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This little space of the internet is where I hope to share my healthy, yet delicious recipes with you! My passion is living a healthy life and fueling our bodies with undercover noms (aka: delicious, healthy foods).
But first, I want to give a little background into myself and how I ended up being food conscious. I suffer from PCOS (poly-cystic ovarian syndrome). This is an endocrine disorder that totally throws your body and mind out of whack. Currently there is no cure, nor specific medicine specifically for this. A couple of symptoms of PCOS is weight gain/obesity and insulin resistance/diabetes. There are many more symptoms, but these are the biggies that I want to talk about.
I’m sure everyone has heard the phrase, “if I just look at food I gain weight”! Well, for us PCOS sufferers this is legit. Ok, maybe not just looking a food will make us gain weight, but due a lot of us having insulin resistance it makes it extremely hard to lose weight. Also, for added fun it makes it really easy for us to gain weight (insert a big eye roll and a sigh here!).
Let’s backup about 5-6 years. I was overweight, extremely tired and all of my symptoms were full blown. Treatments the doctor was offering weren’t helping me. I decided to change my diet and to start working out regularly. I lost 50lbs and was in my healthy weight range for the first time in adulthood. My symptoms started to disappear as well. I then had this ah-ha moment. The food I was eating helped put my symptoms into remission!
Now, I have fined tuned what works best for my body. Due to having higher levels of inflammation than most and a sensitivity to insulin – I try not consume refined sugar and I tend to eat mostly gluten free grains. If I eat a huge glazed donut and wash it down with a sugary iced coffee I will feel the regret almost immediately. So, I try to abstain from the refined sugar and flours. Which, is easier than it may sound 😉
Follow along with me for healthy twists on desserts and traditional comfort foods that have an emphasis on being refined flour and refine sugar free!
Hello! Looking forward to all your recipes! I have an inkling of what you’re talking about and the struggle of adopting a certain diet! You are inspiring!
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Thank you so much!
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