I’ve been steering clear of grains and legumes since October. During the holidays I did eat some gluten free grains (pumpkin bread is the shit, ok?), but since the holidays ended I’ve gone back to being strict about removing them. I’ve wavered between paleo and autoimmune paleo. The reason is because doing an elimination diet last …
I’ve found one of the things that has been the hardest to accept is the fact of where I am in life. That the future I HAD envisioned is going to be nothing like the one that I will experience. Not that it will be any less amazing, but just that my life has changed …
Hey Everybody! I’m working on a new project that will help share the wealth of knowledge our health journeys generate with other spoonies! From now until the end of January, I’ll be collecting responses to a spoonie survey that I’ve created. Don’t worry, if you don’t want your information shared – IT WON’T BE! If …
This post is a follow up to this previous post Benefit of Grass Fed, Organic Meat? Part 1 So Why Does All Of That Matter? Many researchers now are verifying that a lot of diseases are caused by ‘leaky gut’. Leaky gut is a syndrome where damage to your intestinal wall creates gaps in the lining, allowing food …
If you asked me if I was a positive or negative person, I would respond by saying that I’ve always been positive. And I truly believe that. BUT, once you start looking at my daily life, you’ll see that so many times I blocked positivity with negativity! For instance, – I think about where I …
A topic that always comes up in my house is grass fed, organic meat vs. conventional meat. I can say honestly that I used to not pay attention to the difference. It wasn’t until I started on my elimination diet and started reading more and more about grass fed meat that I really started to …
This post originally appeared as a guest post on Painfully Optimistic! Ross, from Painfully Optimistic, asked me to write a guest post for his blog. He’s a wonderful CRPS advocate who is living a great life, despite chronic pain. Make sure to check out his …
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Happy Day After Christmas!!!!!! I hope Santa brought you everything you wanted … and more 🙂 During Christmas activities, Christmas movies came up a lot. Since Halloween my tv had been permanently set to hallmark and lifetime (with Up and LMN thrown in the mix every so often), watching cheese Christmas movies. The more cheesy …
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Food additives are a real problem in our society. There are SO many more children born these days with food allergies that are directly linked to different additives and chemicals in our food. We as Americans need to OPEN OUR EYES and learn the REAL truth! First, the truth about food additives: To make …