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Reddit mentions of It Starts With Food: Discover the Whole30 and Change Your Life in Unexpected Ways
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Take it one day at a time, one meal at a time. It's overwhelming to think about it like, "I'm never ever going to eat sweets again" but its easier to think "I'm not going to eat dessert tonight".
I read this book and it totally changed my perspective on food.
Whole30 worked for me and my wife.
Now, whether you're interested in paleo and/or Whole30 or not, I'd still recommend reading the It Starts with Food. It explains the psychological and hormonal effects of food that lead to binge eating and such.
I feel like I link to this book on every thread, but if you want a good explanation of the Paleo diet and the science/nutrition behind it I highly recommend picking up [It Starts With Food] (http://www.amazon.com/Starts-Food-Discover-Whole30-Unexpected-ebook/dp/B008C20TDG/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1407293809&sr=1-1&keywords=it+starts+with+food).
It Starts With Food is a phenomenal book to start with just to understand how food affects us. Another one that covers autoimmunity is The Immune System Recovery Plan. Both of these books revolve around diet and not anxiety, but it is my firm belief that in order to find what is triggering the anxiety, you must work on other areas of your life first. If diet, exercise, and sleep do not subdue your symptoms, then keep searching. I’d be willing to bet if you tried the elimination diet, whether Whole30 or Dr Blum’s Recovery Plan, this will help you.
I’d love to hear about your progress. Please feel free to follow up. You’re so young!! You have so much potential!! Don’t let something like this control you. Initially, you might find yourself resistant to try new things, so it will take what I call ‘just making the decision’. This means that if you want to find peace with your health, you just have to decide to do it and push through whatever doubt (or anxiety) you might have.
It’s one thing to make the decision, so how do you stick with the decision you might be thinking? Especially when the stress really peaks. Three things.
“I will work on being less stressed”. This is not a goal. It has none of the components of a goal. “This week, I will take 10 minutes each day to meditate before starting my day.” That is a proper goal. It’s measurable, it has an end date, and at the end of the week, you can measure its effectiveness. Write these goals down to make them real and tangible. Put them with your mission statement and at the end of each week, assess your progress. This might sound time consuming, but after a couple weeks, this new habit will take very little time.
For you, being anxiety free might be the ultimate goal, but to reach that, you will need to make smaller, more focused goals to reach that bigger one. You can do this. You might need to enlist the help of someone you trust. Find an accountability partner so when you do hit rock bottom (and that’s okay if you do!), you have someone to lean on who can help you stay on track with your goals.
Again, feel free to reach out if you have more questions. Patience is going to be your friend here. However, just on elimination diets alone, people have made sweeping recoveries to all sorts of illnesses. I won’t go into the details but look at those books I suggested to see how food can truly affect us.
Life is a journey. No one lives your life but you. Make it yours. Make it awesome!
If you like the Whole 30 people, It Starts With Food or Well Fed might be good resources.
http://www.amazon.com/Starts-Food-Discover-Whole30-Unexpected-ebook/dp/B008C20TDG/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1404450579&sr=1-1&keywords=whole+30