Well, it’s that time a year again. You know, the time of year where you’re trying to figure out the best gifts for friends and family. Unfortunately, I can’t help you pick out something for everyone on your list; but, I may be able to help with some of the healthiest loved ones. I present to you, my healthy holiday gift guide.
Healthy Holiday Gift Guide
The Healthy Foodie
The healthy foodie is the person who loves to batch cook, create healthy recipes, or just eat healthy foods. They appreciate gifts like fresh organic food baskets, gift cards to their favorite health food market, cooking appliances or tools, and cookbooks. Being a healthy foodie myself, here are some of my favorite gifts.
The Fitness Fan
Whether they’re a yogi, or a Crossfit fan, these peeps love their fitness gear. Here are a few of my favorite fitness fan gifts.
The Healthy Beauty
The healthy beauty likes to pamper herself. She’s sure to get enough sleep and use high quality, natural products to keep her looking her best. Here are my favorite healthy beauty gifts.
These are my top picks that make great gifts for your healthy friends and family. Don’t forget to get yourself a few treats as well. This is the perfect time to take advantage of low prices.
I know most people put off cleaning up their eating and lifestyle until after the holidays. If you’re one of those people, you might want to start stocking up on some of the essentials you’re going to need. Of course, if you’re planning on adding fitness to your life, I suggest getting a copy of my ebook, Sickness To Fitness Quick Start Guide. It’s not just for people with autoimmune disease. It’s for anyone who would like to start a fitness routine, that’s easy to follow and maintain. I’ll be lowering the price to just $5 from December 15, 2016 to December 31, 2016. Just click this link, between those dates, to get this deal.
Sickness To Fitness Quick Start Guide! Buy HERE!
I wish you all a Merry Christmas, and a happy holiday season!
Welcome all. I am Tara Perillo, herbalist, homeopath, yoga and fitness instructor, and healthy foodie . After successfully reaching remission of my lupus symptoms, through changes in my diet, exercise, and lifestyle, I wrote the ebook, Sickness To Fitness Quick Start Guide. I am also honored to have my paleo and AIP recipes featured in Paleo Magazine, Paleo Living Magazine, Shape Magazine Online, 85 Amazing AIP Breakfasts, The Paleo AIP Instant Pot Cookbook, and blogs by The Paleo Mom, Kris Kresser, Whole New Mom and many others. My focus is to help others become stronger in every facet of their lives. Join me to become stronger in health, mind, body, and spirit, together!
When I decided to take a month off from blogging and social media last month, I was already beginning to feel the effects of a lupus flare. Determined to stop it before it got out of control, I immediately began the healing protocol that helped me reach remission before. But, this time I was stronger, wiser, and unafraid. This time, I was unstoppable.
Autoimmune disease is unpredictable.
Now, I know some will be quick to blame the ketogenic diet I was on, or all the exercise I was doing, or the stress of trying to put out a new book. I, however, am not blaming any one or combination of those things. My last birthday was the first birthday I actually FELT myself get older. It’s like my brain sent my hormones a memo saying “ She’s old. It’s time for y’all to crash.” I’m not trying to say that some of the other factors had nothing to do with my relapse; but, I don’t think they were the exact cause. I do have lots to report on the ketogenic diet specifically. It’s given me lots of blog posts to release over the next few months. But, to blame the diet for all my symptoms would be wrong.
AIP Approved Foods
Changing my diet, back to the AIP, was a no-brainer. I actually only went back to the AIP with reintroductions phase. The reintroductions I left in were coffee (1 cup/day), dark chocolate (1 small square, soy-free every other day), and soy-free eggs (3/week). I’ve left these foods in my diet because I’ve done the AIP elimination phase enough times to know they are 100% tolerated by my system. Had I not begun to recover so quickly, believe me, I would have easily removed these foods too.
Then, I had to rethink my workouts. For me, it was the perfect opportunity to retest the program I had created when I first began to exercise again. So, that’s what I did. It had been over a year since I had done the workouts that had seen me through my journey from sickness to fitness. This time I was starting out stronger and more fit than before; however, I was dealing with some of the same symptoms I’d had before. My joints were aching. I was fatigued beyond belief. And, I was dealing with serious inflammation and bloating. That didn’t stop me back then, or now.
Sickness To Fitness Quick Start Guide- Coming Soon!
A big part of my recovery has been lots of rest and stress management. When I was piecing together all of the research I’ve done over the past year and a half, I determined, because of my flare, it was going to take a bit longer to put out the original book I’d planned. So, what I chose to do instead is release my Sickness To Fitness Quick Start Guide, this month. This ebook contains everything you need to begin your very own sickness to fitness journey. It covers the entire program- nutrition, workouts, wellness practices, and recipes. There’s lots of information including calculating macros, foods to eat and avoid, specific exercises, batch cooking, meal prepping, and more. Plus, you’re not going to believe the price. I’ve priced it so that everyone can afford it. I want to make sure that anyone who needs help will be able to get it. I’m hoping to have it released on September 12th. I’ll be doing lots of announcements here, and on social media, when I have the specific date.
Happily, I can report, after a month of going back to the basics, I am doing great. No, I’m not completely over my flare. My fatigue, joint pain, rashes, hormonal imbalance, and other symptoms have greatly improved. In fact, I’m thinking this might turn out to be the shortest flare I’ve ever experienced.
Here I am, once again, rising from the ashes. Living with an autoimmune disease is always unpredictable. You can try to guess what’s causing a flare; but, you can never be totally sure. When you recover from a big flare, you’re often filled with fear that you’ll relapse. If you’re like me, you try to distance yourself from anything related to autoimmunity. It’s like, the less I talked about it, the less chance there was that I would flare again. Silly, silly me! You can’t run from an incurable disease. You can’t hide from it either. The best we can do is control it. I know that now. If anything, this latest flare was the best thing that could have happened to me. It encouraged me to share my experiences and successes even more. It taught me to do all I can to help as many people with autoimmune disease as I can reach. Now that the worse (in my mind) has happened, and I’ve been knocked out of remission, I can stop running, stop hiding, stop being fearful, and start conquering again. I now see that helping the autoimmune community is my calling. My entire focus will be on helping us heal.
Thanks to all of you for allowing me the time to rest and recuperate. It’s good to be back with y’all again.
As always, I wish you good health…..and, good food!
Welcome all. I am Tara Perillo, herbalist, homeopath, yoga and fitness instructor, and healthy foodie . After successfully reaching remission of my lupus symptoms, through changes in my diet, exercise, and lifestyle, I wrote the ebook, Sickness To Fitness Quick Start Guide. I am also honored to have my paleo and AIP recipes featured in Paleo Magazine, Paleo Living Magazine, Shape Magazine Online, 85 Amazing AIP Breakfasts, The Paleo AIP Instant Pot Cookbook, and blogs by The Paleo Mom, Kris Kresser, Whole New Mom and many others. My focus is to help others become stronger in every facet of their lives. Join me to become stronger in health, mind, body, and spirit, together!
Welcome all. I am Tara Perillo, herbalist, homeopath, yoga and fitness instructor, and healthy foodie . After successfully reaching remission of my lupus symptoms, through changes in my diet, exercise, and lifestyle, I wrote the ebook, Sickness To Fitness Quick Start Guide. I am also honored to have my paleo and AIP recipes featured in Paleo Magazine, Paleo Living Magazine, Shape Magazine Online, 85 Amazing AIP Breakfasts, The Paleo AIP Instant Pot Cookbook, and blogs by The Paleo Mom, Kris Kresser, Whole New Mom and many others. My focus is to help others become stronger in every facet of their lives. Join me to become stronger in health, mind, body, and spirit, together!
