FIGURING IT OUT

I can’t tell you how many conversations I’ve had the past few years with people about how the wellness typically it starts with an element of having chronic stomach pain or were acid reflux or other examples and I’m trying to figure out what’s causing them so I’m going to the doctor and they can only figure it out.

sometimes they’ll say it’s irritable bowel syndrome or been out in though either rule out a bunch will do bunch of tests and rule out they don’t have cancer which is basically little doctors do anyway and they’ll say why don’t you avoid the speed of that food I want to try to do word of this router that food if you’re getting farther enough. But as your testing out these different foods you’re realizing that you know one day you eat something and it will be fine and great and I’ve been other time he eat it won’t be your like I can’t I thought this is working I can’t figure it out. Starting over with that sentence sentence: yo you eating one thing and you feel great and do you keep eating that and then all the sudden you feel awful the next time they eat it and like I don’t understand why and so you can take years of just confusion before you really start to figure out the rules of your own system and it’s incredibly challenging because everyone is so different that everything you read feels but doesn’t work for you were you know it it’s just really hard to identify your own ailments.

I’m here to say that I too have struggled with this and it took me a really long time like 10 years to figure out what worked for me and this blog is meant to talk about that but also to talk about how I figured it out and what some of the overarching concept were for her key moments that really were triggers were lightbulbs for me to help me on this path. And also I’d love to share any new things that I find.

So that being said I guess I could start with one of the key concepts of this blog which is that first of all eating real food is number one there are so many toxic awful things that we are surrounded with every day and we can avoid them completely even though we shouldn’t drive stop trying. But you can’t control what you eat most of the time and I want to also purposes by saying that I am not or rephrase I am a true believer in not letting the food get in the way of a social life I think it’s really important to not becoming a retentive about about food and I will say that there were many years when I was trying to figure all this out that I was super obsessed with what I was eating and that the solutions that I’m going to talk about that works for me really worked because they enabled me to stop assessing about food let me cheat without feeling awful and I think and that that is the ultimate goal. So if you adopt of these larger concepts any figure out the key little things not he will Keith figure things out that are your issues you should be able to go you don’t have drinks with a friend or your break your rules at times that are appropriate and understand when those times your body just can’t handle it the times are your body can handle it fine so but it’s really all about.

Four Golden Rules

Eat real food
So I’ll get to my the first one is eat real foods and no one says this better than Michael pollen in his book, in defense of food.

8020 Rule
The second topic that I’m going to talk about is the 8020 rule. I think the crisscross are describes this the best it is the cons of that I described above which is that you shouldn’t let food up session consume your life part of feeling good is the lake got in mind axis and it is much better to eat bad food and feel good about it and eat good food and feel bad about it because your body breaks things down to the factory justice system work basically. It affects The way your digestive system works.

Listen to you body – and – Figure out your phases
Last overage and cons of that I won’t have about is about cycles and I’m not exactly sure he describes his best to help our bodies are in constant cyclical patterns for women obviously especially and that affects the way that we handle outside influences so in addition for all the people men and women I like to put your body in a few different categories where is there doing great and your body can handle anything or at Smithville call that like Prineville or maybe will call that peak resilience or something. Then there’s your body in crisis and that can be caused by eating a trigger food or drinking too much alcohol or being sick or a combination of all three of those things. Typically for me it’s usually like a perfect storm affect where if a few of the factors kind of meat together at my body tends to not be able to handle things like maybe you’re traveling and you eat you know and you’re stressed out and and you’re eating junk food for three days so your body can handle it for a day but then after a while I just can’t so then your body doesn’t a crisis mode and you feel awful and you just want to stop it from being in crisis mode will talk about those things for now but the next thing is that once you stop it from being in crisis mode then you get to maybe if the phase called like like lowpoint point. And after you get through that you need to begin healing and when you’re starting to heal their different to different mode that you take on for that too so I like to think of myself in those three phases when I am assessing all this food that I can handle and I can’t at different times so does the three phases

Women and Flow Living
In addition I will talk really quickly about what what women kind of go through and I learned about this actually from the floor living out which then got me really interested in hormone studies there’s a really fantastic doctor that I learned through from Chris customer named my head but she’s written a book called the hormone cure and I can’t actually get my hands on Knouff information about how we what we can do throughout the month identifying the different phases of her body are going through and kind of planning ahead and live being kind of wood in them so that we can understand how guys react to different things as we move through these phases. I know that my boyfriend and I have now he hasn’t been as far as like she describes the first phase right after your period during the whatever it’s called face as being the lake vegetarian food in your body to fight wants fresh foods lots of water you’re flushing things out and you’re just like you’re not that hungry and you have tons of energy and that’s phase 1 and then he moved into the ovulation phase and you know your drops and then it goes back up again and that phase your body needs like sugar needs or something I guess. Your body is like yeah it really needs proteins and I think if lean fish and stuff comes first and then it’s perfect I have your proteins an iron your body just needs likes it does need sugar and so if you’re the type of person who generally eat low-carb a hydrate Paleo diet or something like that there’s a phase where like you aren’t reacting well to that because your body needs sugar and when I say so maybe that’s when you know you eat more than have to be like sugar shirt like you eat like soup potatoes in Norstar to you tubers and Rice or the occasional awake bread or cookies or whatever and and not just helps in the last phase is when your body is starting to kind of break down and get ready to give birth and so you’re in pain and not surveys are you should and rest a lot like your body just requires a lot more sleeping or just tired so if you’re not paying attention to what fees your bodies and you’re just like why am I feeling like this with her if I can normally like you know XYNZ and not feel like crap I just feel like crap but I don’t know why it’s because this phase. Doesn’t really allow doesn’t handle that well so I need to create this graphic where it shows like this cycle next with this other cycle mixed with like your travel schedule and your work schedule and how old are used things just kind of like move all around in and that’s why when you’re trying to figure out what it what works for you because you have a lot harder time because the factors are different our bodies are complicated and there so many factors that it’s really hard to execute isolated experiments. So device I’m giving is is to just start to be aware of that and and if it’s helpful map some of these things out data can really help you understand patterns and. So that’s the end of my first article the four key rule that I live my whatever bye hope it’s helpful until next time.