Pain free living

 

This is from one of my clients this week.  I was so excited to be ‘tagged’ on her post and so excited i was able to help them!  This IS why I love what I do!  I give people back their lives.

 

This same client has also been complimented by co-workers about how great they look.  “What have you been doing?”  And want to get on that same program – although all my programs are individually modified for that person, so being on the same program might be exactly the same. 

 

Now a wee bit of background. 

The client came to me just feeling like hell.  They were in constant pain from their auto-immune disease, on so many medications including prednisone, and also at the highest weight they had ever been!  They were desperate for some relief to at least the pain, but also wanted to lose some of the weight and gain more energy.  They were sluggish and in pain.  They knew my real-food approach and wanted to see if they could also achieve a pain-free life.

 

We decided to start the Anti-Inflammatory Diet plan.  This varies from person to person as it depends on what the client is eating to start with, and what the client is wiling to do.  Most often the first step is to start eliminating inflammatory foods including wheat, sugar, dairy and hydrogenated fats.  The processed foods typically have to go as well.  The focus is more on making gradual changes that the client can do, offer meal options and recipes, and eliminating wheat first, then in a couple of weeks sugar or dairy, etc until we see some relief. 

 

It is not about giving you a list of foods not to eat and send you on your way.  It is about providing options and expanding your choices of foods you CAN eat.   This gradual approach works well rather than something like a vegetable/fruit juicing fast for 7-21 days.  For most, that would be very restrictive and possibly debilitating for the first few days.  And most cannot take a week off from work to try such a program.

 

As we worked on eliminating the inflammatory foods, we also worked on balancing the blood sugar so that the client had more energy.  Then the body would start burning fat rather than storing fat.  We also introduced more anti-inflammatory foods including turmeric root, cabbage, parsley, alkalizing green vegetables, and lemon water.  We reduced hard to digest foods and added good fats, too.   Like I said, the process was gradual and over 4-6 sessions, the results spoke for themselves.  After 3 sessions, they were off the Prednisone and starting to lose weight.  A few weeks later, the weight loss without dieting is up to 20 pounds.  I cannot make this kind of thing up. 

If you have pain, regardless of whether an injury, degenerative joint condition, auto-immune issue or recovering from surgery, the Anti-Inflammatory Diet is going to be the key to helping you heal and create a pain free living scenario.  You might be feeling happy like my client!  What do you have to lose….but the inflammatory foods, pain and symptoms 🙂

 

Joanna Chodorowska is a sports nutrition coach using real foods to help clients improve their performance.  She adopted and perfected the anti-inflammatory diet when she was scheduled for hip replacement surgery with a completely degenerated condition. 

She achieved a pain free condition the 2 week prior to surgery when no medications or supplements were allowed.
She helps clients to adopt a healthier lifestyle making gradual modifications the clients can live with.  The clients become the ones to make the choice of what they eat based on how they feel, not based on what is on a list.  The client decides whether a food is worth eating if the result is pain.

If you are ready to try pain free living, why not schedule your nutrition session today?
or call Joanna at 215-272-6774