"Healing occurs in tiny increments. Though it often seems abrupt, seasons change incrementally from warm to cold and back to warm. In tiny increments the Earth moves until one day we'll notice the days growing longer and tiny green buds are on the tree outside your window. Changes happen so slowly that we don't even …
Category: Body Ecology Diet
Is Your Gut Making You Sick?
This morning on Facebook, Donna Gates from Body Ecology Diet posted an article titled Is Your Gut Making You Sick? 5 Simple Steps To Gain Energy and Lose Weight. Again this reminded me of how important it is to heal my body as a whole before I can expect the inflammation of rheumatoid arthritis to …
Arame, A Sea Vegetable Worth Trying Out
The Body Ecology Diet recommends that each meal consist of 80% ocean and land vegetables. So far I have done deliciously well making sure that my meals consist of mainly land vegetables, but haven't incorporated as many of the sea veggies as I would like. In fact, besides adding dulce to my salads, rolling veggies …
Body Ecology Diet and RA Update
I am on month four of the Body Ecology Diet. I really like being on the diet. I like having control over what I eat rather than food controlling me. I like not feeling bloated all the time. I like that my jeans fit everyday. I like that my digestive tract is balancing out. I …
Weight Loss
When I began the Body Ecology Diet in September my ultimate goal was and still is to reestablish a healthy body in order to decrease the inflammation in my joints. While I believe this goal has not been reached, it is getting there. My energy levels are higher and my overall mobility is increasing. While …
Life Is Good
It's New Year's Eve and I sit in my bedroom alone with my laptop watching a biography of the Mary Tyler Moore Show, one of my favorite shows. I also sit here listening to non-stop laughter coming from Alexander, Sophia and friends as they play the game Catch Phrase. Such a contrast from the quiet …
Improvements In Rheumatoid Arthritis
Yesterday morning I experienced a warm fuzzy feeling. I was looking over my blog from the last few months and realized that most of my recent posts have focused on my family ratherthan rheumatoid arthritis.Our blogs are very personal and a good indicator of where we are in our life. Looking back over my blog …
Slowing Down
I have been on the Body Ecology Diet for almost three months now. Many people have asked, "So, is it working?" The answer to this question is tricky. The main goal in following this diet is to get my rheumatoid arthritis under control. It isn't yet under control. This doesn't discourage me though. Just as …
On again…..Off again.
Lately the kids and I have been a little obsessed with reruns of That 70's Show. On the show Kelso and Jackie (both teens) have been in a long term relationship with each other that tends to be like many first time romances....on again and then off again. I guess in a way it is …
Good Awaits Me
"I know that only good awaits me at every turn. " ~ Louise Hay Daily AffirmationSometimes when I post on my blog about rheumatoid arthritis I feel that I live in two worlds. One world is positive and happy and the other is sad and frustrated. Fortunately, I see the same thing on other RA …
The Life and Adventures of Cateepoo 