The Fasting Highway

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...

By Alison Jones I am 55 years old and I have been overweight or obese since childhood. My first attempt to lose weight was under the care of a hospital dietician. I was 10 years old. My weight really started to be an issue after having my children. I dieted a low calorie plan, lost some, then gained it all back. My highest known weight was 158 kg in 2003. Mostly my weight sat around 127 kg. I deve...

By Shagen Ganason My name is Shagen and as far as I can remember, I have always been overweight. My BMI normally borders on obese. Over the years, I have tried very hard to lose weight but to little effect. I do cardio at the gym 7 days a week but it didn’t help. I have tried all types of diets, again to no effect. When I was in my 30s, I over 110kg. I am in my 50s now and I need to bring my weigh...

By Lisa Jasunas. I am a 34 year old, working mother of two from Buford Georgia USA, living with PCOS; a hormone disorder that is a leading cause to insulin resistance, infertility & weight gain.  Struggling with self-esteem, anxiety and depression growing up, food was always a constant. After my first born son unexpectedly passed away in 2010, I continued to fill the void with food. &nbsp...

Layla is from Fort Dodge Iowa and has lost and gained 45 kg ( 100 pounds)  twice. In this episode, she freely talks about the struggles she had with weight and the emotional roller coaster of weight loss and gain. Layla tells us how she tried alternative day fasting and found it did not suit her. She explains why in this episode.  Layla talks us through the Zoe study and offers some fant...

Ava Brodie from the UK is a 63 year old married to the lovely Terry whom she met late in life. She was a very skinny child eating whatever she liked especially sugary food and this continued into her adult life. When Ava reached her thirties, her weight started to become an issue. She remembers walking into her first weight watchers group. She spent the next 25 years in and out of slimming clubs....

Chris is a technology professional from Moonee Ponds, Victoria Australia, and is a hardcore foodie that loves a good BBQ and he is a busy dad of 2 kids. He is at the start of his Intermittent fasting journey and is a great example of the non-scale victories (NSV's) that can be achieved in a short period of time. In 3 months of fasting he reversed his type 2 diabetes, among many benefits. Chris has...

By Greg Currie I have lived my entire life in the rural area of South central Manitoba about 90 minutes south of Winnipeg along the US border. My wife Tracey and I were High school sweethearts and have been together for 43 years now Married 38 years and have raised 6 children and have  8 grandchildren I have always worked in the Agricultural industry and more recently  (2013) manage the...

John Beaver is the father of two sons and a manager for a wholesale electrical supply business in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. He has had a lifelong struggle with his weight, topping out at 387 pounds in late 2007 just before having bariatric surgery (VSG) in May 2008. Prior to and after the surgical intervention, John lost over 180 pounds, likely saving his life and shrinking to a low weight of 204 i...

Steven is a lawyer by a day and a social entrepreneur by night. Originally from Vancouver, he has had an on-and-off relationship with fasting since 2017 when he was first introduced to Dr. Jason Fung his book the Obesity Code.  Since getting married in 2018, his weight has slowly increased month-by-month and accelerated during COVID.  When he stepped on the scale in July last year, he wa...

Health blogger and journalist Karen Finn resides in London in the UK. Karen started her intermittent fasting lifestyle about 2.5 years ago, to try and tackle undesirable menopausal symptoms, including weight gain. Although she had tried other “get healthy” regimens that promised boundless energy and weight loss, nothing delivered a sustainable solution. However, when Gin Stephens’ book, Delay, Don...

Marilyn Passmore grew up in Canada on a cattle farm and immigrated to the USA as a young woman; She has been in the US 36 years and is a proud US citizen now and a dual-citizen in both countries. She currently lives in West Michigan. Marilyn is a wife, Mum, Nana, sister, friend, etc - who works full time as a communications professional and in her spare time she loves to read, cook, dance and sing...

My name is Keith McDonald and I am currently living in Vernon,BC, Canada.  I am a 40 year old father of 2 girls, aged 5 and 7, and I have been married to my wife Anne for over ten years.  I have struggled with weight since the age of 4! My basic reason to diving into fasting started July 2019, I was in the middle of a Celiac Attack as I had a wheat exposure at a friend’s house. I was tir...

By Dana Berliner (DanaMarie}, 59 yrs., Female, 5’8” From Pennsylvania in the United States My Back Story When I was 25 yrs old, life as I knew it forever changed over the next 34 yrs.  I lost 4 siblings, my mom, step mom and mother-in-law.  I also moved my dad from Florida to be near me to help care for him after his wife past.  He’s been through 4 different cancers, the most recent...

Shana Hussin, RDN, worked as a nutrition therapist for 15 years in conventional medicine prior to her son falling ill with a severe and chronic digestive disorder in 2016. Upon diagnosis, Shana was told by several doctors nutrition had no bearing on his illness, and he would need lifelong medications to manage his debilitating symptoms. Shana began searching for the root cause of many chronic dise...

By Roxi Moreno I live in the most obese city in the United States. My parents are both diabetics and my father is insulin dependent. When my doctor said that my fasting blood glucose, Hemoglobin A1c and fasting insulin were high, it was a real wake up call. I read Delay, Don’t Deny by Gin Stephens and started my first fast that evening. I joined Gin’s groups and started IF, I followed a 20:4-22:2...

By Garry Metcalf Starting weight 123kg (271 POUNDS) - current weight 67 kg 147 Pounds - started t using 16:8 but now on OMAD. I was a fat kid when there weren't any other fat kids. I was born in 1957, just after the end of of post-war sugar rationing. I was brought up by my grandparents who used food to to assuage my abandonment issues. I was mercilessly bullied at school because of my obesity. I...