Feet hurt? Feet take a beating all the time. And if you are carrying a few extra pounds that creates a lot of stress on the joints, bones, muscles, ligaments and tendons in your feet.
A rheumatologist (a medical doctor who specializes in arthritis and similar diseases) said that if you lose just ten pounds–Just Ten Pounds!–a lot of your foot pain will be gone!
Gone!
She said you don’t have to get to normal weight to get rid of foot pain. Just getting rid of those ten pounds will make a big difference in how your feet hurt. 🙂
Here’s a simple, all natural weight loss plan from me for you.
It is really easy to lose weight if you take these steps:
1. Only eat things that grew.
(Bread doesn’t grow, cereal didn’t grow, ice cream didn’t grow…you get the idea.)
Fruits, vegetables, some meat or eggs or fish, whole grains like brown rice or whole oats–those are things that grew.
You can eat all the veggies you want, either raw or cooked. Beans grow. Nuts and seeds grow. Coconuts and avocados grow, too.
Add a little olive oil or real butter on cooked veggies if you want. Bodies need some healthy fats like that. If you add salt try to make it sea salt.
Cook your whole grains. Make them from scratch. If you bring a pot to boil at bedtime and let the grains sit overnight in the covered pot they will be just right for breakfast. Add an egg and you are good to go!
2. Every day do active fun things like dance or walk or run or jump or swim. Do the things you like the most and do them often.
If you can’t do such things, wiggle your toes, twist your hair, do seated leg lifts, swing your arms. The point is to move!
Muscles love movement!
3. Drink lots of water. Make that your drink of choice. That’s what your cells crave and need.
Let’s think about a dog or cat or horse.
If that animal ate chocolate ice cream and pop he wouldn’t be healthy. His body would have trouble trying to process those things. Your body is the same way.
Now let’s think about your car.
If you put milk in the engine it wouldn’t run. Your engine (your body) needs the correct fuel just as your car does.
It’s hard for some people to eat the right foods because they don’t have enough money but for some of us it’s all about making the right choices.
And after a while you will really look forward to a piece of crunchy fruit or vegetable instead of a ‘goodie.’
I promise!
There are several more articles about nutrition and healthy eating at http://ThePainReliefCoach.com. Just click the link and go to the Category tab on the right hand side and click it to open the list of categories. Scroll down to the Nutrition category and click and the articles will come up.
And here are a few more tips from the doctor:
1. Women, buy men’s athletic shoes! Men’s shoes have roomier toe boxes so your toes won’t be squashed. No one will really notice, either. (Pssst. I’ll tell you a secret…I have done this for years!)
2. And just because you USED to wear a size 6 shoe doesn’t mean you STILL wear a 6.
The doctor said she had cured many cases of ‘arthritis’ in feet simply by telling her patient, “You don’t wear a size 6 anymore; now you wear a size 10!”
The bigger shoe created more comfort and got rid of foot pain naturally.
