about me

I had "tummy issues" for several years, but I didn't think much of it, it had became part of my life. Then after they started getting worse I asked a doctor to look into a few things. The first thing they choose to look at was a colonoscopy. My first colonoscopy showed I had 3 pre-cancerous polyps, which they removed and told me to come back in a year for another test. Well due to things going on in life I actually didn't get back for that test for 16 months. I went in had my second colonoscopy and when i woke up I was told that I had a mass that was blocking 50% of my colon. Well then came the stress of surgery. They removed 8 inches of my large colon. The biopsy results said it was not cancer, but the dr said if I would have not discovered it, that it more than likely would have turned into cancer.

For a while after my surgery I felt great, no tummy issues, but they slowly started coming back, so I again requested for them to get to the bottom of it, which called for another colonoscopy that came up negative, thank God!! At that time I was told I had IBS, and they put me on some medicine to try to help, which didn't work. Meanwhile at home my husband who was overweight decided to do some research and figure out the best way for him to lose some of the lbs he had put on. He tried calorie counting, and that helped some, then he tried a low carb lifestyle, eventually he talked me into following the diet with him. Thats when my life changed.

With no carbs in my diet I had eliminated wheat, therefor gluten. Within just a couple weeks all my "tummy issues" was gone. Praise The Lord I was pooping normal, that was something I hadn't done in years. While talking about this all with my husband, he got to thinking, something that I had eliminated was causing my problems.  Which after some self trials it quickly became obvious that it was gluten that was the issue. That was the summer of 2012. I have been gluten free since then.