My AIP Table - The Journal

Earlier I posted a quickie blog just stating what my word for last year was.  I can't believe I didn't write about it last year ... and for the life of me,  I cannot remember why I didn't.  But, here we are.  My word for  2024  was  STRONG. I'm not exactly sure why I chose that, besides the obvious ...  At 51 years old, I am  more aware of my need for building and maintaining strength.  Strong was  a  good word that I feel went beyond just physical strength this past year.   Sure, I started back to Pilates and can see gains in my abilities  which is exciting.  But, I think 2024 was also about building  mental and emotional strength.  This wasn't anything  I set out to do ... but as usually happens with  my word of the year, it was something  that occurred naturally through  life circumstances. In the weeks  leading up to the  end of each year, my  mind starts to ...

Well, tomorrow is the last day of 2024 and I came in here to write my word of the year for 2025 post and see that I never wrote a post for 2024.  I'm kinda bummed about that because I love coming back at the end of the year and reading what I wrote at the beginning of the year - then reflecting on how the year played out. I'm not going to try to write something of what I was thinking at the beginning of this year because I'm about to write a post reflecting on the year and looking forward to the next but I felt I needed to have this 2024 post to at least mark the word I had chosen. That word was STRONG. K.  Bye. See you in the next post ...

Hi, I'm Bonnie. This is my journal. ** Let me tell you about my journey ... **  There is a quote that says : "Everyone you meet is fighting a battle  you know nothing about. Be Kind. Always."  That quote has resonated with me since the  first time I heard it ...because  I believe it to be completely true.  Everyone has a battle. (and so many of them secret.)  I'm about to share mine with you.  Let me give you a short introduction to the video below, an introduction in how it pertains to me.  I have Hidradenitis Suppurativa. (HS)   I didn't know it was called that until a handful  of years ago. I always just called it "my bumps" ... and only to my husband because he was  the only other person who knew the extent of it  (until a few years ago). He was ... and is still ... the only person (apart from doctors) who have ever seen it in it's entirety.  Unlike Jackson, who shares so ...

Hello! Welcome to My AIP Table - The Journal. I have been on a journey for a few years ... a journey I will tell you all about in my next post. For now though, I want to share a few of my thoughts and the reason for this blog. Like I said, I have been on a journey.   It's a journey of healing. Healing through diet and lifestyle.  It's not a diet to lose weight.  It's not an on again off again thing. It's a diet to reverse symptoms, find healing and then live in and maintain health. I started in April 2017 and I haven't looked back. I have an instagram account called My AIP Table where I share mostly photos of food. I enjoy that platform but I want to do something a little more for 2020. I want to write an online journal of sorts ... that is what you have stumbled upon here! I want a place where I can write notes about what I am learning.  Notes with links to various websites and blogs and podcasts that I find helpful. ...