Julie's Blogs 5th Feb. 2017

ABOUT MY OWN SEARCH

I said in the pinned post I would upload some blogs which I have been very remiss in doing. So I have sat down this Sunday afternoon to write a blog. Perhaps some information about me and why I feel I had to start this group. 

Last year I had a colon scan because of a show of blood. I have had bowel problems for some 40 years and only recently had I managed to get my doctor to agree that I had Irritable Bowel Syndrome. I have had many operations over the years that never gave an answer as to what my pain and bowel problem was and really calling it IBS didn't either. The scan showed nothing untoward which was a relief but the surgeons and doctors still didn't have any more advice as to what to do to help myself. 

A year or so previously it was found that I had a hiatus hernia and an ulcer in my stomach. Here a diet was suggested which was to cut out many particular foods. Tea, coffee, oranges, tomatoes and many more. What is called a GERD diet. It worked, well as far as the ulcer was concerned. It completely disappeared. When I came home distraught from being told that nothing could be found on the colon scan, distraught because there seemed to be no answer, I remembered that diet alone had cured my ulcer. I wondered if diet could help me now because my IBS was making me almost agoraphobic, I needed always to be near a toilet or I had embarrassing accidents. Yes, I turned to Dr. Google. What would we all do without him?

The first thing I turned up was Dr Lustic on the evils of sugar. I ate plenty of sugar and although I knew sugar made one fat I still ate it in all the usual things, cakes, biscuits, desserts.....
I noticed at the side of the Youtube video other suggestions. I had not to this point been a Youtube watcher, more a user to put up a few of my own videos. I moved on to videos about wheat and grains. Now these really startled me. I had been vaguely wondering if I should stop eating bread but we had not long brought a Bread Maker and my darling husband had become a very good baker. His bread rolls and loaves were delicious. I studied for 3 to 4 months articles, books, and videos. 

I began to realise it was not just cutting out this or that but a complete change of my Way of Eating if I was going to be successfuI. I had to come away from the 'Low Fat - Counting Calories' and eat what to me sounded a great way of eating, a Low Carb - High Fat diet. It jogged my memory. Many years ago when trying to lose my 'after baby fat' I had found a small booklet in Boots chemist that said do not eat bread, cakes, biscuits or potatoes but eat as much proteins, fat and vegetables as you wish. This was 1962. It had worked! Here I was now on the edge of obese, sick to death of my life and I hadn't remembered this. I was conned along with the rest of the world into eating 'low fat' filled with SUGAR and CARBS galore. Had this been my downfall? I'd had unmentionable parts of me removed over the years none of which made me any better ending up fairly recently with gallbladder removal. Plus the gastric ulcer and hiatus hernia. All of which I felt could be put down to eating the wrong things.

On April 17th 2016 I announced I was going to try an LCHF diet. My husband who now does the cooking took it quite well. I did a bit preparation in making out a diet for myself based on the Harcombe diet. Within in two weeks my Diarrhoea stopped. Within a month I felt the best I had been for years. I lost a little weight but not a lot I did however lose some of my big belly fat, I changed shape. I became a convert to LCHF but I still had a lot to learn. I have continued studying and have many books on my Kindle I haven't had time to read. I also, in looking around my friends and family, realised that most them were sick for the same reason, too many carbs. I started my page LCHF81, the 81 being my age at the time and recently started the group. I have formed several views on the subject and will try to talk about them in the future. Meanwhile I continue my LCHF WOE and my IBS seems to be in abeyance. I don't seem to lose more weight but I have the energy to go to my Tai Chi Classes. 

My best wishes to you all on your own journeys, whatever method of LCHF you use. Julie

Me Dec. 1st 2016 on my husband's birthday

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