The Fasting Highway

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Episode 152 Rachel Awad a follow up podcast from episode 6. We talk ADF, OMAD and some ups and downs of the past two years since we spoke. Dec 04, 2022

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Rachel Awad lives in Cairo Egypt and is an expat from the US. In today's episode we recap Rachels journey and what has transpired over the last two years since she was last on the podcast in episode 6. We delve into ADF and OMAD and the differences that Rachel has found from both protocols. Rachel is experienced with intermittent fasting and has served as a moderator in popular online fasting communities. Rachel has had some ups and downs on her fasting journey over the past two years as she shares candidly in this episode. As a long-term faster, two of Rachel’s key messages are 1) give yourself grace. IF isn’t about quick weight loss or perfection – it’s about clean fasting as it fits into your life. And 2) learning to recognize satiety and closing your window when you feel those signals is lifechanging, especially for those of us who have been struggling with overeating for much of our lives.

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Episode 151 Netta Gorman- Discovering the real sweetness in your life. We talk all things sugar and overcoming issues with sugar. Nov 27, 2022

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Netta was desperate to overcome her debilitating health issues. She struggled with chronic constipation, headaches, achy joints, uncomfortable extra pounds, energy slumps, anxiety, mood swings, and more. By the age of 45, she’d tried everything… except for one solution! Cut sugar. But she resisted it – until she realized that “nothing changes if nothing changes”. It started as a temporary 2-week experiment to cut sugar, flour and sweeteners in July 2015. And to her amazement, Netta started feeling so much more energetic and vitalized that she carried on… and it’s been 7 years and counting! Now Netta shares her voyage of self-discovery that transformed her relationship with sugar and her need for comfort foods. Netta is also the creator of the 12-week Life After Sugar Program, which empowers people who are open-minded and slightly rebellious to let go of sugar for good. She also offers a safe, private community that provides support and accountability in the After Sugar Club membership. Her passion is to guide people who struggle with cravings and mindless eating, so that they can learn to let go of sugar, gain energy and confidence, and make their intermittent fasting lifestyle easy and natural. Find Netta here: aftersugarclub.com Press kit available upon request to contact Netta: netta@aftersugarclub.com As featured in: Life After Sugar Netta is inspiring thousands as the host of the Life After Sugar podcast, ranked in the US Top 100 nutrition podcasts with over 200K downloads in its first two years

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Episode 150 Graeme Currie with guest host Lou Collins, a look back on Graeme's intermittent fasting journey and what is ahead for The Fasting Highway. Nov 20, 2022

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We have a different host this week as Graeme Currie is the one being interviewed by his wife Lou Collins in this special 150th episode of the Fasting Highway. They talk about what's coming up in the future for Graeme and he mentions his future plans for the fasting highway and his new career in helping people to find auto pilot wellness. Graeme also answers some listener questions that have been sent in and he recaps his journey with intermittent fasting.

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Episode 149- Ava Brodie, a catch-up episode with Ava who was last on the podcast in episode 57. A journey of health and age reversal living an IF lifestyle. Nov 13, 2022

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By Ava Brodie

I’m married to Terry he is so lovely and supportive, we met late in life, we have a golden doodle dog he is a cutie, and we live in the United Kingdom.

I was a very skinny child eating whatever I like especially sugary stuff and this addiction continued into my adult life.

When I reached my 30s my weight started to become an issue, I remember walking into my first weight watchers' group, I spent the next 25 years in and out of slimming clubs. I’ve spent a small fortune trying to control my weight without any success! I’d lose the weight but before I knew it, it was back again and a lot more.

I’ve always loved exercising, especially walking and using weights.

2016 I came across Jason Fung and I was fascinated by IF loved the science behind it and read the Obesity Code.

I then found Gin Stephens DDD and started fasting, I was really enjoying this way of eating and thought that in my window I could eat whatever I wanted but realised that I couldn’t, so I spent quite a long time trying different fasting protocols, also I wasn’t clean fasting so really didn’t have much success.

Through Gins books I came across Graeme Currie who wrote The Fasting Highway, reading his story really resonated with me, I think I nodded through most of his inspiring story, I got excited and thought if this man can get through all of his struggles, lose 132lbs in 14 months then I was certain that I could finally get a grip on my weight once and for all and lose my excess weight.

As soon as I started clean fasting, I felt different, previously I’d stuck to 16.8 or 18.6 so I upped it to 23.1 and my weight started to come off, my NSVs were fantastic!. I gave up sugar in 2020 and have not looked back.

Reduced blood pressure medication

Lower cholesterol

A mole that was growing. disappeared

Skin tags gone

More confiden

Energy through the roof

Losing 8 inches off my waist

Stronger nails and hair

Stats update since episode 57.

Starting weight 168lbs (76kg)

Now 116lbs (53kg)

Ava

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Episode 148 Ruth Gale an inspiring intermittent fasting journey losing 74 pounds 33 Kgs in nine months. A story also of courage and resilience. Nov 06, 2022

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Ruth is 55 years old, and she is from Melbourne Australia, she is the mother of two wonderful sons. (Fifteen and twenty y.o). Ruth works as a psychotherapist and Soul Companion primarily with people encountering death, dying, grief and loss. When she started her IF journey, she felt like it was the last throw of the dice in a lifelong struggle to be in a healthy, happy body. She feels she is about midway along, after 9 months of the IF lifestyle, which she started during a highly stressful period in her life and wants to encourage others to start exactly where they are. She is very much focused on progress and not perfection.

Stats

Age 55

HW 130kg (290lbs) 2/02/2022

CW 96.5kg (212lbs) 18/09/2022

= 33.5kg (74lbs)

B - 124cms - 109 = 15cm

W - 123cms - 95 = 29cm

H - 154cm - 123 = 32cm

I'm very much a work in progress.

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Episode 147 Cara Straughn losing 97 pounds (44 Kg) in two years living an intermittent fasting lifestyle. Improving PCOS symptoms and finding renewed health. Oct 30, 2022

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Cara Straughn lives in southwestern Missouri, USA. She is a 39-year-old mom of 3 and has been married to her loving husband, Mike, for 17 years. Cara has struggled with her weight ever since junior high. She learned at the young age of 17 that she had developed PCOS (Poly Cystic Ovarian Syndrome) and struggled with the emotional and physical issues that come along with that over the next 2 decades. Over that time, she tried so many different ways to lose weight, all working in the short term, but too expensive and difficult to stick with in the long term, so the weight always came back on with a vengeance. By her mid to late 20’s she had reached her highest recorded weight of 261 pounds. She would go on to try more ways to lose weight, getting down to 165 pounds at one point, but got tired of tracking and counting and struggling, so she eventually gave up and found herself back up to 250 pounds. After struggling for years with infertility, she and her husband decided to become foster parents. They welcomed 2 boys into their home in 2017 and was able to adopt them in 2018. That same year she tried to lose weight again, first doing weight watchers, then seeking the help of a weight loss doctor, who would prescribe her appetite suppressants and tell her to eat just once a day. She dropped 65 pounds in 10 months and then suddenly found herself pregnant! Over the next 9 months she would go on to gain 70 pounds during her pregnancy! Over a year later, she was at 245 pounds and decided it was time to crack down and lose weight again. In October 2020, she discovered intermittent fasting, and she finally found something that not only worked, but was easy to stick with for the long term. After losing 97 pounds over the last 2 years, she has just switched over to maintenance and is looking forward to a long, healthy, and active life with her husband and children.

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Episode 146 Rindi and Kevin Trainer, a couple who fast together that have had spectacular results. A combined weight loss of 68 Kg (150 pounds) in 11 months. Oct 23, 2022

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Kevin and Rindi Trainer have been married for almost 37 years and live in the great state of Texas in the United States. They have raised two children who are now adults, and they became grandparents in August of 2022 to a sweet baby boy.

To back up a bit, in March of 2020. Rindi went for her yearly physical and was not completely surprised to find out she was pre-diabetic. Her weight was up, blood pressure was up, she just knew she wasn’t in a good, healthy place. Family history of losing her mom and maternal grandmother to diabetes in their 50s motivated her to start researching changes. That led her down the Keto/Low Carb rabbit trail, but she decided Keto was too restrictive and low carb was going to be challenging enough. Nothing really changed until after a July 2020 vacation to South Dakota and looking at the pictures reminded her that she really needed to make a change. In August 2020, Rindi shared with her husband, Kevin, that she was going to be making some changes and he could join her in the journey or not. They had both tried and lost weight on Weight Watchers before and calorie counting, and Kevin had even done an all-liquid diet at one time. He lost weight but gained it back when he started eating food again. Kevin has struggled with weight issues since he was about 13 years old, and in 2020 he was 59 years old at that time. Their health journey initially started with just a low carb diet, cutting out things like bread, chips, tortillas, sugary things, but quickly introduced intermittent fasting. Initially, they worked on keeping total carbs below 100 grams per day and fasting 12-14 hours per day. A few months in and they had lowered total carbs to about 50 per day and were regularly fasting about 16 hours per day. Unfortunately, they had not heard about clean fasting yet, so they were definitely not doing that. Between August of 2020 and July of 2021, they lost a combined total of about 150 pounds. Rindi losing 40 and Kevin losing 110. From July 2021 to present, they haven’t lost any more weight, but their bodies continue to experience recomposition and their clothing sizes have changed without any weight loss happening. They are more active and have more energy now than they did ten years ago. Fasting is definitely the plan for the rest of their lives and Rindi is no longer pre-diabetic.

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Episode 145 Farnoosh Brock A deep dive into ADF and the mindset around intermittent fasting. Oct 16, 2022

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Farnoosh is published author with 4 books, runs her own company with her husband for the last 11 years, and does a ton of work around Mindset & Leadership with Universities (especially STEM programs) and Companies. Also passionate about yoga + fasting + getting stronger & leaner & healthier as we get older & wiser :)

In this episode we talk about mindset which Farnoosh is an expert on. We also take a deep dive into ADF and why fasting is not just about weight loss.

Connect with Farnoosh.

www.prolificliving.com

Instagram@prolificliving

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Episode 144 Lloyd Root A beginner to IF shares how he got started and how he lost 14Kg (30 Pounds) in a short space of time. Oct 09, 2022

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I am the third son of three boys born in 1961 (the three youngest in diapers at the same time). We were a typical family and as we grew my mother really became a great cook. Her specialties were homemade breads, cookies, cakes, pies, and our favorite Swedish Tea Rings. Most of the time what she produced would only last a few hours unless she hid them high in the pantry. There was always plenty to eat and being the little chunky one, seconds were normal and always room for dessert. We were always active playing outside from sunup to sundown, riding our bikes, playing wiffle ball in our backyard "stadium", and "kick the can" until it was time for bed.

As I got older, we got involved in organized sports. In the fall we played football, in the winter it was basketball, and then throughout the summer baseball. In the 8th grade I was introduced to weight training for football which became my favorite sport. I do remember my mom commenting at times that I needed to watch what I ate (portion control) and then offer me a piece of pie or whatever she had made for dessert. There was always dessert!

Everything changed in my mid-twenties when my metabolism changed. I was putting on a few extra pounds even though I remained highly active with cycling, golfing, and adult fast pitch softball. I was introduced to my first weight loss program through a friend, and I only remember it was a type of tea product (I don't remember the name of the company). That didn't work and soon after was introduced to Body Wise, which didn’t work. Tiring of MLM's I began to explore other diets, here are a few.... Beverly Hills Diet, Fit for Life, South Beach Diet, Atkins, Keto, and the entire store-bought shakes and bars.

Years later I met up with good friends Stephen and Rachel Bush and she told me how she had just lost 50+ pounds doing IF. I was intrigued and they told me to read TFH and that changed the game!! I started on 8/1/22 and within 3 weeks I was down 15 lbs. I am now down 25 lbs. in 6 weeks. What I love about IF is the freedom and the guiltless ability to tweak things as you go and really learn how your body responds to what I put or not put into it. Oh, and the greatest thing is that it is free and we’re saving money at the grocery store!!!

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Episode 143 Anita Downes 10 months into living an intermittent fasting lifestyle. A weight loss of 33 Kg (70 pounds) a story of resilience and determination. Oct 02, 2022

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Anita Downes is from Perth Australia and lives with her wife and children who are super supportive of her IF lifestyle. Anita has had a roller coaster ride with her weight and has lost and regained over the years. Anita at one point considered weight loss surgery. It was her sister Monica that pleaded with her to give intermittent Fasting a try before having surgery. It turned out the best decision she has made for her health as in just ten months she has lost an astonishing 33 Kg -70 pounds. Her passion and zest for IF shines through in this episode as does her resilience and determination.

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