One of the hardest things to get a handle on through my menopause journey has been my diet. Throughout my life, diet has played a key role in helping me to keep well and have energy.

This week during Menopause Awareness Month I would like to talk a little about my experience of diet and certain habits that help me cope.

Diet And Stress

I have to put my hand up and say diet is one of the hardest things for me to follow, especially when stressed. In order to look at diet, you first need to understand its place in the stressed energy system. Stress prevents the adrenals from helping you cope better with the menopause. But a body that has triggered the stress response cannot digest food properly. This food can just lie in your digestive system partially digested and then as you eat more, it will get pushed on through your system.

This partially digested food will just cause more stress to your energy system. Remember stress is what prevents your whole energy system from having an easier menopause. When stressed your adrenals cannot do the job of giving you more oestrogen and progesterone. It is this lack of oestrogen and progesterone that means all other sources of oestrogen and progesterone in your body will get robbed. This is why you can have foggy brain, low mood, weight gain, etc…

SUGAR & Menopause

Sugar – the processed kind, is one of the key stressors on your energy system. I know – I don’t hold back when it comes to talking about sugar and what it can do to the energy system and especially during the menopause journey.

I remember my early days training in Kinesiology and one trainer saying ‘sugar is a poison to the system’. I totally agreed with them. But I have to also confess to having a sugar craving.

99% of the time I can manage that craving very well, using my Tapping system, water drinking, and some really good self-talk. But then there is that 1% where I literally go to town on sugar.

I know First Hand

I know first hand about how sugar can cause major upset to the digestive system. Such upset increases inflammation and lowers immunity. This affects mood and ability to cope. Not to mention the aches and pains in the joints. Sugar is acidic in its makeup. An over acidic energy system will prevent your cells from getting enough oxygen and lead to cells that are not healthy become food for cancer.

Sugar Is A Good First-Step

When it comes to dietary habits and finding one to change for better wellness in the menopause stages, sugar has to be high on the list.

I am going to give you a list of the 10 things that I tend to avoid, to help me cope better. There are some foods that you might think – that is healthy, why are you not eating that one. Being a kinesiologist, I also attend kinesiology sessions and these are some of the foods that have come up for me:

Food And Drink I Avoid During Menopause

• Processed sugar grains
• Sugary and fizzy drinks
• Red meat
• Biscuits / cakes / buns
• Grains
• Trans-fats
• Dairy produce
• Foods that have been sprayed with pesticides
• Coffee / caffeine
• Alcohol

I could go on! But I said I would give you my top 10 foods. You might also have your own list of foods and beverages that really aggravate your menopause symptoms.

We All Have Our Own Menopause Experience

The list could be different for every single woman, because it really all depends on your digestion and your energy system, your metabolic rate and indeed your stress levels.

I like using natural ways of retuning stress in my energy system. Another thing I do is take nutritional supplements. I take supplements because my healthy diet still doesn’t have enough natural nutrition to meet my personal energy needs. I know this from attending my Kinesiology sessions over the years. I tend to have better energy and manage stresses better when I take nutritional supplements that my body tests for during my Kinesiology sessions.

Supplements That Help My Menopause

I take high potency magnesium, vitamin d3/k2/a oil, vitamin c, b-complex, b6, zinc, as well as some herbs and lots of water too. I can find that when I take too much nutrition or too little, I can had hot flushes and that is why a kinesiology session can help me to find balance.

Vitamin D and Magnesium are very important for most bodily systems and functions. I get my vitamin d oil from Epigenetics-International and my high potency magnesium from Viridian. There are many forms of good nutrition out there. There are also quite poor forms. I tend to opt for capsules and liquid before solid tablets.

You might already know some foods that seem to put your body under stress during menopause and others that make you feel better. It is all a balancing game. Stress knocks me out of balance – at every level. Regular Kinesiology balancing helps me to retune that stress and be my best self.

Your Conditioning

We have been conditioned to believe that we can have everything fixed fast. Some even go so far as to say we don’t need to make lifestyle changes. Just pop this pill or pay this bill for this consultant and you will be fine.

Living in this fast fix land will lead to a life of medications and hospital appointments. You attend because you have these palpitations and the doctor wants to put you one medication just in case. This medication causes you to need another medication to cope with the symptoms you are now experiencing from the first medication, and so the story goes.

Positive Ways = Positive Menopause

Retune Your Energy For Wellness using the many natural therapies and supplements as well as making some dietary changes and you can retune your menopause symptoms.

In Conclusion

Change begins with one small step at a time. What sugar food or drink, or other processed food can you begin to delete from your diet. I have used Tapping to help me overcome my sugar cravings. This has enabled me to get to 99% positive diet through the menopause. What can help you make positive changes – one step at a time.

Follow RetuningME™

You can follow RetuningME on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and I also have a YouTube Channel with lots of different videos on all things Retuning. You may also like to subscribe to receive weekly posts from me, at the bottom of this post.