The Fasting Highway

Graeme Currie
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The Fasting Highway Podcast

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.

  1. 2 DAYS AGO

    Episode 243 Audrey Scott -Four Years of living an intermittent fasting lifestyle and adapting to maintaining weight loss.

    By Audrey Scott I have been Fasting since June 2020, aged 51, 4 months into the Pandemic. My weight had crept up again despite exercising 4 hours every morning to pass the time and try and keep the weight gain to a minimum. I weighed 230lbs at that point. I read Delay Don’t Deny by Gin Stephens. I can’t remember how I found her on the internet, but I bought her book on Amazon, and it resonated with me so deeply that I finally felt hopeful that I may have discovered a lifestyle that could work for me. With my Nursing background, I understood the concept of Insulin Resistance and suspected that I suffered from this as I’d dieted for over 20 years on and off.  I was slim as a child and always adored food, and I can remember feeling hungry a lot as a girl and not enjoying that sensation My weight gain started when I left home to train as a nurse, with shift patterns and feeling like I had no control over when I would next get to eat on shifts, I began the habit of overeating so I wouldn’t experience hunger. I also discovered fast food and Alcohol and enjoyed the student lifestyle to the fullest!! I knew I was gaining weight but didn’t weigh myself regularly as I didn’t want to know.   This continued for years, I lost weight on a low fat diet after I had my first child only to regain again after I had my second daughter. I began to try to seriously address my weight gain in 2003 when I moved to the USA with my husband and family; at that point, I weighed 266 lbs, my highest recorded weight, and needed to lose some. I lost 40 lbs. That was the start of years of YoYo dieting before I found IF in 2020    I started on an 18/6 protocol, clean fasting from Day 1. I lost 2 lbs of water weight in the first week and nothing for three months! I persevered as I genuinely thought that something would be happening inside of me, and my clothes were getting loose. I had a woosh of a 2 lb loss in October and then lost weight steadily from that point on, about 1 lb per week.  In the December of that year, I started doing a Meatless Monday for the autophagy benefits, and I swiftly moved onto a Hybrid ADF Approach on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays with subsequent Up days and a 4/6 hour window on a Sunday, which means I can be socialable on the weekends with my family.   I have been maintaining my weight around the 170 lb mark for about 18 months, happily fasting with zero plans EVER to stop   I have been married happily for 28 years, have 2 precious adult daughters and two gorgeous rescue cats. I work part-time in a Secondary school as a Learning Support Assistant.  In my free time, I love being with family and friends, doing Zumba, moderate exercise, listening to podcasts, reading, and watching TV.  I love going on holidays/vacations. I try to cruise at least once a year and still fast on these trips, just adapting my windows to what suits you.  I am so grateful to have discovered Fasting; it has given me the tools to make me feel good about myself, and I love to look and feel healthy.

    1h 4m

  2. SEP 15

    Episode 242 Melanie Douglas A passion to share her incredible intermittent fasting lifestyle that has been life changing.

    My name is Melanie Douglas. I live in Bangor, a seaside town in Northern Ireland. I’m 63 and married to John. Between us, we have 5 grown-up children and are expecting our 10th grandchild! I worked as a nurse for 35 years, before changing direction, becoming a Lay Pastor in our local church, before I retired last year! Since retiring, I have had the privilege of being a funeral celebrant … What an honour.. My battle, my torment with my weight, started like so many in my early teenage years…my mum was an amazing cook, and food was central to our family…huge portions, followed by ( IF we cleared our plates) sumptuous desserts…she would tell me when I was tired or grumpy, “ you need to eat”.. whipping out a packet of sweets, to pick me up…thus I learned the lie that sugar was my friend, my comfort, my go-to when life was hard…a deeply- ingrained belief that has sabotaged every diet I have ever tried…and I have tried them all..even becoming a Consultant for Slimming World ( akin to weight watchers) ..which showed me that calorie restriction does not work…I was in despair…true despair…I loved to be slim, longed to be free from the mental torment & Our Patreon Supporters Community Please consider joining the Fasting Highway Patreon community. It has been great for all who have joined. It has become an excellent add-on to our Patreon members' IF lifestyle, who enjoy a lot of bonus content to support them in living an IF life. For less than a cup of coffee a month, you can join and support your own health goals. Graeme hosts three Zoom meetings monthly in the Northern and Southern hemispheres for members to come and get support for their IF lifestyle, which has proven very popular with our Patreon members. You will not find anywhere that provides that kind of support and accountability for just 0.16 cents a day. I cannot urge you more strongly to give it your utmost consideration. Please go to www.patreon.com/thefastinghighway to see the benefits you get back and how to join. Private coaching is available with Graeme one-on-one. Please go to www.thefastinghighway.com, click help get coaching, and book a time that suits you. All times you see are in your local time zone. Graeme's best-selling book, The Fasting Highway, about his journey and how he did it, is available in paperback and Kindle at your local Amazon store. It is also available on audio at Applebooks, Kobo, Spotify, and many other audiobook platforms. Disclaimer: Nothing in this podcast should be taken as medical advice. The opinions expressed herein are those of the host and guest only.

    1h 15m

  3. SEP 8

    Episode 241 Janet Person -An inspiring IF story proving you are never too old to start and thrive.

    I am 67 and have lived in the beautiful Pacific Northwest in Oregon for 42 years.  I have three grown children and am blessed to be close to one son, his family, and my daughter.  My other son, his wife, and their family are just a short flight away in Nevada.  I am also proud of a new, sweet little dog named Hazel.   I have been retired from being a paraprofessional at a small K-12 school since 2013, where I worked for 18 years.  All of my kids attended this school, too.   I fill my time with various activities that I enjoy.  Number one is spending time with family.  I often see my son and family who live near me and spend time with my busy daughter whenever possible.  I travel with my son, who lives nearby, his family, and my daughter to various places in other parts of Oregon.  Whenever I visit my son and his family in Nevada, they take me to different points of interest near them.  I have a sister who lives in California that I am very close to that, I see twice a year.  We love spending time together and getting out in each area where we live to explore the sites.  I enjoy getting out in nature when I can and love taking in all the beauty of where I live.  I like to knit and read, and listen to audiobooks.  Great things to fill the time on a rainy Oregon day.  I also love to do video workouts with Get Fit With Rick, a membership platform that I belong to.  I've been a part of this group for three years, and he led me to IF.  He started an IF challenge with the group and had Laurie Lewis, a fantastic IF coach, on a talk with him. One thing led to another, and I am fasting one year later. After living most of my life on a diet roller coaster, I am very thankful to IF for helping me to be healthy as I age and to be able to maintain my weight.     Our Patreon Supporters Community Please consider joining the Fasting Highway Patreon community. It has been great for all who have joined. It has become an excellent add-on to our Patreon members' IF lifestyle, who enjoy a lot of bonus content to support them in living an IF life. For less than a cup of coffee a month, you can join and support your own health goals. Graeme hosts three Zoom meetings monthly in the Northern and Southern hemispheres for members to come and get support for their IF lifestyle, which has proven very popular with our Patreon members. You will not find anywhere that provides that kind of support and accountability for just 0.16 cents a day. I cannot urge you more strongly to give it your utmost consideration. Please go to www.patreon.com/thefastinghighway to see the benefits you get back and how to join. Private coaching is available with Graeme one-on-one. Please go to www.thefastinghighway.com, click help get coaching, and book a time that suits you. All times you see are in your local time zone. Graeme's best-selling book, The Fasting Highway, about his journey and how he did it, is available in paperback and Kindle at your local Amazon store. It is also available on audio at Applebooks, Kobo, Spotify, and many other audiobook platforms. Disclaimer: Nothing in this podcast should be taken as medical advice. The opinions expressed herein are those of the host and guest only.

    46 min

  4. SEP 1

    Episode 240 Christina Salata A story about more than just weight loss finding the music and joy within an incredible journey.

    Bio for Graeme My name is Christina Sala­ta. I’m 52 years young and mar­ried to My hus­band, who is get­ting ready to re­tire af­ter 30 years as a chica­go fire­fight­er. We have four adult children and two grand­chil­dren. I re­ceived my bach­e­lors of Arts de­gree in so­ci­ol­o­gy and hu­man ser­vices in 1994. I worked in the cor­po­rate world un­til 2008. In 2008, I made a mas­sive life change and be­came a walk­ing mail car­ri­er for the U.S. Po­stal Ser­vi­ce. I am a vo­ra­cious read­er, typ­i­cal­ly in the process of read­ing 3 or 4 dif­fer­ent books on any giv­en day. One I read in the morn­ing be­fore work. One at the end of my workday while wait­ing to punch out. One in the evening af­ter din­ner and one I keep by my bed­side. All vary be­tween his­to­ry, world re­li­gions, phi­los­o­phy, and sci­ence. My fa­vorite say­ing and the thing I’ve learned to say is “I don’t know” be­cause I know when I say that I’m about to learn some­thing new, and I love that! I do yoga al­most every day as a form of move­ment med­i­ta­tion and breath work that I've found ex­treme­ly ben­e­fi­cial for my strug­gles with anx­i­ety. Dis­tance run­ning has also been a nat­ur­al rem­e­dy for my de­pres­sion, and I hope to com­plete my first ultra-marathon in 2025. My pas­sion for the past three years has been writ­ing a fic­tion­al book that is a metaphor for what I see hap­pen­ing in our world and the strug­gles and pain I’ve walked through (well, some­times crawled through) in my life. It is not a project I write for any­one else but for my­self. It has been cathar­tic, and there­fore, I have not put a time­frame on it but let it flow from my brain to my fin­ger­tips as the uni­verse in­tends it to and at its pace. Fast­ing was/is a cat­a­lyst for mas­sive change and heal­ing in my life, my hope in shar­ing my sto­ry is that it res­onates with some­one and, in so do­ing, helps them as well Join Our Patreon Supporters Community Please consider joining the Fasting Highway Patreon community. It has been great for all who have joined. It has become an excellent add-on to our Patreon members' IF lifestyle, who enjoy a lot of bonus content to support them in living an IF life. For less than a cup of coffee a month, you can join and support your own health goals. Graeme hosts three Zoom meetings monthly in the Northern and Southern hemispheres for members to come and get support for their IF lifestyle, which has proven very popular with our Patreon members. You will not find anywhere that provides that kind of support and accountability for just 0.16 cents a day. I cannot urge you more strongly to give it your utmost consideration. Please go to www.patreon.com/thefastinghighway to see the benefits you get back and how to join. Private coaching is available with Graeme one-on-one. Please go to www.thefastinghighway.com, click help get coaching, and book a time that suits you. All times you see are in your local time zone. Graeme's best-selling book, The Fasting Highway, about his journey and how he did it, is available in paperback and Kindle at your local Amazon store. It is also available on audio at Applebooks, Kobo, Spotify, and many other audiobook platforms. Disclaimer: Nothing in this podcast should be taken as medical advice. The opinions expressed herein are those of the host and guest only.

    1h 3m

  5. AUG 25

    Episode 239 Tonya Kortekaas -Losing 155 pounds -70 Kg and discovering a new style of eating that worked

    Tonya Kortekaas lives in Pontiac, Michigan, with her husband, Michael, of 11 years. She is the mother of three adult sons and a “bonus” mom to Michael’s three children. Tonya spent most of her adult life as a stay-at-home mom of 3 growing boys and self-employed as a portrait photographer.  She felt that her most important mission in life was to raise her children and give them all the care and love they deserved.  She has been good at putting her family before her own needs, but the costs of that have been not caring for her mind and body as she should.  As her children have become adults and she has had more time to work on herself, she has entered into the full time working world and currently works for Oakland University.  She enjoys outdoor walks, kayaking, biking, watercolour painting and coffee in her free time. Tonya has struggled with her weight since her early 20s. She realizes that emotional eating and overindulging in sweets have been her issues.   She has tried countless diets, which have allowed her to lose weight but eventually gain it all back and more over the years.  At her annual physical exam in March of 2022, she was confronted with the highest weight of her lifetime at 349 lbs. and a BMI of 51.  Her blood pressure was soaring to a dangerous high, and her blood tests showed she was pre-diabetic.  She knew at that moment it was time for a significant change. She was sick of living life with this ongoing weight struggle and longed deeply to be a “normal” "-sized person.  Little did she know that change was going to lead her to an intermittent fasting lifestyle and complete freedom from her struggles with eating.  She’s lost 155 lbs over 26 months of her weight loss journey. Since being on the podcast in February of 2023, episode 161, Tonya has discovered the benefits of a carnivore lifestyle and has noticed numerous health benefits by cutting the sugar and processed foods out of her life.     Our Patreon Supporters Community Please consider joining the Fasting Highway Patreon community. It has been great for all who have joined. It has become an excellent add-on to our Patreon members' IF lifestyle, who enjoy a lot of bonus content to support them in living an IF life. For less than a cup of coffee a month, you can join and support your own health goals. Graeme hosts three Zoom meetings monthly in the Northern and Southern hemispheres for members to come and get support for their IF lifestyle, which has proven very popular with our Patreon members. You will not find anywhere that provides that kind of support and accountability for just 0.16 cents a day. I cannot urge you more strongly to give it your utmost consideration. Please go to www.patreon.com/thefastinghighway to see the benefits you get back and how to join. Private coaching is available with Graeme one-on-one. Please go to www.thefastinghighway.com, click help get coaching, and book a time that suits you. All times you see are in your local time zone. Graeme's best-selling book, The Fasting Highway, about his journey and how he did it, is available in paperback and Kindle at your local Amazon store. It is also available on audio at Applebooks, Kobo, Spotify, and many other audiobook platforms. Disclaimer: Nothing in this podcast should be taken as medical advice. The opinions expressed herein are those of the host and guest only.

    48 min

  6. AUG 18

    Episode 238 Belle Swartz -Celebrating seven years living an intermittent fasting lifestyle

    This week is Belle’s 7 year “fastiversary”.  She started fasting at age 51 when she was still in perimenopause and could not lose a stubborn 10 pounds no matter what she did! And now she is almost 59 and at over 2500 fasts.  She is a L*IF*ER! Belle is married and has two children, ages 22 and 24 and a dog.  She likes to keep busy by working a full-time and a part-time job and volunteering at a dog rescue on her day off.  In her free time, she enjoys taking her dog and foster dog for walks, gardening, playing pickleball and canasta, spending time with friends and family, listening to podcasts, watching a good series on Netflix and travelling. Her husband, Neil, jumped on the fasting bandwagon a few years ago after seeing the fantastic results that Belle was getting with body re-composition and autophagy. They have different daily fasting schedules, but make it work. Fasting is a way of life for Belle now and just second nature.  She recently travelled to Italy with her daughter and managed to keep up a fasting routine on the go!  She often bends her fasting schedule to enjoy dinner with friends and a later eating window. Belle has been part of the fasting highway Facebook group since its inception and has been on two previous podcasts, numbers 4 and 157. Belle is here to talk about the “big picture” of fasting and how it has changed her total outlook on her way of eating. It is anything but a diet!

    1h 0m

  7. AUG 11

    Episode 237 Ryan Smith Co author of Unbelievable Freedom Shares his insights into a seven year Intermittent Fasting Journey .

    Ryan Smith has struggled with his weight since childhood. After years of yo-yo dieting and chasing nutritional trends, he finally created his own personal transformation story after discovering the power of fasting. He and his wife Kim went on to co-author Unbelievable Freedom: How We Transformed Our Health & Happiness with Intermittent Fasting. He shares his life-changing fasting practice to encourage others to make positive changes in their own lives. Fasting is the Foundation: A Real Man’s View of Unbelievable Freedom is his second published work.  Since reaching weight loss maintenance, Ryan has continued his fasting practice and is exploring the role of anxiety in weight management.  Our Patreon Supporters Community Please consider joining the Fasting Highway Patreon community. It has been great for all who have joined. It has become an excellent add-on to our Patreon members' IF lifestyle, who enjoy a lot of bonus content to support them in living an IF life. For less than a cup of coffee a month, you can join and support your own health goals. Graeme hosts three Zoom meetings monthly in the Northern and Southern hemispheres for members to come and get support for their IF lifestyle, which has proven very popular with our Patreon members. You will not find anywhere that provides that kind of support and accountability for just 0.16 cents a day. I cannot urge you more strongly to give it your utmost consideration. Please go to www.patreon.com/thefastinghighway to see the benefits you get back and how to join. Private coaching is available with Graeme one-on-one. Please go to www.thefastinghighway.com, click help get coaching, and book a time that suits you. All times you see are in your local time zone. Graeme's best-selling book, The Fasting Highway, about his journey and how he did it, is available in paperback and Kindle at your local Amazon store. It is also available on audio at Applebooks, Kobo, Spotify, and many other audiobook platforms. Disclaimer: Nothing in this podcast should be taken as medical advice. The opinions expressed herein are those of the host and guest only.

    1h 0m

  8. AUG 4

    Episode 236 Maria Murphy A life of battles with weight and finally findng success with Intermittent Fasting.

    Maria is a 35-year-old mother of two young daughters and married to her best friend. They live in central NY in the United States. She is a Certified Health Coach and works for her husband's real estate investing company. She has struggled with her weight for most of her life, which prompted her to go to college in 2006 to study nutrition and public health at Syracuse University. After graduating, she married and started her family before pursuing her career. She's been a stay-at-home mom while the kids were younger. She has always struggled with emotional eating. After a few traumatic events in her past, she reached her highest weight in 2017. At only 5'4" tall, she weighed in at 225 and felt like she constantly had to find clothing to cover up instead of what she wanted to wear. She was humiliated and desperately wanted a change. She tried practically every diet out there. During the fall of 2018, she decided to run to help lose weight since the calorie-restriction diets were not working. By the fall of 2019, she had completed her first marathon and had lost a good bit of weight; however, when she stopped the diet program, she regained it again. During the pandemic in 2020, she decided to pursue her career dream of becoming a health coach to help herself and others find happiness and freedom the way she desperately wanted to do on her own. After graduating from the Institute of Integrative Nutrition, she found she wanted to focus more on the science behind weight loss and pursued a certification with Primal Health Coaching. She found Intermittent Fasting there and began a 16:8 protocol in June of 2022. She stopped fasting due to stress in her life and found herself eating through her emotions. She regained some of what she lost, but then discovered Gin Stephens and the clean fast which led her to also find Graeme and the Fasting Highway. She is coming up on her new 1-year fast-iversary and is within 15 pounds of her goal weight. She's determined to help spread the word about how life-changing and beneficial IF can be! Our Patreon Supporters Community Please consider joining the Fasting Highway Patreon community. It has been great for all who have joined. It has become an excellent add-on to our Patreon members' IF lifestyle, who enjoy a lot of bonus content to support them in living an IF life. For less than a cup of coffee a month, you can join and support your own health goals. Graeme hosts three Zoom meetings monthly in the Northern and Southern hemispheres for members to come and get support for their IF lifestyle, which has proven very popular with our Patreon members. You will not find anywhere that provides that kind of support and accountability for just 0.16 cents a day. I cannot urge you more strongly to give it your utmost consideration. Please go to www.patreon.com/thefastinghighway to see the benefits you get back and how to join. Private coaching is available with Graeme one-on-one. Please go to www.thefastinghighway.com, click help get coaching, and book a time that suits you. All times you see are in your local time zone. Graeme's best-selling book, The Fasting Highway, about his journey and how he did it, is available in paperback and Kindle at your local Amazon store. It is also available on audio at Applebooks, Kobo, Spotify, and many other audiobook platforms. Disclaimer: Nothing in this podcast should be taken as medical advice. The opinions expressed herein are those of the host and guest only.

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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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  • Creator
    Graeme Currie
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2024
  • Episodes
    247
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    © Graeme Currie
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    The Fasting Highway

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