Food, eating patterns and medicine day 13
Mar. 9th, 2012 09:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dryadgrlToday is day 13 on thyroid meds.
Today I forgot to take my morning meds, went out to run errands and get life things done. And was in bed crashed out by 6:30pm because I'm exhausted.
I forget that in healing I need downtime, I must have rest, I absolutely have to eat regularly and drink lots of water. My guess is that I didn't eat enough this morning and between that and the skipping a dose of medications and I was out cold for a few hours.
I have to eat protein for breakfast. There's no longer any way around it. This morning I made smoothies with the other few pints of strawberries for the teens and had one myself. Apparently that's a bad idea. I was hungry by 10:30am when I had to leave the house. But I didn't eat again until 1pm. That means by the time I ate, I was crashed out. That could also contribute to exhaustion.
Today I didn't feel grumpy even though I didn't eat enough or often enough. I do notice a big difference between eating carbs of any kind and eating protein. My heater has said to eat meat at every meal but some how I don't believe her. But it seems to be true that if I don't get enough protein, my brain doesn't work, my mood is wonky and I'm exhausted.
I wonder if that's going to be the same forever - meat is really resource heavy. But if it's way I need, then I need it and am trying to commit to doing what works. I don't seem to buy enough meat and maybe I should figure out a way to get my head around having lots of meat and protein in the house so that I can eat it. I'm currently mostly off dairy because I've been so congested so dairy is not my protein right now. I can't do soy, at least not processed soy and other proteins (rice and beans) don't seem to be heavy enough. (That's a weird way of putting it, but carbs make me feel floaty and meat makes me feel grounded and I don't (yet?) have any other words for that.
Today I forgot to take my morning meds, went out to run errands and get life things done. And was in bed crashed out by 6:30pm because I'm exhausted.
I forget that in healing I need downtime, I must have rest, I absolutely have to eat regularly and drink lots of water. My guess is that I didn't eat enough this morning and between that and the skipping a dose of medications and I was out cold for a few hours.
I have to eat protein for breakfast. There's no longer any way around it. This morning I made smoothies with the other few pints of strawberries for the teens and had one myself. Apparently that's a bad idea. I was hungry by 10:30am when I had to leave the house. But I didn't eat again until 1pm. That means by the time I ate, I was crashed out. That could also contribute to exhaustion.
Today I didn't feel grumpy even though I didn't eat enough or often enough. I do notice a big difference between eating carbs of any kind and eating protein. My heater has said to eat meat at every meal but some how I don't believe her. But it seems to be true that if I don't get enough protein, my brain doesn't work, my mood is wonky and I'm exhausted.
I wonder if that's going to be the same forever - meat is really resource heavy. But if it's way I need, then I need it and am trying to commit to doing what works. I don't seem to buy enough meat and maybe I should figure out a way to get my head around having lots of meat and protein in the house so that I can eat it. I'm currently mostly off dairy because I've been so congested so dairy is not my protein right now. I can't do soy, at least not processed soy and other proteins (rice and beans) don't seem to be heavy enough. (That's a weird way of putting it, but carbs make me feel floaty and meat makes me feel grounded and I don't (yet?) have any other words for that.
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Date: 2012-03-10 10:53 am (UTC)That said, I notice you didn't mention eggs! A pretty decent protein source, and not an unexpected breakfast food. A bit more sustainable than meat, too. Not suggesting an every-meal thing, but might be a useful tool.
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Date: 2012-03-10 05:32 pm (UTC)Yes, eggs = good. And I probably didn't mention eggs because I eat the nearly every morning. It's one of the few things I feel like cooks fast enough to be worthwhile cooking when I'm doing that morning, "Hungry!!...brains" zombie morning thing. This morning I had them with a little bit of cheese and nutritional yeast, the day before yesterday I had them over medium.
Yesterday there were 4 pints of strawberries and I thought a fun way to use them up would be smoothies - for breakfast. Maybe, but not in place of protein. Hopefully that's lesson learned.
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Date: 2012-03-10 01:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-03-10 05:36 pm (UTC)I need things that cook relatively quickly or where the whole of the process doesn't take too long - those are the things i use most often. I love stir frys, but I'd also love some advice on easily integrating meat into food with a focus on veggies and meat cooking.
I'm allergic to nightshades, so no tomatoes, potatoes, peppers, or eggplant for me (and I'm totally ok with that). And for the win right now I have rainbow chard, leeks, onions, avocados, cucumbers and broccoli as well as lamb meat for stewing, in the house. So anything easy involving that, I'm up for right now!
And, I'll take what I can get in terms of help with this. I'm available for this experiment right now!
(Also it's great to hear from you and I hope that you're super well!)
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Date: 2012-03-11 01:46 am (UTC)Anyhow. Cooking - An stew will involve sliced onions cooked in oil, coated with flour, then add in some broth, meat, and root vegetables (I like turnip, parsnip, carrot and daikon, but you might also throw in that chard for the last 10 minutes) and possibly the leeks as well.
What I'd really suggest is getting a crockpot and a crockpot cookbook, because you'll be able to cut things up , throw them in the pot, and just leave them either overnight or during the day while you're out, and you'll have food when it's done.
These are some of out recipes. You can substitute turnip or other root veg for potato
http://rosefox.livejournal.com/1264944.html
http://rosefox.livejournal.com/1720922.html
http://rosefox.livejournal.com/1431860.html
If you trust yourself, you can also mod them for a crockpot
Cooks illustrated online is also awesome, and about $40/year. Totally worth the subscription.
Feel free to ask me any questions that you think up, no matter what they are.