I have not posted for a while, and perhaps that infrequent-mode will be a continuing trend. After all I am not selling anything just documenting my recovery from a chronic disease using food and exercise. So while it is nice for me to post how I have done this, that or the other, I have never felt that the most useful time for my readers. So why post now?
Well in recent months I have had two non-RA related health challenges. Firstly I felt well enough on holiday to jump off a high cliff into the sea. All was well until I landed, which I did badly and suffered back strain which meant I had a couple of hospital visits. That incident was in September, and what is notable, to my mind anyway is the rate of recovery. Because of my yoga I now I have the internalised knowledge of how to deal with back pain. That's not to say the pain is any less or more than anyone else's at the outset. But rather I knew how to deal with it to help both manage the pain and aid recovery.
I am very thankful for my whole-food plant based diet which, in my mind, clearly helped provide, in my mind, the best foundation for great recovery. On top of that a serious approach to appropriate yoga poses and techniques, not least a focus on lifting the chest whilst pulling the tummy in.
My second incident was also self-inflicted. I recently watched a great video advocating fermenting oats. Well I got it wrong and suffered a bout of food poisoning as a result with a day's diarrhea followed by a week or so of gradually lessening stomach cramps.
As my stomach now returns to normal and my back pain feels more like a distant memory I look back on my wounds. I conclude that life is full of challenges and I am proud to have made some challenges to myself. Yes, I got these wrong, but my body recovers and recovers well. But there is more than that. I now know more about my body, what it is capable of given the right conditions.
And my RA? Well on the one hand when I get my next blood test results later this week I full expect them to be the best I have ever had. And my as to my yoga practice - well that just gets better. I still have no masterful poses to astonish people with, but for me I feel I am becoming a master of my own body.
And that is more than sufficient.
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.
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