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This
is how I beat IBS... and you can, too!
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THEN
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It
was a popular Italian restaurant, and I'd eaten a traditional Italian
restaurant dinner:
bread... salad... meaty lasagna... tiramisu... YUM!
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Approximately an hour and a half later,
I had my very first IBS attack.
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It started slowly, with ominous rumbling sounds and weird sensations
of internal movement that felt like tectonic plates shifting. Then
from deep within and down lower came gurgles and spasms that felt
like a fish flopping around inside me, followed by sharp cramping
and shooting pains which signaled that I needed to head for the
nearest bathroom, and pronto!
I
spent over an hour on the toilet that first time, doubled over with
painful gas and cramps through several rounds of explosive diarrhea.
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Never before in my life had I ever felt such
pain
or smelled such death coming out of any
living human beingespecially me.
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For 5 hellish years since that horrible night, almost every single
morning has begun for me with at least one round of diarrheasometimes
2 or 3often with severe cramping and abdominal pain. Nice way
to start the day!
Then of course I would feel just awful all day, and I would always
have to be mindful of everything I ate in order to avoid any immediate,
explosive attacks...
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... but they would still happen from time to time,
seemingly for no reason!
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Every evening was spent trying to muster enough energy to keep functioning
after a day at the office, and I could sometimes manage to make dinner
but often it was brought home from somewhere else.
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Such was life with IBS... or
so I thought!
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A LITTLE HISTORY:
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I started eating very healthfully a few years ago: |
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lots of grains, fruits and veggies
very
low fat content
more
whole, natural foods; less
processed
junk
mostly
water to drink
lots of soluble fiber
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... all the things that were supposed
to help control the IBS attacks!
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Even still, almost every meal gave me indigestion and painful gas,
and what came out of me could only be described as "rotten."
Every once in a while, though, things would turn out nicely in the
bathroom...
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That intermittent normalcy was my first clue
that it might really just be the food.
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During the last couple of years my carpal tunnel symptoms worsened
to the point of having to wear wrist braces at night, and sometimes
all day too.
Then came full-blown arthritis. I couldn't get up from sitting for
very long without having to walk halfway across the room hunched over,
and I had chronic swelling and pain at the base of my neck just above
my shoulder blades.
I began taking daily glucosamine and chondroitin supplements to help
ease the stiffness and pain in my knees, hips, and spine.
Then I started noticing that my ankles were swelling up nearly every
afternoon, and during just about any meal my entire face would bead
up with perspiration.
This year (2009) I suddenly began having reccurent yeast and bladder
infectionsmore frequently in the last nine months than ever
before in all my 38 years.
After getting these problems checked out and taking meds to stop them,
I began taking daily cranberry and probiotic supplements designed
to help prevent them from recurring.
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All the while I was attributing these issues
to
the aging process and pre- or peri-menopause.
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I started following a weight-loss program in January, one that simply
advocates eating many small meals instead of three large ones. I lost
20 pounds in 4 months doing that, but then nothing more.
I have a fancy scale that measures not only weight, but also hydration
and body fat percentages via a current thru bare feet (thanks Mom!).
Even as I watched that weight number drop each week over those 4 months,
the hydration and body fat numbers stayed the same.
That was pretty disparaging, especially considering all the water
I was drinking...
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Then in August I had an attack of a different
kind.
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It felt like something was gripping under my ribs on the right side,
steadily pinching harder and harder, and there was no position I could
get into that would ease the pain.
Then I started to feel nauseous, which was followed by violent vomiting.
I would feel better for a little bit afterward, but then the whole
cycle would start all over again.
I think it was either a gallbladder attack or a kidney stone. I don't
know which because *somehow* I rode out the waves of intense pain,
nausea and vomiting for about 2 hours, and then it subsided just as
I was deciding I may need to head to the hospital.
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This happened immediately after
eating a favorite of mine:
a lean meat and cheese sandwich.
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Thus began anew yet another search for something, anything,
to make the digestive problems go away... something that made real
sense to explain why even healthy food could cause such distress.
I can't tell you exactly how many times I've come across that little
link in my searches over the last few years, but I had seen it before.
Just a tiny Google Ad embedded in an article...
Two simple, little words: "IBS cure."
A hyperlink that changed my life forever when it led me to
Sherry Brescia's Great
Taste No Pain simplified
food combining program.
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NOW |
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Starting
literally DAY ONE, the daily IBS symptoms, indigestion, painful
gas, intestinal cramps, and malodorous output ended. Instantly.
On DAY TWO I could actually feel the increase in energyso
much energy I felt hyper!
On DAY THREE the carpal tunnel and arthritis symptoms began to fade.
On DAY FOUR I stopped taking all supplements, just to see
if I still needed them or not... I didn't!
AND my ankles don't swell in the afternoons anymore.
AND my face doesn't sweat while eating.
AND I don't feel sleepy after any meal, either
eating invigorates me now!
AND I'm once again eating foods that are "forbidden" for
people with IBS.
AND I'm sleeping better at night, too!
AND I'm losing around 3 pounds per week.
AND my hydration number is moving UP,
AND the body fat number is moving DOWN...
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FINALLY!!
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I've been keeping a food diary since January, so I know for a fact
since starting GTNP
I am eating less, not because this is a "diet" but because
it actually takes less food to satisfy and sustain me since my
body now processes it more efficiently.
I'm also drinking less water, yet I'm more hydrated...?!?!
I want for nothing on this programit
tastes like I'm eating fantastic gourmet restaurant food every single
dayand all these benefits
are happening almost effortlessly as a result of doing nothing more
than simply watching how I eat certain foods together.
Even if you don't have digestive problems, food combining will make
you feel better, give you more energy, help you lose any excess
weight, and can relieve symptoms of and/or reverse many chronic
conditions for which you may take daily medication or supplements.
I strongly encourage you to check it out for yourself here:
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Great
Taste No Pain
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And if you do have digestive problems like mine, or worse,
then don't you owe it to yourself to try anything and everything
to fix them??
Food combining is simply watching how you eat certain foods together.
Nothing could be easier than that, and nothing
makes food combining easier than GTNP.
There's
a free trial offer called "Pain-Free in One Day"... take
the program for a free 4-day test drive and find out for yourself
how eating this way will make you feel as amazing as I do!
S.D. Mach
Klein, Texas
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This
was my personal testimonial... read more here.
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