LCHF81 How I got started with LCHF way of eating

LCHF81 

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/