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**The Fasting Highway**

I am Graeme Currie from Western Australia author of the best seller The Fasting Highway it can be found on Amazon in both Kindle and Paperback.
I am a person who lost 60 kg (132 pounds) and successfully kept it off. I will tell you exactly how I did it, and what it is like to live an intermittent fasting lifestyle. I cover my journey, about an ordinary Australian bloke who has found a way to lose weight that is sustainable. Along the way, I found some amazing health benefits as well. I interview dozens of others, who wanted to try it for themselves and have had similar success.

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Episode 112 Jane Wood Branam 69 years old who has lost 20kg (44 Pounds) living an intermittent fasting lifestyle. Proving age is no barrier. Feb 27, 2022

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Jane Wood Branam, age 69. Married 35 years and I have 3 Granddaughters. I have taught at 4 universities and have a PhD. For the last 20 years, I have run a successful business with my husband. We are working part-time now and trying to retire this year. My highest weight was 201. I am in maintenance for about a year and a half now. I have lost all the weight many times with very restrictive eating plans and weighing and measuring my foods. But eventually I would regain. But ever since I started IF in September 2019 at 180, I knew that it was sustainable and could be a way of life for me. I had very rapid weight loss with 2 mad and have maintained at 136-140 and with body recomposition stay a true size 6 in pants and medium top..

Thanks, Jane

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Click on get help/coaching and book a time and date to suit you. All times you see available are in your local time. You will also find information at the web site on how to obtain a copy of his book The Fasting Highway from your Amazon store or direct from him if you live in Australia or New Zealand.

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Episode 111- Paige Acevedo 13 Kg (27 pounds) and 33 inches lost in 10 months with intermittent fasting. The importance of not comparing. Feb 20, 2022

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My fasting journey began in March 2021. I had dinner with a good friend from Houston who was in town for work and when I got to the restaurant I didn’t recognize her! She looked so thin but more than that....she looked healthy and happy. Of course I asked her what she was doing and she said she would not even talk about it unless I promised to read the book Fast Feast Repeat. I am an avid reader and I tend to get on tangents with topics and will read everything I can find on that topic. So reading a book did not intimidate me! I downloaded the audible version in the parking lot on the way home and listened to it over the next 24 hours.

By that Sunday, March 28 I did my first fast. I actually didn’t tell my husband or anyone else until I was about 2 weeks in. I was worried with his medical background he would think I was starving myself, but he was actually very encouraging as long as I was still feeling better. 10 months later, I’ve lost 27 lbs and 33 inches. I feel totally transformed.

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Episode 110- Nadia Nigro has lost 26kg ( 55 pounds) in her first year. We discuss how to make your eating window worthy and maintaining the weight loss. Feb 13, 2022

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I have been married for almost twenty years to a wonderful, kind-hearted man of German/Italian descent and we have three teenage kids: two daughters and a son. A few of my favorite pastimes are gardening, photography, traveling, flower arranging, taking walks in nature, reading, learning foreign languages, and just spending time with my family. I have also always loved cooking and for a few years was an avid baker and cake decorator too.

Being a true foodie at heart and preparing and indulging in decadent meals and desserts all the time, weight management was always an issue for me. Considering I am only five feet tall, I don't have the luxury of carrying a lot of weight without it "showing" easily. To put it shortly, trying to become fit was a major struggle. I also told myself I loved food too much to be able to lose any weight and keep it off long term. Additionally, being pregnant three times within five years and not fully getting rid of the "baby weight" three times in a row compounded my weight problem. Eventually, I managed to reach obesity by the age of 43. I had given up trying, I didn't even own a scale anymore and had no clue what I weighed. I knew, however, that my clothing size had been steadily climbing up: from 6 to 8, to 10, to 12, reaching 14 in the summer of 2019.

Then, that Christmas I ended up having to visit an orthopedist for a frozen shoulder and needed to be weighed in the doctor's office. I was shocked to find out I had reached 172lbs! I was heavier than my six-foot husband who weighed 168lbs at the time. At that moment, I knew I had to do something, soon. I happened to mention my health concerns with a family member over the Christmas holidays and he shared that he had done intermittent fasting that same year. He had successfully lost 35lbs doing IF and suggested I try it out too. I was intrigued. I had free time because I was on winter break from school, so I spent a few days watching YouTube videos on intermittent fasting, researching as much as I could, and decided to give it a try and see how it goes for me. So on January 1st, 2020 I began following a 16:8 IF protocol, eating two meals and a snack between 11AM and 6PM. The rest of the time, I drank different kinds of herbal and fruit teas and water. I April, I read "Delay, Don't Deny" by Gin Stephens and learned about the clean fast, as well as different IF protocols. I switched to strictly black or green tea, which are clean fast approved, and transitioned to a one meal a day lifestyle. I also began to really appreciate food as fuel for my body and started turning my OMAD into a special occasion that is rich in nutrients and a delight for all the senses. By October of that year I had lost 55lbs and have been maintaining that weight loss for over 15 months now. IF has truly been life changing for me!

Nadia

Connect with Nadia Nigro

Instagram @my.if.journey

Facebook Window Worthy IF meals https://www.facebook.com/windowworthyifmeals/

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My book about my own story The Fasting Highway is available on Amazon in both paperback and kindle. For Australian and New Zealand residents, you can buy the book direct from me at www.thefastinghighway.com. For the rest of the world Amazon is your best option. You can follow me on Instagram at graemecurrie_63 or join The Fasting Highway Facebook Community.

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Graeme.

Disclaimer all views expressed in this podcast episode are those of the guest and host. No part of this podcast should be taken as medical advice. Please consult your medical professional before commencing any health plan

Episode 109 Susan Oxley 20 months of living an intermittent fasting lifestyle. Losing over 36kg (79 pounds) an inspiring story. Feb 06, 2022

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By Susan Oxley

Hello, I’m a 52-year-old wife to an amazing man and mommy to two very precious kitty cats. I’ve always felt that I was extremely blessed to have lived what many would call a charmed life. I grew up in a loving family and had all the opportunities someone could ask for, but like many of us, I found myself struggling with my weight as I made my way into my 30’s, 40’s, and 50’s.

Over the years, I tried many diets and exercise regimes that allowed me to lose a good amount of weight (40, 50, even 65 lbs). I found losing weight to be pretty easy because I was good at sticking to whatever calorie restriction/counting plan I adopted. However, eventually, I would tire of the restrictions and/or required exercise and go back to my prior habits regaining the weight and then some. I really tried to hold on to the hope that I would find a solution, one day! I reached a point in the last few years where I was approaching morbid obesity. I was successful in so many other pursuits, marriage, career, friendships, etc. but managing my weight just seemed to be the impossible challenge.

A couple of months into the pandemic, on May 25, 2020, I came across the mention of IF and the Delay, Don’t Deny book in a Facebook group. I remembered a couple of people I knew in real life that were successful IF-ers. Their stories had planted a seed, but I wasn’t ready at the time. It sounded way too hard! But that day, that magical day, I decided to listen to the Delay, Don’t Deny book on Audible and so it all began…

IF has allowed me to shed 75 lbs from my 5’7” frame. I am very excited to see what the future brings as I continue to practice IF

Susan

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Episode 108 - Jeff Gerken has lost 30kg (66 pounds) of weight over 18 months. An inspiring and emotional recount of his amazing journey. Jan 30, 2022

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Jeff Gerken

Albany, NY, USA

Age 56

Start weight 230 Pounds -14 Kg

Began fasting January 2020

Goal weight 165 Pounds-75 Kg reached June 2021

Jeff grew up skinny as a kid, and stayed skinny until about age 25. Always active and in sports, being thin seemed normal, without having to limit any type or amount of food at all. But after age 25, his weight increased, and pants started to seemingly shrink. Jeff tried to stay somewhat active in sports as an adult. He was a ski instructor for a while, and then later a youth soccer coach, but the weight didn’t stop increasing. By age fifty, heading toward 230 pounds, it seemed that old age, obesity, and declining health had caught up and it was time to withdraw from any athletic activities and just sit on the couch. Even walks outside became short, infrequent, and labored.

Jeff is married to Amy, and they have a teenage son. There is always plenty of food and snacks in the house. Both Jeff and Amy like to eat, and their son does too. The son stays naturally skinny and athletic just like Jeff used to (but no longer can), eating unlimited amounts of food. When Jeff started fasting and began to lose weight, then Amy eventually decided to join him and she has also since lost weight through fasting. They now eat one meal a day. Jeff prefers 23/1, while Amy chooses a longer window. Their son of course eats whenever he wants.

All health problems went away, and energy increased. This is true particularly for Jeff, but also true for Amy. Both currently enjoy biking and running. In the winter, they also enjoy cross-country skiing

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Episode 107 Lori Whitman A catalyst moment that started an amazing health transformation journey the first 8 months. Jan 23, 2022

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I am a secretary in a high school. Being around students keeps me young at heart, but my body started feeling old, tired, and frumpy. Over the years I put on a few pounds a year and I got to the point where I thought I needed to just accept my weight gain as part of aging. In April of 2021 someone posted a picture of me on Facebook and I couldn't believe it was me! I felt like I really let myself down but didn’t know what to do about it. I have never done a “diet plan” as I don’t like to cook, and I have no willpower to give up foods I like. So, I was never a Yo-Yo dieter.

Around the same time that picture was posted, I randomly found Jason Fung on YouTube and watched his video on Intermittent Fasting. I thought what Dr, Fung had to say made sense and was something I could try. I now look at finding that video not as random at all but maybe a divine intervention! Over the next four months, I would also find Gin Stephens podcast and Graeme Currie with the Fasting Highway podcast and started listening every night. I started reading books on fasting to learn all I could. I fast an average of 19 hours per day with various lengths of eating windows and to my amazement lost 30. pounds in four months and went from a size 12 to a size 6. My physical body now matches my mind and I feel better at 58 than I did at 48. I willingly share with my friends about IF and the fact they don't need to settle in the body they are in, if it is not the one that is making them happy.

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Episode 106 Gin Stephens New York times best selling author of Fast Feast Repeat. We talk fasting bust some myths and discuss Gins new book Cleanish. Jan 16, 2022

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About Gin Stephens

Gin Stephens is the author of Clean(ish) (2022), Fast. Feast. Repeat. (2020), an instant New York Times and USA Today bestseller, and Delay, Don’t Deny: Living an Intermittent Fasting Lifestyle (2016), an Amazon #1 best seller in the weight loss category. Gin has been living the intermittent fasting lifestyle since 2014. This lifestyle shift allowed her to lose over 80 lbs. and launch her intermittent fasting website, Facebook support groups, four self-published books, and three top-ranked podcasts—Intermittent Fasting Stories, where Gin talks to a variety of intermittent fasters from around the world, The Intermittent Fasting Podcast, with cohost Melanie Avalon, and Life Lessons, with cohost Sheri Bullock. Gin graduated from the Institute of Integrative Nutrition’s Health Coach Training Program (2019). She earned a Doctor of Education degree in Gifted and Talented Education (2009), a Master's degree in Natural Sciences (1997), and a Bachelor's degree in Elementary Education (1990). She taught elementary school for 28 years, and has worked with adult learners in a number of settings. She splits her time between Augusta, Georgia and Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, where she lives with her husband and their three cats. Gin is also a mother to two adult sons (and she is thankful every day for the intermittent fasting lifestyle that makes her life easier

Connect with Gin at www.ginstephens.com

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My book about my own fasting story The Fasting Highway is available on Amazon in both paperback and kindle. For Australian and New Zealand residents, you can buy the book direct from me at www.thefastinghighway.com. For the rest of the world Amazon is your best option. You can follow me on Instagram at graemecurrie_63 or join The Fasting Highway Facebook Group all free to do so

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Graeme.

Episode 105 Amanda Collins She came to intermittent fasting for the health benefits, the weight loss was a bonus. Jan 09, 2022

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Amanda Collins is a writer, poet, sound healer and musician who lives on a hill in Taungurung Country in Central Victoria, Australia. She is the author of Not Dead Yet, a practical guide for the dying and those who are supporting them, and she is currently working on an account of the first year of her fasting lifestyle, (Working title, On The Way Down). Having spent the past decade living with chronic illness, Amanda is passionate about living well until you die.

Some places to find Amanda:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49336676-not-dead-yet (her book)

https://www.thecuriouscreative.com.au/support (her sound healing)

https://www.facebook.com/amandathecuriouscreative(her stuff)

https://www.instagram.com/amandathecuriouscreative/(her other stuff)

https://twitter.com/HopefulTravels(wait, what?)

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Episode 104-Elaine Heyworth A long term intermittent fasters success story losing over 55 pounds -25Kg. Jan 02, 2022

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Elaine Heyworth – Bio

I’m Elaine Heyworth, 55 years of age, married with two grown-up daughters – 20, and 22. I started intermittent fasting in September 2019, the day I left my youngest daughter at university – and came home to an empty nest. My weight was 221lbs.

All my life I had been overweight. Thirty years ago I joined Weight Watchers, and lost four stone (56lbs) in six months. Six months later I started putting it back on again. Then I met my husband to be (Julian), and we settled into what I call our “contentment lifestyle” – food seemed to celebrate the great things going on, and cheered up the horrible things that happen. That 56lbs soon came back, with reinforcements. Then came children, and I put on a stone (14lbs) with each child (which wasn’t much, according to my doctor), but that meant two more stones where I didn’t need them!

I was always pretty sensible about my dieting life – I didn’t do diets that demonised food. My two favourite diets were Weight Watchers and Slimming World – both plans allowed you eat all the foods, with their own brand of compensation for ‘treating’ yourself. You know, even thirty years later, I still weigh 75g of rice or pasta before I cook it – my top tip from Weight Watchers – so I think I learned some useful stuff there.

IF has been a revelation to me. I started with 16:8, and lost 12lbs in the first three weeks – I know how lucky I was. Then I tried 18:6 for a couple of weeks, then found my sweet spot at 19:5, where I lost another 30lbs. COVID was a game changer – once I was working from home, within five steps of my kitchen, I had to change to 20:4, because food was too easy to find. Lost my final 14lbs between March and June of 2020 and hit my goal of 165lbs at the end of June 2020. So exciting!!!!

My husband and daughters have been very supportive, although I do sometimes hear ‘don’t lose any more weight Mum!!”, I know it’s said with love in their hearts.

Elaine

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Episode 103 Alan Zerbe- A three and a half year journey with life changing results. Losing over 100 pounds (48Kg) along the way. Dec 28, 2021

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Alan Zerbe lives in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania which is about 50 miles north of Philadelphia and about 70 miles West of New York City. He just turned 57 is Married and has three grown daughters ages 26 and twins who just turned 24. 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 lbs. (or 79 Kilos). During his 20, 30's, 40's and 50’s he kept gaining until he reached his highest recorded weight of 294 lbs. (or 133 Kilos) on his 6'2" frame.

His fasting journey began in May of 2018 and he has not stopped the past three and half years. It has been an amazing journey of learning and experimenting. It all started with him reading Jason Fung’s book The Obesity Code and was interested in learning if his weight issues could be controlled with fasting. While his path has been far from perfect, he battles everyday doing the best fasting work he can do that day! He has gotten as low as 189 lbs. or (86 Kilos). He is working hard at the maintenance phase with a goal of staying between 195 and 205 lbs.

He loves the lifestyle and believes it to be life changing in more ways than his exterior image might reflect. Deep inside he knows he has become a much better version of himself.

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