Introduction to Eat Move and Live

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00:00:01.181 –> 00:00:03.182 Hello, my name is Emily Boudwin.

00:00:04.942 –> 00:00:17.627 So this is an introduction to Eat, Move, and Live, a website I just launched on Saturday, live to everyone, and it’s a really personal one.

00:00:19.195 –> 00:00:29.882 It’s the story of my own health journey, my health journey working with my special needs daughter and the things I’ve learned.

00:00:30.922 –> 00:00:42.630 I’m inviting you into my life with the food that I create in my kitchen, specifically gluten-free food.

00:00:43.530 –> 00:00:49.274 And a lot of them are also egg free and dairy free as well, because I’ve done that both for a long time.

00:00:50.054 –> 00:00:54.937 I’ve been able to add both back in egg free, dairy free, but avoiding gluten.

00:00:55.858 –> 00:00:58.460 And so I have I have a ton of experience there.

00:01:01.582 –> 00:01:08.586 I don’t know quite where to start with my story because it’s so big, it’s so broad, it’s so all encompassing.

00:01:11.758 –> 00:01:15.584 I guess I could say I am from a very large family.

00:01:15.605 –> 00:01:17.228 I’m number five of ten kids.

00:01:20.436 –> 00:01:27.740 I had a lot of health issues growing up and looking back I really wonder if I’ve had celiac disease since I was small.

00:01:28.560 –> 00:01:31.362 Do I have a diagnosis of celiac disease right now?

00:01:31.382 –> 00:01:41.046 No, because in order to get a diagnosis you have to be eating gluten and you have to eat two slices of bread every single day for six weeks to get blood

00:01:41.206 –> 00:01:46.630 testing and a scope done where they take the samples from your small intestine.

00:01:47.050 –> 00:01:50.633 And they have to be able to see the damage that’s done by gluten.

00:01:50.913 –> 00:02:02.542 And even having tiny bits of cross contamination from gluten causes me to have severe, several months of health issues going on.

00:02:03.262 –> 00:02:10.467 So that’s not a possibility, but the likelihood is extremely high that I have celiac disease, just like my special needs daughter Valhalla.

00:02:11.728 –> 00:02:14.389 On this site, you’re going to hear a lot about both of us.

00:02:15.270 –> 00:02:17.832 Yes, I do have a husband who I love dearly.

00:02:17.852 –> 00:02:19.213 You will not be hearing about him.

00:02:20.374 –> 00:02:25.398 I am giving him his privacy as well as my younger daughter.

00:02:25.718 –> 00:02:27.459 Again, I’m giving her her privacy.

00:02:28.220 –> 00:02:30.341 My girls are 14 and a half months apart.

00:02:33.843 –> 00:02:36.825 My oldest is the one that has severe special needs.

00:02:38.005 –> 00:02:45.030 She will be 25 soon shortly and has had issues her entire life.

00:02:45.250 –> 00:02:47.071 She’s developmentally a three to four year old.

00:02:47.231 –> 00:02:50.252 So she’s my forever baby, forever child.

00:02:52.554 –> 00:02:53.554 I will give you an example.

00:02:54.675 –> 00:02:55.596 I do a lot of stuff

00:02:55.796 –> 00:02:56.776 just sitting on the floor.

00:02:57.577 –> 00:02:59.938 Oh, by the way, right now I’m at my office.

00:03:00.138 –> 00:03:02.440 I am a medical massage therapist.

00:03:03.180 –> 00:03:04.506 but that’s not what this site is about.

00:03:05.986 –> 00:03:17.435 so we were sitting on the floor because we try and live Japanese style on the floor with our beds on the floor and everything. My daughter,

00:03:17.475 –> 00:03:31.246 My daughter was playing with her blocks, stacking her blocks and Daddy was sitting behind her and behind daddy reclining on the floor was her sister, her

00:03:31.286 –> 00:03:40.792 younger sister. So her younger sister laid down where my special needs daughter, Valhalla, couldn’t see her.

00:03:41.832 –> 00:03:44.034 And she’s like, oh, sister gone.

00:03:46.095 –> 00:03:48.116 And she continued working on her blocks.

00:03:48.356 –> 00:03:53.338 And then all of a sudden, my younger daughter popped up and Valhalla got so excited.

00:03:53.798 –> 00:03:56.080 She’s like, oh, hey, sister’s back.

00:03:58.000 –> 00:03:59.101 Of course, she’s using her name.

00:03:59.401 –> 00:03:59.701 Sorry.

00:04:00.202 –> 00:04:05.367 I am trying to give my daughter her privacy.

00:04:06.948 –> 00:04:13.716 She’s a typical three year old, other than she has a lot of anxiety and other issues going on.

00:04:17.839 –> 00:04:24.043 She does live in a home for special needs and is doing fairly well there.

00:04:24.923 –> 00:04:26.464 You will hear a lot about her journey.

00:04:27.065 –> 00:04:38.252 Um, as I blog about different parts of it and talk about different parts that can be helpful to you guys, it’s actually going to be very therapeutic for

00:04:38.332 –> 00:04:45.036 me because there’s a lot of anxiety, a lot of stress, a lot of held back emotion.

00:04:46.437 –> 00:04:55.039 Um, The last few years have been incredibly rough with her in and out of the hospital, plus my own health issues.

00:04:56.039 –> 00:05:03.683 So I hope you come along for this ride, ask questions, just know that I am still going through my own stuff.

00:05:03.743 –> 00:05:13.507 I have to micromanage all my baking and cooking and eating and nutrient intake, figuring out what foods do I need next?

00:05:14.087 –> 00:05:15.528 What nutrients do I need next?

00:05:18.601 –> 00:05:20.823 So it’s a balancing act for me.

00:05:20.863 –> 00:05:29.369 I have to do things very, very slowly with even medications because even the slightest amount can cause me to have issues.

00:05:29.869 –> 00:05:33.892 So it’s a baby stepping that I have to do with it.

00:05:34.172 –> 00:05:35.232 But I figured it out.

00:05:35.713 –> 00:05:39.935 I figured out how to pay attention to what my body is telling me and what’s going on.

00:05:41.096 –> 00:05:42.997 And that’s what this website is about.

00:05:43.137 –> 00:05:53.442 It’s about sharing the different things I have found in my research as I discovered my own severe respiratory disease, then found a specialist who confirmed.

00:05:54.942 –> 00:05:59.164 That’s what AERD is, aspirin exacerbated respiratory disease.

00:06:00.145 –> 00:06:01.245 And I’ll get more into that.

00:06:01.445 –> 00:06:05.527 I’ll get more into the microscopic colitis and how that’s affected me.

00:06:05.726 –> 00:06:09.049 I’ll get into the autoimmune hepatitis where the body attacks the liver.

00:06:10.339 –> 00:06:22.326 that because everything is so intertwined it’s hard to tell where one lets off and another picks up That’s why it’s so hard to find

00:06:22.406 –> 00:06:33.693 things online or even with a doctor because they have these little niches of specialties and they don’t understand all these other pieces and so I’ve had

00:06:34.660 –> 00:06:42.490 to hold them all and figure them out and figure out all the different pieces and do it in such a way that I don’t make myself sicker.

00:06:43.595 –> 00:06:44.956 which is really, really hard.

00:06:45.236 –> 00:06:49.139 It’s so easy to go down the rabbit hole of this is the answer.

00:06:49.979 –> 00:06:52.281 And then you limit further and further and further.

00:06:52.401 –> 00:06:54.282 I’ve seen it in all sorts of different groups.

00:06:55.903 –> 00:07:05.449 So it’s incredibly important to do your research to figure out what’s going on with you and to don’t overly limit on what you’re doing with your body.

00:07:06.890 –> 00:07:10.253 start paying attention, start asking questions.

00:07:11.194 –> 00:07:16.239 I do have a private online community that I have added to the site.

00:07:19.302 –> 00:07:25.127 It is private so that we can keep it just between the people who are having issues.

00:07:26.008 –> 00:07:29.011 So I hope that this will be helpful to you guys.

00:07:30.031 –> 00:07:31.753 Again, my name is Emily Boudwin.

00:07:32.574 –> 00:07:34.416 I’m in Boise, Idaho.

00:07:36.658 –> 00:07:37.479 I love to bake.

00:07:37.519 –> 00:07:38.179 I love to cook.

00:07:38.920 –> 00:07:42.163 I love to create in my kitchen when I’m feeling well enough.

00:07:43.084 –> 00:07:49.430 So the things you’re going to find on my site will be my buckwheat bread, which is delicious.

00:07:50.511 –> 00:07:53.914 My waffles, buckwheat waffles, which are amazing.

00:07:56.036 –> 00:07:58.058 different kinds of muffins.

00:07:59.079 –> 00:08:18.195 I have been cooking and baking gluten-free since my daughter was two, since 2003. Gluten-free and back then there was almost nothing available and anything

00:08:18.215 –> 00:08:21.517 already gluten-free pre-made in the store was pretty much awful.

00:08:22.458 –> 00:08:33.267 so you had to learn how to cook this way and you didn’t have that much the internet wasn’t really around it was in its infancy the beginning of its infancy

00:08:33.447 –> 00:08:44.879 um like my husband said when he was working for a company um back in the early 2000s There was a guy who was hired at the company and they were going to

00:08:44.919 –> 00:08:46.059 give him work eventually.

00:08:46.100 –> 00:08:47.482 They just didn’t know what it was going to be.

00:08:47.522 –> 00:08:53.050 And so he spent nine months on the internet and reached the end of the internet.

00:08:53.811 –> 00:08:54.652 You can’t do that now.

00:08:56.256 –> 00:09:01.220 But one of the issues we run across with the internet is there’s a lot of misinformation.

00:09:02.261 –> 00:09:16.429 And with artificial intelligence, AI, people creating a ton of instant websites, there’s a lot of hard to find stuff inbetween there because it’s crowding

00:09:16.870 –> 00:09:17.591 the web lanes.

00:09:18.551 –> 00:09:23.252 So, my goal is to make my site as authentic as possible.

00:09:23.832 –> 00:09:27.473 You’ll see pictures from my actual kitchen, my actual home.

00:09:28.194 –> 00:09:29.494 I apologize for the mess.

00:09:30.914 –> 00:09:32.535 I clean up as best as I can.

00:09:34.615 –> 00:09:36.456 Some days are easier than others with that.

00:09:37.937 –> 00:09:41.059 But I’m giving you real authentic information.

00:09:42.101 –> 00:09:49.587 For example, one of the things is that I figured out that my convection oven portion, the fan, stopped working and it stopped working,

00:09:49.607 –> 00:09:53.691 it seems to have stopped working at least six months ago, which is going to affect my recipes.

00:09:53.791 –> 00:09:55.433 I apologize in advance for that.

00:09:56.033 –> 00:10:02.523 I’m working on figuring that out, but it’s going to change the dynamic of how long you’re going to cook it and at what temperature.

00:10:02.623 –> 00:10:06.389 So I will be addressing that and you can ask questions.

00:10:06.489 –> 00:10:07.571 Please reach out to me.

00:10:10.214 –> 00:10:23.344 and please just be patient with me because I am it’s just me I am running my website with my own life. This is my site no one else is helping me with

00:10:24.144 –> 00:10:30.149 it so I hope you have a wonderful day and we’ll talk to you later bye