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Can you give up something you crave?
Last Spring I was giving a talk to a women’s club. It was during Lent (as it is now). One woman said that she gave up alcohol for Lent. The woman next to her blurted out, “Oh! I could never give up anything!”
This gave me great sadness. I wanted to stop giving my talk about anti-inflammatory eating & just sit with them to dig into this great topic of attachment. But alas, I moved on.
I’m sure this woman though, if she really thought about it, could give up something. But her response, as is ours so often, is that we do not believe we have the capacity to give up anything.
The problem: changes are necessary but hard.
The problem we face is that we need to make changes for the sake of our health of body & spirit. However, we find it hard to do so because we…
- Are attached to certain foods & the sensations they provide
- Are attached to the way we currently live
- Fear we won’t be capable of achieving our goals
- Fear of emptiness if we let go of attachments
- Fear of the unknown in that new life
- And so many more.
If you desire to live a healthier life (eat nutritious foods, be more physically fit, prevent/manage/reverse chronic conditions, etc) but find it difficult to do so, think about this:
Could you give up ONE thing you are attached to?
I ask because making changes in our health is a journey that evokes more and more daily moments of discipline. And I have seen in my own life & in the lives of many clients that freedom from attachment is so key in our health journey.
Giving up just one little thing, bringing in discipline in one little area of our life gives us the strength and virtue needed to progress toward more discipline & growth.
How to make changes to your health
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Personalized Vitamins for 2020: A Dietitian’s Review
I hope you love the products I recommend. Just so you know, Wonderfully Made Nutrition may collect compensation from the brands I recommend, but I only write about products I believe in. If I love them, I hope you will too!
I’m a registered dietitian who works with clients 1:1 to help them reach their health goals, and supplements are a big part of the equation. When recommending a supplement, it’s important that I find a brand that is both high quality and intentionally practical.
Supplements can be expensive, and while efficacious, it can be difficult to know what to take, let alone build a consistent daily habit.
My Care/of experience
Enter Care/of. They provide a personalized, high quality vitamin plan in convenient daily packs, at a price point that’s under $2 a day. It’s truly a game-changer.
I recently tried Care/of for 30 days. Here’s a few of the reasons why it’s my new gold standard for a supplement provider.
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Is a Leaky Gut Causing my symptoms?
Leaky gut may be causing your digestive issues among other health issues.
If you’ve read any headlines or social media posts about health & wellness in the past few years, you’ve probably come across the hot topic of gut health. And rightly so.
The health of one’s gut, or digestive system, and more specifically the stomach and small and large intestines, is of utmost importance to the health of the entire body. It’s the epicenter of food transformation. Food comes in through the mouth (where part of digestion actually takes place with chewing & action of the saliva) and then gets chemically broken down to eventually be absorbed into the “inside” of the body in the bloodstream, where the nutrients are delivered to all parts of the body.
And get this- the gut is really one large canal that starts in the mouth and esophagus and can technically be considered “outside” of the body. That’s because things that come in through the mouth do not go directly into the bloodstream, which is considered “inside”. Pretty interesting to think about it that way. What is the need for this preliminary period of food breakdown while remaining sort of “outside” the body?