The Fasting Highway

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...

Episode 19 -Donna Waiariki, a mother of 7 children who lost 27 kg (59 pounds) with intermittent fasting and also found relief from Fibromyalgia. Donna is 55 years old, originally from New Zealand and now calls Perth Western Australia home. She is a busy mum of seven children and they range from age from 33 down to a set of twins who are 14. Like so many people, she tells us that she feels like she...

Jerry Nelson is a Postmaster for the US Postal Service and lives in south Texas USA. He has been married for 29 years and is a father of two, and grandfather of three and is a US Army veteran. Jerry had pretty normal periods of weight loss over his life through calorie restriction and exercise but this was always followed by weight gain again. Every time he would lose weight though, he would get i...

Matt Sannes is from Minnesota in the United States and is a program manager for a medical device manufacturer. Matt is married and has three young children and is a keen golfer and runner. He talks about how fasting has really helped him with these sports.  He takes us through his journey which began in July 2017 with intermittent fasting and how he lost an incredible 60 pounds (27kg) and has...

Bett Lucas is a busy mom (of five) soon to be 6, a wife and businessperson. She works full time in the Energy industry and has won numerous awards for her leadership and charitable projects. Bett is from Gig Harbor WA in the United States. Bett talks candidly in this episode about her life leading up to finding Intermittent Fasting and her health journey. She offers some fantastic advice hints tip...

Lyn Huston is a school teacher in a one classroom school in remote central Nevada in the United States. Lyn's journey has seen her lose an incredible 100 pounds in around two years. Now 54 years old, she has successfully maintained that loss for some two years now. She is an Elliptigo bike enthusiast and is training for the world Elliptigo Cycling Championships which sees her riding her bike over...

Star McEuen is 38, is from Pine-Top Arizona and is mum to 6 very active children. Star had to overcome some crippling issues with food as an adolescent and became a mother at a young age. Star explains how she tried a lot of various weight loss programs and found nothing was sustainable. After ordering Gin Stephens book Delay Don’t Deny, Star started intermittent fasting in August 2019 and has not...

Jeff Barth has been a trucker for 29 years. He struggled with his weight all of that time. The hours on the road spent driving and eating out of boredom took their toll on him. Jeff, in his own words basically gave up on ever being healthy again. He tried low carb diets over the years and lost weight every time he tried but soon gained it all back. Jeff stumbled across Gin Stephens book Delay Don'...

Sarah Kull is a New Zealand Registered Nurse. She has been working with intermittent fasting since January 2018, in particular to support people with type 2 diabetes and weight related health issues. Sarah graduated from Auckland University of Technology in 2003 with a Bachelor of Health Science (Nursing) and went straight into Primary care where she has been working for over 16years. As a registe...

As a child, Ryan Smith was captivated by comic books, horror fiction, and Greek Mythology. His belief in the transformative power of stories led him to a career in education where for 24 years, he shared his love of the written word teaching high school English.  After decades of weight struggle, Ryan created his own personal transformation story after discovering the power of fasting.  ...