As we all know from reading my blogs, that I have always felt and expressed my opinon strongly about food playing such a huge role in our health. Some have disagreed with  me even though this thoughts are my opinions and some have agreed with me – even people who do not suffer from MS but from other issues such as thyroid, diabetes, Parkinson’s disease just to name a few agree with me 100%.

After a few blogs later, some have expressed their opinions strongly to me about what they felt about wanting to eat anything and everything even though there are studies out there that show different kinds of results. A few weeks or months go by a light bulb goes off and those people that have disagreed with me all of a sudden see that food can make a difference in how we feel everyday. 

Simple thing to remember – if we gorge on chocolate chip cookies and eat 10 or 12 of them, our body is going to react to that — we are either going to have a sugar shock or we are going to have a huge stomache. Same concept with the types of foods that we put in our bodies causes either 1 or 2 things — a food reaction or you are fine.

Figuring out what is compatiable with our bodies is a work in progress. Unfortuantely for us who have MS it is always a guessing game. I am still guessing on what is good for me or not based on my food journals that I keep. I cannot have it any other way, simply because I know deep down inside how bad my body reacts to something that I should not eat.

My favorite thing to eat is meatloaf, mashed potatoes and corn or green beans. I cannot eat meatloaf – it is beef – my body reacts so badly to beef I cannot function for 2 or 3 days. My other favorite thing to eat is pork roast or roast beef – same idea. I crave it but I always tell myself – do you want to walk and play outside or do you want to stay inside and watch tv and sleep for the next 2 to 3 days. My inner strength wins and I get to play and go shopping and have lunch with my friends.

I realize now we have choices. Those choices is what makes us healthy strong and happy.