Archive Monthly Archives: November 2021
The Thanksgiving Calm Before the Storm
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It’s the day before Thanksgiving. How are you feeling mama?
Has your family arrived? Are you traveling for the big day? Are you running around at the last minute trying to make pies and stuff turkeys?
I hope you have my IBD Foodie Thanksgiving Table Cookbook to give you all the recipes you need to keep your taste buds and your belly happy this holiday.
But whatever you’re eating, whatever you’re making, whatever family drama is upon you, I thought we could take just a moment together to find the calm before the storm.
Three Things You’ll Learn in This Episode
- Why peace of mind is harder for us to achieve than it is for others in our family
- Finding gratitude in tiny moments that have nothing to do with your Crohn’s or colitis
- The visualization that will soothe your belly, strengthen your intestines, lower your inflammation, and raise your immune system during times of chaos and unbalance
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My 2021 IBD Foodie Thanksgiving Table Cookbook
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This podcast, video, and blog post is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.
Thanksgiving Recipes That Will Make Your Gut Happy and Your Taste Buds Sing
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With Thanksgiving coming up in just a few days, it’s time to ask yourself… am I ready?
For us IBD gals, it isn’t just about the travel or the preparations, or the dread over Aunt Edna’s stifling, perfumey hugs. Those are the types of worries most people have, and let’s face it, their worries are child’s play.
For us, the biggest worry is the food. Will it or won’t it make me sick? And how sick?
In this special bonus minisode, I’m about to share with you my favorite Thanksgiving recipe ideas that will make not just your taste buds happy for the moment, but make your insides happy long after, as well.
Say hello to a happy Thanksgiving again!
Three Things You’ll Learn in This Episode
- The traditional Thanksgiving dishes an IBD gal should never eat
- Why your worries and your family’s Thanksgiving worries aren’t even from the same planet
- My personal promise to you to make sure everything you eat on Thanksgiving works for your sensitive belly
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Mentioned in This Episode:
My 2021 IBD Foodie Thanksgiving Table Cookbook
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This podcast, video, and blog post is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.
Eating Beyond Your 4 Walls Part II: 5 Simple Steps for Foolproof Gut Healthy Restaurant Ordering
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How many times have you eaten out, only to barely get home because you are running for the toilet?
For me, there were several times when I didn’t even come close to making it home. The restaurant bathroom and I, we became good friends real fast.
It’s embarrassing, it’s annoying, it holds everyone up in your family (or worse, your friends or colleagues).
And you just feel awful.
Today, I want to change all that for you. I want you to know the absolute pleasure of eating out without feeling like crap after.
Without running to the bathroom, without setting off a flare up, without spending more time on the toilet than you spend with your kids or your partner. Less time in bed and less time at the doctor when the experience really sets off a chain reaction.
I want you to go out and truly enjoy the eating out, feeling confident that what you are eating, won’t harm you.
Instead of your belly saying, “Why me?”
Your belly will say, “Thank you!” (long after the meal is over).
Eating out and not getting sick… it’s possible. In 5 simple steps.
Three Things You’ll Learn in This Episode
- The most important thing you should do 10 minutes before you go out to eat
- The ordering mistake most moms make that costs them dearly
- The gut healthy benefit of never opening the menu at a restaurant
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Mentioned in This Episode:
My 2021 IBD Foodie Thanksgiving Table Cookbook
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This podcast, video, and blog post is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.
Eating Beyond Your 4 Walls Part 1: The Secret to Gut Healthy & Gut Happy Eating Out
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Most of us love to eat out. It isn’t just about the food either.
It’s about the stress free eating you get to enjoy because you didn’t have to work hard making it. It’s about the companionship of good friends and family while you are out together.
And it’s about relaxing after a long day of work, kids activities, and commitments.
Dining out is an important part of our everyday life and you shouldn’t have to miss out just because you are eating on a gut healing diet like gluten free, dairy free, Paleo, SCD or GAPS. Not long ago, eating out successfully on diets like this was a nearly impossible.
Today, it is definitely possible.
With a couple tweaks and some extra sneaky tips, you’ll be a gut healing dining out expert in no time.
Three Things You’ll Learn in This Episode
- The #1 ingredient to add flavor and zing to your dining out meal, actually fits in your purse
- The best phone apps that will take your eating out success rate from zero to awesome!
- The supplement that will give you peace of mind when you eat out
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Mentioned in This Episode:
My 2021 IBD Foodie Thanksgiving Table Cookbook
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This podcast, video, and blog post is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.
Is Your Restrictive Gut Healing Diet Constricting You?
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There’s eating healthy and then there’s eating “gut” healthy.
Normal healthy eaters have got nothing on us!
When we eat with healing our Crohn’s and colitis in mind, we take health to a whole new level.
Gut healthy diets like eating gluten-free or dairy free, Paleo or Specific Carbohydrate Diet, IBD-AID or GAPS… they all have amazing positive qualities.
They have the power to help us control our diarrhea, abdominal pain, gas, bloating, mouth sores, fatigue, lack of energy, poor sleep, achy joints, headaches and so much more.
But gut healing diets like these aren’t all puppies and rainbows.
These diets can be quite restrictive, with a myriad of foods you absolutely must stay away from in order to be compliant and see results.
You likely hear everyone on these diets talking about the positive effects, but it’s time we have an honest conversation about their downsides too.
Because these gut healing diets are so restrictive, they also have the power to negatively impact our mental and emotional health.
They lead to feelings of:
🌿 Sadness
🌿 Resentfulness
🌿 Guilt
🌿 Depression
🌿 Frustration
🌿 Jealousy
🌿 Anger
🌿 Denial
🌿 Bargaining
And if we are committed to sticking with restrictive diets like these (and I believe we still can be) because they are helping us physically, we have to find a way to make peace with our diet, so we feel less constricted and less FOMO all the time.
That’s exactly what we’re chatting about on this episode of The Cheeky Podcast for Moms with IBD.
Three Things You’ll Learn in This Episode
- 3 questions to ask yourself to find out if you’re feeling constricted on your restrictive diet
- 5 ideas that will help you to embrace your restrictive diet (with less guilt and shame)
- What to do if you’ve tried your best, but you still feel constricted and want to give up
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Mentioned in This Episode:
My Food Diary System: The Food-Mood-Poop-Journaling System
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These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration.
This podcast, video, and blog post is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.