Your journey to a reduce inflammation diet was similar to mine.
Though the sugar one came as a colleague was doing sugar free February and I joined her. I now say I want my sugar in my sweet food and not in my tinned tomatoes (most tinned tomatoes have sugar in here in Spain!). I’m still a sugar addict I think but I’ve tried to swap for more complex sugars in honey or dried fruit.
Miguel’s dad once said to me that a sweet has zero nutritional value but if you had a slice of apple tart although there's sugar there are also other nutrients. I loved that thinking!
Rael still feels addicted to sugar even though he hasn’t eaten it for 4 years. I want to know what broke my addiction and how this became possible for me when so many others are telling me not for them?
I think it might be tonight’s that shows what a binge was for me so readers can se me the type of sugar extremes I’m referring.
Btw, Miguel’s dad is a fine fellow! I love his way of looking at it😍 I am partial to the occasional slice of cake, I just no longer eat half the cake like I did for 20+ years. And find myself think the same when it’s home made.
Keeping a food log helps. I wrote my version of gentle cooking philosophy and published the article last Friday, thank you for the inspiration.
Still experimenting with dairy (goat's milk instead of cow's due to different protein profile, less about lactose which I'm not intolerant anyway), gluten is my kryptonite, been over a year coffee-free, and almost 2 years alcohol-free, not missing any.
I used to eat a bar of choc in one sitting but I realised it was due to me undereating. Now I eat what I understood as low inflammatory, including very rarely red meat, gentle heating over deep fried, no UPFs kind of lifestyle.
It’s been great to read what reducing inflammation looks like and consists of to you. Between us, we’re highlighting the importance of looking into ways that support and work for us individually and showing that there are many different ways.
Sharing the link to your post incase any readers here would like to see it - plus, that is a great breakfast recipe! Yum yum😋
Dairy, gluten, coffee and alcohol free. Struggling with sugar, a life long addiction. Although in my teens as a vegetarian I stopped eating sugar after reading “Sugar Blues”. I was diagnosed with MS ten years ago. 🤞
Not heard of sugar blues before, sounds pretty game changing! An incredible achievement to go the distance with dairy, gluten, caffeine and alcohol. Have the changes helped with the MS?
Such a big lesson to learn. I wish we’d been taught this as kids. I have a 9yo niece making the decision to no longe pursue horse riding. Not because she doesn’t passionately want to but because of the environment. Her body is saying no. The decision is breaking her heart. I’m so proud of her for listening to her body because the decisions we make can be heart breaking. But when the body says no, it means it. And it’s ok to make the right decision for us and feel sad about it. Heartbroken even. We can heal a broken heart (something else I wish I’d also been taught sooner 🙏).
How interesting. By coincidence my career as a pianist was ended by a serious riding accident that left me in a body cast without the use of my right arm. The summer before I started high school.
The universe and another horse said no, my body really said no loudly after the accident that summer. My ever constant internal weather vane. Life changing.
Woah, that’s big insight to have. I’m sorry to hear you suffered in such a way to learn that invaluable lesson. I wish hard for humanity that there is an easier way but the only way I found myself was to break down and become disabled by illness first. I can see in my own journey that I had to learn this hard way and to open up to the gift I’ve learnt at all🙏🌟
This is something else I wonder (have wondered upon times past when things seemingly haven’t worked out my way), How do we know that her body saying no to what is right now her dream isn’t a detour from something more sinister that could happen if she were to stay on that same path?
The body communicates to us for alsorts of reasons, we don’t yet fully understand what a body led life approach looks like. Aligning solely with this approach since 2018 (to the best of my ability, which hasn’t been perfect) has taken me very far in my own healing journey. My body definitely holds a lot more wisdom than my mind, that much I do know.
Your journey to a reduce inflammation diet was similar to mine.
Though the sugar one came as a colleague was doing sugar free February and I joined her. I now say I want my sugar in my sweet food and not in my tinned tomatoes (most tinned tomatoes have sugar in here in Spain!). I’m still a sugar addict I think but I’ve tried to swap for more complex sugars in honey or dried fruit.
Miguel’s dad once said to me that a sweet has zero nutritional value but if you had a slice of apple tart although there's sugar there are also other nutrients. I loved that thinking!
Rael still feels addicted to sugar even though he hasn’t eaten it for 4 years. I want to know what broke my addiction and how this became possible for me when so many others are telling me not for them?
I think it might be tonight’s that shows what a binge was for me so readers can se me the type of sugar extremes I’m referring.
Btw, Miguel’s dad is a fine fellow! I love his way of looking at it😍 I am partial to the occasional slice of cake, I just no longer eat half the cake like I did for 20+ years. And find myself think the same when it’s home made.
Look forward to reading that!
Miguel’s dad is so good at being healthy, I learn so much from him. And so much about self control! 💚
Keeping a food log helps. I wrote my version of gentle cooking philosophy and published the article last Friday, thank you for the inspiration.
Still experimenting with dairy (goat's milk instead of cow's due to different protein profile, less about lactose which I'm not intolerant anyway), gluten is my kryptonite, been over a year coffee-free, and almost 2 years alcohol-free, not missing any.
I used to eat a bar of choc in one sitting but I realised it was due to me undereating. Now I eat what I understood as low inflammatory, including very rarely red meat, gentle heating over deep fried, no UPFs kind of lifestyle.
It’s been great to read what reducing inflammation looks like and consists of to you. Between us, we’re highlighting the importance of looking into ways that support and work for us individually and showing that there are many different ways.
Sharing the link to your post incase any readers here would like to see it - plus, that is a great breakfast recipe! Yum yum😋
https://open.substack.com/pub/sekarlangit/p/gentle-cooking-oat-porridge-with
Oh how kind of you Amber to share the link here. Thank you! And please write more I love your series as always.
Dairy, gluten, coffee and alcohol free. Struggling with sugar, a life long addiction. Although in my teens as a vegetarian I stopped eating sugar after reading “Sugar Blues”. I was diagnosed with MS ten years ago. 🤞
Not heard of sugar blues before, sounds pretty game changing! An incredible achievement to go the distance with dairy, gluten, caffeine and alcohol. Have the changes helped with the MS?
https://www.google.ca/books/edition/_/hvlpAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiLtrSrpLKJAxVchIkEHWDCMHcQ7_IDKAB6BAgQEAM
Correction. Late teens as it was 1975 in art college.
Not in a wheel chair yet, but ride a trike though.
Miss my two wheelers. I had always looked forward to lingering in my work that has no retirement age. But
When the body says No. I am learning to listen,
Such a big lesson to learn. I wish we’d been taught this as kids. I have a 9yo niece making the decision to no longe pursue horse riding. Not because she doesn’t passionately want to but because of the environment. Her body is saying no. The decision is breaking her heart. I’m so proud of her for listening to her body because the decisions we make can be heart breaking. But when the body says no, it means it. And it’s ok to make the right decision for us and feel sad about it. Heartbroken even. We can heal a broken heart (something else I wish I’d also been taught sooner 🙏).
How interesting. By coincidence my career as a pianist was ended by a serious riding accident that left me in a body cast without the use of my right arm. The summer before I started high school.
The universe and another horse said no, my body really said no loudly after the accident that summer. My ever constant internal weather vane. Life changing.
Woah, that’s big insight to have. I’m sorry to hear you suffered in such a way to learn that invaluable lesson. I wish hard for humanity that there is an easier way but the only way I found myself was to break down and become disabled by illness first. I can see in my own journey that I had to learn this hard way and to open up to the gift I’ve learnt at all🙏🌟
This is something else I wonder (have wondered upon times past when things seemingly haven’t worked out my way), How do we know that her body saying no to what is right now her dream isn’t a detour from something more sinister that could happen if she were to stay on that same path?
The body communicates to us for alsorts of reasons, we don’t yet fully understand what a body led life approach looks like. Aligning solely with this approach since 2018 (to the best of my ability, which hasn’t been perfect) has taken me very far in my own healing journey. My body definitely holds a lot more wisdom than my mind, that much I do know.