Judo champ Megan Fletcher tells us how her diet meets her training needs… Megan Fletcher is the current British number 2 judo champion and gold medal winner at the 2014 Commonwealth Games. Despite training to take part in this summer’s Olympic Games, Megan was recently injured during training, dashing her 2016 Olympic hopes. Megan has […]
From a life of fast food and excess, Lucy has turned a corner and now relishes the challenge of living gluten and dairy-free… For 21 years I lead a normal, but very unhealthy lifestyle. I was happy, but just after my 21st birthday I began to feel tired, bloated, nauseous and my stomach would make […]
Nutritional therapist reveals challenges of raising kids in a gluten-free household… I met my husband, Robert, in 2001 and for as long as I can remember he suffered from fatigue and mouth ulcers. He would scratch or damage the inside of his mouth while eating and resign himself to the fact he would soon develop a […]
Founder of app Biteappy, Caroline Oldham, faces her challenges head on and makes the world a better place… My free-from journey started when I was in my late teens. I have always been a very active person and I love working out at the gym. However, I was referred to a specialist in Leeds as […]
Helen shows how learning to live with an intolerance can be deeply rewarding… As far back to the age of 17 I can remember having a sore stomach. The pain would normally come after eating, although I hadn’t realised it was just food causing me the pain. I was always a worrier, so I put […]
Singing soul sensation Mari Wilson explains how she used to have to have two dresses on standby when performing – all dependant on whether she’d had a gluten reaction… I’d been diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes in 1978 when I was in my twenties and have been on insulin ever since. Shortly afterwards, I also […]
Samantha Jones is a low-FODMAP lifestyle writer who quit her 9-5 life in order to travel, blogging as she goes. She’s taking her current low-FODMAP, wellbeing lifestyle on the road… When you’re fighting an uphill battle with digestive issues, trips abroad or even just eating out can all start to become distant memories. Many […]
Free-From Heaven reader and indie writer Kelly Wilson shares her free-from story, and how she manages her IBS symptoms… By Kelly Wilson (www.kellywilson.moonfruit.com) My life train has scraped along the tracks of realisation. I did not have any idea that there was any remotely serious problem until I was seventeen. This was not a result […]
A reader reveals how her dietary needs fit into her physically demanding free-from life… Although I have been dairy intolerant since I was a baby, my free-from journey really started when I was in my first year at dance college in 2009. I was so excited to be fulfilling my lifelong ambition but I felt […]
Founder of The Bristol Bakehouse, Ali Walsh reveals how it all began… My free-from life… Ali Walsh I’ve always made cakes. When I was eight years old I made a heart-shaped cake and iced it in the tin, ready for Mothering Sunday. Sadly, I didn’t know about cake testing and the inside was raw. But you live and learn (to eat […]