Hello and welcome to the allergies edition of the JA Fitness newsletter.
I would like to bring you up to date with what has been happening here.
As I have now become a qualified nutritionist I thought I should have my levels of vitamins and minerals checked. Although I eat a very healthy diet I could not be sure whether I was using up too much of something in all the exercise that I do.
I know an excellent lady who is able to test for these things so I went along and I got some very interesting results. I asked her to particularly test for a bread allergy as I had started to feel tired after lunch, not a good thing when I’m supposed to be full of beans to train my clients.
She discovered that I had too much yeast in my stomach (from over exercising!). She advised me to cut out certain foods for two weeks, which sounded terrible, but was actually quite easy.
Straight away I felt better, I realised that I had been paranoid about my stomach. I was convinced that it was getting fat and I would look at it every morning from all angles. This must have been because I was feeling bloated. After two weeks I felt fine again, and the added bonus was that I had lost four pounds!
So you see that sometimes something simple can make you feel much better. If anyone would like to be tested please contact me and I can give you the details.
I am now on to my next course. This time the subject is Compulsive Behaviour Therapy. I choose this because it can relate to eating but it has turned out to be a wide, and fascinating, subject. If anyone needs some help, or knows of someone who does, I am finishing my final exam tomorrow.
As always, please feel free to contact me if you need any tips or encouragement and have a wonderful spring.
Jane Ardley
April 2006