About Amanda

Doctors in the UK failed to find anything 'officially' wrong with me. I underwent test after test but they didn't show why I was moving from a happy normal human being to a vague and mostly bed ridden individual.

They say that life begins at 40, mine was just passing me by in a haze and I was determined not to let that happen.

When I was in my mid thirties I had been firing on all cylinders and everything seemed to be going my way. I used to be able to hold down a busy job and at home juggle a full domestic schedule with a variety of sports and a large group of friends.

Then, over a period of months I began to feel tired quite natural I thought, I said to myself 'you do rush around, stop burning your candle at both ends and get some "me" time.

I tried this, sacrificing first one sport then some social engagements - it didn't help. I would have periods when I felt like myself, and then times when I struggled to have enough energy to make it through the day. I found that if I was busy then generally I felt less tired so I kept myself busy during the day and collapsed into a numb state in the evenings.

I went to the doctor and we started a series of tests. They tested everything and found nothing wrong with me. The doctor offered me Prozac I flatly refused to take it. I knew that drugs weren't the answer.

My health deteriorated.

I moved house and changed doctors and went through the whole testing process again only to be offered Prozac again!

Soon I was at the stage where I couldn't go out in the evenings because I was too tired, then I started canceling things to do in the day because I was too tired. I put this down to a change of life, moving house and getting older.

In 2000/2001 I was working on two large projects back to back over Christmas and the New Year in two different countries. One of the delegates I worked with had a nasty flu bug.

I caught this and wham...... it knocked me completely.

For several weeks I couldn't get out of bed, I thought this was just bad flu but I never got better. For 2 years after that I had a constant feeling of having flu aching muscles and limbs and the feeling of having a temperature.

I took my temperature every day for 2 years and it was normal but I felt hot then cold, had flushes and shivers.

Quickly my mobility deteriorated I often could not get out of bed in the morning and I only got a hot drink if someone came in and made me one.

Rapidly I lost my short term memory, I had to write anything that I wanted to remember down and often I was too tired to do that... and so I just lay there.

I couldn't read a book, I could hardly watch the television I couldn't follow even a simple programme.

Then I started to lose my powers of speech it came out slurred and I was confused. I lost the feeling down one side of my body and was unable to walk for days at a time.

In my lucid moments I knew I had to get better and there had to be a simple way to achieve this. I practiced a great deal of positive thinking telling myself that I would get better and started working on simple visualisations for myself. The power of the mind is strong and I know that this helped. I began to understand that the way to wellness was through my mind and my body. I developed a series of mind exercises and visualizations that in combination with breathing and food have brought me back to full health. In my plan, I share these exercises with you.

If we look at the food side specifically, we have all heard the phrase, "you are what you eat" and because I was unable to cook for myself a great deal of the time, I started to be more aware of what I was being brought to eat.

I began to notice that I felt worse when I ate certain things, for example bread, and cheese, similarly anything in a sauce and any ready meal that had been bought at the supermarket.

I started to experiment and the food guidelines that are in this book were worked out over a number of months.

Curiously when I ate potato or tomato I would lose the use of my legs for a few hours and when I ate strawberries I would lose my powers of speech, and if I drank wine I would be tearful and exhausted the next day.

I eliminated these items and started to look at the link between foods, finding out that potato and tomato were in the same family. This led me to eliminate certain food families altogether and to start rotating the other foods to give my body time to recover from them. The results were dramatic!

I discovered research projects on this very subject. Projects in Universities the results of which have still not been seen, results that I now use in my method.

Very quickly I was up and about for most days, I started driving the car short distances again, I started to be able to chat to my friends on the phone. I was working again, admittedly in short bursts, but still I was holding down my clients and earning money.

If you are suffering from feelings of tiredness and anxiety and are having difficulty with even the smallest physical task, do not despair, I can help you.

Don't think you are alone, there are literally thousands of people who feel the same way as you do, I know, I have talked to a huge number of them and helped many with my very simple life plan.

My method has now helped hundreds of people all over the world and the numbers are growing fast. Please give it a try, if you follow what I say you will get better. You get out of life what you put in take the first step, put some discipline into how you think and what you eat and see your mind and your mobility come back.

I wish you every health and happiness,

Amanda James

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