Our weight and life style & eating habits with chronic pain issues have many health issues connected to each other.There is something about what kind of metabolism we have. The way our own body uses the different kinds of foods/energy sources. I used to work hard labor work that usually only men did. I ate different foods and amounts of foods then. Then my back disease set in & I thought I should do an office job like a good little girl.WRONG ANSWER! I gained weight.... & my spine disease worsened... I wasn't outside sweating, lifting, hauling, & working hard as I loved to do anymore. I was sitting on the phone in a stressful environment at a domestic violence shelter for women & children, 1 of the only shelters in four corners area to house & shelter them. I worked the switchboard/front desk. All the initial frightened phone calls came to my ear first. All the battered moms and tattered little ones walked to my desk first. I lasted 3 years before I left with their blessing. It was hard. Just remembering it is stressful! It was also a community center with public coming in & out of the building all day long. You never knew if it was a good guy or a bad guy coming in the door ... and I also was chief security with all the doors and security cameras placed at my fingertips and watchful eyes. My spine disease got 10 yrs worse in those 3 yrs working that job & I gained a good solid 20 lbs t took 10 yrs to lose.
Stress sets off a hormone in a man or woman's body that holds on to fuel for the next stressful event but we never work that fuel off in a way our bodies were made to lose it. Also... I have learned to listen to my cravings. Not the junk food cravings. Our bodies will crave chemicals not good for us... which is where addiction comes into play. But, it will crave, for example, a red meat, or salad greens, avacado, certain fruits. I listen to those cravings and eat only the good stuff (99% of time)so I eat those and only when I am hungry. With Chronic Pain, and a sedentary life style, until we are medicated properly, diagnosed properly etc. etc. we go through metabolism changes. So think about what you do, learn something from listening to your body and watch out for the killer named stress. Chronic pain patients have way too much stress in our lives. Learn to meditate. It's our bodies and the chronic part of the disease is enuf to deal with, not many understand to what extent our lives are changed, the grief and the loss we experience with lifestyle and relationship changes. It's a whole other world, and not much is known yet, other than what "not" to do, & still only very little of that! I've been offline for a while dealing with many medical issues and just too tire4d, too sick, or too much pain to say hello. I miss you guys. Be safe, sane and stress free and healing thoughts and prayers to everyone 7 their loved ones. What a life!! Eh? What a life !!!
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