The Fasting Highway

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...

Chantel Ray's Biography Chantel Ray, the owner of multi-million dollar real estate company CanZell Real Estate and author of Amazon best seller Waist Away - The Chantel Ray Way, Fasting to Freedom - The Gift of Fasting, One Meal And a Tasting, and Freedom From Food - A Six Week Bible Study Course. Chantel is an accomplished speaker and with her inspiring, passionate warm sense of humor has enterta...

By Maureen LeClair  Maureen is a 61 year old woman, who lives in rural Alberta, just north of Edmonton Canada. She grew up in the area, and has very strong ties to the community. She is the second youngest of five children, and weight has been a “concern” for as long as she can remember. She has lost, gained back, lost, gained back weight multiple times throughout  her life – starting as...

By Kelly Manning. I am a working Mum of 3 kids (9, 6, 3) with supportive husband and I live in a small rural town in Western Australia. I have been overweight for most of my life even though I was an active child, participated in sports and still do. Became morbidly obese after having 3rd child. I have tried many programs over the years, some have worked and then I piled the weight back on with a...

By Missy Reynolds Burkett.  I am a 53 year old woman from Callands Virginia USA, my husband and I live with 2 bossy little dogs and 3 rescue cats in a very rural community.  I work full time as a title clerk for an auto dealership and have been doing that type of work for about 25 years, prior to that I worked in the banking industry, so I have always had sedentary jobs.  I never re...

By Vanessa Avalos My name is Vanessa Avalos and I’m 38 years old living in Bridgeport, CT. I work with adults in the mental health field and enjoy it very much. I have two children, ages 6 and 4, and a partner who is super supportive of my intermittent fasting lifestyle. I enjoy helping others learn about it as well. I’ve been intermittent fasting since June 2019 and will continue to do so for the...

By Joshua Berntsen  I’m a stay-at-home dad that homeschools my 3 children.  I’ve always been a heavy kid/guy.  I’m 6’5”.  I peaked a 436 lbs and ended up having 2 weight-loss surgeries (lap band and then the gastric sleeve).  My weight got all the way down to 259 lbs and then rebounded to about 315 lbs.  At that point I began a health program (and became a health coac...

Until the age of 45, Netta had always eaten "normally"... that is, 3 meals a day, sometimes a snack or two, and treats on special occasions. She was a self-identified sweet tooth. Not a day went by without her eating chocolate, cookies, or some kind of sweet dessert. And she didn't have a problem with that. She was lucky in that she hardly put on weight - maybe an extra 15lbs over the years, at th...

David Williams Biography.  I was born in the United States 55 years ago and grew up in the Detroit suburbs. After university and military service I married a Canadian and have lived in Toronto for more than 25 years. I’ve enjoyed various careers from teaching in public schools, working for a foodbank, and information technology. Just prior to the pandemic, I completed a 20 year career in IT w...

By Farnoosh Brock.  I am Farnoosh Brock, the founder and president of Prolific Living, a company I started in 2011 after a long corporate career at a Fortune 100. I quit my job at Cisco when I realized that my contribution to the world lies in other gifts that I've been able to express through coaching, speaking, writing, and training. Together with my husband, Andy, we left the employee...