Hey mental health warriors! Welcome back to your safe place. This is my safe place too. (reminds me of this lol). I want to talk about the various ways I'm "cleaning up" certain parts of my life. Firstly my diet. As I've mentioned before, I continued my college education in San Francisco where I recieved my Nutrition Assistant certification (which is one step below a dietician. Basically a RD's assistant) and have had a passion for healthy food and food as medicine ever since. I am by no means a great cook or even talented in the kitchen but I do have a feel for what I should and shouldn't eat. Even though I still eat what I shouldn't! I'm always trying to learn new things to make my overall lifestyle healthier. I have been reading books written by the Medical Medium (previous mentioned here). If you want to join me in this quest for a healthier diet that lends more energy towards healthier moods and mental health, purchase this book! I'm about 3/4 way in!
So, let's break this down for a minute. By this, I mean my brief history with diets and nutrition. I had an active eating disorder from ages 15 through 28-ish. My Mom always made sure we had very healthy food in the house and I had access to everything I needed but because I was lacking in mental stability and emotionally unstable, I still developed an eating disorder. When I moved to California in 2009 and moved in with my then boyfriend/now husband, I had to promise the disordered eating would stop or he would definitely send me back home to Michigan. Because I never taught myself how to eat normally, I gained weight very fast and kept it on for years. Well I still have all of my post ED weight obviously. That's why I was very interested in getting an education in nutrition. Just as was my reasoning for studying psychology. I know these subjects would help me in my everyday life. After my nutrition education, I entered the beauty industry instead and after a few years, I burned out and relapsed into the most severe depression episode of my life. It lasted approximately 3 years and I was virtually bed ridden the entire time. Que major weight gain. Upon moving back to Michigan, I found myself again after really intense therapy and the best psychiatrist I've ever had and over 70 pounds of weight fell off my frame in about a year and half. Well, it didn't just fall off. I worked out everyday, many times until I cried, and cut way WAY down on my processed food and eating out and ordering take out.
In 2018, before taking a wonderful hiking vacation with my family in Yosemite and other places around California and Nevada, I trained what little I could during a major depressive episode but I also altered my diet by taking our gluten and dairy so that I could use the extra energy I wasn't using to digest to get physically trained for hiking. It was amazing how great I felt! I only didn't continue it because as a depressed person with low energy it was really hard to sustain a diet like that. Now I'm ready to try it all again with the help of Medical Medium and some good friends. This morning is my second morning having lemon water for breakfast, waiting 30 minutes and then having celery juice. Yesterday I had the same breakfast and was able to do a winter hike in the freezing cold for several miles! and normally I'm ravenous in the morning if I don't eat solid food! I felt really good after having that and the heavy metal detox smoothie on Friday.
If you want to do this adventure of healing with me, get this book and this juicer. I used the juicer for the first time on Friday and it was amazing! I'll talk to you guys again soon! Don't forget to check out my youtube channel vlogs and my etsy store for fun Valentine's Day cards! As a blog reader, you can use code "THANKYOU10" for 10% off your purchase!
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