First for all the comments/help when I first posted this time last week and especially to HEATHER for putting this up for people and her products and books.
Got my packages, first one with the peppermint tea, capsules and the acacia early this week, the 2nd with everything inlcuding books came yesterday.
I got right into using the peppermint tea with my fresh fennel I had here and had been using thanks to info on another site prior to finding yours. And taking the capsules and fiber as noted for start up. Tweeked my diet from reading your info on the site until the books came and by yesterday AM my system was moving back towards normal which is days vs. weeks from the bit hit after the intestinal flu a couple of months ago.
I sat up until 1AM this morning reading both your books through quickly once, but it was amazing how so much of what I've gone through since teen years until now at 52 fell into place and started to make total sense. Now I re-read again slowly with my highlighter and make notes of significant items for referral as needed. And will do so a 3rd time few weeks from now for anything I might have missed or need to highlight as well.
This morning is the first time in 10 days that I got up.. had my acacia in small glass of warm water.. then my capsule with my fennel/peppermint tea followed by a slice of wheat (not whole wheat) toast and bananna followed later by a few small slices of turkey breast roasted a few days ago for the protein being a hypoglycemic.
Point of interest for Heather and others.. the article I came across first noted the use of fennel brewed into tea as a calming agent which of course is true and works, but it also noted using powdered l-glutamine up to 3 times a day which helps the intestines to increase absorption of the fluids for severe D... when I was in this so badly the first time after the flu the fennel tea and LG helped immensely, but this time around it did not seem to work as well. THEN I figured out why.. the first bottle of the powedered LG was in its normal white powder stage and a odd taste when you drink it but bearable. The 2nd bottle my daughter got at GNC was BLUE not white and then I saw it was flavored (people must have complained about the taste of the natural state to the company) but they used one of the BAD, the worst artifical sweetner .. which is now as I now a big trigger.. no wonder it was NOT working !!! GNC was out of the natural form so I got a container from a vitamin house and went back to that and saw results slowly before Heather's products arrived. As someone that always reads the labels I was my own worst enemy on this one ! So buying "natural" things can still be dangerous if you are not prudent an read labels first before buying ...
I ate today at 9AM.. its 1PM and I've been to the bathroom and things are as normal as they have been in months... this is not perfect but its a good thing at this point.
Going to take a bit of tweaking to combine this with the hypoglycemic diet I need to be on for my glucose stability and to keep from going into deep insulin resistance I had been in prior years which caused the big weight problem.. but I can work it out once my system stablizes so I don't have a relapse quickly again.
The dynamics of certain foods that are big no no's on low carb vs. good on the IBS stability diet make more sense now after the first read and it can be tweeked to work for both to a less degree low carb, but I can make it work with some thought and honest effort.
THANKS AGAIN.. I will be around for tips, receipes and updates as work/time permit but I wanted to make sure and let Heather and everyone know that I truly am grateful for someone that took the time and energy to do this for everyone and those that are kind enough to talk with those that are new to this and trying to figure out what' the hell is going on ..
Have a good weekend all and best to all of you.
Denise 
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