“The most fundamental aggression to ourselves, the most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves, is to remain ignorant by not having the courage and the respect to look at ourselves honestly and gently.”—Pema Chodron
There’s a significant neurological force than can make change challenging. It’s called The Habit Loop. But the good news is that we can flip The Habit Loop on its head and get it to work in our favor.
PCOS is largely underdiagnosed and affects up to 10 percent of women of childbearing age. Fortunately, it’s often temporary—it responds well to natural dietary and lifestyle strategies.
Pain is always the signal. And you have to go into any health goal with the mindset that nothing is impossible, nothing out of your reach.
As individuals and as a culture, we’ve been told that caving into nutritionally bankrupt food is about lack of willpower, personal weakness, moral failing, and a deep lack of self-respect. NONE of this is true.
Here are 31 considerations and suggestions (nutritional, lifestyle, supplemental) for helping you manage PCOS.
Thanksgiving, and the holidays in general, can be a daunting time for those who are watching their waistlines. With so many food-focused festivities taking place bam bam bam, sheer terror strikes many a heart. Yet terror is antithetical to what the holidays are about and that terror can do way more harm than pumpkin pie lovingly crafted with butter crust and topped with real whipped cream.
