The Fasting Highway

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 mys...

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 o...

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...

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...

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, &...

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...

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 OptimisingNutritio...

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 a...

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...

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...

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. W...

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 ma...

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...

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 cre...

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...

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...

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...

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 I...

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 fro...

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 o...

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 Yo...

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,...

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 tha...

Episode 21 -Piper Brinkley From Struggling to Supercharged. Piper Brinkley is a lifelong fitness, health, and happiness advocate. Her passion has been learning the complexity and the miracle of the human body and exploring that through science, movement and art. Piper is a mother of a 5-year-old boy, John and is a small business owner of an IT services company. Piper created the “Intermittent Fast...

Daniel Deal is 47 years old and lives and works in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma USA. He Has been married to his amazing wife for 21 years and they have a 16-year older daughter. Daniel started IF in September of 2018 after a family vacation in where his weight kept him from being able to do some of the activities with his wife and daughter.  After returning home, he was determined to find somethin...