A New Leaf

After a miserable day yesterday spent with another migraine....much of which was in a drug-induced haze, it's time to turn over a new leaf. It's one that I've been talking about for months, have partially adopted, but just can't seem to fully commit to. Two rounds of my 'as needed, in case of migraine-emergency' pills left me still not able to get out of bed yesterday, so off to see my doctor for a couple shots to knock me (and the headache) out for the count.

While talking with my doctor yesterday, I threw out a question to him not having any idea how he would respond. I've done a ton of research on migraine headaches and it seems that people have had success with treating them by adopting a clean eating lifestyle. By clean eating I mean eating nothing containing preservatives. As in goodbye my beloved Xyience energy drink that I indulge in several times a week, goodbye Fudge Rounds that I sneak for breakfast on occasion, and biggest of all....basically goodbye to eating out. While he said that there is no scientific research that specifically proves that eating a processed-free food diet will eliminate migraines, he knows for a fact that people have had success. He also went on to say that since I get migraines so frequently and we've never been able to figure out a known food trigger (as many people can), it would definitely be worth it for me to give it a try. OK....I'm buying into this idea a little more now. His next words sold me....if this works, I can stop one of my daily medicines. If I'm STILL good after that, we can eliminate the second daily medicine. SOLD!! I'll do about anything to stop being dependent on medicine every day. Yuck.

Now, the hard part. How in the world am I going to implement this? How will I succeed? How am I going to live without all the sugar-laden junk food that I so dearly love? My solution....Lots of prayer and complete change of mindset. I have to quit thinking about everything I'm giving up and start thinking about what I'm gaining. Even in the chance that this doesn't eliminate my migraines, I can't imagine how much better I'll feel just in eating a completely healthy diet. No matter what it's a win. I try so hard not to get discouraged when I get headaches. After all, there are so many worse things to have wrong with me that are out of my control. If I can cure this just by diet, I'd be crazy and extremely selfish not to!!

So....who wants to join me in this endeavour? Anyone?? At least help keep me accountable?? This crazy trip starts tomorrow, May 1st. I'm going to stick to it best I can for at least 30 days. That should be a good indicator as to if it's working to curb my headaches or not. Pray for me that this works! I plan to blog about how it's going, so stay tuned!