Fast and Fabulous (Michelle Montone)
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| 12 Feb 2022 | 🔒 Episode 1 - Melissa Denny | 00:55:13 | |
Melissa Denny is a wife and mom from Brighton, CO. She teaches literacy at a K8 school and has a 6yo daughter and 3yo son. She is an avid endurance runner and has completed 5 marathons and hopes to complete her first ultra marathon this fall. Her Intermittent Fasting journey started over a year after she had her son and was struggling to lose the baby weight through diet and exercise and felt like she was out of options. She had heard about Intermittent Fasting years ago and never thought she could do it let alone be successful with it. Over 2.5yrs later, she is down over 50lbs and continuing to follow an IF lifestyle. She also supports several IF and running related support groups on FB and via her personal IG page. To follow Melissa's journey on Instagram @run_fast_eat . https://fastandfabulouspodcast.com | |||
| 25 Feb 2022 | 🔒 Episode 2- Lisa Jasunas | 00:58:47 | |
Join me for an inspiring chat with Lisa Jasunas, a 35 year old wife and mother of 2, living with PCOS (otherwise known as polycystic ovarian syndrome) a hormone disorder that is a leading cause of insulin resistance, infertility & weight gain. By day she is career motivated and works in manufacturing. Her evenings are spent juggling busy youth sports schedules and chasing a two year old. She has released 145 lbs, losing the majority of the weight during the pandemic lock down after finding Intermittent Fasting in October of 2019. She believes self-care keeps your glass half full and enjoys reading self-empowering material, lake life, traveling, music, and spending time with friends and family. Since her oldest son unexpectedly passed away in 2010, she continues to motivate those around her to keep the belief that life is worth living, even when it gets too tough to bear. Being a mentor at heart, she will spend forever helping others see the hope within. Intermittent fasting was the missing piece of her life that freed her from decades of morbid obesity, provided metabolic health, and grounds her through the chaos of life. https://fastandfabulouspodcast.com | |||
| 04 Mar 2022 | 🔒 Episode 3 - Rita B. | 00:55:44 | |
Rita B., a 40yo working mom who loves hiking, being a hockey mama and running. She has lived all over the world from Brazil, Canada, to the UK and now calls NY home. After decades of yo-yo dieting and undergoing weight loss surgery, clean Intermittent Fasting has been the only method that has not only helped Rita release 80lbs but has repaired her relationship with food and freed her of diet mentality. Like many moms, Rita hid from the camera when she was overweight and because of that she has very little photos of her and her children when they were young and found it difficult to keep up with their energy at nearly 300 lbs. Now that Rita has been living at a healthy weight, she has loads of energy to be the best version of herself and live a life of optimal health.
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| 11 Mar 2022 | 🔒 Episode 4 - Greg Bal | 00:29:47 | |
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! https://fastandfabulouspodcast.com | |||
| 28 Mar 2022 | 🔒 Episode 5 - Kimberly Ruffini | 00:27:42 | |
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!! https://fastandfabulouspodcast.com | |||
| 04 Apr 2022 | 🔒 Episode 6 - Joyce Holthaus | 00:42:42 | |
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. https://fastandfabulouspodcast.com | |||
| 11 Apr 2022 | 🔒 Episode 7 - Susanne Clarke | 00:38:13 | |
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. https://fastandfabulouspodcast.com | |||
| 18 Apr 2022 | 🔒 Episode 8 - Susan Metz | 00:39:13 | |
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! https://fastandfabulouspodcast.com | |||
| 24 Apr 2022 | 🔒 Episode 9 - Graeme Currie | 00:42:19 | |
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. https://fastandfabulouspodcast.com | |||
| 02 May 2022 | 🔒 Episode 10 - Netta Gorman | 00:41:19 | |
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! 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! https://fastandfabulouspodcast.com | |||
| 09 May 2022 | Episode 11 - Renee Letourneau | 00:31:54 | |
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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| 16 May 2022 | Episode 12 - Erika Billings | 00:33:50 | |
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. 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. https://fastandfabulouspodcast.com | |||
| 13 Jun 2022 | Episode 13 - Ashley Siegfried | 00:30:26 | |
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. https://fastandfabulouspodcast.com | |||
| 20 Jun 2022 | Episode 14 - Lisa Glick | 00:30:43 | |
Lisa Glick, a retired music educator from Mid-Hudson Valley, NY - now living in Tucson, AZ. She is an ultra-runner, an avid hiker, fitness instructor and singer! Her passion for the outdoors, music and community service are tools she uses to stay well and grateful, along with good nutrition and of course, IF! https://fastandfabulouspodcast.com | |||
| 27 Jun 2022 | Episode 15 - Christine Morales | 00:45:49 | |
Christine Morales is 59yo and lives with her husband in Florida. Before Christine turned nine years old, she was a “skinny” child (actually, normal weight for my height/age). She was raised by her grandparents from the ages of 2 to 9 and were traditional 3 meal a day folks (natural IF without even trying). They did not snack and portions were naturally sensible, never “diet” minded, but not huge either. They had dessert with every dinner, be it canned fruit, or her grandmother’s delicious flan- she was an amazing cook. Christine's father remarried when she was turning 9, and she went to live with him and her new stepmom (“mom” from there on out). Her mom was well meaning, but she overfed everyone. The chunky kid is a healthy kid thought was deep in her. Sweets were plentiful, they ate between meals and were served large portions. Christine went through severe emotional trauma as a young child and later learned to assuage her hurt with food - she had an uncle who weight trained and was part of bodybuilding competitions. Her Uncle, grandfather and sometimes father were hyper focused on weight. The greeting she'd get was 1st: How are your grades? and 2nd: You’ve gained weight. Her grandfather even pointed out the difference between her and a tall svelte friend she had in high school. Her family was not well versed in confidence building. She was to be seen, not heard. Christine entered the military, married, had children, and watched her weight fluctuate between 114, topping out at 174 pounds (in a non-pregnant state); She is just under 5’1”. Diet mentality had her jumping from incessant calorie counting to fad dieting, always not sustainable. In 2017/2018 intermittent fasting came into her awareness. She read many articles and experimented with having her 1st meal in the afternoon. About 2019, she read Brad Pilon’s Eat-Stop-Eat, her first book on the topic. She dropped 30lbs very quickly. Her husband was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s dementia around the same time (2019… all the signs were there over a year earlier) and became his full-time sole caregiver (it’s been 3 years now). Her doctor insisted she take an anti-depressant, an SSRI, Lexapro was prescribed, and she reluctantly took it - had every side effect listed and put on 26 pounds. https://fastandfabulouspodcast.com | |||
| 23 Jul 2022 | Episode 16 - Lizzie Akers | 00:40:56 | |
Lizzie is a mother of 2 and married to her husband for 12 years who since adopted IF into his life for health reasons. Lizzie had been an overweight person most of her life. Once she hit puberty ,she was about 10-15 lbs overweight. Although she struggled with her weight, she did not try any crazy diets but if she wanted to lose any weight, she had to run daily and eat around 1200 calories/day. When she was tired of that, she would just gain the weight back. Lizzie was introduced to IF in 2018 but was not successful because she was not fasting CLEAN. In February 2021, she was introduced to clean fasting and has lost an incredible 70 lbs since! https://fastandfabulouspodcast.com | |||
| 29 Aug 2022 | Episode 17 - Robyn Gilleran | 00:29:15 | |
Robyn Gilleran is an actor/model and stand-up comic in the Detroit, MI area. She is the mother of two teenage boys and has struggled with maintaining a healthy weight since childhood. Despite being active and watching she ate, she found it harder and harder to lose weight into her late 40s. After seeing the scale hit her pregnancy weight she found Gin Stephen’s book, Delay Don’t Deny - and my Facebook support group shortly after and decided to give clean fasting a try. She has lost 25 pounds and found a new lease on life through menopause happily not hiding behind giant sweaters. https://fastandfabulouspodcast.com | |||
| 26 Sep 2022 | Episode 18 - Beth Anundi | 00:38:10 | |
Beth was born and raised in the stunning Willamette Valley in the middle of Oregon. She taught literature, writing, and communications classes for 16 years at the college level before jumping into entrepreneurship. In 2011, Beth co-founded Capital Pawn & Couture with her husband, Adam. Their three grown children work in the business alongside them. Beth is passionate about spending time with family and friend, a lover of wine, trees, travel, books, Disney, Converse, good food, and the pawn industry. Today, with two full years of successful fasting, she can say she is passionate about fasting as well as inspiring others to be the healthiest version of themselves. https://fastandfabulouspodcast.com | |||
| 12 Oct 2022 | Episode 19 - The Holiday Special | 00:34:54 | |
Mid October we start to have what I like to call “holiday panic mode” - for a number of reasons – but the foods/drinks that come along with the season are such a huge part of the holidays... I thought, how amazing it would be to answer your questions whether it’s your first holiday season as a faster or you’re simply trying to take your power back and have a healthy relationship with all your holiday favorites without the stress and guilt of gaining that dreaded holiday weight. https://fastandfabulouspodcast.com | |||
| 13 Nov 2022 | Episode 20 - Julie Stone | 00:18:30 | |
Julie Stone is a 57yo mom who had tried SO many diets to loose weight over the years without success…until she discovered clean intermittent fasting in April, 2020. By the end of 2021, Julie had released an astonishing 64lbs! Tune in to hear her inspiring story! https://fastandfabulouspodcast.com | |||
| 06 Dec 2022 | Episode 21 - Becca Young | 00:31:28 | |
Becca is a 50yo, wife, mother, mother-in-law and grandmother. She’s been married for almost 29 years with 4 adult kids ranging from 27 down to 20. She has recently delved into the world of illustration and enjoys nearly all things art. Her motivation for wanting to slim down and live a healthier life was most certainly her family and wanting to be able to live a life where she could say a lot more YES to activities and adventure! Becca hit rock bottom 3.5 years ago when she weighed just over 160lbs. At only 5ft, she was very uncomfortable, struggling to find clothes that she felt sufficiently hid her body and was abstaining from activities that she used to enjoy. Through clean IF, Becca has released over 30lbs and is living her best life now! http://fastandfabulouspodcast.com https://fastandfabulouspodcast.com | |||
| 20 Jan 2023 | Episode 22 - Star McEuen | 01:02:02 | |
Meet Star McEuen from Arizona! Star is a 40yo mom of SIX, Wife, Fasting Coach, Influencer, Author and downright badass. Most Star's life was focused on her weight- she always wanted to be “skinny and/or fit”. She had tried every “diet” out there to lose weight, did all the at home workouts, went to the gym, became a personal trainer herself, hired a nutritionist...and they all lead to the same place, failure, disappoint and defeat. She turned 35 years old and no matter what she did to lose weight before, nothing was working this time and the weight just pilled on. Star's last recorded weight was in May of 2019 at 210lbs. She was at the darkest point in her life - depressed and deteriorating health, tired and felt out of options. Then in August of 2019, she found intermittent fasting (IF) through her high school best friend who had been sharing about her IF journey on social media. Her friend had lost weight successfully and said it was fairly easy - she recommended Star try it. She read Delay, Don't Deny by Gin Stephens and started with a clean fast aiming for a 19 hour fast and 5 hour eating window protocol with an OMAD (One Meal A Day) lifestyle. By February 2020 she had reached her first goal weight of 140lbs. In April of 2020 she started implementing one "meal-less" day a week and by August of 2020 (one year of IF) she had lost a total of 81lbs!! Her new goal now is to get to 20+ hours fasted each day, with a 1-3 hour eating window (with the occasional shorter fasts and longer eating windows depending on her day). A huge game changer for Star was breaking her fast with her main meal instead of a snack. For months she broke with a snack, then had a meal, then if she felt the need for something else she would have it. One day, her body stopped liking this protocol. Each fast was getting harder, she wanted 2 meals all of a sudden- it took her awhile to pinpoint what was going on... she was breaking her fast with a snack, but her snack would be so BIG, that when dinner came, she wasn’t very hungry. This lead to her not getting enough protein or nutrients to sustain her fast the next day. Once she started breaking her fast with her main meal, fasting felt easy and good again. IF has taught Star to be mindful of everything that goes into her body and to eat for nutrition and purpose, it has taught her to think nutrients NOT calories. She is no longer a prisoner to food, food is not the enemy - too much circulating insulin is the problem. IF helps us regulate All our hormones and helps us learn how to trust ourselves around food again. https://fastandfabulouspodcast.com | |||
| 27 Jan 2023 | Episode 23 - Justin Claypool | 00:46:43 | |
Meet Justin Claypool! Justin is 33yo, born in Klamath Falls, OR and currently residing in Clarkston, WA. Justin was prediabetic from an early age and overweight his entire life. At his highest weight he was 375+ lbs. In 2017, he decided to start his journey to good health at 28yo. Through whole foods and intermittent fasting, he has been able to lose over 150lbs & keep it off! Justin has now shifted his focus from losing weight to building muscle and longevity. https://fastandfabulouspodcast.com | |||
| 03 Feb 2023 | Episode 24 - Joyce Holthaus (update) | 00:54:39 | |
So happy to have Joyce Holthaus join us again on the show! Joyce was episode 6 and we have been connecting ever since and wanted her to come back on because she brings such a light to our community. Joyce is 69yr old, wife of 42 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, and struggled with compulsive overeating. She found herself at an uncomfortable weight, full of inflammation and pain – so, in November 2020 she decided 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, over 2 years into this lifestyle, she not only has released over 30lbs - she does not look anywhere near her age at all . Joyce LOVES intermittent fasting so much that she had become a certified IF coach and helped many women find optimal health and release excess weight. Today, she is taking a break from the coaching world and breaking into something else exciting that we chat about! IG @lifemadewell https://fastandfabulouspodcast.com | |||
| 10 Feb 2023 | Episode 25 - Lisa Fischer | 00:43:48 | |
Lisa Fischer is a longtime radio and tv personality in Arkansas and is now a certified integrative nutrition health coach. She embarked on intermittent fasting in 2017 and it changed her life so much she is devoting it to helping others reach their health goals by becoming metabolically fit. She and her husband are celebrating their 35th year of marriage and are the parents of three outstanding grown children and two really cute granddaughters. You can find her both her podcasts - The Lisa Fischer Said podcast & The Lisa and Larry Show - at her website below (or any great platform). Lisa is also on IG @lisafischersaid https://fastandfabulouspodcast.com | |||
| 27 Feb 2023 | Episode 26 - Amy Jo Holcomb | 01:00:37 | |
Amy Jo Holcomb is a busy wife, mother, small business owner, health coach, and high school and college English teacher. She and her husband Rush have been married 25 years and their son was just married last summer, so today they’re enjoying being empty nesters. Four years ago, Amy Jo had struggled just enjoying life and keeping up with her many responsibilities was overwhelming. She was ballooning back up to her all time highest weight of 300 lbs and suffering from debilitating nerve pain from a hip injury that led to labral repair surgery in December of 2016. Morbidly obese her entire adult life, she gave IF a try in January of 2020 after two coworkers had been doing a version of it through a program sponsored by their school’s insurance. The rest, as they say, is history. Since IF day one on January 6, 2020, Amy Jo has lost 92 pounds and is no longer in pain or taking strong meds that helped her merely function daily. She is living her life and coaching others in how to make intermittent fasting their forever lifestyle. https://fastandfabulouspodcast.com | |||
| 24 Mar 2023 | Episode 27 - Tami Durcan | 01:09:20 | |
Tami Durcan is a 57 year old home care nurse who lives in a small town called Tipp City, Ohio, but spends half the year in San Antonio, Texas with her wonderful husband and dog! Tami began intermittent fasting on Halloween of 2019, and has been fasting every day since. With daily fasting, and some light exercise she was able to release 35 pounds and feels better than she has in a long time. She’s now comfortably at 125 pounds and in a size 4/6. Tami knows this is the correct lifestyle for her because she has lost the extra weight post menopause and has been in maintenance since. All of her lab work is within normal limits which is her biggest win of all and plans to embrace IF as a lifestyle forever. https://fastandfabulouspodcast.com | |||
| 28 Apr 2023 | Episode 28 - Martin Sher | 00:33:25 | |
Martin Sher is a 71-year-old retired CEO of an 84-year-old family business and has been retired for about 15 years. His passion is to do whatever he can to spread the word about the incredible health benefits of intermittent fasting. He has lost about 50 pounds on his own customized plan along with intermittent fasting that has been able to allow him to maintain the loss, plus an additional 10lbs! He has maintained his weight loss for about 15 years now. In his retirement, he kept the title CEO, but changed the description to the “Chief Eating Officer.” Martin believes everyone should be the “Chief Eating Officer” of their own mind, body, and spirit. Email: mailto:msher@amsher.com https://fastandfabulouspodcast.com | |||
| 19 May 2023 | Episode 29 - April Pinto | 00:57:37 | |
April Pinto is a 42 year old photographer and crazy chicken lady. She is married with a 17 year old who is graduating this week and two chihuahuas. April had neglected her health and weight for years and had developed Type 2 diabetes, high cholesterol, candida, lived with constant acid reflux, and was overall sluggish, achy and unwell. She hit 280lbs without realizing it. Despite being plant based for years, she had developed terrible eating habits, late night eating and constant snacking. She began IF last September and this week it will be her 8th month of clean fasting magic and has lost 53lbs so far, has reversed her diabetes, has amazing cholesterol levels today, her candida is GONE, and the acid reflux and aches have completely disappeared! April practices OMAD - one meal a day - and lives a NON-restrictive lifestyle. https://fastandfabulouspodcast.com | |||
| 18 Jul 2023 | Episode 30 - Carol Cason | 00:39:25 | |
Carol Cason is 58yo, single mom of 2 grown sons from the United Kingdom where she works in a sedentary job as a medical secretary. At 5 ft tall, Carol was uncomfortable after putting on weight when she split with her ex-husband. She started clean intermittent fasting in March 2021 and embraced it fully. Carol has been OMAD (one meal a day) since. It is now her way of life and she absolutely loves it! Not only has she released 28lbs (2 stone) but has had so many NSVs (none scale victories) along the way. Carol says she will never stop clean fasting just for the health benefits alone. https://fastandfabulouspodcast.com | |||
| 25 Jul 2023 | Episode 31 - Al Montone (my Husband!) | 00:23:21 | |
Al Montone is 45yo and proud to call this guy my husband! He is 5'11'' and began his IF journey at 250lbs back in 2020 - after persevering through a year and a half plateau, the weight finally started coming back off in January of 2023. Having struggled with weight his entire life, he has finally found success in clean IF and plans to make this his forever lifestyle. To date, he's released 45lbs! He is still working on his last 20 and finally wanted to come on and share his experience. Hooray! https://fastandfabulouspodcast.com | |||
| 29 Jul 2023 | Episode 32 - Lisa Glick | 00:50:20 | |
If you’ve been tuning in, you will recall Lisa Glick was episode 14 in June of last year - since then, she’s been up to a LOT and I just had to catch up! Lisa is a 63yo retired music educator, performer, dancer, vocalist, trail runner, fitness instructor and carnivore/IF coach. Lisa, like many, has a long history of disordered eating, weight and health struggles - including depression and anxiety. After years of low -fat, restricting, calorie counting, & obsessing about food - Lisa found keto in 2014 which led to IF. Lisa is still evolving and adjusting as life flows through phases. She is now keto/carnivore (meat based diet) consisting of real, whole foods - including good fats. She is a low-carb, fat-fueled athlete and includes IF in her active , productive lifestyle! FB ~ Lisa Zucker Glick or Lisa G Fitness IG ~ @glicklisa https://open.spotify.com/show/2OeVJOGbr9ymKdif4TNRSM?si=4531b35fc2d04db2 https://fastandfabulouspodcast.com | |||
| 07 Sep 2023 | Episode 33 - Donna Sherman | 00:58:20 | |
Donna Sherman has worked as a licensed clinical social worker and therapist (MSW,LCSW) in hospitals, mental health clinics, universities and private practice. Much of Donna's work is focused on offering evidence-based, effective tools to help with pain management, anxiety, enhancing focus and developing positive health- promoting behaviors. In addition to her work as a behavioral consultant and coach, Donna is a long-time teacher of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, MIndfulness-Based Interventions, Meditation and Yoga; all of which she offers to individuals, community groups, school systems and businesses. She is also a very seasoned intermittent faster and has quite a story overcoming thyroid cancer. Donna created and hosts the Sparks In Action Podcast which can be found on most podcast servers as well as the link below. https://fastandfabulouspodcast.com | |||
| 13 Sep 2023 | Episode 34 - Jalene Ellis Weigand | 00:58:58 | |
Jalene Ellis Weigand is a 53-year year old wife, preschool teacher, nanny, life coach, owner of a small natural body product company and a mom of many rescued animals. To keep herself in shape over the years, she tried all the fad diets and popular exercise programs. After so many years of drastic calorie restrictions and adrenal fatigue from exercises, she found herself no longer able to maintain a healthy body. After experiencing the hardships of 2020, and then going through menopause...she found herself living in a body she didn’t even recognizes anymore. She was in complete denial of the amount of weight she had gained by hiding in stretchy yoga pants and the forgiving fabric of maxi skirt. After seeing some pictures of herself posted on social media, she could no longer hide and decided it was time for her to find her way back to health. She hadn’t stepped on a scale in years and decided it was time to take a look. She was surprised to see a 35 pound gain since the last time she had weighed, which felt like a lot on her 5’3 size body. It definitely was time to find some answers she decided. After getting no answers from her primary physician, she did a deep dive into the holistic and integrative health care system. She found a team of women who were able to find the root cause of her weight gain, sluggish metabolism, and low energy. She was working with a local obgyn who had a podcast on women’s health, this podcast had a guest, Laurie Lewis, who is an intermittent fasting leader. That day Jalene started her intermittent fasting journey. She found Gin Stephens, Dr. Jason Fung, and Graeme Currie. She successfully has lost all of her menopausal weight gain, reduced her inflammation, and is now wearing the same size of clothes she wore in her 20’s. Clean intermittent fasting is Jalene’s forever lifestyle as she’s approaching her two year fasting anniversary and wants to share her story in hopes of helping other women who feel at a loss after menopause. https://fastandfabulouspodcast.com | |||
| 29 Sep 2023 | Episode 35 - Paige Brown | 00:39:05 | |
Enjoy Episode 35 with Paige Brown. Paige is a 32 year old stay at home Mom and former Elementary teacher. Paige first started fasting back in 2019 but had to stop due to pregnancy and breastfeeding. Fast forward to 2022, she couldn’t lose the baby weight and was feeling exhausted all the time. After trying and failing at some other diets she came back to fasting June 27, 2022 and has been clean fasting ever since and have lost 33lbs and 24.5 inches. Paige has so much energy and feeling so much better overall. Her story is so relatable and inspiring! https://fastandfabulouspodcast.com | |||
| 15 Oct 2023 | Episode 36 - April Hall | 00:54:01 | |
April Hall is a 45 year old wife, mother of 5 grown children, restaurant owner, and full- time college student. She found fasting in May of 2020 and has made it her forever lifestyle. April lost 45 lbs in 5 months, and had an insatiable appetite for knowledge on the subjects of fasting, longevity, and health. She even started a Facebook group, “April’s Fasting Friends”, after Gin Stephens left Facebook. April loves to teach others what she’s learned and help them troubleshoot their fasting issues. She’s been in maintenance since September 2020, but finds that being 3 years older and closer to menopause, there is still a learning curve for her & her ever changing body. April has always promised my fellow fasters that I would be honest & transparent whatever happens in her journey, and sometimes that means telling people when it gets hard, or when the scale moves in the wrong direction. Nevertheless, this is the only lifestyle that she has ever wanted to do forever, and believes in the Magic of clean fasting! https://fastandfabulouspodcast.com | |||
| 17 Nov 2023 | Episode 37 - Netta Gorman (an update!) | 00:36:55 | |
If you’ve been tuning in, you will recall Netta was Episode 10 back in May of last year. Netta is a 53yo 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 9 years since she’s had any sugar! Netta has an online private FB community (the After Sugar Club), a coaching program , 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! https://fastandfabulouspodcast.com | |||
| 07 Dec 2023 | Episode 38 - Lisa Evers | 01:01:58 | |
Lisa Evers is a former elementary educator from Canada who had suffered her entire life with digestive issues, so she was always aware of what she was eating to notice how she would feel. When she was young, it was IBS-d then moved to constipation-shortly after she was diagnosed with hypothyroidism in her early 20’s. After that diagnosis she was worried that weight gain was going to be a side effect so she started to do things to make sure that didn’t happen. She had never had a weight issue and almost became “obsessed” with making sure she didn’t get one! Lisa did all the things to not gain weight and stay fit while trying to monitor her digestive issues. This went on for almost 30 years, then she found IF and the rest of the story is now about freedom! All the obsessions are starting to fade away and her mind is clear to think of the things that are really important to her in life. Lisa is so excited to share this mental health, self awareness and self image journey with you! To follow Lisa's journey on IG: @freedomthroughfasting https://fastandfabulouspodcast.com | |||
| 31 Jan 2024 | Episode 39 - Jess Manross | 01:05:31 | |
Jess Manross is an almost 43 year old mom of three girls ages 14, 11 and 5. LOTS of her time is spent preparing for, getting to and from and enjoying wrestling matches, hockey games and cattle shows with her girls. She is a full-time work at home mom, 4-H leader, small business owner and part-time secretary. When she isn't busy with all that, she enjoys taking photographs at livestock shows, reading, camping and boating with her family. She has been intermittent fasting since September 2020 and has lost 20lbs and 13 inches off her body! https://fastandfabulouspodcast.com | |||
| 26 Feb 2024 | Episode 40 - Gin Stephens! | 00:45:01 | |
I am joined by THE expert on clean intermittent fasting herself, Gin Stephens! Gin is the NY Times best selling author of Fast, Feast, Repeat, Clean(ish), & Delay, Don’t Deny. Let us not forget my personal favorite and often overlooked, Feast Without Fear. Gin has been living an intermittent fasting lifestyle since 2014. Since then, she’s maintained a weight loss of more than 80lbs, hosts two top-ranked podcasts: IF Stories & Fast, Feast Repeat, IF Stories For Life. Enjoy!! https://fastandfabulouspodcast.com | |||
| 10 Mar 2024 | Episode 41 - Graeme Currie (an update!) | 00:53:16 | |
Today I am joined by my favorite faster from the other side of the globe, Mr. Graeme Currie from Perth, Australia (episode 9 as well) 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. https://fastandfabulouspodcast.com | |||
| 16 Mar 2024 | Episode 42 - Erika Barnhart | 00:48:41 | |
Today I am joined by Erika Barnhart, a 43-year-old salon consultant who resides in Pennsylvania with her husband and 3 dogs. Erika struggled with weight issues since childhood and was overweight throughout most of her life. At age of 13, she was diagnosed with high cholesterol and triglycerides but was never prescribed any medication. In early 2023, she realized that she was procrastinating on scheduling her annual physical because she knew that the doctor would become more persistent about beginning a series of statin medication due to her high cholesterol. She also suffered from sleep apnea and used a CPAP machine and had been experiencing plantar fasciitis in her right foot, causing her to limp. She felt unnaturally old, defeated, and unhealthy for her age. She was ready to make a change. She began looking for a sustainable and cost-effective plan to become healthier. As well as not wanting to take any medications unless necessary. In March 2023, Erika finally discovered the freedom she had been seeking through IF, and within about 1 year she lost 90 pounds (39.5kg). Fasting has helped Erika gain more clarity, perspective, and patience, and the best part is it’s free! The flexibility has made it easy to work into her ever-changing schedule. Enjoy! https://fastandfabulouspodcast.com | |||
| 04 Apr 2024 | Episode 43 with Star McEuen (an update!) | 00:48:35 | |
Meet Star McEuen from Arizona! Star is a 41yo mom of SIX and now grandmother, wife, Fasting Coach, Influencer, Author and downright badass. Most Star's life was focused on her weight- she always wanted to be “skinny and/or fit”. She had tried every “diet” out there to lose weight, did all the at home workouts, went to the gym, became a personal trainer herself, hired a nutritionist...and they all lead to the same place, failure, disappoint and defeat. She turned 35 years old and no matter what she did to lose weight before, nothing was working this time and the weight just pilled on. Star's last recorded weight was in May of 2019 at 210lbs. She was at the darkest point in her life - depressed and deteriorating health, tired and felt out of options. Then in August of 2019, she found intermittent fasting (IF) through her high school best friend who had been sharing about her IF journey on social media. She read Delay, Don't Deny by Gin Stephens and started with a clean fast aiming for a 19 hour fast and 5 hour eating window practicing an OMAD (One Meal A Day) lifestyle. By February 2020 she had reached her first goal weight of 140lbs. In April of 2020 she started implementing one "meal-less" day a week and by August of 2020 (one year of IF) she had lost a total of 81lbs and has maintained that loss every since! IF has taught Star to be mindful of everything that goes into her body and to eat for nutrition and purpose, it has taught her to think nutrients NOT calories. She is no longer a prisoner to food, food is not the enemy - too much circulating insulin is the problem. IF helps us regulate All our hormones and helps us learn how to trust ourselves around food again. https://fastandfabulouspodcast.com https://fastandfabulouspodcast.com | |||
| 06 May 2024 | Episode 44 - Shana Hussin, RDN | 01:06:21 | |
Meet Shana Hussin...Wife, Mom of 3, Registered Dietician Nutritionist, Author of the Amazon best seller, Fast to Heal and Host of the Fast to Heal Podcast. Shana is a Weight Loss Resistance Specialist & focuses on insulin & leptin resistance as well as high cortisol and circadian dysfunctions as factors of weight issues. Shana worked as a dietitian and nutrition therapist for 15 years in the conventional medical field prior to her young son falling ill with a severe and chronic digestive disorder in 2016. Upon diagnosis, she was told by several doctors nutrition had no bearing on his illness, and he would need lifelong medications to manage his debilitating symptoms. She began searching for the root cause of many chronic disease states. Confused and frustrated, Shana left work in conventional medicine. Through relentless research and trial and error, she healed her son with the help from Australian doctors and an unconventional antibiotic therapy. She had to look beyond the "standard of care" and question what she was being told. As a mother, she knew what was at the root cause of her son's illness, and innately knew that if the interference was removed, he could heal. Throughout the process, Shana gained extensive knowledge in holistic health and natural healing approaches, including the hormonal key to burning fat rather than storing it. She discovered that if obesity and diseases stemming from insulin resistance can be traced to a cause which is nutritional, then they can be reversed with nutrition therapy! Enjoy this informative episode! https://fastandfabulouspodcast.com | |||