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I've been having a bad down-cycle the last week, and very bad in the last few days, which means I am likely going to lose some of the produce. Sad! I'm hoping I can stick it through enough to make the yummy leek and mushroom and potato soup I have planned. It doesn't feel acute enough to be an accidental glutening or ingestion of something else I shouldn't eat; it just seems to be a series of bad flareups. I've been needing to sleep a LOT, and I'm generally too exhausted to do things like sit in chairs or stand in the kitchen for more than a few minutes in a row.
Brad has also been feeling under the weather, but it's more likely to be a virus with him. He was stoic on Thursday but stayed home today. It was very nice having him home today though I was not very good at taking care of him; while I fixed his lunch and tea, he also fixed my dinner for me. I'm grateful for all of the lovely batch cooking since it's been seeing us through the week really well.
On the plus side, eating small easy meals in the morning does seem to keep me from crashing right after breakfast. Or first meal at least -- my breakfasts are often after noon because even if I wake up before noon I'm often too tired and nonfunctional to get it together to eat before then. I really need to start prepping breakfast smoothies the day before so I can eat them with no prep. I am however usually crashing after my first real meal. I don't really know how to fix that; it's still a struggle to eat enough calories in the day to maintain my weight and psychologically I need a certain amount of hot food or I don't feel nourished, no matter how nourishing it is. That means food prep; I can't just live on smoothies, even if they seem to be the least likely food to trigger a crash right now.
Brad has also been feeling under the weather, but it's more likely to be a virus with him. He was stoic on Thursday but stayed home today. It was very nice having him home today though I was not very good at taking care of him; while I fixed his lunch and tea, he also fixed my dinner for me. I'm grateful for all of the lovely batch cooking since it's been seeing us through the week really well.
On the plus side, eating small easy meals in the morning does seem to keep me from crashing right after breakfast. Or first meal at least -- my breakfasts are often after noon because even if I wake up before noon I'm often too tired and nonfunctional to get it together to eat before then. I really need to start prepping breakfast smoothies the day before so I can eat them with no prep. I am however usually crashing after my first real meal. I don't really know how to fix that; it's still a struggle to eat enough calories in the day to maintain my weight and psychologically I need a certain amount of hot food or I don't feel nourished, no matter how nourishing it is. That means food prep; I can't just live on smoothies, even if they seem to be the least likely food to trigger a crash right now.