Wildheart Wanderings

Lipedema affects about 1 in 10 women. When looking at common symptoms that change how we see our bodies, key signs include weight gain, pain, decreased mobility, and a change in body tissue. Often, usual dieting and exercise don't work in the ways we expect. Sudden weight gain without a change in lifestyle or food intake is common and goes unexplained, sometimes for decades. Still, these women eat less and less trying to win the battle they're in, which can lead to things lik

For years, this was what I thought. Years of my life hoping. Years of my life dedicated to extreme exercise, extreme food restriction, extreme supplement intake, extreme everything. Years of thinking ahead to the next occasion and setting another goal of what I might weigh if I work hard enough. Years of believing that a few sizes smaller was THE goal. But I was wrong. When lipedema hit my life hard, though I didn't have a label for it at the time, I gained 50 pounds in thre

The last post I made feels like a lifetime ago. It was titled, "When the Basics are too Much" and I guess they truly were too much because life spun a little out of control and my own health and life needed attention before I could get back to helping others. It happens with chronic conditions, and with life itself. But God is faithful and God wasn't done. My spiral started when I slammed my hand in the car door and broke my thumb. I was in a removable splint type of thing

We’re bombarded by so much conflicting information as we try to figure out what to eat to manage Lipedema. Anti-inflammatory, RAD,...

Angelique is The Lippy Butterfly on Facebook and a regular panelist on The Lipedema Channel monthly roundtable on YouTube. She also...

This will start sort of in the middle of my journey, because looking back I can tell that this wasn’t the beginning, but this is where my...