The Fasting Highway

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Episode 92 Kirsty a truly remarkable transformation losing 58 kg (127 pounds) in 6 months, regaining her life back. Oct 10, 2021

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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 as long as I can remember. I was always ‘bigger’ than all of my friends even though I was always trying to do something about it, but it just didn’t seem to matter, I so easily constantly gained weight no matter what. I have successfully lost a significant amount of weight on a number of occasions over the years, but every time, I always regained it and then some! There have been many times when I have just thrown my hands in the air out of defeat and just given up… and the weight kept creeping. I lost 47kg (103lbs) before falling pregnant with my first son and felt fantastic! I swore I would never go back! But 4 years, 2 pregnancies and 56kg later, I found myself at my heaviest weight ever at 130kgs (286lbs). I felt so ashamed of myself for regaining the weight I had worked so hard to lose and I felt worse than ever. I struggled with pelvic pain post pregnancy, and entered a cycle of chronic inflammation. I was overweight, miserable and feeling like I was living in the body of an unhealthy 60 year old in my mid thirties. Something had to change, and a friend introduced me to Michael Moseley’s “Fast 800” diet in May 2020. I started the fast 800 diet on 1st June 2020 and experienced significant success with a combination of fasting and restricting my daily calories. I made a connection between my insulin resistance and my lifetime of weight struggles and felt like I had finally uncovered the key to my success. For the first time in forever I didn’t feel like something was ‘wrong’ with me. I enjoyed understanding the science and dived right into understanding it more. I learned a LOT in this space over the coming months as I continued to experience success. I soon moved to OMAD and adopted a low carb/keto style diet and stopped counting calories. I felt full for the first time in forever and I was eating less and less often than ever before. Weight was quite literally falling off me for the first time in my life. From June 2020 to December 2020 I successfully lost 58kg (127lb). In 6 months I dropped from a size 22/24 to a size 8/10. I’ve been maintaining my weight loss for 9 months now and I have regained my life. No longer am I living life from the sidelines, no longer am I ‘making up’ for the shame I felt about my size by over compensating and overachieving in other ways. I feel free to be entirely, unapologetically me for the first time in my adult life and it feels free! Fasting has given me the tools I will use for the rest of my life to keep feeling this way.

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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 Group. Thank you for listening to the podcast and for getting the book it helps to keep the podcast free from commercials.

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Episode 91 Megan Kreizenbeck An experienced intermittent fasters journey losing 27.2 Kg (60 pounds) along the way. Oct 03, 2021

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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 4/6. (I started at 220 lbs and am now 160 lbs) I work for the Idaho State Police in a Civilian position as Project Coordinator in the Commercial Vehicle Safety unit. When I am not at work, I am heavily involved in a local Vintage Volkswagen Car club working on the board and planning events to keep our community infested with Slug bugs. Between work and the car club being a mother is where I thrive the most and I try my best every day to be the most supportive spouse I can to my husband. Every fall we head to the mountains of our great state and do our best to harvest some wild game to fill our freezer. We butcher all of our own meat and I have cultivated many recipes to best suit the game we harvest. My hobbies are not a short list, I am a person that keeps herself overwhelmed with projects. I love to cook, sew, Paint, draw, and make colorful graphics that I make into shirts and other textiles. I love to help restore old beetles, my jobs tend to be interior work and I am instructed on where I need to get my smaller arms to do the tedious greasy work my husband can’t reach. If you have listened to the Life lessons podcast, they read a letter that I wrote for their good news segment on episode 15. I encourage everyone to listen to it because it is a beautiful story and may be the epitome of what I believe humanity to be.

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Episode 90 Lizzie Akers. A very inspiring 32 Kg (70 Pounds) weight loss journey living an Intermittent Fasting Lifestyle. Sep 26, 2021

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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 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. I live on several acres and enjoy gardening, traveling and laying in my hammock reading. I homeschool my children and assist in homeschooling many more. My days are filled and very busy. I am an avid swimmer and enjoy hiking and taking nature walks. I have struggled with my weight since adolescence. I dealt with an eating disorder from high school to college and finally got help and counseling in college. When I met my husband I was at the lowest weight I had been since high school. I was running and watching my calories. After meeting my husband and starting my career, enjoyed food a little more and stopped running as much and put on 60 plus pounds. When we decided to start a family, I was able to carry both my children with healthy pregnancies but found myself 100 lbs. over weight. In February 2021, I had a friend on Facebook post about her journey on Intermittent fasting so I decided to hop in full force. I started February 2nd 2021 and have fasted every day since. I enjoyed the flexibility and the easiness of fasting. I am doing this for my comfort level. I am a naturally very healthy person and even my doctor told me I do not have to lose weight for health reasons but it is always a good thing to be at a healthy weight for you and your family. I have followed a OMAD protocol (usually in the afternoon) but I for the month of September I am trying to do MADF at least 2 days a week. I have lost over 70 lbs. and I will never go back. I enjoy using my vibration plate every day and playing with my children.

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Episode 89 Nambee Ragavan a successful intermittent fasting story from Asia losing 40 Kg (88 Pounds) over fourteen months. Sep 19, 2021

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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 months ahead dealing with the pandemic, and as someone living alone, it was a challenge on its own.

Having the idea that I want to do something for myself during this lockdown, many ideas were going around the internet, many were suggesting to pick up new hobbies, learn a new language etc, but none of them appealed to me. I did try to sign up for some online courses but realised I didn’t have the discipline to follow through it.

As March went by, many were already complaining that they are putting on weight considering all of us are homebound and lacked physical activities. This was my turning point, as I scrolled social media and saw everyone talking about putting on weight, I decided that I want to come out of this pandemic in a very different way, to try something that I have never done before or people have seen before – me at my ideal body weight.

I have always been overweight, as far as I can remember, I can’t recall when was the last I was at my ideal weight, it was probably during my Primary school (Grade 1-6) days. Since my high school, I have been on the overweight category which led to obesity as time went.

So with the motivation to come out of this pandemic very differently from others, to also be a fuel for my positivity, I started my IF journey with me realising I was doing IF. It all started with me planning to eat lesser and I wanted to cut down my dinner. And as a person who generally don’t like to eat breakfast, I was only left with lunch to eat, but I had also had the habit of snacking.

As I wanted to find a proper diet regime, I discovered IF. I did some research and realised that I am already doing this by not having breakfast, so all I have to do is cut the dinner and stop the snacking.

16 months later, almost at my ideal body weight, I am still experimenting what is going to be best moving forward as I am reaching my ideal body weight

Nambee

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Episode 88 Hannah Guthland Waight A busy nurse wife and moms incredible 38kg 80 (pounds weight) loss journey. Sep 12, 2021

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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 of dessert to my cousin's, but never to me because I always had a "weight problem." I played sports in high school and even at that time I would not have called myself slim or athletic. I really struggled with this through my teenage years and into my twenties. I had a few boyfriends, but I was never the girl boys wanted to date. My grandma always said I was more of a breeding mare than a racing horse. Lol!

I used various coping mechanisms to deal with this. Primarily alcohol. I found that it was a very effective social lubricant. I could be the super fun party girl and mask all the pain I was carrying about my self hatred and frustration with not being able to lose the weight. I tried my best to be what other people thought I needed to be, without working on myself or what I needed. As a teenager, I remember doing weight watchers with my momma but never really lost more than 10lbs. I had some brief success in my early 20s where I worked out nonstop and made it down to 170, but I hate working out and it just wasn't sustainable so I gained everything and then some back.

I had an entire career in banking. I worked my way up to teller manager and personal banker in the industry, but I still struggled with alcohol and there were many days where I went to work still intoxicated from the night before. I woke up one morning and realized I had to make a change. This wasn't all that life had in store for me and it was up to me to change it. I moved back home and enrolled in college to become a nurse. I was 25 at the time. Those four years of college, I was an incredibly dedicated student and spent my days studying from dusk until dawn in the library. I wasn't thinking at all about what I was eating or physically working on my body. I was singularly focused on my goal so I put on a significant amount of weight. I was using food as a reward system. If I did good on a test, I would go through the drive through and buy myself a meal as a treat. Your book really resonated with me because I've always been a closet eater. No one ever knew about these extra treats I would buy myself. I'd eat small portions in front of my mom and go finish eating in private where no one could see.

Starting Weight: 247lbs /112kgs/17.6 stone, size 20W US Current Weight: 167lbs/75.7kg/11.9 stone, size 10 US Goal Weight: 150lbs/68 kgs/10.7 stone

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Episode 87- Susan Metz, finding great health and a sustainable weight loss plan with intermittent fasting. A future sparkling with possibilities. Sep 05, 2021

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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 adoring husband in Maryland, USA.

I grew up in a large family with 4 adopted brothers, 2 biological sisters and a multitude of foster children. It was a busy home with lots of mouths to feed. When I hit puberty, I started putting on the weight and it never seemed to leave. I had a very negative body image and over the years the weight crept up.

By my mid-20’s, I had reached my highest weight of 95 kgs (210 pounds). It was time to make a change. I started eating healthy foods on a calorie restricted diet. I lost 22 kgs (50 pounds), felt great but knew I still had a long way to go. Over the next 18 years I bounced up and down but could never find the magic answer to sustainable weight loss.

In 2015 I sold my house, closed my real estate business and moved to the US. In the last 6 years I’ve completed a degree, found a great job at a leading company and met my husband. He is an amazing cook. An American cook. Cheesesteak hoagies, pizza, jambalaya, tacos, shrimp linguine, smoked pork and ribs, potato and meatloaf, po’boys… the list goes on. And so did the weight.

Thankfully, my mother-in-law came to the rescue. In December 2018 she introduced me to Gin Stephen’s Delay, Don’t Deny. It clicked with me because it was the way my body had always told me it preferred to be fed. I was never a breakfast or lunch eater. Before I even finished the book, I jumped straight into 20:4 and have been doing that ever since.

To begin with I was just happy not to be putting on the weight. Then the weight slowly started dropping. It took 18 months to reach my goal and I’ve been maintaining for the last year. I’ve learned to listen to my body and stop listening to those who don’t know better.

Susan.

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Episode 86- Yari Toleno. A moms inspiring weight loss journey finding success with intermittent fasting and making it sustainable for life. Aug 29, 2021

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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, traveling, having fun and being a dedicated stay at home mom who always volunteers for everything. Yes, I am that PTA mom. My latest exercise craze is riding the Peloton, which I really enjoy.

During college I gained the Freshman 15, which quickly went to the Sophomore 40.The heaviest recorded weight was 240 pounds, but my body likes to stay around 220. I have been on numerous diets beginning when I was around 19 years old, but have always remained active. I have a muscular build so it was bit easy to hide some weight, but once I got over 200 I can no longer hide the fact that I was obese. I seem to lose the same 20 pounds consistently. When I was pregnant with my second child I was diagnosed with gestational diabetes. It went away after she was born, but I went back to my old eating habits and became a diabetic within one year.

I started my IF journey when I changed doctors because I got a very scary blood work report and realized I was heading towards insulin and death. My new doctor is through Stanford and introduced me to Dr. Fung’s book Obesity Code. I started IF that day, October 19, 2020 and never looked back. I have lost 40 pounds, went from a size XL, 16 to small, medium 8/10. My husband has lost 60 pounds doing this journey alongside with me. My IF protocol tends to be 20 hours, but I have been known to open my window at 18 hours. The last two blood test reports show I have completely reversed my diabetes (within three months) and confirmed it is gone (6 month mark). I also no longer have fatty liver and cholesterol has lowered. Overall I am quite healthy now and have more energy than before, and that is saying a lot, since most friends comment on how much energy I have to do all I do. The IF lifestyle is life changing and has been a lifesaver…wow that is a lot of life in this sentence, but it is so true. IF is amazing!!!

Yari

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Episode 85 - Robert and Tania Santamaria. A couples inspiring intermittent fasting journey proving it is not all about weight loss. Aug 22, 2021

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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 the facilities I helped build.

I hung up my tool bag about 11 years ago. I now work in a very science based industry where we manufacture radioactive isotopes for injecting into patient before they have a PET scan for cancer diagnostics and look after 6 facilities in Australia and NZ.

Tania is a Maternal Child Health Nurse. She started as a nurse, doing her training in Invercargill, NZ and moved to Australia when she became a Midwife and now a Maternal Child Health Nurse.

We met in the UK and to cut a long story short ended up married now for 33 years and have four children 3 boys and 1 girl and now have 2.5 grandchildren.

Back Story - Me
- 60 years old, 175cm tall.
- Ex Builder now Facility Manager
- Starting weight – 88kg -194 pounds Sept 2019
- Started IF 28th Dec 2019
- Goal weight range – 66-68kg -147-149 Pounds
- In maintenance since July 2020
- Fasting regime – OMAD 3 Course meal style.
- Occasional Meal less Monday

Back Story - Tania
- 55 years old, 165cm tall.
- Nurse/Midwife/MCH
- Starting weight – 66kg 144 Pounds Sept 2019
- Started IF 8th Sept 2019
- Goal weight range – 55-57kg 121-123 Pounds
- In maintenance since Feb 2020
- Fasting regime – OMAD
- Occasional Meal less Monday
- Snack & Meal is my OMAD style.

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My book 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 The Fasting Highway with Intermittent Fasting Advocate Graeme Currie

For the rest of the world Amazon is your best option. Thank you to the many who have bought a copy of my book, much appreciated.

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Episode 84- Josie Aggett was a life long dieter who has found success with intermittent fasting losing 21 kg (46 pounds) Aug 15, 2021

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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 spent the day with a stylist.
Feel an enormous sense of wellbeing and achievement.
Never have to diet again.

So, in 25 years this has never happened and even if it had, I am under no illusion that probably within a year I would have gained weight back and felt like such a failure....

With 2020, all my goals have been revisited.

Two things happened, first, I saw a photo of myself at Christmas 2019, isn't it ALWAYS a photo that starts things and secondly I received a phone call from a relative telling me I could potentially need a major health check as she had been diagnosed with SCAD, Spontaneous coronary artery dissection, an uncommon emergency condition that occurs when a tear forms in a blood vessel in the heart, causing a heart attack, abnormalities in heart rhythm or sudden death, yes, very scary. Both my parents passed away suddenly in 2016, Mum, a healthy living 70 year old, from heart related issue and then my Dad, age 69, 7 months later, again heart related; I believe he was very much 'broken' after Mum died. SCAD isn't really known about or spoken about so I began a very fast journey through medical checks and thinking I was suddenly living with a time bomb attached to me, with a young family my stress levels went through the roof.

As I hit this low point and thought to myself, everyone is talking about the 2020 lockdown 14 pounds, I couldn't afford to gain any more weight, I was already grossly overweight at 212lbs. I typed in the search bar, Gin (meaning the drink) and weight loss and Gin Stephens, author and intermittent faster popped up. I know it is a cliche and I've heard many others say this before, but Graeme you really have, I believe, changed my life and the life of my friends for the better, in fact, you might have even saved mine, so thank you!!

I have enjoyed and learnt so much from reading The Fasting Highway , listening to your podcasts and then going on to follow Gin’s podcasts and others. I know that IF is something I can do for life, this is just me now. Initially I made mistakes and learnt about my body and reactions to certain food groups but eventually the weight began to come off. I'm now 40lb down and delighted!!! I feel like a new person. Despite being on a plateau for a few months I'm now trying ADF and with a weight trending app I can see how although the weight has slowed down, I am slowly losing again, which is great. I know eventually I will achieve my goal of 150lbs

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Episode 83 - Kristen Duncan Lucier is an inspiring mum who has lost 50Kg ( 110 pounds) talks about dealing with stressful situations. Aug 08, 2021

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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 pandemic. We would lay in bed every night listening to The Fasting Highway & Intermittent Fasting Stories podcasts, unable to sleep from all the uncertainties going on in our lives. Those podcasts became a big source of strength & comfort during such a difficult time.
While not overweight as a child, for as long as I can remember I've never felt good enough or thin enough. That insecurity left me an easy target for a bully in middle & into high school. Coming home from school I would seek comfort in food & would eat until my mother came home. That led to weight gain & the beginning of my ride on the dieting rolling coaster.
Eventually needing 3 different blood pressure medications to control my hypertension. It was one of those meds that led me to being hospitalized & thinking I was having a heart attack at the age of 46. A doctor performing my stress test said, "you need to get this weight off, you have a lot of life left in you." So I joined Weight Watchers again & was successful at losing 100lbs. At the same time my son was going through the stressful college baseball recruiting process. Sadly, things didn't go as planned & seeing his D1 college baseball dream crumble was more than I could handle. I turned to food again & gained all but 10lbs of the 100lbs loss back. I was humiliated & defeated.
December 2019 motivated by a trip I managed to drop @ 20lbs before our lives were turned upside down. Torn between knowing I needed to grab my own health back from the brink but wanting the comfort of my "old friend" food, it was ultimately my son who said something that profoundly resonated with me. I knew at that moment I was done being obese. I joined Weight Watchers yet again but went searching for more. It was that search that ultimately led me to IF. I'm 110lbs lighter today than my highest known weight & never looking back.
Life is short, health is wealth and family is everything is my new mantra.

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The Fasting Highway: Graeme Currie from Australia takes you on a journey through the highs and lows of beating a crippling food addiction by losing ... living an Intermittent Fasting Lifestyle: Currie, Graeme: 9780648965206: Amazon.com: Books

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