Wheat Belly Total Health: The effortless grain-free health and weight-loss plan. Dr Davis William

the food on my plate. It was a vicious cycle of shame and guilt.

      As I reached adulthood, I tried to lose weight. Low-fat, Nutrisystem, a weight-loss clinic: nothing worked for me because I was starving all the time. I was addicted to wheat- and sugar-based products. Nothing gave me joy like biting into banana nut bread or a doughnut. But then the guilt of not being able to stick with the diet set in. That only made me want to eat more.

      Fast-forward to December of 2010. I was 38 years old and I weighed 23 stones. I had been diabetic since at least 2006. I had the early symptoms of neuropathy. I had hypothyroidism (later diagnosed as Hashimoto’s thyroiditis). I had high blood pressure. My face was beet red. People would actually ask me if I was sunburnt. I knew that if I didn’t do something to fix me I would be dead before I turned 40. Every time I felt a shooting pain in my head or neck, I thought to myself, ‘Am I getting ready to stroke out? Is this it?’ I knew it was coming.