Community Please consider joining the Fasting Highway Patreon community. It has been great f...
Nov 18, 2024•44 min•Season 1Ep. 249
BIO I'm 71 years old & have been dieting since the age of 9! Yes, 9 years old. It's hard to believe, but it's true. My mum had taken me to our family GP with concerns about my development as I was somewhat more significant than my peer group. If more thought had been given, then both mum & the GP would perhaps have realised I was at the start of puberty...earlier than most, but accurate. My early puberty resulted in decades of see-saw dieting, following in the footsteps of my mum, who wa...
Nov 10, 2024•56 min•Season 1Ep. 248
Bio By Christine Field Rhode Island USA I have been intermittent fasting for just under seven years, in addition to trying countless other methods of weight loss. Not all those years were successful because I was doing it wrong and cheating the system. Well, cheating myself is more like it. Initially, I did it wrong. Unclean. Uneducated about how to properly fast, etc., 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 be...
Nov 03, 2024•54 min•Season 1Ep. 247
In this second repeat episode, we revisit with Leslie Taylor. Thank you for your patience as i take a break to deal with a family bereavement of a loved one. We will be back next week with our regular lineup of guests. Show notes from Episode 158 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 current...
Oct 27, 2024•1 hr 1 min
As I take a break this week to celebrate my late father-in-law's life, we have a repeat episode with Erika Barnhart, who was on the podcast back in episode 212. At that point, Erika had lost a staggering 90 pounds -44 Kg in just ten months. It is an episode worthy of a relisten. We will be back next week with our regular schedule of guests. Show Notes from episode 212 Erika Barnhart is a 43-year-old salon consultant who resides in Pennsylvania with her husband and three dogs. She had been strugg...
Oct 20, 2024•57 min
Born in the American Midwest (Michigan), Page did not grow up in a hotbed of nutritional enlightenment. Meat and potatoes were the rule, and processed and fast food abounded. Vegetables were sparse and generally boiled to an unidentifiable grey mush. As a kid, one of Page’s favourite snacks was a peanut butter and butter sandwich on Wonder Bread, which was washed down with so much Coke that his spit would turn black. Thanks to a genetic predisposition to gain weight quickly and a turbulent home ...
Oct 13, 2024•54 min•Season 1Ep. 246
Howdy. I'm Mike (Michael) Saunders. So, I suppose you need to know me and about me. I live just north of the capital of Alabama, which is Montgomery. I want to say I'm retired, but my friends keep asking me to help them with their businesses. (Quality control) I'm 72 and am currently recovering from Knee Replacement surgery. When I went to the surgeon in December 2023, he, of course, told me that my BMI was too high.I clocked in at 365, then. I'm 6'1". I got serious in February about losing weig...
Oct 06, 2024•59 min•Season 1Ep. 245
Hi! I'm Bahar (B for short); I am 29 years old, a wife and mum to a 2-year-old and live in the UK. I work a full-time corporate job in London. Being Turkish, food is very important in our culture. I love cooking and experimenting with different recipes. I started fasting in March 2024 and have lost 17kg with intermittent fasting (nearly six months). I have always been conscious of my weight and put on weight over COVID-19 and during my pregnancy with my son. Following the birth of my son, I got ...
Sep 29, 2024•41 min•Season 1Ep. 244
By Audrey Scott I have been Fasting since June 2020, aged 51, 4 months into the Pandemic. My weight had crept up again despite exercising 4 hours every morning to pass the time and try and keep the weight gain to a minimum. I weighed 230lbs at that point. I read Delay Don’t Deny by Gin Stephens. I can’t remember how I found her on the internet, but I bought her book on Amazon, and it resonated with me so deeply that I finally felt hopeful that I may have discovered a lifestyle that could work fo...
Sep 22, 2024•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 243
My name is Melanie Douglas. I live in Bangor, a seaside town in Northern Ireland. I’m 63 and married to John. Between us, we have 5 grown-up children and are expecting our 10th grandchild! I worked as a nurse for 35 years, before changing direction, becoming a Lay Pastor in our local church, before I retired last year! Since retiring, I have had the privilege of being a funeral celebrant … What an honour.. My battle, my torment with my weight, started like so many in my early teenage years…my mu...
Sep 15, 2024•1 hr 15 min•Season 1Ep. 242
I am 67 and have lived in the beautiful Pacific Northwest in Oregon for 42 years. I have three grown children and am blessed to be close to one son, his family, and my daughter. My other son, his wife, and their family are just a short flight away in Nevada. I am also proud of a new, sweet little dog named Hazel. I have been retired from being a paraprofessional at a small K-12 school since 2013, where I worked for 18 years. All of my kids attended this school, too. I fill my time with various a...
Sep 08, 2024•46 min•Season 1Ep. 241
Bio for Graeme My name is Christina Salata. I’m 52 years young and married to My husband, who is getting ready to retire after 30 years as a chicago firefighter. We have four adult children and two grandchildren. I received my bachelors of Arts degree in sociology and human services in 1994. I worked in the corporate world until 2008. In 2008, I made a massive life change and became a walking mail carrier for the U.S. Postal Service. I am a voracious reader, ty...
Sep 01, 2024•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 240
Tonya Kortekaas lives in Pontiac, Michigan, with her husband, Michael, of 11 years. She is the mother of three adult sons and a “bonus” mom to Michael’s three children. 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 ...
Aug 25, 2024•48 min•Season 1Ep. 239
This week is Belle’s 7 year “fastiversary”. She started fasting at age 51 when she was still in perimenopause and could not lose a stubborn 10 pounds no matter what she did! And now she is almost 59 and at over 2500 fasts. She is a L*IF*ER! Belle is married and has two children, ages 22 and 24 and a dog. She likes to keep busy by working a full-time and a part-time job and volunteering at a dog rescue on her day off. In her free time, she enjoys taking her dog and foster dog for walks, gardening...
Aug 18, 2024•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 238
Ryan Smith has struggled with his weight since childhood. After years of yo-yo dieting and chasing nutritional trends, he finally 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...
Aug 11, 2024•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 237
Maria is a 35-year-old mother of two young daughters and married to her best friend. They live in central NY in the United States. She is a Certified Health Coach and works for her husband's real estate investing company. She has struggled with her weight for most of her life, which prompted her to go to college in 2006 to study nutrition and public health at Syracuse University. After graduating, she married and started her family before pursuing her career. She's been a stay-at-home mom while ...
Aug 04, 2024•54 min•Season 1Ep. 236
This week, we take a break from our regular Schedule and revisit episode 48 with Shana Hussin, a Nutritionist Podcaster and author of Fast to Heal, who we spoke with three years ago. To connect with Shana, please go to fasttoheal.info for her book and podcast details. I like Shana's take on nutrition and IF, and this episode is well worth a listen or relisten We will be back next week with our regular guest schedule. Our Patreon Supporters Community Please consider joining the Fasting Highway Pa...
Jul 28, 2024•1 hr 5 min•Season 1Ep. 235
Bio By Sharon Mbabazi I am 37 years old and live in West Michigan, USA, with my wonderful husband and three beautiful children. They keep us very busy, and we are always on the go. I also work full-time as a data team leader for a company that provides strategic supply chain solutions to hospitals, banks, and other businesses in the surrounding areas. I started my intermittent fasting journey at the end of June 2023 to lose 30 lbs/13.6 kgs. I had been steadily gaining weight since having our 3rd...
Jul 21, 2024•37 min•Season 1Ep. 234
Kelly Frances Bio I am 63 years of age and live in Southern California, USA. I have been fasting since March 2023 and have lost 53 lbs. My starting weight was 213 (I’m six feet tall), and my goal weight was 160, which I obtained and have maintained since October 2023. I learned about The Fasting Highway book and this fantastic lifestyle from my longtime friend and co-worker Holly Rogers, a TFH online group member. We went to dinner one evening when she was visiting, and I shared how frustrated I...
Jul 14, 2024•42 min•Season 1Ep. 233
BIO: By Anita Downes I am 52 years old from Perth Western Australia. I have been doing IF since Nov 2021. I lost over 80 pounds in the first year. My why is my family, and curious to see what adventures we can get up to now that my body is able to join in all the fun. I bike ride with the kids; I walk the dog, and I lift small weights on the vibration plate. I work part-time as a Support worker for young adults who have Autism and are non-binary or transgender. I'm still a stay-at-home parent fo...
Jul 07, 2024•39 min•Season 1Ep. 232
Alison Pizanie is an elementary school teacher living in Medford, New Jersey. She is 51 years old, married to her wife Kim, and has two sons, Reid and Brady. Alison has struggled her entire life with obesity and emotional eating. Food and eating always felt like an obsession. Diets never worked for her, in terms of any real weight loss, but she did diet her way up to 245 pounds (111 kg). At this weight and shorter stature, she felt miserable, sick, and tired. In 2016, out of desperation, she had...
Jun 30, 2024•41 min•Season 1Ep. 231
Jalene Weigand has been an intermittent faster since she stumbled upon a Woman’s Health Podcast featuring Laurie Lewis in November 2021. She successfully lost all the weight she had gained during her menopausal transition within about a year . She has continued to see many non-scale victories since she reached the maintenance range with her health, fitness, and emotional wellness. Being in maintenance has had some challenges for Jalene, as she’s needed to navigate what it means to live her IF li...
Jun 23, 2024•45 min•Season 1Ep. 230
