PODCAST ARCHIVE

  My name is Kirsty, I’m a 39 year old from Melbourne, Australia. I am a busy Mum to two amazing little boys, work part time as an occupational therapist and support my husband running his renovation and extension business.   I have struggled with my weight for...

  My name is Megan Kreizenbeck, I am a 38-year-old Mother of two beautiful girls and wife of an amazingly supportive man. I have been intermittent fasting since January 2020 with only one hiccup. I have lost 60 lbs and have gone from a US size 14/16 to a size...

  By Lizzie Akers. I am a 37 year old mother of two, young girls. I have been married for 12 years and a teacher in the classroom for 11 years and now on my second year at a charter school. I have lived all over the United States but currently live outside of...

  Nambee Ragavan 33 years old Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia SW 118 KG (260 pounds) CW 78 Kg (171 pounds) My Intermittent Fasting (IF) journey began back when the pandemic hit Malaysia. As we went on a lockdown, I realised that this is going to be a few challenging...

  My name is Hannah. I'm a 37 year old nurse, married and mother to one five year old boy. I've been overweight my entire life...not morbidly obese, I was just always the chubby friend even as a child. I can remember as a child my grandma giving second portions...

  Susan Metz At 46, this web developer and digital marketing specialist has found a place where I love who I am, where I am, and what I do. My future is sparkling with possibilities. I’m originally from Stratford, New Zealand, newly married and living with my...

  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,...

  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...

  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...

 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 -...

 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

David Williams, short 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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....

 Steven is a lawyer by day and a social entrepreneur by night. Originally from Vancouver, he has had an on-off-on relationship with fasting since 2017 when he was first introduced to Dr Jason Fung through his book the Obesity Code. Since getting married in 2018,  his...

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...

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,...

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...

By Dana Berliner (DanaMarie}, 59 yrs., Female, 5’8”, from Pennsylvania in the United States 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...

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...

  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...

 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...

By Andy Watson- From London in the United Kingdom. At the age of 46, and with the UK in lockdown I was watching my already large frame rapidly gain weight, reduced exercise and easy access to the fridge were beginning to take their toll. Having had some reasonable...

Dr. Avishkar Sabharwal, M.D., Dipl. ABOM, Dipl. ABLM has trained in Internal Medicine both in India and the US, and is board certified in Obesity Medicine and Lifestyle Medicine. His focus area has always been lifestyle diseases, especially obesity. His experience in...

Life lessons is a new online community founded by Sheri Bullock and Gin Stephens, who host a podcast of the same name. This week we discuss how it came about and why it has become so popular. We also touch on intermittent fasting and how life fits around that daily. A...

Intro Mich Faith is 57 years old who works and lives in Alberta, Canada. She has been married to her wonderful husband for 34 years and has a 20 yr old son. Mich has worked in community corrections for the past 28 years. Working with individuals experiencing...

By Michelle Montone  My story- I am a 39 year old mom of 2 boys (3&6), wife to my wonderful husband for 9 years. We live in Lake Mary, FL (suburb of Orlando). I am a full time stay-at-home mom, former paralegal (15yrs).  I am someone who started dieting around age...

Juliette Osborne has been a Christian for 25 years. During that time she married her favorite person, Michael and had 4 terrific kids. She became terribly sick during her 3rd pregnancy. Lupus, fibromyalgia, reynauds, IBS, joint pain, brain fog, pericarditis,...

Lindy Le Cornu is a 64-year-old retired Junior Primary teacher from Adelaide in Australia with a great passion for community theatre and travel. It was after a trip to the USA and Canada that she began her weight loss journey. Lindy talks about her fasting and our...

Marty Kendall is an engineer who seeks to optimise nutrition using a data-driven approach. His interest in nutrition began eighteen years ago in an effort to help his wife Monica gain better control of her Type 1 Diabetes.  But since then he has worked to develop a...

Matt Hall is a 36-year-old Youth Minister in Silicon Valley and has been married for six years and has two kids. He grew up skinny, oblivious to the struggles of weight but by the end of high school was bigger than he felt comfortable. From college onward, he would...

Maryann Liess, or better known, as Fifi di Foofi on our Fasting Highway Facebook page, lives close to the city of Frankfurt in Germany.  In this episode Fifi talks about her journey into obesity after the sudden and very unexpected death of her beloved father.  She...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

. 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...

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...

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,...

  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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

  Izzah Hemoo is a early 30s workaholic from Bristol in the United Kingdom who used to live to eat and was addicted to sugar and was the quintessential eater of her feelings, which had her bloat up to 110 kg at her heaviest. She discovered intermittent fasting...

John Jerry Saunders Jnr is an inspiring man to listen to and is from Columbus Ohio in the United States. He has been living an intermittent fasting lifestyle for over 6 years and is a long term intermittent faster who has lived an incredible lifestyle change over that...

Gin takes us back to the beginning of her wildly successful Facebook groups which have grown to over 400000 members worldwide. She tells us about when she began dabbling with intermittent fasting some 11 years ago in 2009. and how she started, what her protocol was...

  Charlie Cifarelli is a proud New Yorker that now lives in Pennsylvania in the United States of America. Charlie began his career in corrections and now works as a consultant in waste management. I have been very fortunate in my life to have met and talked to a...

Rachel Awad gives a fantastic insight into alternate-day fasting and talks about her journey with intermittent fasting. This Podcast is an excellent insight from an experienced intermittent faster and highly respected member of online intermittent fasting communities....

Tiffany Henschel lives in Northern Texas in the United States. Tiffany is the founder of the growing Facebook group- Fast Feast Repeat Intermittent Fasting with a low carb lifestyle and her passion is to encourage and empower others to take charge of their own health....

Belle Swartz 54, first heard of fasting a few years ago and took it up as a lifestyle after trying everything to lose some stubborn pounds. Belle has always been interested in nutrition but did not start fasting until she was 51. She is married with two children 18-20...

Lauren from Boyanup Western Australia is a busy mum of two young boys and is a school teacher. She is a bit of a superstar as she managed to also return to her University studies and start intermittent fasting with some pretty spectacular results that some of us dream...

Melanie Gleeson from New Zealand gives an excellent insight into what it is like to begin an intermittent fasting journey. Melanie tells us how she found intermittent fasting after noticing a colleague  doing it at work  and how  at the start she was dirty fasting...

I interviewed my wife for a no filter account of what it is like to live with a committed intermittent faster when you aren’t always on the same page. It is a candid insight from a partner who has been on the journey from the beginning. We often forget what its’ like...