The Fasting Highway

My name is Rhonda Douglas.  I am a wife, mother of three adult children and Nana of 4 grandchildren.  I am a real estate broker and own a real estate company specialising in residential sales and property management. I enjoy playing golf, walking, and watching movies in my spare time.   I have struggled with weight since my early 20s after my first child, gaining and losing over and over.  I am now 53 years old and found IF in 2020...

I live in the beautiful suburb of Menora, Perth, Western AustraliaAustralia, I'm 50 years old, and married to the incredible Terry, who’s a fellow faster these days. I'm a mother to a 23-year-old and 21-year-old twin, all gorgeous young men. Fur Mum to two Aussie Shepherds, Savannah & Angelica. I own and run my own business selling energy cleansing &lifting products, and I was a hairdresser in my past life. I've...

My name is Roxi Ruiz, and I am from McAllen, TX, which is located right on the Mexican/US border. My city has been voted the most obese city for 8 years in a row. I am the Mom of one amazing daughter. I am a Speech Language Pathologist who specialises in feeding disorders. I became an Intermittent fast in February of 2019 after being diagnosed with prediabetes and NAFLD. Both sides of my family have generational metabolic disorders...

Bio By Richard Chuter

I'm Richard. 57 years old. 2 children, one son who is 22 and a daughter who is 14. Married to Natalie. Live in Norfolk, UK. Never really bothered about the fact that mid-life with gain was happening. Took it as part of life, and the expanding belly was just something to live with. Lockdown brought a realisation that I was overweight and unfit. Health problems had started with knee pain and fluid building up...

Bio By Lisa Evers.

Fitness, health, and education have shaped my life for over 30 years, with experience from teaching kids to personal training. Although I shared my passion and knowledge, I didn’t always follow my advice. I struggled with digestive issues and hypothyroidism, which ultimately led to an unhealthy obsession with food and exercise. After three decades of battling diet culture and body image issues, I’ve found freedom.

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Sarah Kull is a New Zealand Registered Nurse.  She has been working with intermittent fasting for many of her clients since early 2018, in particular, to support those with Type 2 Diabetes or obesity related health concerns. 

Sarah has been working in General Practice for over 20 years and has a background in chronic care management and diabetes, as well as the many health risks associated withobesity.  With a growing epidemic of ty...

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I am Melanie Gleeson, 56 years old, from Perth, Australia, originally from New Zealand. I have been fasting for 5 years.

Through the grips of menopause, grief. Stress and getting derailed by some bad advice.

I'm 5ft 2", so I'm not a large frame - therefore, every pound shows. I am very active. I walk the dog morning and night.

Often, I go for a longer hike or beach visit on the weekend, and I go to the Gym 3-4 times a week.

I'm pre...

Amy Jo is a wife, mother, small business owner, health coach, and college English professor.

She and her husband Rush have been married for 27 years and have enjoyed being empty nesters since their son married three years ago.

Six years ago, enjoying life and keeping up with her many responsibilities was overwhelming. She was ballooning back up to her all-time highest weight of 300 pounds and suffering from debilitating nerve pain ...

Dana will be 54 on Mar 1st, 2025 and is 5’2 at 110 lbs.  She started IF on SEPT 5, 2023, after learning about it on a podcast focusing on Alzheimer's / dementia prevention/mitigation.  She was listening to that podcast b/c she lost both parents-in-law to this horrible disease. Within 1 week of starting IF, she remembers saying out loud to her husband, “I feel fantastic. I don’t think I’ll ever want to stop doing this.” 

 She ne...

I am a lifelong Nashvillian, 74 years old, mother of our daughters, three nurses, and an elementary teacher. I have 13 grandkids and six great-grandkids.

 FAMILY

I grew up in a large Catholic family with six kids in the 1950s. I had a great childhood. My father was a doctor, and my mother was a nurse but a full-time homemaker after getting married.

 CHILDHOOD

I was always involved in the academic side of things, and my mother kept m...

I’m Nic,

 Raised in rural New Zealand, from a sheep and beef farming background. Big family, active, always outside helping on the farm or riding horses.

Dad was starting horses all the time; we all rode as kids, tho I’m the only one who carried on after we went to high school, travelling to town daily.

We're all fit and trim, kids. I'm into my early 20s, though far from heavy. I did my first stint with WW and starved the w...

Jim Peeler lives in Hickory, a small city in the foothills of North Carolina. He and his wife Diana have two adult children who live in the western NC mountains and one grandson. Jim is a financial controller for a logistics company. Jim has just passed his first fasting anniversary on February 1, 2025. This year has resulted in a loss of 73 pounds so far, and he plans to start maintaining soon within a range of 140 to 145 pounds. ...

Carl Madonna lives in Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania, in the USA, with his loving wife and family . As you will hear in this podcast, Carl has just completed his first full year of living an Intermittent Fasting Lifestyle, Losing an incredible 100 pounds-45 Kg. Carl shares many takeaways and insights in this episode and has transformed his life and health, as you will hear. Carl is a travelling salesperson who spends a lot of windshie...

I’m a 37-year-old mother, wife, boss babe, and “Life Strategist Expert” navigating the busiest season of life—balancing a demanding career and a whirlwind of kids.’schedules, and a deep commitment to a Journey of Resilience, Healing, and True Transformation. For decades, food was my comfort, a source of solace through trauma, stress, and the never-ending demands of life. But in October 2019, everything changed. Through clean interm...

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Intermittent Fasting coach, Laurie Lewis, shows how it’s possible for us to take exceptional care of ourselves while dealing with life's complicated and fast-paced circumstances. With Intermittent Fasting as the foundation, Laurie offers the chance to break free from the Punishment Paradigm that we live in. Laurie guides us to tune into our body’s inner intelligence, have a daily eating window, and experience improvements in e...

Bio By Joanne Gonwa

I grew up in a home with a single mother and the stresses of financial insecurity, parental abandonment, and the emotional instability of my mother. I began at a young age to attempt to soothe my own emotional insecurities with food. This pattern of using food to placate my emotions has continued throughout my life. I felt trapped in endless cycles of diets/rebound weight gain as decades of life seasons passed....

I'm Amy, and I found IF right as the world was starting to catch on to the fact that COVID-19 was about to hit us: Hitting Asia (1st), then Europe (2nd) and N. American (Next), I felt I had hit an all-time low in energy levels towards the end of 2019. My weight was creeping up, I was anxious, my skin was dry and red, and my joints hurt - it was a hard realization to have. As a successful consultant, my business was going well; my k...

Hello, I’m Tara, and I’m from Weyburn, Saskatchewan, Canada. I will have been fasting for four years on January 17, 2025. 

 I am a 48-year-old mother of four children, ages eleven to twenty-two. Even with university and starting their first jobs, even the older ones are often home, and family life continues to be as busy as ever. 

 Over the past 33 years, I have gained and lost weight with a 97lb range. (44kg) I battled with my wei...