IT MAY be impossible to imagine endometriosis as a baby, but there is a link between your diet and your endo that is not unlike that shared between a mother and foetus.
Yes, what you eat feeds your endo, for good or ill. What you feed your endo, sooner or later you are going to feel.
I had intended to write "Ask Your Ob-gyn," however, I wanted to make mention of your eating now, because if you're anything like Trinbago gals, the Christmas season is definitely a time when all discipline goes the way of lemmings leaping off a cliff.
The interesting thing about here, though, is that while a lot of sistuhs binge for the holidays, many of them enter into the New Year instantly starting intense exercising to shed weight in preparation for donning Carnival costumes.
I think that this actually prevents flare-ups in women who are coping with endo, and who otherwise might suffer debilitating results of consuming all sorts of refined sugar and flour, unhealthy fats and bad cholesterol foods over the noel.
Carnival-baby bypass
There are women like me, on the other hand, who are not what we in TnT call Carnival-babies, but who relish Christmas, including all the eats the period presents as part of the festivities.
So we don't get into physical fitness mode in the ensuing month, desperate to shed gained weight. Thus, we do not reap the benefits that a sudden plunge into regular exercise could provide to counter the ill-effects of our yuletide-glut.
Taking note of my own and other women's experience over the years, I can say with assurance that there is a marked higher percentage of endo flare-ups in copers who do not avidly engage in routine workouts following Christmas. Ladies, if you look back and see a correlation, it's time to start heading that binge flare-up off at the pass.
It's like we say: "If your neighbour's house is on fire, wet your own." Well imagine endo is the house on fire, and your body needs to be kept "wet" to prevent that fire from spreading through and affecting all of you.
It's good to get fit, but not merely in spurts. Exercise faithfully, regularly and with an attitude that it is medicine. This way, it's like you're racking up points ahead of the time when you'll eat things that will absolutely work to take points away.
On top of that, eat right. A well nourished body is stronger and fights infections, heals better and thrives overall. That puts you in good stead to stave off some of endo's complications.
What's more, when you commit to eating a certain way as a lifestyle change, your body will adjust to the extent where you will find it hard to want things that are detrimental. Seriously.
Imagine not craving sugar.
