I have been searching for a warm bedtime drink that I could have before heading up to bed. As an avid tea drinker the obvious option was calming , caffeine free tea, but I longed for that warm, milky drink of my childhood - Ovaltine. The Hormone Diva recently came to my aid with a recipe for Golden Milk. A warm, milky mix of turmeric, cinnamon and ginger.
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Last year I was at an ultimate low point. I was incredibly overweight, constantly in pain and struggling to get by each day. It all came to a head while on holiday with the children in August 2015. I was out of breath, I looked like a beached whale in all of the photos, I struggled to walk to the beach from the caravan and more importantly I couldn't participate in all the fun stuff the children wanted to do. When I got back from that holiday I knew that I needed to get in control of my condition. I had long suspected that food and exercise were the key to my improved health and I had been doing more exercise through walking, but I had not changed anything about what I was eating. After toying with the idea of setting up a Fibro blog for years, 9 days ago I finally did it! To kick the blog off with some serious momentum, I decided to take part in a 30 day blogging challenge; posting 1 article each day for 30 days. So how am I getting on? Well I have successfully posted 8 articles so far, I have connected with other bloggers, was approached about turning one post into an article for a charity newsletter and am really becoming comfortable with not only writing for the blog, but also sharing my experiences. It’s been a great week. The main ethos of the blog is positive, uplifting and supportive posts about my life with Fibromyalgia while living in Sheffield. Only just joining me? Here’s what you missed from the first week of A Sheffield Fibromite. Amelia Freer is a nutritional therapist and healthy eating expert and her book Eat. Nourish. Glow. is a brilliant look at 10 easy steps for losing weight, looking younger and feeling healthier. While the book mainly talks through her steps to healthy eating, there are some great recipes also included. One of my favourites is another breakfast option and is especially good if you are looking for something little more savoury than the cottage cheese pancakes. Parsnip fritters are basically a healthy version of a hash brown. They are incredibly filling and satisfying and go perfectly with soft boiled eggs. The added bonus is that they contain no gluten and are very low in fat which makes them perfect for my Fibromyalgia diet. I don’t know about you, but I find it really hard to be inspired over ideas for breakfast. Most breakfasts seem to contain stacks of obvious carbs and loads of sugar. I have been altering my diet over time to try and improve my Fibromyalgia symptoms and so I was really looking for a breakfast that was filled with loads of protein and with as few carbs and fats as possible. Initially I was eating omeletes, but after a few weeks I was utterly sick of eggs. Knowing that eggs were one of the best things to have for breakfast, I started to research alternative ways of cooking eggs so that I was including them into my diet. This is when I discovered protein pancakes. I started trying out a few of the recipes I found online with some success but some of them seemed overly complex and made up of lots of unnecessary ingredients. Then I stumbled across a 3 ingredient recipe by Hurry the Food Up. I have honestly not stopped having them for breakfast since. Unlike refined table or cooking salts, Himalayan pink salt is rich in vitamins and minerals. It supplies 84 unique trace minerals, including calcium, copper, iodine, iron, magnesium, manganese, phosphorus, potassium, selenium, sodium and zinc. Because Himalayan salt is mined from 200 million year-old sea beds, it is completely free of the heavy metals and other toxins that would be present in sea salts from today's oceans.
When I was looking for quick swaps I could make to improve my diet and reduce the impact of Fibromyalgia on my life, Himalayan pink salt was a quick and easy one. It is one of the best salts to buy and cook with but how does something so simple really impact on a condition such as Fibromyalgia and what are the actual benefits? |
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