The Fasting Highway

Colleen: Weight was never an issue for me. Everyone in my family was slim and I was a pretty small child. At one point my pediatrician told my mom that I was too small. It wasn’t until around 2013 that I slowly began adding weight on. I have never been someone who weighs every day, but I began to notice that every season I’d have to buy bigger clothes. I could tell I was getting bigger and I didn’...

Name: Mac McKew Home: Portland, Maine USA Age: 62 (November 6, 1959) Height: 6’ 1” Current Weight: 170 lbs. I am a 62 year-old business professional, former high school baseball coach and current high school & college baseball umpire. In October of 2019, one month shy of my 60thbirthday, I had hip replacement surgery. At the time of my surgery I weighed 215 lbs. The typical recovery from hip r...

Lori Morton Biography I’m a daughter, sister, aunt, and dog mom. My struggle with weight began in middle school. Fast food, candy, and desserts were my downfall. After graduating college I accepted a position as a 5th grade teacher. Teaching and careers in education are rewarding, but also are stressful. I responded to the stress by eating and as a result my battle with weight grew over the years....

Bio- By Karen Cahill I am 58 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 4 years in Japan and 4 years in Seoul Korea (teaching English) before settling in the US. I have traveled extensively and loved living in, and learning a...

Jackie Fletcher is the founder of Fabulously Keto and co-host of The Fabulously Keto Podcast. In May 2017, Jackie was at her heaviest weight at 231lbs (105kg). Having been overweight all her life, she had given up on diets as she no longer felt she had any motivation or will power. Even though she had no intention of going on another diet, she purchased ‘Why We Get Fat and What to Do About It’ by...

Sarah Kull is a New Zealand Registered Nurse. She has been working with intermittent fasting for many of her clients since early 2018, in particular, to support those with Type 2 Diabetes or obesity related health concerns. Sarah has been working in General Practice for over 18 years and as such has a background in chronic care management and diabetes as well as the many health risks associated wi...

I live in Niverville, Manitoba, Canada which is around a ½ hour drive south from Winnipeg. I am turning 50 soon. I am a single dad of two girls – Ashley (20) and Samantha (16). I have lost weight 3 times in my life before I tried intermittent fasting. Right after high school I lost around 20 pounds and quickly gained it back. At 30 years old I lost around 50 pounds and kept it off for about a year...

Jacqui is from sunny south Florida, has been married 17 years and is currently a stay at home mom to three young daughters. Jacqui was put on her first diet by a doctor at 11 years old. This started a life long battle of weight. Decades on and off diets all while gaining more and more weight while losing self esteem and confidence. In 2010 she thought she found the answer to health and happiness w...

Jane Wood Branam, age 69. Married 35 years and I have 3 Granddaughters. I have taught at 4 universities and have a PhD. For the last 20 years, I have run a successful business with my husband. We are working part-time now and trying to retire this year. My highest weight was 201. I am in maintenance for about a year and a half now. I have lost all the weight many times with very restrictive eating...

My fasting journey began in March 2021.  I had dinner with a good friend from Houston who was in town for work and when I got to the restaurant I didn’t recognize her! She looked so thin but more than that....she looked healthy and happy.   Of course I asked her what she was doing and she said she would not even talk about it unless I promised to read the book Fast Feast Repeat.  I am an avid read...

I have been married for almost twenty years to a wonderful, kind-hearted man of German/Italian descent and we have three teenage kids: two daughters and a son. A few of my favorite pastimes are gardening, photography, traveling, flower arranging, taking walks in nature, reading, learning foreign languages, and just spending time with my family. I have also always loved cooking and for a few years...

By Susan Oxley Hello, I’m a 52-year-old wife to an amazing man and mommy to two very precious kitty cats. I’ve always felt that I was extremely blessed to have lived what many would call a charmed life. I grew up in a loving family and had all the opportunities someone could ask for, but like many of us, I found myself struggling with my weight as I made my way into my 30’s, 40’s, and 50’s. Over t...

Jeff Gerken Albany, NY, USA Age 56 Start weight 230 Pounds -14 Kg Began fasting January 2020 Goal weight 165 Pounds-75 Kg reached June 2021 Jeff grew up skinny as a kid, and stayed skinny until about age 25.  Always active and in sports, being thin seemed normal, without having to limit any type or amount of food at all.  But after age 25, his weight increased, and pants started to seemi...

I am a secretary in a high school.  Being around students keeps me young at heart, but my body started feeling old, tired, and frumpy. Over the years I put on a few pounds a year and I got to the point where I thought I needed to just accept my weight gain as part of aging.  In April of 2021 someone posted a picture of me on Facebook and I couldn't believe it was me!  I felt like I...

About Gin Stephens Gin Stephens is the author of Clean(ish) (2022), Fast. Feast. Repeat. (2020), an instant New York Times and USA Today bestseller, and Delay, Don’t Deny: Living an Intermittent Fasting Lifestyle (2016), an Amazon #1 best seller in the weight loss category. Gin has been living the intermittent fasting lifestyle since 2014. This lifestyle shift allowed her to lose over 80 lbs. and...

Amanda Collins is a writer, poet, sound healer and musician who lives on a hill in Taungurung Country in Central Victoria, Australia. She is the author of Not Dead Yet, a practical guide for the dying and those who are supporting them , and she is currently working on an account of the first year of her fasting lifestyle, (Working title, On The Way Down ). Having spent the past decade living with...

Elaine Heyworth – Bio I’m Elaine Heyworth, 55 years of age, married with two grown-up daughters – 20, and 22. I started intermittent fasting in September 2019, the day I left my youngest daughter at university – and came home to an empty nest. My weight was 221lbs. All my life I had been overweight. Thirty years ago I joined Weight Watchers, and lost four stone (56lbs) in six months. Six months la...

Alan Zerbe lives in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania which is about 50 miles north of Philadelphia and about 70 miles West of New York City. He just turned 57 is Married and has three grown daughters ages 26 and twins who just turned 24. 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" abo...

My name is Diana Stephens and I'm a mother of two teenage girls. I've been married to my husband for 19 years. We live in a small town in Manitoba, about ten miles from the USA border. I've been a Registered Nurse for 25 years. I work part time in a personal care home as well as have my own mobile foot care business.  I have been overweight much of my life. I've tried exercise and watching what I...

I am a homeschooling mother of 3 who also teaches private voice lessons and directs musical theater for students in middle school and high school and I have a very supportive husband in all of that! We enjoy the beautiful outdoors in Colorado! We enjoy camping as well and hiking,  paddle boarding and kayaking. Fasting has given me the freedom and the energy to finally truly enjoy these things...

Graeme Currie overcame a chronic sugar and fast-food addiction that had affected his entire adult life. Because he has actually lived through the highs and lows of a weight loss journey, his story is relatable and easily resonates with everyday men and women who are in a similar situation and want to change their lives. Graeme lost a staggering 60 Kg 132 pounds by living an IF lifestyle and overco...

Paulus van Eeden is a Colonel in the South African Police Service. He was born in Durban ON 11 February 1971, he is 50 years old and grew up in Gauteng where he is currently also residing and working. He enjoys nature and goes camping when there is time to relax in his busy schedule. He is married with two daughters, one is 3RD year at university and the other is in grade 9. During the nineties he...

Neva is a realtor in the Dallas Fort Worth area. Her weight got to the point where, in July of 2020, she seriously wondered if she could handle showings houses in 100 degree summer temps that are typical of the area. As Neva describes it, "We run into houses, up the stairs, down and out, and on to the next one. The stairs were the killer. I was worried. And the work really only starts with the sho...

My name is Lisa Davey. I am from Cedarville Ohio. My husband & I have 2 grown adult sons 34 & 29. We have been blessed with 2 beautiful daughter in law's and our first grandson. I own my own small business. I handcraft organic & vegan bath and body products. I am 56 years old, prior to my 40's my weight management journey was very good. I have always been a very active person and work...

My name is Marcy Lemasters.  I’m from Middletown, Missouri where i live with my husband of 33 years. I have two adult boys age 31 and 21.  My dieting journey began basically from birth.  I jokingly say, “If anyone has an excuse to be overweight, It’s me.  I was born overweight.”  I weighed in at 11 lbs. 10 oz when I was born in 1969.  I’m the youngest of 4 children. &...