Food Freedom, Identity & Health: Kim Andrews-Bingham's Journey
The Fasting Method Podcast
Megan Ramos Nutrition Inc
4.8 • 595 Ratings
🗓️ 28 October 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Kim Andrews-Bingham spent decades living with obesity and believing that lasting change just wasn't possible for her. But through The Fasting Method, deep identity work, and powerful mindset shifts, Kim discovered something she'd never felt before—true freedom.
In this inspiring episode, hosted by Coach Lisa Chance, Kim shares how fasting helped her lose over 80 pounds, reverse prediabetes and high blood pressure, and break free from the emotional pull of food. She opens up about how identity, consistency, and community support helped her transform not just her body, but her belief in who she could be.
From learning to 'fit fasting into her life' to literally climbing a mountain in Scotland, Kim's journey is a powerful reminder that transformation takes patience, planning, and heart. If you've ever doubted lasting change was possible, this episode will reignite your hope.
🎧 Listen now to hear how Kim found freedom, purpose, and joy in her health journey—one mindful step at a time.
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Timestamps
00:00 Introduction
01:02 Kim's lifelong struggle and what changed
02:49 Finding The Fasting Method and losing 80+ pounds
05:32 Working with coaches to find identity and consistency
07:40 "I am free" — Kim's moment of transformation
10:28 How identity work changed everything
19:10 Learning to fit fasting into life
22:09 Tools, food plans, and accountability partners
31:33 Habits, patience, and the power of planning
39:38 Kim's hiking trip and the metaphor for her journey
47:21 Finding your "Big Why"
48:55 Final reflections and advice for others
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I am free. If I never lost another ounce or ticked down any more percentages in body fat, |
| 0:05.9 | which I do want to do for health reasons, but I am free now. I am free to live my life for the |
| 0:11.6 | first time ever, ever, ever. And it's so exciting. |
| 0:23.4 | Welcome, everyone. |
| 0:25.1 | My name is Lisa Chance. |
| 0:27.1 | I'm a fasting coach here at Tfm. |
| 0:29.8 | And today I'm here with Kim. |
| 0:31.4 | I'll let her tell her whole name. |
| 0:39.3 | But she has an incredible story about how fasting has completely transformed her relationship with health. Good morning, Kim. How are you doing today? Good morning, Lisa. I'm doing great. It's really good to see you. |
| 0:44.3 | What is your whole name? It's a mouthful. Oh, it's one of those hyphenated names. It's Kim and Ruse Bingham. It's a mouthful. |
| 0:50.3 | So I usually don't make people say the whole thing, but I can say it because it's my name, right? |
| 0:55.8 | Well, welcome. |
| 0:56.8 | What brought you to TFM? Why don't you start telling us a little bit about a lot about your journey? How's that? Sure. I came to TFM. I've actually been here for about three years. This has been a long journey for me. I think you guys call us the turtles who go slow, |
| 1:09.9 | but there's a reason that I chose to be a turtle. |
| 1:12.1 | So I'll back up a little bit. |
| 1:14.1 | I've been obese. for me. I think you guys call us the turtles who go slow, but there's a reason that I chose to be a |
| 1:11.7 | turtle. So I'll back up a little bit. I've been obese, morbidly obese my whole life. I'm in my late 50s now. Well, I'm still in my mid-50s, technically, so I'll claim that. But I'm in my mid to late 50s now. I started this health journey in June of 21, and by summer of 22, I'd found fasting, |
| 1:29.2 | but not |
| 1:29.5 | TFM yet. |
| 1:30.8 | So by that fall, though, fall of 22, I found TFM, I signed up, I got a coach, you were my first |
| 1:36.9 | coach, and I started working really hard. |
| 1:40.2 | And so in that time, I'm about 80 or 90 pounds down for my absolute highest from a really stressful period in my 20s. |
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