Chapter 18
Daily Program for Adrenal Recovery
The following is a sample daily program for recovering from adrenal fatigue. It is meant to be a flexible general model that you can adapt to your own individual needs and lifestyle, but try to include all of the therapeutic elements.
On weekends, or any day possible, sleep-in until 9:00 AM or later. Take a nap in the afternoon and even in the morning if you feel draggy. In the evening time, enjoy yourself. Read entertaining books, rent funny movies, make a point of laughing as much as possible. At first, laughing may seem insincere and may take some effort, but with practice, laughing and enjoyment will be refreshing, not tiring. Once or twice per week, spend time with friends as long as it is not tiring. Keep the visits relatively short (under 2 hours), do not associate with any energy suckers, and only stay as long as you are enjoying yourself.
General Rules for Adrenal Fatigue
Below are some general rules to follow and things to avoid to help you recover from adrenal fatigue. Use the list as a reference guide after reading the preceding chapters.
Do These Things
- Be in bed before 10:00 PM.
- Sleep in until 9:00 AM whenever possible.
- Look for things that make you laugh.
- Eliminate the energy robbers (things in your life that drain your energy).
- Make your lifestyle a healing one
- Do something pleasurable every day.
- Whenever you are not enjoying your life, go back to the “Three Things You Can Do” section and take action.
- Notice at least one small, everyday thing that you are grateful for each day.
- Take your dietary supplements, regularly.
- Move your body and breathe deeply
- Believe in your ability to recover
- Use your mind as a powerful healing tool
- Keep a journal – jot down your experiences each day.
- Eat the foods your body needs
- Learn which foods make you feel bad (keep a list of them)
- Re-read this book as often as you need.
- Try having a glass of water in the morning containing ½ to 1 teaspoon of salt stirred in until dissolved.*
- Salt your food; salt your water.
- If you are to have fruit, have something with salt before or after the fruit and chew very well.
- Combine starchy carbohydrates, protein and fats at every meal.
- Eat an abundance of whole foods – those foods which are eaten like nature grows them
- Eat lots of colored vegetables.
- Chew your food well.
- Take the power and responsibility of your health into your own hands.
- Make whatever lifestyle changes you need to make to regain your health
- Laugh several times per day.
- Enjoy your recovery.
- Take 1,000 mg. of Vitamin C complex with 200 mg. magnesium and pantothenic acid at approximately 2:00 PM every day along with a small snack in order to help avoid the 3:00 to 4:00 PM low.
Avoid These Things
- Getting overtired.
- Caffeine, sugar, alcohol, and white flour products.
- Coffee, even decaf
- Staying up past 11:00PM
- Pushing yourself
- Energy suckers
- Being harsh or negative with yourself
- Feeling sorry for yourself
- Foods you are addicted to
- Foods you suspect an allergy or sensitive to.
- Foods that make you feel worse, cloud your thinking or pull you down in any way.
- Never skip breakfast.
- Avoid fruit in the morning.
- Never eat starchy carbohydrates (breads, pastas) by themselves.
- Do not eat foods that adversely affect you in any way, no matter how good they taste or how much you crave them.
