Dear Gillian,

I bought your recipe book and “You Are What You Eat” about a month ago. I’d lost 30 lbs on my own, and wanted to take control of my health more. I don’t have high blood pressure, and my cholesterol is “rock star” as my doctor says, but I knew I wasn’t healthy enough. I’d been looking for a book to tell me WHY I should be eating foods, what does what for me, for a long, long time.

Unfortunately everything out there seems to be saying ridiculous things (no calories! no carbs! no fat! don’t eat fruit it’s high in sugar!) and I didn’t want to go blindly down the dangerous road of not eating some things which I knew perfectly well were good for me, just because some random person told me not to. I’ve always wanted to know how to eat NUTRITIONALLY, not low-fat, etc.

I started my “new nutritional life” about a month ago, and while I don’t eat 100% the way the book says, I do do it about 80-90% of the time, and I feel FANTASTIC! I took out my scale for the first time in a few weeks (after reading that weight really shouldn’t be a focus on my getting healthier, which I totally agree with) and found that I’d lost 5 lbs in January…

So, I guess what I really wanted to say is I think this whole way of life makes a lot of sense, and I’m even encouraging others in my office to get healthy too. One of my co-workers now has the two books I have and she’s noticed a difference. I’ve started a walking club at work, and we’ve walked almost 40kms so far. Personally, I’ve walked almost 300kms in the past 1.5 months.

I’m on my way to a new me, and I owe a lot of it to Gillian! I’m a Gillian Girl!

Amanda