Megs Blog - Our Life With Horses

After hitting rock bottom on Friday it was time to take stock and be honest with myself about what more I could actually do for myself and our family to bring back health.

If I was honest, quite a lot.

My diet had fallen into poor nutrients, high carbs and very little sustenance, a roller coaster of sugar spikes and dips that was leaving my adrenal glands depleted and my inflammation through the roof.

As I know, any sort of stressor on the body creates inflammation, and rubbish food that my body doesn’t really get anything from is exactly that a stressor.

My mums celiac and although I know I’m not in that category, grains have never sat well for me, but I’d convinced myself recently that they weren’t doing me that much harm, that what time or energy do I have to think about making a more nutritious meal…and that as long as I’m not throwing ready meals down my throat I was doing ok.

But when we looked at our balance in our meals we had to be honest and say that the amount veg was minimal, that protein was even low on the scales and the majority was white grain or starch.

As wheat farmers by shunning on grain is a funny one, but we’ve done this before for a long time and it’s worked, so let’s do it again.

Saturday morning started as all our days do with the animals and making sure they are ok, it was still icy and so I dived into the car and we headed to the market, loading up on all things fruit and veg, once home I sorted the pantry, cleared out all the stuff that wasn’t helpful. I can’t have it in the house for this change over as I know on those moments when I’m tired I’ll grab for it and then the spiral begins.

I dusted off my juicer and blender and salad chopper, and we begin.

My mission: get as much goodness back into my body as possible in every way.

Make every meal or drink I consumed high value nutrient dense, try to catch up on what I’d thrown away and build back some sort of health.

All our meals needed now to be mainly veg, we spoke to Olive about why we were doing this and to see her excitement about vegetable juices and a fridge full of fruit was extra enthusiasm.

I also spoke to her school, Olive gets to pick her lunches, the choice is amazing, home cooked hot meals, but she’d become accustomed to picking baked beans and bread! This was alarming to me and so we wanted her off the white grain train too, all our taste buds needed to adjust back together if this was going to be a long term fix.

So school were instructed, no quick choices, the main meal every day and Olive agreed to give it a go and try things even if she thought she wouldn’t like them.

She did every day, and ate it all, I know this isn’t about her but I have to mention her focus has been noticeably better, and her energy levels so much more level and constant. Seeing it play out in her only builds motivation for me.

And so we did, as I write this were exactly 1 week in. I’ve just written my list for the market and so far so good.

My belly has taken a bit of adjustment and so peppermint tea has been a life saver!

But I’m already feeling results:

By Monday I had no pain on waking, I hadn’t been pain free for months, maybe years and suddenly I was moving through the kitchen in the morning and it was Tim who noticed, he said “you’re alive!”

I already feel clearer in the head, drinking more water will definitely do this and I wasn’t drinking anywhere near enough

And I’ve had 3 days this week with minimal pain

All whilst this week has been hectic, with a lot of coaching, admin and bad weather so the horses have been an extra challenge

From despair last week, I’m excited 💚