The Fasting Highway

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...

"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 a...

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...

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,...

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 Commerci...

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...

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...

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 w...

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...

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 exercis...

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 r...

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 ne...

 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...

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 C...

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...

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 th...

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...

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 t...

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 p...

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 spec...

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...

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...

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 gir...

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 m...

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, ulcerati...