Diet and Exercises When Fibromyalgia Does Cause Weight Gain
Weight gain is often one of the symptoms of fibromyalgia. As if you weren't feeling bad already with widespread pain and possibly the effects of chronic fatigue that often comes as a bonus to fibromyalgia patients, having to deal with even more side effects like putting on excess weight is definitely no fun, and can even affect your mental health. Do you feel like you’re stuck in a vicious circle of one bad thing leading to another?:
"I'm tired so it's hard to keep up with a balanced diet, so I end up giving into my food cravings and putting on extra weight. I'm in pain so when I try aerobic exercises there's so much movement, I feel worse afterwards, not to mention even more tired."
Does this sound like you? If so, I have just the thing to guide and help you make significant improvements to your pain and energy, and help you reach your healthy weight without stressing you out in the process.
MITFIT 90 can Help!
Let me tell you about this very special program I developed to help myself and hundreds of others to improve their quality of life when dealing with fibromyalgia pain and fatigue! MITFIT 90 is my effective, fun, total body fitness program that will make you rethink how you exercise forever, and you’ll see that you don't need to do intense workouts and crazy diets to have less pain, more energy and fast results! The program includes Exclusive Workouts with a guided calendar, a Lifestyle Pack, Nutrition Pack, Recipe Book and more. All of them are designed to break things down to small steps that will make it very easy for you to follow and keep it going long term.
A Healthy Diet - It's easier than you think
Suzanne W., Creator of Cocolime Fitness
I know it seems totally overwhelming to have to completely change the way you eat. Don't worry, you won't have to do crazy caloric restriction or extreme dieting here. As you'll see below, stress is a major contributor to fibromyalgia so the last thing I want to do is to increase your stress by giving you a gigantic list of do's and don'ts. What I've done with MITFIT 90 is to provide you with a Nutrition Pack made up of 3 progressive phases of simple concepts you can incorporate, one at a time. When you're comfortable with one small adjustment, you can add another one. And you can take as long as you need to do it.
A general theme I always stick by is to LISTEN TO YOUR BODY. What may work for one person, may not work for someone else. So I'll teach you ways to evaluate how you respond to certain types of foods and what do do about it. Most likely part of your weight gain is due to inflammation and I will show you ways to reduce it. Many of my clients experienced significant weight loss within the first four weeks of doing MITFIT 90 and they credit the easy to follow education they received in the Nutrition Pack, along with the workouts, of course. Take a look at this interview with Casey from Australia and how MITFIT 90 helped her with fibromyalgia and irritable bowel syndrome. Here are some things you will learn in the Nutrition Pack: Should I cut out food groups entirely? Is it ok to have cheat meals, and if so, how often? What foods are known to cause inflammation? What are symptoms of food intolerances (food intolerances are different than food allergies)? What are the benefits of probiotics and vitamins? How can I prevent poor digestion? How can I naturally lose weight without restrictive dieting?
Along with the Nutrition Pack you'll get my Recipe Book that includes 50 of my personal recipes that I’ve experimented with over the years to make tasty foods that work with food intolerances and allergies. These are not recipes I copied from other websites! Over the years I had to experiment with all sorts of ingredients to help my condition, and believe me, I made tons of mistakes along the way! Just ask my husband, ha ha! So here I've included recipes that are proven to work and are easy to make. I also tried to stay away from suggesting crazy ingredients that are impossible to find! I know how frustrating that can be. The Recipe Book also includes quick and easy healthy meal ideas for you to mix and match to create your own balanced and healthy combinations. With all these easy to incorporate tips and recipes, you'll be in control of making dietary changes at your own pace, and I know you'll start to see results very soon!
Exercise - You Don't Need to Push Through the Pain
I used to teach group fitness and am a personal trainer, so like everyone else, I used to live by the "no pain, no gain" mentality. Trust me, effective treatment of fibromyalgia does NOT include that strategy. You can read how I learned this the hard way here. Over several years of research and trial and error, I've developed the Cocolime Method, which uses a unique combination of exercises and varying levels of range of motion and intensity, so you can achieve lasting results without crashing.
MITFIT 90 has options for regular or low energy days so you can still get a workout in.
With MITFIT 90 you'll get 25 exclusive workouts along with a workout calendar to guide you through a progression to loosen up tight muscles, improve your flexibility and of course, lose weight and shape up! You might be wondering what the name MITFIT 90 stands for. MIT, refers to the workouts being of medium intensity and the 90, refers to the 90 day workout calendar. To ease your mind, most of my clients take up to six months to complete the program, so you can spread the 90 days of exercising over as much time as you need. It's ok to take rest days! Just listen to your body and move at your own pace. It may take some time to get used to exercising on a regular basis again.
The workouts have Low Energy options in case you're having a flare up or you're starting the program with more severe fibromyalgia symptoms. These are great exercises because you won't be pushing yourself too hard, yet you’ll still have a workout that's effective and fun to do, providing you with daily physical activity, which is an important part of your recovery. Take a look at this sample video showing both the normal energy and low energy versions:
The Workout calendar is split into 3 Phases. Here's how they work:
Phase 1 will help you get accustomed to exercising regularly, improve your posture, flexibility and mobility. You should start to experience less daily pain as you progress through this phase via the low-impact activities.
Phase 2 will help increase your endurance and strength. You’ll gain confidence in doing some of the things you used to do before and now you’ll have the energy to give them a try again!
Phase 3 will really start toning your body with slightly more intense and lengthier workout days. You’re going to love the way you look and you’ll have the motivation to keep it going!
The workouts are designed to be fun with great music you'll love to come back to each day. I've also included no-talking versions so once you get the routines down, you can do them with only music to keep you on beat. Many of my clients have said they never thought they'd be able to do aerobic exercise or strength training again due to their chronic pain conditions but MITFIT 90 proved them wrong! I strongly encourage you to believe in yourself that you can do it!
Lifestyle Changes - These Are a Big Deal
MITFIT 90 includes a Lifestyle Pack that will help you to deal with stress and the aspects of fibromyalgia in a successful way. I’ve tried about a million things out there that did not work and I don’t want you to have to waste your time on those things. So this is a compilation of suggestions that have really helped me over the years to deal with my chronic illness.
Several scientific studies link high stress as a contributing cause of fibromyalgia and when you think of the fast paced lifestyles many of us have to deal with nowadays, especially in the United States, Canada and the UK, it's no wonder the number of fibromyalgia sufferers in these countries is on the rapid rise. So, although we may not be able to eliminate every single stress in our life, we can work to minimize them and change how we deal with them, and thus break the vicious cycle we may be stuck in. That's what the 3 Phases of the Lifestyle pack will do for you. Again, you can go at your own pace and incorporate one suggestion at a time. Here are some things you will learn: How do I stimulate the nerves that can reduce inflammation, help me relax, and improve digestion? Do my interactions with others affect my health and how can I make improvements? What are physical stressors and what can I do about them? What are some alternative forms of medicine and testing that I should investigate and what do they do?
A healthy lifestyle includes a healthy state of mind and the MITFIT 90 Lifestyle Pack will help you be there!
Feel Better. Look Better. Live Better.
My goal is to help you just get back to being YOU! Everything is connected together - your body weight, your pain levels, your happiness, etc. MITFIT 90 can help you take the important step of getting all of these into a balance where YOU can be in control of your weight despite fibromyalgia. Are you ready to get started? Click below to join our amazing community of fibromyalgia warriors who have succeeded in their journey to lose weight and get in shape!
