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When Recovery Requires a Complete Break from Exercise (Episode #95)

February 8, 2019 By beautyinchrist Leave a Comment

Sometimes recovery doesn’t just require less exercise. Occasionally it requires a complete, total break from it. As I’ve met more and more girls and women that have struggled with eating disorder or disordered eating patterns, I’ve noticed that there is something really crucial about either taking a complete break from exercise or greatly reducing your exercise load.

That’s not quite my story, but I’ve had to say, ‘No’ to a lot of distance running and heavy cardio as part of recovery. Honestly that’s not easy when you find exercise enjoyable. For me exercise was always fun; I didn’t find it a complete chore, but the amount I did was too taxing on my body.

It also turns out that exercise can be more of a stressor than a ‘de-stressor’ especially when you’ve lost your period. I didn’t figure this out until I began reading from Robyn at the Real Life RD.

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Recovery is Not Easy or Pretty (Episode #94)

February 1, 2019 By beautyinchrist Leave a Comment

Recovery is not a pretty thing or an easy walk in the park; I have often wished that I could be like the people who just put calorie counting behind them, don’t worry about exercise, and they recover in what seems to be a short time. But what you and I don’t see behind the scenes are the difficult thoughts, the challenges that come up day by day.

What are some of these challenges? Why is it hard to say, ‘I’m recovered?’

– We have so much input from the culture around us. – The culture is constantly coming out with new diets or making you feel like you should be trying this new way of eating because everybody else is doing it. This happens to me when people do the Whole 30. I don’t condemn them at all, but I know just where my head would go if I did it. However, I find myself questioning my own food choices when I see people hop on the Whole 30 in January. I wonder, ‘Am I eating really ‘unhealthy’ if I’m not eating the Whole 30 way?’

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How Gut Healing Can Disguise as Diet Culture (Episode #88)

December 11, 2018 By beautyinchrist 4 Comments

Gut healing is such a trendy word. And this year I kind of got sucked into all the parts of it including the diet culture that weaves itself in and out of gut healing. Now I’m not talking about gut issues like Crohn’s, IBS, IBD, or any other bowel diseases, but I’m talking about having struggles with restriction, coming out with gut struggles because of that restriction, and listening to the lie that I should ‘restrict’ certain foods or not eat certain foods in order to heal my gut.

The Lord restores. That’s what I can say this year again and again; for a LONG time I was really discouraged about my gut issues; I didn’t think anything could be resolved. I became afraid of some different kinds of foods, because I thought those were doing something to my gut, but I realized that the anxiety about those foods was actually creating more digestive distress for me.

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I don’t know exactly what the years of restriction did to my gut, but it didn’t do good things to my gut. My gut became really sensitive, and only this year have I really headed straight for the problem, asking the Lord for healing, for courage to do the things necessary in order to heal.

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How Over Exercise Led to Hypothalamic Amenorrhea (Episode #83)

November 1, 2018 By beautyinchrist Leave a Comment

Disclaimer: Remember that this podcast is NOT intended to diagnose, treat, or be a substitute for medical advice. I am NOT a healthcare professional. Please consult your doctor or health care practitioners before making any changes to your way of eating, exercising, etc.

Hypothalamic amenorrhea. What is the definition of this condition? It’s a term that I’ve learned a bit about especially after struggling with it for 10+ years.

This is the definition of that I picked up from off of Google,

‘Hypothalamic amenorrhea is a condition in which menstruation stops for several months due to a problem involving the hypothalamus. The hypothalamus is in the center of the brain and controls reproduction. It produces gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH).’

I’m not going to go into the science of it, because I’m not a nutritionist, dietitian, doctor, nurse, nurse practitioner, and I want you to go to your health practitioners for practical advice on what you’re supposed to do if you’re wrestling with this.

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