We are all human and things go wrong on the low Fodmap diet or maybe you haven’t managed to get it right in the first place yet. Because irritable bowel syndrome needs a multi-pronged approach, we need to look at all of the aspects that could have contributed to a return of symptoms. There is nothing simple about this but if you are systematic and work through the checklist I have in my video, you can be your own detective and find out what went wrong – because there is always a reason for your symptoms. So, let’s get going and watch the video to learn how to do that. Don’t forget to sign up for the FREE two-week Life Balance Challenge which starts this Thursday 16th February. Get your life in order to reduce your IBS symptoms. Read more about it HERE. … [Read more...] about Why did my IBS symptoms return?
Stand up For yourself
A Very Special Announcement I am immensely proud to announce that Quarto publishing Group USA Inc. has signed me to write a book on a Low Fodmap diet 6-week plan combined with a cookbook to be published under the imprint Fair Winds Press, which produces beautiful books. This book will give you step by step instructions on how to implement the low Fodmap diet and how to complete the reintroduction stage so that by the end of the 6-week plan, you will be in control of your IBS symptoms. This book will contain everything I have learned over the last 5 years about IBS and the diet through my research as well as my own experience with it and that of hundreds of my individual clients including group clients, who now live symptom-free lives. You will also get 100 recipes, all of which have been tested by me and eaten by the family. And believe me, they let me know if one doesn't work well and then it gets discarded. I don't currently have a publication date but it should be some time this … [Read more...] about Stand up For yourself
How My Son Detached His Head from His Spine at 100kph
Last week, I didn’t send out a newsletter from my website for the first time in five years. But, I had a very good reason. My son came off his motorbike at 100 kmph/62 mph and almost killed himself. With the catastrophic neck injuries he sustained, he should have been dead at the scene. After seven hours of surgery connecting his head back to his spine with metal plates, screws and bone grafts, he is called a miracle in the hospital. He also broke or injured several other parts of his body including a collapsed lung. So, I spent six days in a small 3m x 3m (10ft x 10ft) hospital room by his side not knowing if he would be paralyzed or die at any moment. Not great for my IBS symptoms! Mix stress, fear and terrible hospital food together in a bowl and you create a dramatic return to IBS symptoms like I haven’t felt in years. Pain, cramping, bloating and severe constipation – just when I sure didn’t need it. As a patient carer, I wasn’t allowed to use the toilets in the ward … [Read more...] about How My Son Detached His Head from His Spine at 100kph
If the Low Fodmap Diet is not Working…
Those with IBS often try the low Fodmap diet by themselves but it is a complicated diet with many moving parts and they may not get it right. However, there could be something else going on too. In my video, I cover other possible complications that are preventing you from getting the results you want. Today, I'd like to talk to you about something that comes up every now and then. Somebody writes to me or it might be in the comments that they've tried the Low FODMAP diet, and it's not working for them. So what do they do next? First of all, before you give up on the diet, I want you to check a few things. First, that you've tried it correctly and really strictly for at least two weeks – if you only try for a few days, you might not see any difference. I also want you to look at that question of amounts, and combinations, and accumulation that I have made another video on. And just make sure that you're not eating too many vegetables at the same time, definitely never too many … [Read more...] about If the Low Fodmap Diet is not Working…
8 Tips for Budgeting on a Low Fodmap Diet
Almost 20% of the Western World are afflicted by IBS and need to be on the low Fodmap diet. In general, the diet consists of normal fresh food which is cheaper than buying processed foods or fast foods so you should save money on this diet, but people often complain about the extra expense. I think they are confusing expense with the complexity of the diet, but there are a couple of areas where you can cut down your costs and I have shared those in this video. Today I want to give you eight tips on how to eat on the Low FODMAP diet, on a budget. There're some very obvious things that perhaps we sometimes forget. For example, always go shopping after you've eaten, so you won't be making any of those impulse purchases and perhaps buying processed foods that you know are no good for you. While we're on that tack of processed foods, do your own baking. Don't buy biscuits or snacks, crackers and so on. You can make all of them yourself. Do that in the weekend when you've … [Read more...] about 8 Tips for Budgeting on a Low Fodmap Diet
A Low Fodmap Year
This year has been incredible in many ways. My business has grown immensely and life is good. I will mention a few things here that 2016 brought to me and to many others through my work. I have had hundreds through my coaching programs returning a peaceful life to many who were in deep distress from their irritable bowel symptoms. I have run the free Life Balance Challenge three times this year with well over 1,000 participating. My website, Strands of My Life, now receives around 230,000 page views a month, reaching a substantial number of IBS sufferers and helping them with over 5 years of free recipes, articles and videos on IBS and the low Fodmap diet. My weekly newsletter goes out every Wednesday to over 12,000 subscribers. I have launched a brand new two-week workshop and run it successfully three times in 2016. The next one will be in February so make sure you get on the Early Bird list HERE. Just recently, I launched a customized meal plan service and many … [Read more...] about A Low Fodmap Year
