Day 1 of the Pared down Paleo Whole 30 has been good - and it has reminded me of exactly WHY I am committing to this long term.   I allowed myself a cheat last night before committing to this. and to say I am inflamed to day would be an understatement. I am not complaining - because on days that I am this inflamed I remind myself that my daughter lives with this x 100 daily. However, it is not comfortable - and no food is worth the feeling of being bruised inside and out all over. Exactly why I need to nix cheat days for however long it takes. 

    The chart above illustrates the great results that are seen following Paleo - and for me - paring it back even more is a requirement to see this.  I really want to heal my  digestion and body from  inflammation.   I have had trouble with this for years, but we lived in Black mold for 3 years before we knew what was causing the issues - and that ramped up the inflammation and damage in my body.  We moved for a new environment - and when we got here - we landed in another home with black mold - and this time it really did me in.  We moved out of that a year ago and have been blessed with a newer home that has a healthy environment - but it could take YEARS to reverse the damage that the mold did to my body.   But I am going to try to help it along. One thing you will learn about me - I am persistent - or stubborn - whichever - I am NOT giving up.I believe that there is a reason that God gave me a passion for natural nutrition, and the stubbornness to keep researching. And to keep trying.

Besides the inflammation - I would like to be able to recover my muscles. And lose the fat.  Another side affect of an unhealthy environment. I almost gave up on myself - but my spunk usually finds itself and I pick myself up and move forward.   My adrenals crashed during that crisis - that was one of the hardest things for me to deal with - I went from hard core workouts, to not recovering from workouts.  Working out suddenly resulted in migraine auras, flu like symptoms for days and depression. It took me a LONG time to readjust my thinking - and realize that our workouts can be stress too - good stress is still stress when our bodies are in crisis - so sometimes we need to back off and recover.  Learning to workout in order to benefit our health is something that a lot of us are faced with. I am in the middle of figuring that out for myself.

   There are a lot of you that have mysterious health issues too, or live with chronic illness - and this blog is for you.  It is so that you can follow me through however long it takes to see what health i can recover.   I will explore issues along the way that I have dealt with, or that fascinate me - and ways to help us all move on and see some light at the end of our health battle tunnels.

  I hope you will follow along - I want to hear your stories - I would love to have you share them with me .  We can find some answers together - reach goals together.

    And its not too late to join me in the health challenge.  I'd love to have you come along.