Succes with changing diet

[Marian82]

Im doing a lot better.

I had a real bad diet, with lots of junkfood and sugar and skipping meals, because i was struggling.

I collapsed recently and had to be in a ward, where i got good food and much less sugar, soda, etc for a month.

After i decided to keep that diet and improve it. I started drinking enough water and nothing else (except fresh ginger tea). I started cooking healthy for myself.

Coincidentally i bumped into a sugar challenge and i radically changed my diet. I eat no added sugar or natural or other replacements (agave syrup, honey, aspartame, etc). I started to eat fresh whole food: organic meat, fish, veggies, fruit, glutenfree oats, etc without anything added. I deleted bread and pasta etc too because a medical specialist adviced that i quit gluten.

I just started, but i feel so much better!

I have more energy, more motivation, my moods are much more even, my anxiety is almost gone. I feel often happy. I didnt have a single flashback since i started this, just mild memories coming up and leaving again. My gut (and some other) problems flared up when i had one meal with lots of bread, sugary sauce, extras. So i quickly went back on my diet.

I wanted to share this...

It was hard for a bit to quit sugar and get started, but i dont crave it anymore. Im real happy. I do consider following a stricter elimination diet, because i suspect dairy causes issues too...still some gut issues, still on a small dose of meds.

I wanted to tell people: changing my diet helped so much!

[Three Roses]

It's amazing to me what changing the way we eat can do for our mood. I am a HUGE sugar junkie but I realize how much it affects me, draining my energy and crashing my outlook on life.

[Marian82]

I too was a big sugar junkie...I had a few failed attempts to stop or reduce sugar.

What really helped me was to first look at a few weak spots (e.g. drinking enough water, no soda or juice or so). Changing a few things gave me the energy/power to give up sugar altogether and eat better. Fatigue had been a major obstacle to eating healthy, as was not eating regular meals.

Do you know what holds you back from changing to a better diet?

[Three Roses]

Nope, not sure. 

[Bach]

I changed my diet in similar ways ten years ago and it helped a lot, but it's very difficult for me to stick to my healthy diet because food is a problem for me for several reasons both psychological and physiological, and with lots of easily-triggered problematic behaviour patterns attached. Basically, food was involved in a lot of my childhood abuse, so it's not a simple thing for me at all. Also, although I can easily avoid eating things that have an immediate obvious negative effect on me, most things don't. So I tend to think I'm "getting away with it" until it builds up and I start to feel the negative effects. By then I have a whole set of psychological and physiological things I have to bring back in line, and that is DIFFICULT. It frustrates me enormously that it's never as simple as "Eating that thing now in these conditions will make me ill at some point in the future, therefore I will not do it" but I'm learning to be patient with myself and with my Inners around this huge lifelong issue.

[Marian82]

I think you are strong and brave to have undertaken changing your diet, despite the difficulties attached to that.

I hope you keep on succeeding with it, even if it is hard and you cant always stick to it. You are still good enough if it doesnt always succeed.  Good luck.