Nutrition Practitioner Sanna Anderson shares her tips for finding your energy boundaries, and replenishing and increasing energy levels with pacing and identifying your own energy positives and negatives. Try keeping a food and activity diary to mark which activities and dietary choices increase or decrease your energy. Noting these changes can help if you’re working […]
Alex talks about the different steps and stages of recovery from ME, CFS and Fibromyalgia and what kind of energy we may feel if we’re ready to increase our activity. Sign up for a free information pack from The Optimum Health Clinic or sign up for a free 15-minute chat to see how we can […]
In this Facebook Live recording CEO Alex Howard discusses getting moving without pushing in ME, CFS and Fibromyalgia recovery. The Achiever subtypes particularly can get caught up in over-doing patterns, so we need a new way to approach to break old habits and cultivate new helpful habits. Setting new goals versus recognising the achiever pattern […]
After developing a stable baseline, Alex elaborates on how to bounce the boundaries and increase the energy envelope. He uses the metaphor of being on the offensive (pushing the boundaries with activity/new foods/new supplements/new tools) versus being on the defensive (retreat, recovery, resting, stabilising). This is for a very particular stage of recovery (later stage […]
Bouncing the boundaries in recovery from ME, CFS, and Fibromyalgia Alex discusses reaching a point in our recovery when energy is coming back and we’re ready to do a little more activity. The process of finding our baseline without post-exertional-malaise (or PEM, or delayed fatigue response) is called bouncing the boundaries. Bouncing the boundaries, and […]