I am not the kind of person to blab my personal stuff on fb, and a good friend of mine as well as my hubby will tell you that I tend to keep things private, well, private. But.... my banting journey began after more than a year of unexplained, undiagnosed pains and symptoms. Now I am a tuff cookie and no sissy so when I say I wished I would die, because the mere thought of having another episode , that lasted days left me afraid and depressed, I really wanted to curl up and die. Then my dear boss and his wife said enough is enough one day and booked me in at his urologist and Gyne. Well, long story short, many tests , more scans, scopes etc later, all still more or less up in the air, but as I had been diagnosed with an inflammed bladder so bad that I peed blood, osteoarthritis that is inflammatory caused, and kidney and bowel pains so bad they drove me insane, most likely IBD, also inflammatory disease of bowels, my urologist and GP said Bant buy Tim Noakes book and Bant. Which I duly did. And 4 months later I look back and am thankful every day that I listened to them. No, I will not be cured (I need an op to help that and no medical aid and op costs R70 000) but I have lived the past 4 months relatively pain free. My joints no longer ache so much that it hurts to walk and even sleep. Those horrendous pains in kidneys and bowels are not there and I have only had 1 minor episode 2 weeks ago that only required minor pain meds (before I was over dosing myself even during the night that I didnt know the time difference between when I last took, it was scary!) The reason I tell you this is because I hope to give hope to others, that our diets do have a very large roll to play in modern diseases and the increase there of.processed foods, low fat foods that actually have little nutritional value and to give it flavour they add sugar. Wheat! Bad! Bad! Bad! And I have lost 7kgs and many cms. Gone from a size 26 to a snug fitting 22 pants. I feel better, am healthier and I hope through Banting to extend my life expectancy despite not having that op. Ps. I am not looking for sympathy but thought to share this for those who I know are skeptics, one or 2 people I know that slam banting without checking facts or listening and reading up on testimonies. Thousands of people cannot be wrong. BANTING and Paleo have been around for decades, its not new. We have just been lied to for more than 40 years by food, drug and diet industries for too long and I refuse to have the wool pulled over my eyes any longer. I am a Banter! :)
Posted on: Mon, 20 Oct 2014 17:03:37 +0000
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