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What happens to your food choices when you are thrown out of your normal routine? Do you feel stress or anxiety about what you will eat? What if there won’t be anything that you can eat where you are going? What if the only choices are foods you know will set you off into a flare or cause stomach distress. This kind of food anxiety can occur when you go on vacation, stay at a friends, have to work on a location away from home.

The top seven reasons you’re not losing weight with autoimmune disease. Weight issues and not knowing what to eat to lose weight and feel great are two of the biggest concerns for my clients. Chronic illness can cause fatigue, lack of energy from fatigue can lead to weight gain. The medications we have to take can put weight on us without us actually eating more or doing anything different.

It is common for those of us with chronic illness to get depressed with the changes in our appearance caused by our disease and medications. Many chronically ill people in their 30’s and 40’s end up needing to have teeth pulled, implants, or even full dentures caused.

Those of us with chronic illness and autoimmune disease know that a trip to the Emergency Room at some point is probably inevitable. If having a to-go bag ready can make a bad, potentially scary situation even just a little less overwhelming it is worth the effort of having one ready.

Those of us with chronic illness and autoimmune disease know that a trip to the Emergency Room at some point is probably inevitable. If having a to-go bag ready can make a bad, potentially scary situation even just a little less overwhelming it is worth the effort of having one ready.