Food And Arthritis

Add the RIGHT foods to your diet to REDUCE arthritic pain and inflammation.
Include the WRONG foods to your diet and INCREASE arthritic pain and inflammation.
My choice? A life-journey based on a low-oil whole-food plant based diet.
Whatever your current state of health, make yourself healthier - you deserve it. Start your plant based diet journey today.

Monday 12 December 2016

Yoga update

Generally speaking I have been improving through my Bikram sessions.  The small if not minuscule improvements are definitely having their cumulative effect.  So last week thought here was an opportunity to get the best out Bikram and so I did six Bikram sessions on the run.  Well, not exactly running, but you understand!

I had hoped that as the week rolled by I would feel better, after all the effort I was putting in!  However the third session seemed to be my high, and a mixture of issues seemed to hold me back towards the end of the week.  On one hand I seemed to have developed a bit of intermittent lower back strain, sadly otherwise I seemed to have more arthritic pain, stiffness and fatigue hitting me.  And so with some trepidation on Friday I made my last visit, asking myself was I overdoing it.

As with all Bikram advice the rest is as much if not more important than the exercise and so as my deserved weekend of rest progressed I found my health perking up in several ways.  Walking seemed to become easier.  My sleeping seems to have improved.  I say that, over recent months I find I am able to rest awake during the night without actual sleep.  Putting shoes and socks on etc is easier, chopping vegetables is easier.

The big marker is how I feel as I get up in the morning.  Again, this seems better to me.  These small improvements are often difficult to define, it is more just a general feeling, "oh that went well."

One thing that was different, and clearly different is motivation. We're heading for Christmas and New Year, enjoyable for most people with little effort.  For me it means planning.  I will be travelling and staying with family and friends over the holidays.  So I need to prepare meals etc and I want this to be festive food that is exactly on my diet.

So yesterday I went through the Deliciously Ella book and marked off recipes that appealed to me, that I might adapt.  For any Deliciously Ella addict the book largely delivers interesting vegan recipes but many if not most are not good for people with arthritis.  There is too much emphasis on oils for instance.

I have just adapted the first recipe, her easy veggie stock and it is now cooling to go into the freezer ready for use in the near weeks.  My adaptation started by using my juicer to macerate my chosen vegetables, which in this instance was to add broccoli stems to the mix.  Obviously I omitted the tomatoes and added more herbs.

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