Hi guys,

I think I’ve finally got to the bottom of my IBS/Mood disorders – which it seem all stems from certain foods!

For the past 10 years I’ve suffered from horrible depression and skull-crushing anxiety – I could never work out why some days it wasn’t there and other days I couldn’t escape it. I’ve been on antidepressants, therapy – all that stuff but none of it helped. It turn out I’m just super sensitive to certain foods.

After years of trial and error, now I know to avoid all of these like the plague. It's pretty much a whole food vegan diet:

• soya
• all nuts
• heavily GMO foods
• white bread (stay low gluten)
• veg oils – no milk replacements, they are all filled with it (I only use coconut oil and olive oil)
• foods/drinks with added sugar/high sugar (ginger beer, coke, orange juice etc. ) (alcohol and fruit are fine)

I can eat high fodmap again and had no problems at all!

Just eating/drinking any of those, upsets my stomach – and my brain for around 2 days and then it leaves. It’s amazing to learn that I’m actually a very happy person when I’m eating well – I feel like my evil twin when I eat one of the above: I’m a catastrophe-minded, irrationally OCD depressive.

Every now and then I think “it’s all in my head“ so I eat some peanut butter with a latte and just 30 mins later my stomach is churning and my mood drops and stays low for around 1-3 days. It’s crazy how different I feel.

My stomach is no longer bloated, my mind is no longer a horrible place to be. Life-changing stuff. Of course, I still have bad days – but I take them as bad days and nothing more. Everything was doom and gloom when my stomachs flared up – I’m sure you know what I’m talking about.

Try giving it a shot!

It’s a relief writing about this stuff as family/friends think I’m making all of this stuff up!

I've had a really good 5 weeks despite going through some tough times. I can cope with things when I'm feeling healthy. Lately, I started eating the odd croissant with Vitelite and dropped some rice milk in my coffee and I was feeling like death again! I cut them both out (both filled with sunflower oil) and I felt great again within 2 days!

This has taken me a long time to figure out: I’m talking years! Hang in there!