[1536] “I wouldn't have stuck out the food changes if it hadn't changed my life in such a positive way” (August 2019) COURAGE AWARD

I usually share meal ideas, but wanted to share a little on how going failsafe has benefited my life. This time last year, as you can see in the pics I was severely overweight. I was sick all the time, migraines that doctors couldn't find the solution for (every month for probably 10 years, sometimes just a couple of days at a time but a lot of the time they would last 2 weeks straight), IBS symptoms, asthma so bad I was on the nebulizer every half hour to an hour, frequent stomach ulcer attacks, over the last 20 odd years I would be up 20+ times a night to constantly pee and always just feeling blah. I had accepted all these things as just who I was, and actually didn't even realise how sick and tired I was, until I wasn't sick and tired anymore.

The other pics are of me today, 60kgs weight loss (have literally halved my weight), no longer use the nebulizer in fact I haven't even needed a single puff of ventolin since going failsafe or the constant courses of steroids, off all medication for stomach ulcers and migraines. I sleep through the night most nights (Well as good as you can sleep through with a toddler in the bed), I no longer need to race to the toilet often and the greatest part of all migraine free ?. I can actually count on 1 hand how many little headaches I have had in the last year and each one was as a result of eating the wrong thing. Now obviously the physical change is what everyone notices in me, and always asks how I lost the weight. Whilst I don't recommend failsafe as a weight loss solution, it has definitely played a big part in my overall journey. I didn't drop 60kgs just changing the food I was eating, I have worked very hard with daily exercise and learning portion control and getting into the habit of eating smaller portions but more frequently (I would usually only eat one meal a day but then eat a lot of munchies at night), I now eat 6 times a day, 3 meals plus 3 snacks. I wouldn't be able to exercise as I do if I wasn't feeling well or tired all the time. I wouldn't have stuck out the food changes if it hadn't changed my life in such a positive way.

A huge thanks you to Sue Dengate, who has literally changed my life. Thank you to each and everyone in the facebook group, the support, advice and ideas I get on here have been incredible, I don't know how many times I have been in the supermarket and been able to ask a question and get a response so quickly.

I hope my story can encourage others as others have encouraged me, and I will continue to share our meals to help others as I have been helped over the year seeing what others create – Sarah