Your Physical Self

[FarmerChick]

Most of us self sufficient types can obtain great benefits from baking from scratch, eating healthy veggies from our gardens, limiting restaurant and pre-packaged convenience foods, drinking more water and less junky drinks, etc. etc.

Did you find that your health improved? Did you notice any changes to your physical self....like maybe losing a few lbs, improving a medical condition such as high blood pressure or anything that can be related to your changes in your household as you became more self sufficient.

Being we grow our food and tend gardens and animals, even if we work a desk job we come home to phyiscal exercise outside instead of a more dormant life.

So just wondering how your personal physical self has benefited from good changes in your life.

 

[tortoise]

Since my last post on this thread, I am off all medications now because of getting off of processed/packaged foods. I'm out of the medical system! 🙌

The change in my health from diet change has motivated me to source even less processed food, such as wheat berries instead of flour, and to move toward growing grain and gardening again after a couple years off.

Next up is increasing physical fitness.

 

[Okiepan]

Food wise yes I eat healthier but as for everything else seems to be getting worse ( Gulf War Syndrome) The farming life is my therapy as it is for other vets, As this helps us , Please help our vets even with just assisting them with a vegetable garden that type of therapy helps just being outdoors around livestock and gardens.
Thank you ALL

 

[Cecilia's-life]

Congratulations for getting yourself out of the medical system! Thats a difficult challenge! I want that for myself too.

Congrats by the way! Doctors aren't bad but they certainly aren't fun.

I still get some mood swings but they aren't nearly as significant or home-life affecting.

I've actually gotten worse mood swings transitioning over to the ss lifestyle. It's really draining but I don't think I could ever go back. I've seen more doctors in these past 2 years TTC and I'm so glad that is almost over with. After babies are born all we have to do is vaccinate them and move on with our lives (or so I hope).

 

[Mini Horses]

I hope that fungus likes goat poop. 😁 glad you brought this up -- now I know I'm "fungus calm" not just dead arse tired and dull.....

I'm loving it -- no matter the reason!

 

[tortoise]

Wow, I love this thread! I'm curious how active members now would respond!

Before moving to our farm, DH and I sat on the couch and watched TV every evening and ate frozen pizza most of the time. I never ate vegetables!

We eat about 20# of veggies per week now. We cook more.

DH has more muscle mass. 😍

My chronic illnesses progressed after DS5 was born and after an early miscarriage 2 years later. Even with that I still think I'm healthier now. My metabolic bloodwork is better, I was 1 point off from prediabetic before we moved. I weigh about 15# less.

My mental health is better, for sure. My marriage is much better too.

 

[Daisy]

Did you find that your health improved? Did you notice any changes to your physical self....like maybe losing a few lbs, improving a medical condition such as high blood pressure or anything that can be related to your changes in your household as you became more self sufficient.

I have put on a LOT of weight since moving here. I cook more as I have more to cook with, so eat a whole lot more than I used to!

I had successful competition horses and ran a riding school and agistment farms before I moved to this little country cottage, so I was very fit, barely slept and rarely ate every day due to lack of time and money (the horses ate it all 😂). My mental health was terrible, in a bad relationship, I was in expensive therapy, on all sorts of medication, very unwell, got physical injuries from the extremely heavy workload and spent a loooong time in hospitals coming out with multiple disabilities so the change in life and move was forced.

Now, I am very well rested, out of the medical/hospital trap, entirely drug free, (besides the occasional paracetamol for pain) and I had even saved enough money to go on a little holiday cruise - until covid killed that idea!

I do like life here but it was a huge change to teach myself to stop and smell the roses. My world view has really changed too and at times I struggle with my new found inabilities and limitations of living where I do. I miss horses.

The switch to a more devout Christian lifestyle has saved me most of all. Still working on that though

 

[Britesea]

Since my last post on this thread, I am off all medications now because of getting off of processed/packaged foods. I'm out of the medical system! 🙌

The change in my health from diet change has motivated me to source even less processed food, such as wheat berries instead of flour, and to move toward growing grain and gardening again after a couple years off.

Next up is increasing physical fitness.

Conga Rats, @tortoise !

 

[Britesea]

Food wise yes I eat healthier but as for everything else seems to be getting worse ( Gulf War Syndrome) The farming life is my therapy as it is for other vets, As this helps us , Please help our vets even with just assisting them with a vegetable garden that type of therapy helps just being outdoors around livestock and gardens.
Thank you ALL

Yes, there's a real reason gardening can help with mental/emotional issues. A fungus, present in most soil, acts like Prozac, but without the side effects. It gets absorbed through the skin, so by all means- get out there and make mud pies!

We were intended to be caretakers of this world by our Maker- that translates to GARDENING/FARMER/HUSBANDRY

 

[Trying2keepitReal]

I am new into the SS life, but I can tell you my mental health is so much better. I still get some mood swings but they aren't nearly as significant or home-life affecting. Corporate life and driving had about done me in.