I have a disease called leaky gut and I have to stick to strict diet otherwise ill experience inflammation all over my skin. I have not been doing this. I've been eating pleasurable, indulgent foods and it's hard to stop.
However, I want to change and I want to do it for you guys. As silly as this sounds, I feel like this movement merits me to make sacrifices. People fighting for our nation are making sacrifices, so I should be able to make sacrifices too.
This is gonna be hard, but I'm going to stop eating the pleasurable foods I shouldn't eat for the rest of this month. Wish me luck.
Fren, I have autoimmune diseases and obviously the leaky gut as well. It sucks changing your diet to something like AIP (Auto Immune Protocol) which is great for leaky gut. BUT what i can tell you is that after doing it for awhile. My bodies desires have "recalibrated" and i really have no interest in eating foods that aren't good for me as they make me sick. In fact i no longer crave "flavors" while i enjoy flavors i dont crave them. What i do crave, are the things my body tells me it needs, its strange but it will literally tell me... eat protein...eat fat... eat carb... eat animal product...eat plants etc. Its a really cool thing that we have broken with the fast food and incredible "diversity" of food choices. Its great for flavors but its not good The sacrifice is not in eating good food, the sacrifice is when you eat bad food and it destroys your body. You are sacrificing this glorious meat suit we have been blessed with.
With that sad, its far easier to eat this way now, then it was when i started. And when i started it was lot easier then the people i know that had to start in the 80s/90s.
So think of it differently, bad food = sacrifice/destroy your body.
It still is a difficult task at times, you will have to learn to buy and make food beforehand, store it in containers etc. For me i try to cook sunday and wednesday, making a large amount of food to carry me through the week AND i make sure to have plenty of food that doesnt need to be cooked