The Fasting Highway

Jane is a 61-year-old mother of two grown-up daughters from the UK. She has struggled with maintaining weight loss after trying almost every known weight loss route throughout her adult life. She was a Registered Nurse for over 40 years and, after reflecting during the Covid pandemic, decided to take retirement at 59 and move to Yorkshire to be nearer to her daughters. She had been interested in g...

Allison Woods was last heard on the podcast in episode 81. Since then, she has strengthened her Intermittent Fasting identity, having lost more than 140 pounds, significantly improved her health, and has logged over 100 Non-Scale Victories (NSVs).   Allison is also a Certified Health Coach, the Founder of Your I.F. Coach, and a contributing author of the book Women Action Takers Who Gained by Losi...

Jude’s Bio.   Jude grew up being active – played netball, basketball, and swimming carnivals. Always had the eat what was on your plate mentality, but weight never used to be a focus for her until her early 40s, and then it was the mentality of eating less and moving more to try and lose weight. The weight slowly started to pile on, and the usual strategies were not working. And she had resolved t...

Karen is 63 years old and has tried just about every diet you can think of – The Scarsdale Diet, Atkins and keto diets, Weight Watchers, Noom, cabbage soup, Healthy Inspirations, grapefruit diet, Whole30, Slim-Fast, South Beach, Green Smoothie Diet, Nutrisystem, hCG – if one has heard of it, Karen probably was on it.   Some of these diets brought Karen temporary success, and others caused her to g...

By Karen Cahill I am 59, 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 four years in Japan and four years in Seoul, Korea (teaching English) before settling in the US. I have travelled extensively and loved living in and learnin...

I can’t remember when I was not focused on my body image. Growing up in Southern California in the 80s as a teenager, imagine was everything. We were bombarded by MTV videos with pictures of beautiful skinny models living life to the extreme yet maintaining a perfect body. I developed very young and was constantly reminded that I was a curvy girl. After having some weight issues as an adolescent,...

Neil is 55 years old.  He is a Sales Engineer from Pennsylvania in the US and does a good amount of travelling for work.  He has two grown children and enjoys taking his dog on long walks. He is married to our longtime Fasting Highway member, Belle Swartz and started fasting at the beginning of 2022. Neil was a three-meal-a-day type of guy with some snacks in between.  He became interested in fast...

Health & Wellness Coach Karen Finn started her intermittent fasting lifestyle five years ago at age 50 to tackle undesirable menopausal symptoms and return to feeling like herself again. She had spent several years struggling with various symptoms, including weight gain, after being diagnosed as postmenopausal at age 43. Although she had tried other "get healthy" regimens that promis...

A 36-year-old mother, wife and “chaos coordinator” juggling a busy phase of life with multiple activity schedules and a demanding career while continuing a wellness journey committed to overall health. It’s an absolute must to make myself a priority through the daily stressors of this busy phase of life as I let food be my comfort through decades of trauma comfort and since starting clean intermit...

Alan Zerbe Bio:  He lives in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, about 50 miles north of Philadelphia and 70 miles West of New York City. He is 58 and is Married; he has three grown daughters and twins. 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", about 175...

Bio From Episode 40. Juliette Osborne has been a Christian for 25 years. During that time, she married her favourite person, Michael and had four terrific kids. She became sick during her 3rd pregnancy. Lupus, fibromyalgia, Reynaud, IBS, joint pain, brain fog, pericarditis, migraines, and unbearable fatigue became part of her daily life. Every day was a challenge to achieve any sense of wellness....

I am a 53-year-old woman, mother of two young adult daughters and wife. My husband, Julian and I work for the US government. We initially got into government work after moving from California, USA. We moved to southern Japan, where we finally got a hold of our nutrition, exercise and found intermittent fasting. At the beginning of March 2018, I went to the dentist to get my teeth cleaned at the mi...

John Beaver, now 53 years old, came to Intermittent Fasting in August of 2020 – partly searching for a solution to his increasingly troublesome migraines and partly looking for some change to a lifelong struggle with weight and obesity.  The results were beyond expectations on both fronts! The migraines have faded to very rare occurrences and his weight began to drop off almost immediately from a...

My name is Susan and I just celebrated my third fastiversary at the age of 53!  I’m wife to Doug (aka theSaint) J and, kitty cat mommy to the precious and sometimes naughty and knotty boys Leo, Louie, and Simba. I had the pleasure of being a guest on episode 109 of the Fasting Highway podcast.  I hope to share some updates and encouragement for the listeners and community. Just to recap a bit, I h...

Marty Kendall is an engineer who seeks to optimise nutrition using a data-driven approach.   His interest in nutrition began over twenty years ago to help his wife Monica gain control of her Type 1 Diabetes.   Since then, he has worked to develop a systematised approach to nutrition tailored to various goals. Marty shares his learnings at  OptimisingNutrition.com  and his  Optimising Nutrition Pod...

Emily Harveaux is a passionate fasting and carnivore coach specializing in mindset, goal setting, and creating a thriving lifestyle. She has lost 150 pounds by combining intermittent fasting and the carnivore diet.  Emily has seen improvements in mood, energy, and outlook by using the ancient healing tools of fasting and carnivore.  She serves as a coach in a large online community committed to en...

My name is Bobbi. I’m 53, I have 3 amazing kids and 1 adorable Granddaughter. I have been struggling with my weight since 1997. At that time I was 27 and had just had my second daughter. I weighed in at 230lbs. I was a busy Mom and lived my life for my kids, never taking care of me. In 2017 My Mom passed from complications of her type 2 diabetes and numerous other health problems. I wanted to lose...

Ed Pienta (pee-n-tah) has struggled with his weight since grade school. Everyone called him Husky, and family and friends made excuses for his weight by saying "He was always big boned." He was always active playing sports but always found food as a reward. His childhood doctor even prescribed drugs for weight control. As he entered adulthood, he tried several hospital programs and also...

We are Hannah and Abbey, two sisters from Dunedin, New Zealand. We’re in our mid-twenties and both work in local government. Abbey found the intermittent fasting lifestyle first, beginning around March 2021, however this was somewhat inconsistent. Things got easier once Hannah got on board a year later. After a stint of complete doubt that skipping any meal would ever work,Hannah quickly found tha...

 I am a 71-year-old retired CEO of an 84-year-old family business.  I have been retired for about 15 years.  My passion is to do whatever I can to spread the word about the incredible health benefits of intermittent fasting.  I have lost about 50 pounds on my own customized plan along with intermittent fasting. I have maintained my weight loss for about 15 years. In my retirement, I kept the title...

SandiPeiffer (Pie fur) has been happily married to her best friend for 36 yrs. She is a 58yr old mother of 4 (ages 18-31) and grandmother of 2(ages 2 and 1) who lives on the Atlantic coast of Florida. She is a veteran homeschool mom of 26 years, her youngest is graduating this year. She enjoys walking, reading, crafting, cooking and spending time with her family. As an adult Sandi has tried most o...

I am 52 years young (!) living in rural area in Quebec, Canada near Montreal.  I am blessed to have a beautiful family with 2 daughters who are 12 and 14 and my wife we shared lives together since 1995. I have struggled with my weight all my life. I currently work as a professional engineer keeping busy with implementing and operating industrial composting facilities to make quality. compost from...

Tania & I started our Intermittent fasting journey back at the end of 2019. Tania lost 10kg (22 pounds) & I lost 22kg (46 pounds) Our IF lifestyle developed into a journey of discovery of health and eating nutritious foods that served us best. During covid, food security became an important aspect in our life, and we decided to chase a dream of growing our own food. Our search for a proper...

Sarah Wilbow is a 49-year-old writer and public servant who lives in Canberra, Australia, with her husband and two primary-school aged children. Sarah has an arts Degree majoring in English Literature, a Law degree, and a master's in law.  After a lifetime of over-eating and failed diets, Sarah discovered intermittent fasting in September 2021, and has gone on to lose 35kg (about 66lbs). Sarah...

I am a 41 year old wife and mother. My husband Chad and Ihave been together since 2001. We have two beautiful daughters; Leigh is 19 and Brooke 18 years old. Leigh moved out last August, so it is just Chad, Brooke and myself at home. We have an American bulldog name, Lucy and a cat, Baby, in the house. Brooke has a goat named Biscuit and a FFA steer name Bullseye. We live in rural Missouri on 11 a...