Episode 3, Amy Jo Holcomb

Amy Jo is a wife, mother, small business owner, health coach,and college English professor. She and her husband Rush, have been married 28 years and are enjoying being empty nesters since their son married three years ago. Six years ago, enjoying life and keeping up with her many responsibilitieswas overwhelming. She was ballooning back up to her all-time highest weight of 300 pounds 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 about 90 pounds and is no longer in chronic pain or taking the strong meds that helped her merely function daily. She is also finding balance after losing her Mom and entering menopause in 2023. Even with a bit of weight gainsince, the clean fast remains her one non-negotiable ingredient for maintaining a healthy intermittent fasting lifestyle.