{"id":5536,"date":"2018-05-24T10:55:59","date_gmt":"2018-05-24T10:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fxnutrition.com\/?p=5536"},"modified":"2025-06-23T15:35:47","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T15:35:47","slug":"when-the-shoe-fits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fxnutrition.com\/blog\/when-the-shoe-fits","title":{"rendered":"when the shoe fits. . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It started when you were very little. Someone slipped a shoe on your pudgy foot to see if it fit.<br \/>\n<em>And maybe it did, and maybe it didn\u2019t.<\/em><br \/>\nDepending on the fit (and your temperament), you may have ended up screaming and crying with the constrained and disappointing feeling of the miss-match.<br \/>\nThus started a journey through life\u2026of finding the right shoes,<br \/>\nthe right jeans,<br \/>\nthe right partner,<br \/>\nthe right mentor<br \/>\nthe right diet,<br \/>\nthe right foods.<br \/>\nLife has become a never-ending process of \u201ctrying on\u201d one thing, then another, like Goldilocks wandering through the bears\u2019 house while they\u2019re out picking berries for their porridge. (And maybe porridge doesn\u2019t fit with your dietary and digestive parameters, and maybe it does\u2026)<br \/>\nThroughout the month of May I\u2019ve been thinking about when the shoe fits (and when it doesn\u2019t), quite a bit. Earlier in the month, I tried, once again, to fit eggs back into my diet.<br \/>\nEggs\u2026the near perfect food. (swoon!)<br \/>\nAn ancient food.<br \/>\nA great source of protein and beneficial fats, including the fat soluble vitamins A and D, as well as folate and the adrenal building minerals choline, potassium, sulfur, and phosphorous.<br \/>\nGood for the brain and the hormones and the eyes.<br \/>\nAll the better to see that the reactivity to eggs on my IgG food sensitivity testing had come down to next-to-nothing!<br \/>\nI was so excited that I spent a month baking (with coconut flour), scrambling and soft-boiling.<br \/>\nI so <em>badly<\/em> wanted the eggs to fit.<br \/>\nBut like a tight fitting pair of shoes with a ridiculously pointy toe, the truth is, the eggs do <em>not<\/em> fit.<br \/>\nPastured. Worm-fed. Soy-free. Chicken. Duck.<br \/>\nYuck.<br \/>\nAs we end of the busy month of May\u2014perhaps due to the extra busy-ness this month and perhaps due to the ill fit of the eggs in my own delicate system\u2014I find myself in a bit of an immune flare. No matter what the clucking chickens in the neighbors\u2019 yards or the test results says, my body says \u201cno\u201d.<br \/>\nNo. No. No.<br \/>\nConsider for yourself where the shoe may or may not fit in your life. Not just in relation to eggs of course, but in relation to whatever you ingest.<br \/>\nAre there \u201cperfect foods\u201d in your diet that may not fit your unique needs?<br \/>\nAre you wearing them over and over, hoping that your body will adjust?<br \/>\nAre there practices (instead) that help you feel on top of the world?<br \/>\nAs we move into spring and toward a new month, I\u2019m going with my own interpretation of \u201cwhen the shoe fits\u201d. Bye-bye to the ill-fitting eggs and hello to the cilantro laden spring smoothies.<br \/>\n<strong>It\u2019s not the food that\u2019s bad, but the inflammation sure is.<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>What do you know that does and does not work for you in your diet and what are the signs and symptoms that tell you so?<\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fxnutrition.com\/counseling\/?utm_campaign=client-services&amp;utm_medium=blog&amp;utm_source=RPDX&amp;utm_content=when-the-shoe-fits&amp;utm_term=organic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>[Hint: In our Clinic we call these your Non-Negotiables.]<\/strong><\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<em>Do you listen?<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Hop on over to the <u><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/fxnalliance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">FxNA Facebook Page<\/a> <\/strong><\/u>and let\u2019s chat about making peace with our unique offenders. We\u2019ve all got them\u2014and sometimes we all play with fire. I sure did!<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Tomorrow is World Thyroid Day! Grab my <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Girl\u2019s Guide to Hashimoto\u2019s: Hashi Companion <\/strong><\/span>to decode your Hashimoto\u2019s so you can end the war with your body and live symptom-free.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life has become a never-ending process of \u201ctrying on\u201d one thing, then another, like Goldilocks wandering through the bears\u2019 house while they\u2019re out picking berries for their porridge. (And maybe porridge doesn\u2019t fit with your dietary and digestive parameters, and maybe it does\u2026)<br \/>\nThroughout the month of May I\u2019ve been thinking about when the shoe fits (and when it doesn\u2019t), quite a bit. In my own life, I tried, once again, to fit eggs back into my diet.<br \/>\nI so badly wanted the eggs to fit&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[133],"tags":[169,167],"class_list":["post-5536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diet-lifestyle-support","tag-immune-health","tag-nutrition"],"_yoast_wpseo_sitemap-include":null,"_yoast_wpseo_canonical":null,"_yoast_wpseo_redirect":null,"_yoast_wpseo_opengraph-description":null,"_yoast_wpseo_opengraph-title":null,"_yoast_wpseo_focuskeywords":"[]","_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex":null,"_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-nofollow":null,"_yoast_wpseo_title":"when the shoe fits. . . | Functional Nutrition Alliance","_yoast_wpseo_metadesc":"Explore the journey of finding what fits your life, from food choices to lifestyle practices. 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