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.