The last couple of weeks have been very interesting. I have introduced some of the foods back into my life and the results have amazed me. Not for how good I feel, but for how bad I feel.
I didn’t realise how much food was affecting me. But since introducing some of those food back I now have the inflammation back in my body. I was recently told that I had tendonitis in my ankle. While doing the month of the Whole30 my ankle was feeling so good. Now I’m feeling the pain again.
What is inflammation?
When inflammation occurs, chemicals from the body’s white blood cells are released into the blood or affected tissues to protect your body from foreign substances. This release of chemicals increases the blood flow to the area of injury or infection, and may result in redness and warmth.
Inflammation, put simply, is the immune system doing it’s job – it’s your body’s protective attempt to stop injury in its track and initiate recovery. Inflammation indicates a mobilisation of your immune system; it’s a call to arms. Whether the damaged tissue is a result of infection from bacterial invaders, overuse, or physical trauma, the purpose of the inflammation that ensues is to prevent additional damage and repair the damage already done.
(This is an extract from “It Starts with Food: Discover the Whole30 and Change Your Life In Unexpected Ways”)
The pain started after overeating on a product out of a package, however I had also brought back a creamer that I put in my coffee, so I’m not sure if this contributed to it or not. So it’s a process of elimination again. I have stopped having the creamer so much and gone back to black coffee, with just the occasional creamer and the pain has reduced.
Has post Whole30 been easy?
No, it hasn’t. I thought it was going to be as I found the 30 days to be so easy, but my thought process hasn’t changed enough. I am falling back into old habits. So now I need to change my thoughts to “it’s so easy to eat whole foods ALL of the time”.
For me this is a journey, I know that I cannot change overnight – otherwise it would have happened already. This is all part of the journey that I am on. This is where I have discovered it’s the mindset. It’s so easy for people to say just change what you eat! If only that was the case. I know that there is so many others out there who know that it’s not so easy as to just change what you are eating.
(This is an extract from “It Starts with Food: Discover the Whole30 and Change Your Life In Unexpected Ways”)
Every thing that you put in your mouth is either making you more healthy or less healthy. It should be simple right? Just eat the foods that make you more healthy.
Well, it is and it isn’t.
Food is highly emotional, in ways that go far beyond our conscious awareness. Food is sneaky, affecting you in subtle ways you would never connect to your diet. And by definition, today’s modern food landscape is enormously confusing. So it’s actually not that easy.
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