Episode 326 -Jim Peeler What 18 months of Maintenance Looks Like Living an Intermittent Fasting Lifestyle.

Episode 326 -Jim Peeler What 18 months of Maintenance Looks Like Living an Intermittent Fasting Lifestyle.

August 13, 2026 · 58 min · Season 1 · Episode 326

About this episode

Jim Peeler shares his journey of maintaining weight loss through intermittent fasting after years of struggle with obesity.

Jim Peeler lives in Hickory, a small city in North Carolina's foothills. He and his wife, Diana, have two adult children who both live in the mountains of western NC, and one grandson. Jim is a financial controller for a logistics company. Jim passed his two-year anniversary of fasting on February 1, 2026. This past year, Jim has completed his first year and a half of maintenance and offers great insight in this episode. Jim has struggled with weight issues at least since the 5th grade of elementary school, at the age of ten. He has lost hundreds of pounds over the years, using various methods, but has always regained even more once the diet ended. The hope is that intermittent fasting will hold the key to finally losing significant weight for good. Looking back, Jim realises that over his life he had reached a tipping point roughly every 10 years that prompted him to start a serious weight-loss attempt, with numerous attempts in between that never lasted very long. Jim was successful at losing weight in these serious attempts, shedding more and more pounds each time, but the diet rollercoaster led him to heavier weights with each try until he reached a maximum weight of 245…

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