I get this question too. I am on a very restricted diet that I have worked out myself due to inflammation. I love food and cook wholesome meals for my family with meat and dairy and much more variety than I can manage. Until this summer I was living on about 6 foods for three years. I am up to about 10 now but still have days where I react. (I don't get migraines but have many food sensitivities and can't digest food properly which causes leaky gut which leads to muscle and joint pain). It's a bit boring to be honest but it's far better than where I was at three years ago when I could barely walk! The thing I miss most is being able to eat out or at other people's houses. I always have to take my own food.
This is a great example of allowing the body to lead and making changes that align with what you want. Even though that often means the changes we make are not necessarily the most favourable and dam right pretty shitty🙃 this is no mean feat.
I later read that a super simple diet to give the body the best chance of resting and healing over using that energy to digest is recommended. But I rarely see anyone mention it.
I have no doubt this would have been beneficial to me but at the time I was very much on my own with it and to do the best we can - like you are with family meals - is good enough. Practice over perfection 💚
This is fabulous! I love this piece and it’s like a parallel journey to mine, it’s so similar and different at the same time.
I think, if it’s good quality dairy and your body says go for it, is it worth swapping it out? I suppose it’d be the benefits versus the drawbacks, it’s probably a fabulous fat supply and I can almost feel myself wanting that double cream myself (if my tum tum could handle it!).
With endo, the type of diary is important but there’s a cross over with gut related issues so I think a lot of people go dairy free.
Dairy, for me, really has been one way that older habits have crept back in. My consumption of it increased to 2 pots of double cream a week! I’ve def run into imbalance with it a few times.
This could be one reason why, when I put on a stone and a half in ten days, that it didn’t come off for a couple of years.
But the one thing that’s been consistent is my perfectly imperfect approach, eating what I want when I want and continuing to make the teeny tiny changes and adaptations to what I eat and the quality of the food.
Because we’ve had have such a focus on fat in recent decades, I’ve recently been wondering if the real culprit is dairy. And if more people would benefit from reducing dairy than fat?
This type of change does, in turn, reduce the fat which I’m wondering if that’s where the confusion lies🤔 either way, the quality of our dairy is becoming increasingly poor and can be aggravating to skin and inflammatory conditions.
Its def better balance with it that helps me over elimination but def one that creeps up
Fat has been made the enemy but it’s important! There are good fats and bad fats, but the good fats are vital.
I think quality is incredibly important, cows are pumped with hormones and vaccines. The latter keeps us safe from diseases that previously would’ve killed, but historically cows weren’t kept the way they are now. The scale is enormous and subsequently they need more vaccines and such, which goes into the milk and food. And, ontop of that we’re eating way more meat than we used to.
My ancestors, especially my Irish side, would’ve had a cow they’d have milked so milk would have been around and warm straight from the tit.
The book, The Migraine Miracle, explores what our ancestors ate which was part of the story that appealed to me. I was chatting with someone the other day who suggested looking at what your ancestors ate and eat that which reminded me of it - it will be different for different cultures. But it’s a great place to start 💙
Weirdly I’ve thought that a lot as what I eat is amazing here but my ancestors wouldn’t have dreamed the things I have available to eat here. Like when did olives get to Ireland. They’d have never seen a mango 🥭 or a banana 🍌 (though can I include the islands as part of Spain as they’re far away).
I get this question too. I am on a very restricted diet that I have worked out myself due to inflammation. I love food and cook wholesome meals for my family with meat and dairy and much more variety than I can manage. Until this summer I was living on about 6 foods for three years. I am up to about 10 now but still have days where I react. (I don't get migraines but have many food sensitivities and can't digest food properly which causes leaky gut which leads to muscle and joint pain). It's a bit boring to be honest but it's far better than where I was at three years ago when I could barely walk! The thing I miss most is being able to eat out or at other people's houses. I always have to take my own food.
This is a great example of allowing the body to lead and making changes that align with what you want. Even though that often means the changes we make are not necessarily the most favourable and dam right pretty shitty🙃 this is no mean feat.
I later read that a super simple diet to give the body the best chance of resting and healing over using that energy to digest is recommended. But I rarely see anyone mention it.
I have no doubt this would have been beneficial to me but at the time I was very much on my own with it and to do the best we can - like you are with family meals - is good enough. Practice over perfection 💚
This is fabulous! I love this piece and it’s like a parallel journey to mine, it’s so similar and different at the same time.
I think, if it’s good quality dairy and your body says go for it, is it worth swapping it out? I suppose it’d be the benefits versus the drawbacks, it’s probably a fabulous fat supply and I can almost feel myself wanting that double cream myself (if my tum tum could handle it!).
With endo, the type of diary is important but there’s a cross over with gut related issues so I think a lot of people go dairy free.
Dairy, for me, really has been one way that older habits have crept back in. My consumption of it increased to 2 pots of double cream a week! I’ve def run into imbalance with it a few times.
This could be one reason why, when I put on a stone and a half in ten days, that it didn’t come off for a couple of years.
But the one thing that’s been consistent is my perfectly imperfect approach, eating what I want when I want and continuing to make the teeny tiny changes and adaptations to what I eat and the quality of the food.
Because we’ve had have such a focus on fat in recent decades, I’ve recently been wondering if the real culprit is dairy. And if more people would benefit from reducing dairy than fat?
This type of change does, in turn, reduce the fat which I’m wondering if that’s where the confusion lies🤔 either way, the quality of our dairy is becoming increasingly poor and can be aggravating to skin and inflammatory conditions.
Its def better balance with it that helps me over elimination but def one that creeps up
Out of balance 😆
Fat has been made the enemy but it’s important! There are good fats and bad fats, but the good fats are vital.
I think quality is incredibly important, cows are pumped with hormones and vaccines. The latter keeps us safe from diseases that previously would’ve killed, but historically cows weren’t kept the way they are now. The scale is enormous and subsequently they need more vaccines and such, which goes into the milk and food. And, ontop of that we’re eating way more meat than we used to.
My ancestors, especially my Irish side, would’ve had a cow they’d have milked so milk would have been around and warm straight from the tit.
Fat is not the enemy for sure!
The book, The Migraine Miracle, explores what our ancestors ate which was part of the story that appealed to me. I was chatting with someone the other day who suggested looking at what your ancestors ate and eat that which reminded me of it - it will be different for different cultures. But it’s a great place to start 💙
Weirdly I’ve thought that a lot as what I eat is amazing here but my ancestors wouldn’t have dreamed the things I have available to eat here. Like when did olives get to Ireland. They’d have never seen a mango 🥭 or a banana 🍌 (though can I include the islands as part of Spain as they’re far away).