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Is What You Are Eating Giving You A Migraine?
One of the most useful remedies for reducing migraine involves a change to your diet. Certainly for me, that has been the case. After suffering almost daily with migraines ranging anywhere from a 4 to a 9 on the pain scale, one of the biggest life changes I made was to my diet. This resulted in a drastic change to my migraine patterns. Make no mistake though, it wasn’t just about the food. Certainly there were other natural life changes I made that helped produce today’s result. However, certain foods have been shown to affect the frequency and severity of migraines and migraine pain.
How to Get Past a Bad Junk Food Day
If you are trying to eat healthily, there are a few things you either will realize, or already have. First, it is no longer about low fat and low carbs – this simplistic equation just won’t cut it. Nutrition is every bit a science, so it is important that you understand it first. It is crucial that you let go of false beliefs, stop trusting the myths, and quit counting calories.
The second thing is that it is not about eating certain things and avoiding eating others; it is about a lifestyle change. When you decide to eat clean, healthy, natural foods and remove things that do not help get you where you want to be, you make a pledge to yourself that you will do things that will help in the long-term and make you feel good inside, instead of giving you short-term highs and lows.
Quick Lunch Options for Your Work Week
For a great majority, lunchtime can be a real challenge when you want to keep your food choices healthy. There are tantalizing treats scattered throughout your office break room and your desk is in close proximity to the vending machines or break room, causing you to be even more easily tempted.
By now, you know that I am a huge proponent for pre-planning and batch cooking. Why? Mostly because if I didn’t have the healthy foods ready to go, I would much more easily succumb to the temptation of sweets and unhealthy options surrounding me. But, when I have the good, healthy options available to me and ready to go, I am much more likely to achieve success.
Let’s face it, temptation surrounds you and can veer you off of your path quickly, leaving you feeling disappointed and defeated. To avoid these negative feelings, it’s crucial to be proactive about your meals for the work week.
Quick Lunch Options for the Work Week to Keep You Headache Free
For a great majority of us lunchtime can be a real challenge when it comes to keeping food choices healthy. There are tantalizing treats scattered throughout your office break room and maybe your desk is in close proximity to the vending machines or break room, causing you to be even more easily tempted. However, as a migraine sufferer, you know how important it is to eat healthily and to avoid foods that might trigger migraines. It is especially important that you do not skip meals as that causes spikes in blood sugar levels which, in turn, can trigger a migraine.
How to Make Your Home a Place Where You Can Easily Manage Your Chronic Pain
Your home is your sanctuary, but if you’re suffering from chronic pain you oftentimes feel like there no way to escape its reach. The good news is that there are ways to rework your home life to better help you manage the pain. Before you turn to medication or spend money on outpatient therapies, try these tips for turning your home into a place where you can easily cope with your chronic pain.
Want Quick and Effective Migraine Relief?
For many who suffer with migraines, what we want in that moment of pain is a “quick fix.” We want to get rid of that nagging or sometimes desperate pain we are experiencing.
For some of us, we don’t even know what our migraine triggers are – or we may know some but not all. And let’s face it, when we do know our triggers, it can still be confusing….sometimes that thing will trigger a migraine, and sometimes it doesn’t. Go figure – just when we thought we had a modicum of insight!!
When you do know your triggers though, that is one of the best preventatives we have for avoiding migraines. I think we can all agree we want to have some tools in our belt that can help reduce the number of migraines and decrease the severity or even better, prevent the migraines from occurring?
Healthy Snack Ideas to Fuel You Even When You’re on the Go!
Do you find yourself craving for savory or sweet snacks like I do?Cravings happen even to the healthiest of us. I can definitely attest to that. The worst time for me is in the early evening after I have dinner. It’s not even that I am hungry – just that I want something to snack on!
Often, when a craving hits in the afternoon or the evening after dinner, we do get the urge to snack. Snacking can be a bad habit to get into, because the snacks we choose are often junky, un-nutritious, and high in calories, sugar, or fat.
The trick to snacking without piling on the pounds is to find healthy alternatives to the regular snacks you might normally reach for.
Migraines? Learn to Listen to Your Body!
Are you in tune with your body? I know for my overall healthy eating I am in tune. Very often I can “read” by body signals when it comes to migraines as well. Little signals I have learned to listen to over the years can be huge if you suffer with migraines. When you are in tune with your body, you will learn even vague symptoms can be a way for you to avert a migraine, and where you can use natural remedies can be a great preventative tool.
Listen to those Body Signals.
Learning to know your body signals can be invaluable.
5 Surprising Beauty Foods + Recipe
In this day and age, we see so many advertisements for all things to do with beauty and anti-aging – ranging from skin care routines, to injections and even surgical interventions. While that may be an option for many, I believe you can do this naturally with the foods you eat. In fact, I am so sure that this works so well that I created the Healthy Anti-Aging Recipe Club so that you can be your healthiest and get back that vibrant, healthy glow. As we grow older, many of us worry about those wrinkles that are quickly appearing on our face and try everything to vanquish those little annoying lines. I have found in my own life that eating healthy foods and living a healthy lifestyle most definitely has an effect on how you can look and feel.
All fresh fruits and vegetables contain magical powers when it comes to shiny hair, clear skin, and strong nails. However, the ones I’ve chosen below are perhaps not as well known for their powerful beauty benefits. Try and include these foods into your diet if you want to look your best without the need for Botox or other unnatural remedies.
Meal Planning 101: The Basics (+Recipe)
I know I may seem like a broken record when it comes to meal planning, but I have to tell you that if I did not plan out my meals for the week, I would be setting myself up for failure. Eating healthy is my top priority when it comes to my dietary needs. I want to maintain the healthy lifestyle I have at the moment, and this really helps me to be successful.
I also know this can sound overwhelming when you lead a busy life. You don’t know how you are going to fit in cooking a healthy meal for your family every night, let alone spend time meal planning. I totally get it. It does seems overwhelming.
So how much time do you spend every night preparing meals for your family?
How many times a week do you opt for the unhealthy option because you don’t have the time to cook?
How to stop that “crappy” feeling that comes with migraines!
Have you ever thought about how you label yourself as a person with migraines? I know one of the ways I have referred to myself when it comes to migraines is a “migraine sufferer.” How do you label yourself? I read somewhere that when you refer to yourself as a “sufferer” it implies that your pain will never end. Well, let’s face it, that is often how we do feel, right? There are those days when we “just feel like crap.” Unfortunately for some of us, there are more days like that than the good ones.
So is there actually something we can do for that never-ending pain from chronic migraines?
Here are just a few different types of things you can try when it come to trying to win the battle when chronic migraines.
Let’s talk “mindset!”
Top 10 Quick Tips for the Worst Headache Pain Ever!
I was talking to a friend this week about migraines and how people react to different triggers and different solutions.
For many years, my go-to was definitely pain medication. I wanted instant pain relief. Of course, no pain medication works that quickly, but don’t you think that the majority of the time that is what we are going for? We hurt so badly that what we want is a quick-fix. I know that was definitely my mindset about migraine relief.
People who have never had a migraine can never truly appreciate the pain we are in or all that comes along with a migraine. It is easy for others to tell us to do certain things – or even “suck it up, it’s just a headache.” Have you heard that one or felt that is what people are thinking?