Healthy diet/ nutrition for fibromyalgia/cfsme/arthritis etc

[Tiggerlostherbounce]

hi everyone I think this may be a problem for most of us, struggling to keep active and exercise 😱🙄. I love swimming and even 🧘‍♀️ yoga, but it’s becoming harder to do🙄

I know I need to lose weight and eat as healthy as I can, the cfs/me specialist recommended seeing a nutritionist than personalise something for me and my gp should sort it.

unfortunately not much chance with mine, at least a 2 year wait if at all 🤷🏻‍♀️🤦‍♀️

Does anyone have any advice, tips, diets that may help? Thank you all for your help and here’s to a healthier future 🤞

[Blue-52]

hi, do you like smoothies, homemade, if so, you can make them out of fruit or vegetables, depending on the vegetable, you may have to add a touch of orange juice, you can buy the fruit and veg frozen, and just make them up as you go, also snacks foods, set portions for throughout the day, nuts, Advocado, celery sticks, just add flavour to whatever you are eating. Leak and potato soup is filling, parsnip purée with dips, carrot and coriander soup. I’m a pescatarian so any fish with veggies are great for me. I hope I have given you some ideas, I hope you don’t hate the lot lol.

[Tiggerlostherbounce in reply to Blue-52]

that’s great love fruit and the soups and snacks sound great, that’s really helpful, appreciate it 🤗

[hbanana23]

Hiya,

So I've tried a modified version of the Whole30 diet. It's basically an elimination diet that focuses on eating whole foods. I wasn't able to cut out dairy as I found it makes my joints worse and it's not been easy avoiding bread or sweeteners but what I did has helped me a lot. It also helped me pinpoint certain foods that I now know to avoid like acidic fruits as I now know that they can trigger flareups for me.

The rheumatologist told me to also go gluten free but I found it had no benefit as I don't have Coeliac Disease.

I've also used a protein calculator to work out how much protein I need for my weight and eating the right amount has been a game changer.

[Tiggerlostherbounce in reply to hbanana23]

I’ll have look into this too, everyone is different and I know if you can just get the diet right so that it’s not a chore, it will have success, glad it has worked for you👏keep up the good work 🤗

[Cat00 in reply to Tiggerlostherbounce]

I'm trying something similar hbanana23 where I'm trying to flatten my glucose spikes by changing the order I eat different types of food in. If you eat fibre first, then fat and protein and any carbs or sugars last you can loose weight without reducing your calorie intake. There are few books out there on the subject, it means you can loose weight without loosing muscle mass. Gluton free didn't make any difference for me either, but most of my carbs are wholefoods.

[Tiggerlostherbounce in reply to Cat00]

definitely like the sound of that ! X🙏

[Cat00 in reply to Tiggerlostherbounce]

I've only been doing it for 2 weeks so fingers crossed!

[hbanana23 in reply to Cat00]

That sounds really interesting!

[hbanana23 in reply to Tiggerlostherbounce]

Exactly, everyone is different and that's the main thing. That was the main issue I had with seeking advice as it was very generic.

I have IBS as well and I'm still trying to figure out exactly what makes it worse 26 years later! Some days it's more of a "I can tolerate this but not too much today". If I had the money, I'd pay for an analysis.

Thank you

[Cat00 in reply to hbanana23]

I have IBS too and Bladder Pain Syndrome, it's hard to find healthy food that doesn't trigger the IBS especially. The greener it looks the worse I react it seems.

[Aka-Ice]

bbc.co.uk/food/articles/gut...

[Tiggerlostherbounce in reply to Aka-Ice]

this looks full of info, really helpful, 🙏

[Southport-beach]

Hi Tiggerlostherbounce,Have you tried reading Dr Rangan Chatterjee's book The Four Pillar Plan? He is a GP working in the UK & has written a few books & produces a podcast. I found this book very interesting, particularly the section on diet & foods. It isn't specifically for Fibro but I found his suggestions have helped me as part of his Lifestyle Prescription. I, like you try to practice some yoga/pilates every day as it helps to get me moving & I have a physical job. So Fibro flare-ups are a regular occurrence. I have noticed that changes to my diet have helped - increasing veg by "eating the rainbow" and cutting out processed food...

[Tiggerlostherbounce in reply to Southport-beach]

thank you for the referral, I will check it out, all this info is great, 🙏

[Southport-beach in reply to Tiggerlostherbounce]

Good luck! It's always worth a try!

[eda123]

Try not to stress about it 😊. Have you seen the advice from glucosegoddess.com/

❤️

[BlueTofu]

I have IBS, so eating a good diet is difficult. But I just don't have anything with added sugar ( beyond a yoghurt/ dessert with added vitamin/ minerals, and a gluten free bread). I have a different grain at each meal, and wholemeal if you can digest it. So oat porridge for breakfast ( can cook in microwave), gluten free bread at lunch, rice or spelt pasta or quinoa or potato at dinner time ( should be red but can't digest). Bananas are very good. Apparently if you freeze chunks and then add into your choice of milk it's a thick sweet ice cream like milkshake. Age UK has recommendations for portion sizes, this is what works for me; after looking at NHS website advice. The trouble is it's hard to be physically active enough to 'earn' the calories from my good diet, especially as I add in ground linseeds to help with magnesium for pain and to help constipation. Aim for improving slowly so you and your body gets used to the changes. Good luck

[Tiggerlostherbounce in reply to BlueTofu]

that’s really the helpful as I have ibs too🙄, I’m ready to slowly, but surely try things until I drop on the right way for me. All of this info is great, as it might be a little advice from everyone, is just right👍🙏