{"id":27814,"date":"2022-11-17T17:53:56","date_gmt":"2022-11-17T17:53:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.roadtolivingwhole.com\/?p=27814"},"modified":"2022-11-17T18:01:29","modified_gmt":"2022-11-17T18:01:29","slug":"3-mistakes-make-diet-diagnosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roadtolivingwhole.com\/3-mistakes-make-diet-diagnosis\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Mistakes You Are Making When You Diet for Your Diagnosis and What To Do Instead"},"content":{"rendered":"
When I was on my quest to get healthy. To not struggle with my psoriasis, acne, weight fluctuation, migraines, severe asthma, and hormone imbalances, I tried every diet out there. Anything that someone would claim would help, I would follow. I was in a \u201cdiet for diagnosis\u201d mentality. I just wanted to feel better. Through my own experience plus coaching for the past 10 years, I see the same 3 mistakes being made over and over again. It\u2019s harming you and now allowing you to heal as quickly as you could.<\/span><\/p>\n Therapeutic diets absolutely have their place. I mean, that\u2019s my specialty. Helping people follow therapeutic diets necessary to help them regain their health. However, there are 3 traps people fall into that set them up for frustration at best and at worst, making their health problems worse due to nutrient deficiencies and sometimes even developing an eating disorder.<\/span><\/p>\n Your motives are pure. You want to feel better and each expert promises their way is the right way. It worked for all of these people, why wouldn\u2019t it work for me, right?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n I\u2019ve been there. I was able to escape this \u201cdiet for diagnosis\u201d mentality and find the real foundation for a healthy diet I could actually do and it supports my health. I\u2019m grateful for my journey. It\u2019s made me a better health coach and I\u2019m able to help a wide variety of people. What took me years to learn, I\u2019d love to help you learn in much less time.<\/span><\/p>\n These might not sound like harmful strategies. Let me explain why there are mistakes, then I\u2019ll go into what to do instead.<\/span><\/p>\n You want to feel better fast. You\u2019ve been feeling awful for a very long time and you just want to feel good so you can live your life. So you learn about a diet that is supposed to help and you do a complete 180 to jump into this thing.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n But then find that it takes so much mental effort and time it\u2019s only sustainable for a very short time. Then you feel like a complete failure and like you\u2019re doomed to suffer your symptoms forever because you quote-unquote lack the willpower to stick with it.<\/span><\/p>\n The reason this doesn\u2019t work is directly linked to the fact that jumping into a new diet and doing a 180 from what we have been doing requires much more mental effort than we expect. It also requires us to change the way we meal plan, grocery shop, prep, and cook our meals. It\u2019s basically a brand-new lifestyle and doing it all at once is basically impossible. You haven\u2019t failed at anything! It\u2019s just too much to take on all at once.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n A much more realistic and sustainable approach is to make over what I call your Food Baseline first. Make that second nature so it requires very little thought and effort. Once you\u2019ve done this, strategically make changes over a few weeks to build up to transitioning onto the therapeutic diet.<\/span><\/p>\n Therapeutic diets are restrictive for a very good reason. They are removing foods that inhibit the body from healing itself for a short amount of time. Usually 30 days to 6 months. They aren\u2019t meant to become your new dietary lifestyle!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The reason they can\u2019t is because of how restrictive they are. For a short time they\u2019re extremely beneficial, for the long haul they include too few of nutrients and you very likely will become nutrient depleted. If you stay nutrient depleted for too long you can have permanent damage from these deficiencies.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n A couple of examples: I\u2019ve seen people stay on the ketogenic diet for too long and have their thyroids completely crash. They then have to stay on thyroid medication for life.\u00a0 <\/span>I\u2019ve also seen people stay on a Low FODMAP diet for too long and have permanent neuropathy from nutrient deficiencies. They also develop disordered eating and require much more intervention than they would have if they had followed it properly and gotten off of it when they were supposed to.<\/span><\/p>\n Staying on these therapeutic diets for too long can also cause you to be afraid of food. Please eat. Please. You need to eat. Not only do you need nutrients and calories, but food also brings us closer to those we love, it builds community and connection, and it\u2019s just plain an important part of being human.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Therapeutic diets absolutely have their place but very few have been designed to be long-term dietary lifestyles.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Another thing I see people do is for those who are very good rule followers, they will follow the rules of the therapeutic diet to a T no matter how hard it is but once they\u2019re told to transition off of it go absolutely crazy and eat all of the foods, usually highly processed, sugar filled foods they\u2019ve been missing. They got right back to their old way of eating, or sometimes worse, because they felt so deprived and hungry the entire time.<\/span><\/p>\n All that hard work just got flushed down the toilet.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n This isn\u2019t healthy either. If the goal is lifetime health, and management of symptoms, then you need to eat in a way that supports that. The therapeutic diet is there when there is a flare-up of your symptoms, but like I\u2019ve been saying, it\u2019s a short-term tool, but your regular diet, your Food Baseline, is what will keep you healthy\u2026or if you don\u2019t make it over, symptomatic, for life.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n These don\u2019t work. This is why you\u2019ve been frustrated. You might even feel like you\u2019re doomed to feel awful forever. Don\u2019t blame yourself. You just need guidance.<\/span><\/p>\n It\u2019s time to get out of the \u201cdiet for diagnosis\u201d cycle, makeover your normal way of eating to support the healthy life you desire, learn how to use a therapeutic diet properly so your other therapies work more effectively, and then go back to your food baseline easily, enjoy food again while experiencing vibrant health.<\/span><\/p>\n It\u2019s not as hard as it seems. It\u2019s just different. It requires a complete mindset shift away from a pill for every ill or diet for every diagnosis, and onto something so much better. Tangible, realistic healthy living that can be done for life. And really, that\u2019s the goal, right?<\/span><\/p>\n Typically seeing a health coach is the absolute last resort. People want to try to figure it out on their own. They\u2019ve spent hundreds, if not thousands of dollars going to doctors, testing, and medication. I totally get it. I\u2019ve been there!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n I\u2019ve helped people get out of this cycle for 10 years and I love every single minute of it. I actually have a name for how I help people break out of the diet for diagnosis cycle and finally figure out how to eat for lifelong health. It\u2019s called the Therapeutic Food Framework.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Here it is:<\/span><\/p>\n First, you have to learn what healthy eating actually looks like. We think we know but you\u2019ll be surprised at how different it is from what we\u2019ve been taught all of these years. Every single therapeutic diet starts with the same foundation. I teach you what they are and HOW to start incorporating these foundational principles into your life strategically.<\/p>\n Once It becomes your norm that requires almost no thought or extra mental energy, you\u2019ll then move on to your therapeutic diet. This is eating for your diagnosis. You\u2019ll learn how to properly follow the diet you need to follow, typically your doctor will tell you what diet you need, I ensure you find it easy to follow with meal plans, and step-by-step guides. Once you\u2019ve followed it for the set amount of time. This is a therapeutic tool and NOT a dietary lifestyle as it\u2019s usually quite restrictive.<\/p>\n Meal plans available in this step: Autoimmune Support, Balance Your Hormones, Low Mold, Low Histamine, Low Fructose, Low Sucrose, and Low Oxalate.<\/p>\n And lastly, I teach you how to transition off of that therapeutic diet and onto a way of eating that supports your health and helps you experience minimal to no symptoms of your autoimmune disease or chronic illness. You deserve to feel amazing and live the life you desire.<\/span><\/p>\n Changing the way you eat is truly changing your lifestyle. It\u2019s necessary when you are struggling with autoimmune disease or chronic illness but it doesn\u2019t have to be drastic and miserable. Food is so much more than calories. It\u2019s connection, it makes us happy, it brings people together. I LOVE food and I love sharing food with those I care about.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Eating for your health should be just as emotionally satisfying as not eating for your health. One of the reasons I became a health coach was because I wanted to help people see that eating for your health doesn\u2019t have to be miserable.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The Therapeutic Food Framework is what makes this possible. Learn more here.<\/a><\/p>\nThe Role Therapeutic Diets Play<\/h2>\n
The 3 Mistakes Typically Made<\/h2>\n
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Number 1: Jumping from what you\u2019ve been eating straight into a therapeutic diet<\/h3>\n
Number 2: Staying on the restrictive\/therapeutic diet for way too long<\/h3>\n
Number 3: Going back to your old way of eating right after getting off of the therapeutic diet<\/h3>\n
What To Do Instead<\/h2>\n
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