Episode 163 Linda Dicker-A home schooling mom of eight children shares her incredible intermittent fasting story.

Linda Dicker Bio. Height 5’4” (163 cm) SW 253 lbs. (115 kg) CW 197 lbs. (89 kg) GW 133 lbs. (60 kg) Linda is a 58-year-old stay-at-home mom with 8 children. She and her husband live in the US, in rural Virginia. For the past 29 years Linda has used her degree in education to homeschool all of her children through high school, with her youngest graduating this spring. Weight gain has been a struggle for Linda since childhood. As a teen she always felt bigger than her thin friends and began dieting at the age of 15. As an adult, Linda always had a desire to be healthy, and to feed her family a healthy diet, but her love of sugar and her emotional dependence on food often sabotaged her efforts to lose weight. Linda tried multiple diets over the years, a few times losing a substantial amount of weight, only to regain more afterwards. Her weight increased gradually over the years no matter what she tried. Other than weight issues and some back pain, she felt pretty healthy, but about 7 years ago she began to feel pain and numbness in her feet, which turned out to be pre-diabetes and neuropathy. She knew that years of obesity were catching up to her. By 2021, Linda topped 250 lbs. (115 kg) on her 5’4” (163 cm) frame. She knew she had to do something or 300 lbs. would be the next stop. In 2018 Linda came across Dr. Fung online and IF made a lot of sense to her. She began to dabble in fasting with hit-and-miss results. Then in April of 2021 she came across Graeme’s book, The Fasting Highway online and bought it. Something about his story just really resonated with her, and by the end of the book she was ready to commit to IF. Shortly into her weight loss journey, Linda had a setback when Covid nearly took her life.  She spent months in recovery, but in the end learned to value her own health even more. A short time later, a friend gave her the book, Alive! by Dr. Scott Stoll, that gave her a new vision for eating a whole foods diet. Without the sugar and processed foods driving her cravings, Linda was able to use her eating window as an opportunity to refuel her body with the nutrients she needed with a calm self-control that had escaped her before. Although she still doesn’t feel she has all the answers, Linda has begun to make progress on a path she firmly believes she can maintain for the rest of her life. The Fasting Highway News How you can support the podcast and be part of bringing great stories to life. If you enjoy these episodes and want to help to get it out to the world, please join our patreon community. Without the help from our patrons to bring you the podcast each week it won't be sustainable to keep doing them. So please, if you enjoy them become a patron of the podcast. For details on the two levels of support you can give to help the podcast continue please go to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The Fasting Highway | Intermittent Fasting Podcast & Community | Patreon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ You can win a mentoring prize get exclusive early access to the podcasts and get access to the fasting highway audio book. Plus, bonus content and a monthly online coffee catch up by zoom along with bonus episodes and webinars for our top tier patrons. Please consider this as its vital we get the support of the listeners to bring it to you each week and continue into the future. Graeme is now available to have a private one on one coaching and mentoring session with you. He can help you with those burning questions. How to get started or overcome issues no matter what phase you are up to on your intermittent fasting journey. Get accountable and come and have a chat with Graeme who is vastly experienced in all areas of intermittent fasting and the mindset it takes. www.thefastinghighway.com Disclaimer-Nothing you hear on the podcast should be taken as medical advice. All views expressed are those of the guest and host.