The Best Advice I’ve Ever Received
The best advice I have ever received is that you don’t need a cure for symptoms when you get rid of the cause.
I read the nutrition labels on food packages and check the ingredients, too, so I know what I put in my body.
Due to this research and thanks to the help of my stepdad, who’s a nutrition therapy practitioner, I learned that if I eat gluten, it makes my body feel bad.
I recently started listening to my body. For example, instead of ignoring my body’s signals and eating past the point when I’m full, I stop eating when I feel full.
I’ve also noticed that I stop being my awesome self when I eat a lot of sugar. I recognize that I don’t behave as well, and my mind doesn’t function like I want it to. I don’t like that feeling, so I choose to listen to my body and not eat a lot of sugar.
When I don’t drink enough water, I get a massive headache and don’t feel as good. When I drink my water, I feel happy, my body is happy, and I am fun to be around.
I learned that corn causes me to be in pain the next day and that I feel a lot better when I don’t eat it.
Since I started listening to my body, I learned that my joint pain, which wasn’t caused by exercise, hurt when I ate corn. Now, that limits my options because corn is in a lot of food, and if I don’t want to be in pain, I must avoid it. My family and I have eliminated all the food in the house with corn, and I feel much better without eating it.
I did well not eating corn on a vacation to Universal Studios. That means I did not have bread, even gluten-free bread, because of the corn content in the bread. It was hard, but it was worth it not to be in pain for days when we walked around Universal.
I believe corn caused the inflammation in my joints. Getting rid of corn in my diet did not require a cure, which would be Ibuprofen; it simply required me to listen to my body and avoid foods that made me feel bad.
Thanks to my stepdad’s advice, I am happier, more active, and able to do the activities I love.
Jenny
Thanks for sharing Milla!!! I’m glad you’re making great choices for yourself and your health!!!!
Milla
Hey Jenny!!!!
I am so glad that you enjoyed it.
Tell everyone I say hi!!!
Milla
Tim
You are such a Rockstar, Milla.
It takes a lot of fortitude to get to know yourself this way. I am very proud of you for sitting with your pains long enough to figure out what is causing them, and doing the difficult thing to make them go away.
Glad that you didn’t just take the specialists word for it that it was “growing pains!”
Love you,
Tim
Milla
Me to!! Because if I did, I would have a lot of “growing pains.”
Love
Milla