How to Increase Energy, Lose Weight and Clear Brain Fog
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We often find ourselves grappling with midlife challenges, feeling tired, dealing with bloating, experiencing cravings, and witnessing unexpected weight gain. In this article, I outline how changing hormones, busy lifestyles, and dietary choices play a significant role, and what you can do about it.
How Inflammation Affects Your Body
Inflammation can affect us in a number of ways, from gut problems and fatigue to cognitive difficulties. These include things like bloating, pain in your joints, subsequent poor sleep due to pain, brain fog and many other things.
Working in this area is close to my heart. Choosing an anti-inflammatory lifestyle has allowed me to be fitter, stronger and even more toned in my 40’s than my 20’s. As a young woman I was diagnosed with inflammatory bowel disease and ankylosing spondylitis. I spent a lot of my 20’s in severe pain and in bed with flare ups - joint pain, gut issues and couldn’t think straight, let alone sleep well. I even ended up working from bed, trying to maintain a job as a dietitian.
These include things like bloating, pain in your joints, subsequent poor sleep due to pain, brain fog and many other things.
Knowing the role that nutrition plays in managing symptoms and feeling well, I looked to my diet to work out my own right way of eating. The interesting thing is that many of these symptoms I experienced as a young woman are relevant to perimenopausal and menopausal women, too. And I have seen this play out time and time again with clients over the years.
With the right foods, things like hot flushes, weight gai, hormonal cravings, brain fog, bloating, bowel problems and aching joints can all improve - and so can your mood and energy levels.
Managing Inflammation - and Symptoms - With Nutrition
It’s important that women understand the link between diet and inflammation. There is a lot of evidence behind the value of specific foods, such as turmeric, garlic, omega-3 fatty acids, and more, in reducing inflammation. There is a wealth of data that underscores the significance of nutrition in managing inflammation.
Some of the important anti-inflammatory foods include things like berries, omega 3, turmeric and garlic. One overlooked ingredient when it comes to antiinflammatory food is simply adding more vegetables. Everything we eat or drink either has an inflammatory and inflammatory or anti-inflammatory effect on the body. So each time we eat, think about the inflammatory load of each meal. The more anti-inflammatory foods that we can include less inflammation will have in the body. Introducing these sorts of foods into your diet can have a profound impact on hormonal balances, gut health, energy levels and menopause symptoms.
I know myself that if I am having an inflammatory flare up or I have been off track with my diet and including too many inflammatory foods and drinks, such as a few too many alcoholic drinks, I will more likely wake up with a hot flush.
A great example is my sister's recent experience with a 3-day reset program that I developed. She has ankylosing spondylitis too, so suffers with inflammatory pain.
The more anti-inflammatory foods that we can include less inflammation will have in the body.
She followed the program to the letter, and after the three days, she saw significant improvements in symptoms from reduced back pain to diminished swelling. Even one month after she’d finished this reset, her symptoms were still absent, and she was amazed.
Another client said:
"The 3-Day Reset was a game changer. After just 1.5 days, I could feel the inflammation leaving my body, and I felt lighter. The insights and feelings from this short reset have inspired lasting dietary changes."
"It's like a natural high; I'm eager to continue. My energy, which typically dips around 7:30pm, remained surprisingly high, allowing me to work until 10.30pm without fatigue. I thought I'd be exhausted the next day, but I woke up at 5.30am feeling fantastic. This is a reset I'll return to whenever I need that extra boost."
Of course, eating well is really powerful if it’s something you do consistently. Three days is a good start to show you what’s possible, but continuity means you can keep inflammation and unwanted symptoms at bay.
This doesn’t mean that your eating needs to be perfect. It’s possible to have a huge impact on inflammation and menopause symptoms with a few simple changes.
Taming Your Inflammation
I’ve developed a four-week program called Tame Your Inflammation. This comprehensive program aims to empower women with knowledge about hormones, healthy habits, and mindset shifts. It's not just about telling them what to do but equipping them with the understanding to make informed choices for sustained well-being.
It's time to prioritise your health and embrace a future free from the burdens of inflammation.
In this program, I support participants with both education and coaching to help them create simple recipes the whole family will love, and that will keep them nourished with anti-inflammatory, nutrient rich foods.
The difference this makes, especially over four weeks, is impressive.
There’s no better time than now to invest in your wellbeing and this program is designed for anyone seeking relief from midlife challenges, to provide more energy, mental clarity, and overall vitality.
Consider joining us on this transformative journey. It's time to prioritise your health and embrace a future free from the burdens of inflammation.
Summary
We often find ourselves grappling with midlife challenges, feeling tired, dealing with bloating, experiencing cravings, and witnessing unexpected weight gain.
It doesn’t have to be that way.
When you follow some simple steps to eat more anti-inflammatory foods at each meal, you can balance your hormones for improved wellbeing, weight management, get rid of brain fog and hormonal cravings, and feel more energised.
You can learn more about Amanda on the recent podcast episode “How to lower inflammation and reduce menopause Symptoms”
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