My trainer and coach both love to tell me that progress isn’t linear. As a person who started taking fitness seriously in middle age, this has been a rock fact for me, not a lesson I needed drilled into me. But I wanted to add some clarity for what setbacks look like for someone inContinue reading “Setbacks”
Tag Archives: Crohn's disease
How does one “Feel Better?”
With Crohn’s disease, when you start feeling like shit you know you are in for the long haul. Crohn’s is a Victorian wasting disease where the only remedies are hot pads, cold compresses, and moving to the mountains where the air is less tubercular. Except it’s 2025 and you can’t buy morphine or heroin overContinue reading “How does one “Feel Better?””
Pain
Two nights ago I experienced what I think may have been the worst pain of my life. Following a very high stress week, like crying at work, the students can tell something is wrong stress, like your elderly parents and disabled brother are living in filth with mouse shit all over their kitchen and onlyContinue reading “Pain”
Reverse Engineered EEN Smoothie
To approximate food like Modulen or Kate Farms medical meal replacement shakes, I made this smoothie. I drink two of these a day currently, in addition to 3-4 Kate farms shakes. The Kate farms micronutrient profile hits all essential vitamins and minerals at 3-4 shakes a day. My last meal of the day is yogurtContinue reading “Reverse Engineered EEN Smoothie”
Flare #5
Begins in fits and starts. After two weeks of creeping symptoms I start blending my food. Lentil soup for lunch all of week 3. Definitely brought on by work stress. Thursday of week 3 is a low point, 6 BMS and a bad headache, I went home from work early that day. Same day IContinue reading “Flare #5”
Blended breakfast
I’ve had some creeping Crohn’s symptoms so trying to stave them off with blended foods. The aim is gut rest and nutrition for healing. Blended breakfast: Blend until smooth. Basically it’s a hearty oatmeal breakfast with no chewing or gut effort. Also super yummy! This is based on an almond date lhassi I had inContinue reading “Blended breakfast”
Fit in my 40s update
It’s been about two months since I have reframed my thinking about fatigue, chronic illness, and fitness. My therapist has been very helpful in reinforcing my new mindset, as well as looking at the scientific evidence of my recent colonoscopy, which shows no signs of inflammation. With my Crohn’s and Hashimoto’s medically managed, I shouldContinue reading “Fit in my 40s update”
I was a cyclist/I am a cyclist
Ten years ago I was hit by a car when I was riding my bike. I was accustomed to biking everywhere and had been a bike commuter for the past decade. Every other cyclist I knew had been hit, and statistically I knew it was just a matter of time before I got hit byContinue reading “I was a cyclist/I am a cyclist”
Vicious mind cycle
I had a colonoscopy last week and the results were really good. With my thyroid and Crohn’s managed, I shouldn’t been feeling fatigue. So what could the fatigue be from? I have been working with my therapist to interrogate some mental blocks I have around exercise (exercise will make me sick, exertion will increase myContinue reading “Vicious mind cycle”
Amazing detox cleanse!
Just kidding, this is the bowel prep from my latest colonoscopy! Tricked you! If you came here for some diet culture bull, I suggest you try to reframe your thinking around food, shift your relationship with food and your body from one of guilt and shame to one of pleasure and enjoyment, and learn aContinue reading “Amazing detox cleanse!”
Eating Vegan with Crohn's Disease 