Living the life you want to live and feeling the way you want to feel takes more than following a diet plan and taking medication. It requires a mindset shift of both your situation and of yourself. You are capable of anything, as long as you set your mind to it.

It’s not easy, and can feel damn near impossible to change your eating habits and your relationship with food. Here are a few tips and tricks to help you get there.

Chronic Stress can be a hindrance to your ability to heal and reach remission. In this episode I discuss how meditation and mindfulness are tools that can be used to reduce chronic stress. Follow me on Instagram for more content: @nicolewakerd

A rant about how hard this is for me. How I can’t accept my Crohn’s and the changes I need to make. I’m addicted to food, emotionally attached, and live and breathe food. How do I move on and accept that my entire persona needs to change?

How Polyphenols can help your Crohn’s and my story updates

Crohn’s patients, researchers and medical professionals are all on different pages when it comes to diet and IBD. Why are we fighting and beating each other up over this?

Crohn’s takes away so much from us, in particular feelings of safety, control, and connection and thus significantly impacts our mental health. Check out Dr. John Delony YouTube

We need to talk about this more

It’s so hard to let go of the idea of the way life used to be, before disease. It’s upsetting, it’s aggravating and it’s depressing. The book “Didn’t See That Coming” by Rachel Hollis has tremendously helped me get through a very dark mental state and I recommend you pick it up.

I’m planning to quit medication and go the diet and lifestyle approach. This is why and this is how I’m doing this. Instagram: wake_nutrition feel free to follow and DM and questions you have.

Your body is all you have and you need it to stay here. Find your new path to health and well being. Get out of being stuck in the past. IG: wake_nutrition. My Crohn’s coach IG: unconventionalnoodle also be sure to follow miss fit and nerdy on YouTube and IG

We all experience the difficulties of life. We all struggle, and sometimes get depressed and grieve.

Healing and recovering from Crohn’s is as much a mental game as it is diet and lifestyle and medicine management. Fall down, take a break, get back up. Never quit.

Not just what you eat but also how you eat can either improve or make your symptoms worse and can have a significant impact on bloating. Instagram: wake_nutrition

You know your body best. Doctors are not the experts in everything and they certainly are not the expert in you. You must stand up for yourself and get pushy if you feel there is something wrong with you.

A lot of people are jumping on the keto bandwagon to help their Crohn’s symptoms and it’s also a popular weight loss diet. In this episode I reveal the scientific facts on Keto and help you decide if it’s right for you.

PMS can actually aggravate your Crohn’s symptoms. In this episode I discuss ways you can help mitigate PMS Symptoms to help reduce GI distress. Nutrition and self care are discussed.

Steps to take to lose weight when you have Crohn’s disease. We cannot listen to the mainstream population on tips to lose weight because their approaches do not go well with our disease state

In this episode I break down the steps necessary to create new habits to eat healthier and manage your IBD. For further reference check out the book Atomic Habits by James Clear.

Most people do not know but yeast may have a causative effect as well as therapeutic effect on Crohn’s Disease. #crohns #ibd #nutrition #crohnsdisease