We’re officially in the dog days of summer. It’s hot, humid (depending on where you are), and I find it hard to do anything but sit on my patio with a cold beverage.
Cravings. Oh, cravings. Wouldn’t life be easier without those pesky cravings? We all could be eating “perfectly” if we didn’t dream about chocolate or potato chips all of the time. (And for the record, a “perfect diet” simply doesn’t exist, so we can stop striving for it :)
Indigestion always sounds like such a mild word. “It’s JUST indigestion”. But those of you who are suffering from big digestive issues know it can be more than just a bit of embarrassing gas or irregularity. Symptoms can take over your life.
Do you ever feel your personality changes when you’re hungry? Does your patience, kindness, and empathy go out the window and are replaced with frustration, anger, and the urge strangle someone? And you need to eat NOW. Not in an hour, or even 5 minutes. NOW.
It’s a bit scary that auto-immune disease is on the rise. Conditions like Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis, Crohn’s Disease, Colitis, and MS are rising year after year. And sadly, our understanding of what’s causing them isn’t growing quite as rapidly.
Google “cancer” and “diet” and you’ll get incredibly scary, confusing, and frustratingly inconsistent information. One website will say a food or supplement is supportive and the next will say not to use it. You just can’t win.
The truth is, yo-yo dieting is really hard on your body, and research shows that staying at exactly the weight you are at right now is much healthier than losing 20 pounds and gaining it back again. So, no only do most diets fail to help us lose weight, but they’re bad for us too.
