Lifestyle

Can Exercise Improve Life with Lipedema? Inside Norway’s LipidEx Research Programme
A closer look at Norway’s LipidEx research programme and what it may teach us about pain, physical capacity, quality of life and the role of exercise in…
 • CarinaW
What to Read First If You’re Curious About Food, Nutrition, and Lipedema
A guide to food, nutrition, inflammation, insulin, and lipedema symptoms through science and lived experience.
 • CarinaW
When My Legs Became Two Balloons
The swelling, stress, and strange tissue biology behind one of my worst lipedema years (2018).
 • CarinaW
Anti-Inflammatory Food Is Not One Recipe. Especially Not for Lipedema.
Why the lipedema nutrition conversation needs more nuance than a list of “good” and “bad” foods.
 • CarinaW
Why Weight Control Matters in Lipedema
Lipedema is not caused by weight. But after fourteen years of living with painful, fibrotic tissue, I have learned that weight control can still be one…
 • CarinaW
When Food Becomes a Religion
The longer I studied nutrition, the less I believed in one perfect way to eat. Food is polarizing, but the human body is more complex than ideology…
 • CarinaW
Insulin Resistance, Diabetes and Lipedema
How insulin signaling, insulin resistance and blood sugar regulation may help us understand one important metabolic layer of lipedema.
 • CarinaW
Why Sugar Hurt My Lipedema Tissue Before Surgery
A personal reflection on acute swelling, pain, and why the reaction changed after liposuction.
 • CarinaW
I’m a Food Scientist With Lipedema. This Is My 80 Percent.
Not a perfect diet, not a strict plan, but the everyday ingredients I rely on to nourish my body with healthy fats, fibre, protein and colour.
 • CarinaW
Leaving Spain With Stronger Shoulders and Softer Thoughts
A little farewell to La Manga, fitness routines, taco Fridays, golf lessons, body confidence, lipedema waves and the strange feeling of slowly coming…
 • CarinaW
My Personal Story of Travelling Through Lipedema Surgery Recovery
A personal reflection on compression garments, swelling, food, fear, flights, beautiful places, and learning how to keep living while my body was still…
 • CarinaW
Living Through Lipedema Instead of Waiting for Life to Begin
A personal reflection on surgery, complications, recovery, travel, identity, and the decision to continue living fully even when the body feels heavy…
 • CarinaW
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