Eating in an unrestricted way may sometimes be the most healing thing, for example, when healing from an eating disorder. Other times, like spending money we need to rein it in or suffer dire consequences.
Many people have difficulty making these changes and maintaining them. In fact food habits are some of the more difficult things to change. As difficult as it is to quit smoking, drinking, other addictions…. and I acknowledge that these are VERY...
A lot of my patients are on restrictive diets. I walk them through the process, how to deal with the emotions, how to manage it with their busy chaotic lives, so they can allow their bodies to heal from inflammation, bacterial overgrowth, autoimmune disorders, etc. Most of the time these diets are meant to be temporary and therapeutic during treatment with a slow addition to widen the diet once treatment of the infection/inflammation/autoimmune has been accomplished. This way we can begin to see what the body can and cannot tolerate. It is often a non-linear journey.
Restrictive diets by nature are not very fun. Nobody wants to have a “NO!” in their life. It brings up all sorts of “stuff” for the person undergoing the diet restriction. I have blogged a ton on this and there is a massive amount of information and research out there about WHY the restriction is necessary for a time so I am not going to go into that very much in this particular post. You can...
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