I went on holiday after a very stressful 5 weeks at work and finished up in hospital!
While at work I was suffering for acid stomach and put it down to "Stress"
I now have a large Hiatus Hernia with severe erosive reflux oesophagus! I was in so much pain and it felt like I was having a heart attack. I was told to stay off spices, fruits, certain vegetables, tomatoes, meat and no sugar, no coffee or tea. I always cook from fresh and am not one for processed food. I was so scared to eat anything as the thought of the pain was too great.
I was put on Pantoprazole and ate as little as possible and took at tablet every time I ate.
I am so grateful to have found your Great Taste No Pain plan and very helpful website and all your daily messages. I feel great now and NO pain!! I can eat well and feel good and guess what I have not taken any of my tablets all week.
Thank you so very much
Jenny Copland
Hello Sherry,
I am just completing my 4th day on your Great Taste No Pain plan. Although I am not 100% healed, I am about 80% there. I could have had better results if I adhered more strictly to the plan. I did have a few deviations. Overall though, the plan is working great for me and I can understand the basic concept of proper food combing.
Regarding my gut history, my symptoms and experience over the years has been almost exactly what yours has been. I am 67 years old and have had numerous gut problems over the last 45 years ranging from bleeding ulcers, hiatal hernia, acid reflux, gastritis, and difficulty swallowing due to a restrictive esophagus with scar tissue.
The classic problems you have experienced have bothered me over the years from time to time, but beginning about 2 months ago, they began occurring more frequently with a greater intensity on a daily basis, mostly right after each meal. Within 30 minute to an hour after a meal I would have severe stomach cramps followed by uncontrollable diarrhea.
I thought the best thing to do was to increase my dosage of Nexium which I have been taking for 10 years. I increased the dosage from 1 to 2 then 3 pills a day, but the pain and diarrhea continued. A visit to my gastroenterologist who I have been seeing for the last 20 years didn't seem too concerned and basically though I should just continue the Nexium. I continued to get worse and more miserable and as time progressed, my energy level began dropping and I became lethargic and even depressed.
I might add at this point that my diet all my life has been terrible, virtually no live foods such as fruit and green vegetables. I must admit that after trying numerous diets, doctor advice and prescription medications, I am very skeptical, but after reading about your Great Taste No Pain plan I felt that what you say just might work.
As I mentioned earlier, I am on my 4th day of your plan and it really does work! For the first time in over 40 years, I am virtually free of gut problems, and my energy level is much better.
Fred Mynatt
Sherry,
I just completed four days on your Great Taste No Pain plan. I had just been diagnosed with GERD, Hiatal Hernia, and Duodenitis. I had suffered years with the symptoms thinking it "just old age" until I found your article on the internet.
Thank you for the meal plans! I need structure in my life and it worked. I have had no pain anywhere during the time period I was following your plan.
Thank you for sharing,
Charlotte Kleiss
Dear Sherry,
I am Stevens sister Oli and I just want to say what a great program you have. My brother has been on your Great Taste No Pain program for 8 weeks and feels terrific. He had a hiatal hernia and your program made him pain free as well as losing 10 kilos. Mind you my brother has a top figure and 6 pack to match as he trains at gym all the time.
One week ago I started on your Great Taste No Pain program as I am overweight and need to lose 30 kilos and in my fist week I lost 6 kilos and am feeling better already. If only everybody was aware of how to eat the right food combinations.
Thank you so much for your information.
Oli Rocca
Dear Sherry,
I found your Great Taste No Pain website when looking for the best diet possible for my daughter who recently had surgery for problems related to Crohn's Disease.
After reading your website I realized that your correct combination eating plan was exactly what I needed as well. I have a hiatal hernia and experience periodic episodes of terribly painful acid reflux. At times the pain is so severe that it is indistinguishable from a heart attack. I was in the midst of one of these episodes and was taking Mylanta and GasX every three hours or so when I discovered your website.
Since the day I started on your Great Taste No Pain plan I have been pain free and med free ever since. Quite a blessing!
Bettye Roland
For two years I was taking Prilosec after having an endoscopy and finding out that I had a Hiatal Hernia and of course Acid Reflux. If I forgot to take the Prilosec in the morning then by evening I would take a pill similar to a Zantac or Pepcid AC. When that did not work quick enough I would have to take a Tums. Recently I said no more of this. I have to get off of these pills. However when I tried to get off with no plan the pain was pretty awful.
I read on a website that after taking the pills for so long my body was producing more acid. I had reached the point when I told my husband I just was not going to eat any longer. It was not worth it. I decided to try to get more information on what I could do naturally instead of taking the pills. I got on different sites on the Internet and came across your site. I started reading the info on your site and became quite intrigued with
it all. I decided maybe this would work for me.
I followed your Great Taste No Pain for four days and it was working. I still had some pain but it was so much better and I was actually eating food. Not only that but I had been waking up so tired even in the morning that it had become a phrase that I repeated over and over. Suddenly I had energy that I had not had in months. My knees had gotten so bad with the creaking that I felt it was difficult to walk. I had to climb some stairs at my job and I was finding it more and more difficult. One morning I had developed sciatica pain and it went on for a few days. I went on your plan for four days and I could not believe it but my knees no longer had pain and my sciatica pain was completely gone. I kept saying it was a miracle. I even got up one morning and was able to do my exercise tape. It was wonderful. I need to lose weight and I have lost 3 pounds and am eating more than I used to. In the past two years all I have done is gain weight and have not been able to lose. It is exciting! It is hard to believe that all it takes is getting more balanced between acid and alkaline and eat properly combined meals.
It is so sad that doctors don't encourage people to try this. I plan on continuing eating like this. It is so wonderful to feel so so so much better.
Thanks,
Judy Triche
I AM SO GRATEFUL!
About a year ago I was diagnosed with a Hiatal Hernia and Acid Reflux and was told that I would have to be on medication to relieve my pain and discomfort for the rest of my life.
I couldn't accept this diagnosis and started looking on line for another way to resolves this problem. I kept seeing the Great Taste No Pain web site and was skeptical of this method but somehow I kept going back to that website and decide to give your Great Taste No Pain plan a try.
I must say I was amassed at how quickly my symptoms where subsiding and how great I felt. No more uncomfortable bloating, gas, heartburn and throat pain from the acid reflux and I also lost 15 lbs. in the first 2 months of being on this way of eating. I also benefited by lowering my cholesterol which was a great plus. Never expected that I would enjoy eating vegetable in so many different ways and with the help of your recipe book it was so easy. Love all the recipes and so does my husband.
I've recommended this method to several friends and relatives and even to some that I've overheard talking about there problems and they've all thanked me. So in return I wish to thank you So Much for helping us all regain our normal ways of life without pain.
God Bless!!!
Avid Great Taste No Pain Believer
Suzanne Fournier
Hi Sherry,
I've only been on the Great Taste No Pain Plan for four days. In September I turned an active 73. I'm in yoga twice a week, belong to a gym, and do quite a bit of walking. I do have a hiatal hernia and have had digestive problems the last few years. I have had heart palpitations. My heart has been checked quite thoroughly and there is no problem there. The doctor feels the hiatal hernia and digestive problems are causing the palpitations.
Since I have been on your Great Taste No Pain plan the last four days the palpitations have gone away and I'm finally without pain and feeling great. Really don't have any prescriptions to stop.
Sincerely,
Esther Bicker
I have had gastritis and acid reflux for 4 years with the terrible burning in my stomach and throat. I have had 2 upper GIs and 1 lower. I have been told it was H Pylori bacteria and took a round of medicine, but that did not take care of it. I have used antacids, Protonex, Maalox, gas relief tablets, tums and nexium for the last 2 years. Nothing stopped it. I usually had to vomit because the hiatal hernia I also had would not let the food go down and the acid continued with the burning.
The first day I had some relief, the next day I needed a nexium, but now I feel great and am following the directions of combining the right foods and I was so amazed today at how great I felt and how well your Great Taste No Pain plan works.
Shirley Cude
Dear Sherry,
I am writing to say that I have been using your Great Taste No Pain plan for about a month now and although initially skeptical I can now say that my esophagitis which doctors say is due to hiatus hernia, is definitely miles better! I still have a little pain but generally if I stick to the plan the symptoms are hardly noticeable. I have had this problem on and off for about 7 years (I’m 39) and in the past have been on Lansoprazole for long periods of time. I wasn't able to take this as I am breast feeding and so found your plan instead and am very glad that my situation made me approach this differently. I have rediscovered an appreciation of fruit, (starting the day with a big bowl of it) which I think had been lost beneath easy access to cakes chocolate and biscuits.
Thank you so much for the time and effort you have put into devising this system and for making me some really dramatic changes for the better in how I eat without feeling like I am depriving myself too much!
