I'm in my 60s, disabled with Fibromyalgia with chronic fatigue syndrome, Osteoarthritis and panic/anxiety syndrome.I'm using intermittent fasting to lose weight and control my type 2 diabetes. I've been following low carb and managed to get off my medication for the diabetes, but I need more.

At my heaviest I was 115 kgs. I have been overweight since I was about 5. I had TB in my knee and eye in 1957 when I was 3 and as the treatment was still quite hit and miss the doctors told my parents that children who put weight on stayed cured - plus my family was fat too. Until I was 14 my weight was equal to my age. I maintained 14 stone until 1977 when I got married for the first time. Then we both piled weight on.

I was lucky when I got TB in that I was given streptymyacin - a broad spectrum antibiotic - which was very new at the time. It was one of three treatments - one was gold injections, which left children either blind or with brittle bones and I don't know what the other one was. I've never been healthy, but doctors can never say what's wrong with me. Cushings syndrome - nope, PCOS - nope, Lupus - nope. I've been in hospital for one of those 3 about half a dozen times. So it was decided that I had fibromyalgia.