Natalie Jill explains how pain creates a cycle: injury leads to inactivity, which worsens inflammation and diet, trapping you further. Breaking it requires doing things that don't feel good in the moment.
Let's talk about the pain cycle. You have an injury, you have something from an old injury. You've got inflammation, you've got aches and pains, especially as you age. And what happens is because of that feeling, you feel you can't move, you can't do your walks, you can't do your workout. And then you get more sedentary. And then when you're more sedentary to get that energy burst and to feel better, you tend to eat more. And then you eat more. And you're not necessarily picking the best foods because you're trying to feel better. Call that the pain cycle. And here's the problem. When we are in pain, when we have inflammation, when we have something wrong, when we're not moving, it's not not helping it. Now, clearly, you have to rest an actual injury, but a body in motion stays in motion. Where else can we use our body to move? Now, I'm speaking from experience here. Number one, I'm almost 51 years old. And two, I've had lots of injuries, including four major ones in the last three years. And I can tell you that pain cycle is really real. And when you become sedentary and you're not eating well, and then you get a little depression on top of it, you get stuck in that loop of the pain cycle. So what do you do? How do you break through that? Well, you find.
