Fast and Fabulous

Ashley Siegfried,  a 44 yr old part-time fitness instructor and stay-at-home mom to 3 children ages 12, 10, and 8 from Parker, CO, a suburb south of Denver.  Ashley and has lost an incredible 25 lbs with clean IF!  Ashley spent her entire adult life constantly restricting food and over-exercising just to maintain her weight. Even though she was never technically overweight but always on the higher side of what is considered normal for her height and felt uncomfortable. Like so many of us, Ashley always listened to what we’ve been told our entire life -  “to eat several small meals” throughout the day… which just makes us hungry all the time! 3 years ago, Ashley was on a skiing trip and was hit by another skier and tore her left ACL and most of the cartilage in her left knee. Ashley’s days of super high intense cardio for hours was over… that combined with being in her forties her weight just started to creep up. Ashley had heard of IF before but always dismissed it since she was maintaining her weight by deprivation and over exercising just fine, right?  Today, Ashley’s been maintaining her 25lb weight loss now for over 4 months!  She now exercises for fun and could not care less about counting calories. Ashley believes this lifestyle is the easiest way to enjoy foods you love and stay at a healthy weight.

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Erika Billings, a 38 year old full time wife and mom of four (ages 16, 12, 10 and 8) from New Brunswick, Canada .  Erika has been a stay at home mom since having her third baby in 2011.  She enjoys spending time with her family - especially going on hikes and spending time in nature.

After many years of struggling with her weight, it reached an all-time high in 2019.  Although she didn't have any health issues at the time, she knew she had to make a change.   Erika knew from past experiences that dieting was not a long-term solution and wanted something that was going to be sustainable. 

In January 2020, her husband suggested intermittent fasting after reading about it online.  Shortly after she found the Delay, Don't Deny:  Intermittent Fasting Support Facebook group and on January 10, 2020 - a Friday of all days - she pressed the "start fast" button on her timer for the very first time and hasn't looked back.  

Now, over two years later and with 70 lbs gone, Erika still looks forward to each new fast and is happy to say that this has truly became her lifestyle.  

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Renee Letourneau, a 47yo,  wife, mother of three, and former ICU Registered Nurse turned stay at home mom shares her inspirational story.  Renee began her intermittent fasting journey in February of 2021 after finding herself in the obese category from retained baby weight following each pregnancy and what she presumed to be hormonal imbalances that began around age 40. Intermittent fasting was the key to helping Renee lose 50+ pounds and get her health back on track!

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Netta Gorman, a 52yo mom and teacher - originally from the UK, now living in Canada. 

Until the age of 45, Netta had always eaten "normally"... that is, 3 meals a day, sometimes a snack or two, and treats on special occasions (well, every day was a special occasion...!). She was a self-identified sweet tooth and not a day went by without her eating chocolate, cookies, or some kind of sweets. She didn't have a problem with this and was lucky in that she didn't have a weight problem - maybe an extra 15lbs over the years, at the most. But weight isn't the only sign of health. From her early thirties Netta had been suffering from a very slow digestion, with bloating and pain, as well as infertility issues, depression, anxiety, and mood swings, achy joints and signs of a fatty liver. In July 2015, after months of resisting the idea, Netta tried the unthinkable: she cut out sugar, sweeteners and flour. Just for a period of two weeks - no more! 

But after only a few days she started feeling so much more energetic! Within a few weeks, her extra weight and cravings disappeared, as well as her cellulite, PMS, and frequent headaches. She had better concentration and mental clarity, better digestion, less joint stiffness, less swelling (no more inflammation), clearer, more glowing skin, and her moods stabilized. 

Intermittent fasting came naturally as a result of appetite correction a few months after she cut sugar. Now she eats once or twice a day, is never bothered with cravings or the need to snack, and enjoys her food like never before. Netta now enjoys a more healthy relationship with food because she sees it as a delicious and fun way to nourish herself, not as a calculation of macros and calories. She also has a better self-esteem (because she feels and looks so great!). And it's been almost 7 years!   

Netta also learned how to make her own probiotic (fermented) foods and drinks as a delicious way to look after her gut health. She makes her own yogurt, kefir, kombucha and lacto-fermented sauerkraut and kimchi. 

Netta has an online private FB community (the After Sugar Club), a website (link below), a YouTube channel and a popular podcast called Life After Sugar. In her community, Netta teaches small but powerful mindset shifts to make your lifestyle joyful and sustainable so that you can feel healthier with more energy and confidence... and less sugar! 

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Graeme Currie, 59, from Perth, Australia whose insights and passion for intermittent fasting came from living a successful fasting lifestyle losing an incredible 132lbs (62kg)!  He completely turned around his health in a stunning transformation over fifteen months with clean intermittent fasting. He also overcame a debilitating sugar and fast food addiction.

Graeme has a complete understanding of what it is like to go on such a huge weight loss journey and live the highs and lows to finally find success and a healthy lifestyle, after being morbidly obese for nearly all of his adult life.

He has been in maintenance for three years and has experienced health benefits that were unimaginable to him before he discovered this way of living.

He is the author of the Amazon best seller The Fasting Highway (Amazon link below) and his Facebook support Group of the same name is rapidly growing and is a global community.

He has successfully mentored  and coached hundreds of  people all over the world and helped them find good health and wellness through his own experiences.

Stats
Age 59
Height 6ft 5
SW 357 pounds (160 kg)
CW  224 pounds (102 Kg)

You can get in touch with Graeme at his website or IG below.

www.thefastinghighway.com

Instagram:  @graemecurrie_63

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Susan Metz, originally from Stratford, New Zealand, now lives with her husband in Maryland and works in web marketing in the health care industry. 

Susan was over-weight from the time she hit puberty and by her mid-20’s, she had reached her highest weight of 210 pounds - It was time for change. She started eating healthy foods on a calorie restricted diet and lost 50 pounds, then stalled. In 2018, Susan had moved to the US and met her husband (who btw is a fantastic cook!). Along with a new relationship came steadily increasing weight gain. Late December 2018, she was introduced to Gin Stephen’s book, Delay, Don’t Deny. Her journey took 18 months to reach her goal. She has been maintaining her weight for 2 years and her husband has now finally joined her already having amazing results! Susan is an avid broadcaster and supporter of Intermittent Fasting  and has started an incredibly inspiring website called intermittingfastingsuccess.com – check it out!

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Susanne Clarke, a 53 yo wife, mom and grandma from Canada.  Susanne is 4'11" and has lost an incredible 55 pounds with clean IF in about a year and a half and has been maintaining since.  She is coming up on her 2yr IF anniversary and is happily living this lifestyle and maintaining a healthy weight for the first time in her life. Susanne has suffered multiple health issues including a chronic pain condition which IF has greatly improved her quality of life and allowed her to lower her dose of daily pain medication. 

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Joyce Holthaus from N. Illinois, a 68yr old wife of 41 yrs to her amazing husband and has 2 grown and married children and 5 grandchildren. Joyce had struggled with her weight since she was quite young and has yo-yoed up and down all her life having struggled with compulsive overeating as well. Joyce found herself at an uncomfortable weight  and decided in November 2020 to start intermittent fasting. She was really looking at it for the anti-aging benefits as well as weight loss. Joyce had a goal weight in mind when she started and now a year and a half into this lifestyle is 13 lbs lighter. Joyce LOVES intermittent fasting so much that she has become a certified IF coach and teaches Gin Stephens' way of fasting- CLEAN. Through her coaching business, Joyce has helped over 30 women lose weight and regain their health. 

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Kimberly Ruffini, a 50yo wife and mama to 3 adults sons. Originally from FL, Kimberly and her husband now live in western New York for the past 16 years where she works at a university.  Like so many, Kimberly has struggled with her weight for almost 2 decades and had tried so many different diets, constantly losing and gaining weight over and over again. Her son and daughter-in-law introduced her to intermittent fasting and on January 11, 2021 she began her journey.  It was not until 2 weeks in, she came across Gin Stephens’ NY Times best seller, Delay, Don’t Deny and has been clean fasting ever since. Kimberly has lost 55 pounds total and 6 sizes not to mention some amazing non scale victories!!

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Greg Bal, a 63yo semi-retired interim manager, husband and father who  lives just west of Boston with his wife, Stephanie.  He has a grown daughter who works in social work and 2 step sons who are seniors in college.  After reading Fast, Feast, Repeat by Gin Stephens, Greg and his wife decided to give clean IF a try.  Over a year later, Greg is down 57lbs and counting! Greg enjoys hiking and skiing and strives to get in between 8-10k steps a day and learned long ago that he could be “overweight but fit” knowing exercise without diet would not work! 

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