True health does not involve eliminating a bunch of foods and going on “healing elimination diets”
Cutting out nutrient-dense foods or food groups for health doesn’t make much sense does it?
In nutrition school you are taught to put clients on “healing elimination diets” but after years of working with women and doing more and more research on how our physiology works and the importance of keeping a well rounded diet of animals and plants, I have realized this is absolutely the last thing anyone needs and it always backfires.
Of course you want your client to feel better right? But that is all these diets are doing, they are symptom management - the same as a pill or prescription.
Id rather take the long road (and boy it can be long) but actually get the body in balance than cut a client short with a healing diet.
I will occasionally pop into the online practitioner groups I am part of and I am appalled at how many people give the advice of “oh just have her eliminate xyz from her diet or have her go on ___ diet” regardless of knowing anything about this person, their stressors, their lifestyle, their health history the solution is always an elimination diet.
This is wrong and never the answer.
All I have to say is, there is hope for healing and it likely does not involve food elimination.
One day you will go from:
Eating low carb to eating carbs at every meal.
Fasting to eating a high protein breakfast.
Drinking green juice and smoothies to eating full satiating meals.
Eating cauliflower rice to eating real rice.
Drinking almond milk to drinking real milk.
Fearing sugar to loving how you feel eating it.
Eating plant-based to eating animal centric meals.
Eating the same 5 tolerable foods to eating an array of foods.
And you will heal.
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If you need help figuring out the root of your chronic symptoms and are done spinning your wheels with food restriction and elimination then reach out, we have a community of women and practitioners in the Wild + Well-Fed Wellness Collective that would love to help!