Thanks for your many likes

Well my post that went mini viral yesterday has set me up to get on with trying to help more people. It was such fun, 4500 likes and nearly 500 retweets. Plus many likes on my FB group. I cannot thank everyone enough. Except for my helpful husband I have had to do my journey on my own, researching, learning, experimenting. I did it mostly for health reasons but my weight loss is a bonus. There are no doctors that know anything about low carb eating round here. And I have no money for private doctors.

Today I did my once a week visit to our Leisure Centre to do a workout in the gym. I thought you might like to see the splendid view we have out to sea over our local Football ground. It makes peddling that bike and pulling that rowing machine a pleasure. I do it for a more aerobic exercise as I do resistance bands and weights at home. 

So I am really going to try to find time to write a book for ordinary people by an ordinary person about Eating Real Food. There are lots of very clever people writing superb books but often without many basics. Trying to explain to a friend today made me realise that we who know forget how hard it is to get that understanding of things like 'fat does not make you fat but sugar does'. But I do get tired and by 10.00pm I am pooped and ready for my bed so finding the time is not easy

LCHF81 How I got started with LCHF way of eating

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Since I put up my before and after photo I had an unbelievable uptake. I was asked a few times 'How did I do it? My answer is always 'With great difficulty'. I started with a cry of desperation. Which of us do not understand that? I was getting to the end of many, many years of IBS with severe  Diarrhoea. It became so bad I dare not leave the house for fear of an accident, of which I had several. I was sent to our local hospital to have a bowel scan. It came back with an answer I had heard so often. Nothing found wrong. I came home and cried.

A year or so before I'd had a stomach ulcer that I had cured with a diet suggested by the hospital, it was anything but a low carb diet but my ulcer was gone. I thought if that had been cured with a diet I wondered if there was a diet that would help the IBS. Vaguely thought of giving up eating bread. I asked a GP what he thought and he said 'it was worth a try'.  Like so many of us, including doctors, I turned to Dr Google and YouTube. After several weeks the penny was beginning to drop. Low Carb High Fat. I found Zoë Harcombe's page and I used her easy starter.

I ate simple real low carb food for two weeks and eureka! I my Diarrhoea had stopped. It has been a three year journey from there to the photo a day or so ago I posted on Twitter. Sometimes I say I have nearly done a PHD in LCHF etc. but my only background was training many years ago in Physical Education which included Anatomy and Physiology. I wanted to help others so I started a FB support group which was meant for UK but now we have folks from all over the world. I am trying to write book, aren't we all. Will try  to write more.  
  FB group https://www.facebook.com/groups/LCHFsupportUK/