Know Your Endo by Jessica Murnane

Author:Jessica Murnane [Murnane, Jessica]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2021-04-27T00:00:00+00:00

Good foods are:

Foods that nourish and energize you.

Foods that don’t hurt you and/or make your endo symptoms feel worse.

Good foods are not:

A restrictive diet, steamed broccoli and rice for every meal, a static plan that can never change, the magic solution to getting skinny, a cure for endo, or a universal standard.

It’s also not about labels. Our culture loves labels when it comes to food and diets! I get it. Labels can help us streamline the process of change, make it easier to find recipes and cookbooks that align with our new diet and lifestyle, and connect us to like-minded communities that eat the same as we do. But they can also feel limiting and intimidating. Most of us have had that feeling of “failing” after trying a new diet and eating one of that diet’s “forbidden” foods. It can send you into a shame spiral of stress, which—as we’ve already learned—is not good for our endo. It can also cause a lot of anxiety if you’ve had a history of disordered eating. Creating this new foundation and finding your good foods is not about labels, and it’s not about being perfect. It’s about adding more foods to your diet that make you feel good—and less of the ones that make you feel bad.

I think it’s important to mention that after you find the foods that make you feel good, you might still decide to eat foods that make you feel not so good. I eat big piles of fries from time to time and have a hard time saying no to a tub of hummus (it’s one of my number-one bloat-inducing foods, and one that I know I need to eat in moderation). I know these things might not make me feel my best after I eat them, but that doesn’t make me or the food bad. Finding your good foods is not about villainizing categories of foods or never eating them again. It’s about empowering yourself to have more control over how you feel. Whether you choose to eat your good foods 100 percent of the time or 50 percent of the time is entirely up to you.

Once we can all get on board with the fact that there is no one perfect endo diet for everyone, it becomes so much easier to shut out the noise of what everyone else is eating and focus solely on you. Finding your good foods can be incredibly powerful and life changing, but it can get a little complicated, too. It’s rare that someone will master this tool all in one week. It’s usually not as simple as a quick trip to the grocery store and POOF!, you magically know the perfect foods for your body. And unless you’re Oprah status and have a personal chef preparing every meal for you, you have to make a choice as to what those meals are. It can feel overwhelming at first. It takes time not only to figure out the

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