10/07/2023
Reclaiming My Health: From Long Covid Symptoms to Vibrant Living - My Journey with Gan Power"
The doctor said that all my symptoms pointed towards Long Covid, but I had these symptoms long before Covid. I was a 49 year old non-smoker and I couldn’t walk a flight of stairs without having to stop and catch my breath.
My joints ached most of the time and I rarely left the house without a packet of headache tablets and indigestion tablets. Along with a sleep pattern of about 4 hours per night, this was my quality of life for so many years.
I came to accept it as normal, just getting older. Then, in October 2022, I read a LinkedIn post by a local Personal Trainer. He said that feeling this way was far from normal and most of these common symptoms were the result of poor diet and a lack of targeted exercise.
I made contact with him and he suggested a 12 week programme of corrective eating, cardio exercise and strength training.
Within 4 weeks I started to feel an increase in energy. By the end of the 12 weeks the joint pain, headaches and heartburn had completely disappeared. Weight loss was significant and I was getting much more rested slept each night.
By the end of an extended 3 month programme I lost a total of 4 stone (25kg) and the increase in energy was incredible. I finally started to feel my age again.
My trainer was Gan Power. He guided me through every step of the process. He communicated with me every single day and tailored a food programme specific to my likes and dislikes.
It was not a diet!
It was a reeducation with one simple rule: “if it came out of a wrapper or a box - don’t eat it . In other words, avoid or limit processed foods most of them time.
I learnt to make positive food choices, to prepare and eat quality ingredients and to make time every day for targeted exercise.Gan helped me to understand that this was the foundation to improving my health and ensuring a better quality of life.
If anyone reading this can relate to any of these comments, my encouragement is this:
Take the first step. Make contact with Gan. Spend 30 minutes talking with him. If you decide to proceed further, trust him and trust the system. It works. Commit to it and it will be the best investment you every made. It certainly was for me.