Health Goals 2011

Health Goals 2011

1. EAT REAL FOOD. Vegetables, meat, fish, poultry, eggs, nuts, some fruit, good oils. We do best when eating natural, unprocessed food, in the whole, pure state the Lord put it in.

2. MOVE MORE. Exercise raises endorphins, builds strength and energy!

3. Try a new recipe each week. Escape the rut.

Low Carb - 2 Week Plan

Losing weight? Ugh, who wants to think about that?

What do you do when you are ignoring the battle you should be fighting with the bulge? And things creep out of control, a bit here, a bit there. You wake up and find that half way through your weight loss, after plateauing at a really nice weight, half way to the finish line....it begins creeping back on. Then another "thyroid episode happens" and you began gaining slowly.  Disgusted, you just don't feel like getting back on track.  Those "oh a little of this won't hurt, and why not have dessert," suddenly turned into 20 pounds.

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Depression -- Mood Cure and "False Moods"

I have struggled with depression over the past years, and find that 5-HTP, an amino acid that helps with serotonin, works quite well. I just read a fascinating book on amino acids and the brain (and depression, addiction, etc) and am reading two additional books on amino acids. Lack of amino acids (from our depleted food supply) contributes to "false moods" and often results in depression. I took the tests and began taking the amino acids that I scored deficient in and have a night and day difference!

Several of my friends have tried it as well, with good results.

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Lisa's Thyroid Protocol

Now, perhaps a good health testimony will cheer you fellow thyroid sufferers!! This was written in the summer of 2005, to a dear friend of mine, fresh on furlough from the missionary fields of Mexico, with the same diagnosis I had, so that it why it was so hot! I have updated it a little.........

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Thyroid and Winter

Hope it helps! Gosh Sue - all of my thyroid books are still packed, so from what I remember (in this little brain of mine) the thyroid is more sluggish in winter. Less light, cold by design. One of the signs of thyroid dysfunction is feeling cold/low body temp, so that makes sense. We are generally colder in winter than summer.

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Thyroid and Fibromyalgia

Hey girls -

I forgot one little tidbit of information in my thyroid history. When I had Emily, at 28 years old, I was feeling really exhausted and fatigued afterwards, severe mental fog, for months, with a constant pain. I was diagnosed with fibromyalgia and told I would always feel this way and there was little I could do, very depressing for a first time mother of a newborn.

That was almost 12 years ago when it was a relatively new thing and little  was known herbally and alternatively. For the next 10 years, I did what I could to work with the fibro and learned all I could and managed to have a very normal life with some additional aches and pains.

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Thyroid and Hair

I did want to mention that I stopped losing my hair on the Iodoral and Natural Thyroid this summer, and my hair is GROWING BACK! I trimmed off ALL of the damaged thyroid hair before we moved (looked a bit like a shorn sheep and felt decidely like Jo in Little Women, with Meg crying out to her "But Jo, you cut off your one great beauty!") 3 months after chopping off what was left of my hair, it is doing quite well! It is growing back softer and better, and has a nice wave to it rather than a frizz and I am quite
pleased. Have a few years of growing to replace what I cut, but it is coming back, and staying on my head, which is no small thing after over a year of hair loss. My husband has that continous long hair desire, so that is why it will take so long to grow back!

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Breastfeeding Encouragment

Can a woman forget her nursing child, and have no compassion on the son of her womb? Isaiah 49:15

O Lord, our Lord, How majestic is Thy name in all the earth,  Who has displayed Thy splendor above the heavens! From the  mouths of infants and nursing babes Thou hast established strength... Psalm 8:1-2

But we proved to be gentle amount you, as a nursing mother tenderly cares for her own children. 1 Thess 2:7

Breastfeeding Encouragement

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Heat Exhaustion VS Adrenal Exhaustion

remedies for exhaustion -- adrenal glands vs plain old heat exhaustion

Exhaustion can be caused by so many of the things already listed, and it can also be related to thyroid imbalances, which usually exhaust the adrenal glands, which knock out the whole endocrine system, including female hormones and you find yourself in a state of virtual exhaustion ALL the time, and in a vicious downward spiral. Our bodies are wonderfully made, and
all systems work together, or get unbalanced together. Ditto food intolerances, which can come seemingly "appear" and knock your body completely off kilter until you get rid of the offending foods. Oftentimes all three of these manifest after a great stress or illness, you just never bounce back. Realizing something is wrong is the first step. Prayerfully attacking it is the second. The Lord will lead you to the right things, sometimes the question becomes will I be obedient to what I have discovered
and try it? (Personal experience, will I give up gluten, dairy and yeast and rotate grapes and will I continue for the long haul even when I don't have immediate results?)

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Lisa's Health History - Natural Ideas for Thyroid, Adrenal, Hormonal Issues and Fibromyalgia

Spring 2007 ~ I was diagnosed with fibromyalgia years ago, after the birth of  Emily in 1994. A few months back, I wrote my "health history" posted it to the KS list and outlined all the things that I tried, right down to the natural thyroid I am currently on, along with the Iodoral -- at a whopping cost of  $12-25 a month, depending on season.

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