Hi Debbie

I had all the symptoms of sugar sensitivity that Chloe had, with added anxiety. I couldn't leave the house alone for two years unless it was completely essential. When I had to go out alone, I would be having panic attacks within a couple of minutes. We have a park across the road from our house and I could get to it and then start crying, feeling much too exposed, I also thought everyone hated me, felt fat and ugly and felt that anyone who passed me in the street would make a rude comment about me, which is why I always took someone out with me when possible, because when you are talking to someone, even if the people passing you were to mutter something under their breath, they wouldn't necessarily know you had heard them.

Wow, what a difference this plan has made to my life. No more anxiety (I was on and off anti depressants since the age of 13, and I was 38 when I found this programme three years ago. Anti depressants never worked for me at all, due to my depression being Beta Endorphin based, and the doctors basically told me they could do nothing more for me. As I had been suicidal many times in the past, I knew I had to find the answer myself. I had been researching certain things on the internet over the years looking for answers, I knew not everyone felt as bad as I did. Strangely, what I did find through research was about the acne I had, I googled acne and sugar and it came up with "acne is diabetes of the skin." My Dad had also made connections with the state of my skin and the amount of sugars I was eating at any one time.

I found this programme by going into a bookstore and looking for either some sort of self help book or new weight loss diet book, and found the sugar addicts total recovery programme. I didn't know that sugar caused my depression but I knew I ate way too much sugar, so thought from the title that the book would help me to stop eating sugar to be able to lose weight. As soon as I looked inside the first few pages, I realised it was about much much more than that. I didn't know it was possible for sugar to be the cause of so many bad parts of what I thought were my personality, and the relief I felt at finding the book was huge.

Now, as I say, I have no anxiety at all, and the person I used to be who wanted to be invisible is now very happy to be going out alone and sitting in a crowded area of town, and enjoying talking to people.

As an added bonus, I lost 100 pounds the first year after detox.

Hope that helps

Love

Jane
xx

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