Charlie Cifarelli is a businessman from Long Island, New York. After rising through the ranks in several maximum-security prisons in Nebraska, he tapped into his entrepreneurial spirit starting his own business and also becoming the co-founder of a non-profit organization also a board member of a first responders non -profit. Charlie speaks at various business and social awareness functions, and has been featured in newspaper, magazine, radio, podcasts, and TV. The Dad to world famous Star the Dog. From his earliest childhood memories, Charlie always wanted to eat and drink more. A fast metabolism and active lifestyle kept the weight off, but by his twenties found himself in the obese category. Charlie lifted weights and did cardio to outrun the compulsive eating, but without success. He tried a 12-step program to get a hold of his food obsession but still found the desire to eat far outweighed the desire to be healthy physically fit. At the age of 55, Charlie used a great deal of his life struggling with food. He found an Intermittent Fasting group on Facebook and immediately joined. He started this new journey and felt better almost immediately. There were stumbles on his first try, but he re-committed and chose to live a healthy lifestyle. Charlie is now approaching 1,000 consecutive fasts and maintains a minimum daily fast of 20 hours, and will often average 22-23 hours for reflection & clarity. Like anything, the IF lifestyle will work for you if you put the time in. Slow and steady wins. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_(dog) The Fasting Highway Patreon Community 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 your support would be very welcome. For details on the two levels of support you can give to the podcast 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 also 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. To book a time go to the website click get help/coaching. www.thefastinghighway.com Click on get help/coaching and book a time and date to suit you. All times you see available are in your local time. You will also find information at the web site on how to obtain a copy of his book The Fasting Highway from your Amazon store or direct from him if you live in Australia or New Zealand. Disclaimer-Nothing you hear on the podcast should be taken as medical advice. All views expressed are those of the guest and host.