Trying to eat enough
Sep. 2nd, 2012 02:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lliiraContent note: disordered eating, disability, awesome site I found
I happened upon this site a couple weeks ago: (She commented at The Fat Nutritionist, I liked her comment so I clicked her name.) Her site is about eating disorders and a system for recovering from them. This involves eating at least 2500 calories a day if you're a woman, preferably more.
Because of pain, painkillers that negatively impact my appetite, and worry about money, I've been eating far less than usual in the past year. I'm starting to really feel the negative impact of that -- I have more pain and less strength than I did before, and I was starting to become obsessive about food, which I never was before. So I decided to try this system myself, though modified. I'm not terribly strict about it, because I don't have negative feelings around food and eating enough food.
Oh my gosh. All the physical effects she predicts happening in this post are happening to me. (Though my abdominal distress isn't bad.) I'm definitely having water retention, and it's not the week before my period. And I am ravenous. I'm also sleeping a lot less. I thought I was sleeping 12+ hours every night because of my disability and painkillers, but nope! I'm back to 9 hours of sleep most nights now. I was literally sleeping my life away because I wasn't getting enough to eat. Also, my sex drive is recovering to its normal extremely high level, and sex is returning to its normal extremely satisfying level.
To help the money issue, I'm trying to eat calorie-dense foods. Blue cheese dressing on my salad. A good slice of Publix chocolate creme cake, which is not expensive, every day. (The one thing I will miss when I leave Florida is Publix, especially their bakery.) Consciously eating more snacks when dinner is based on beans. My normal mode of eating is to graze all day, and I'm trying to go back to that. It's tough because I have to ask Beroli to get me nearly everything; he doesn't mind, but I feel bad about it. Still, it's working. I'm regaining a lot of my life that I thought I'd lost due to disability, but that I'd actually lost due to simply not eating enough.
I happened upon this site a couple weeks ago: (She commented at The Fat Nutritionist, I liked her comment so I clicked her name.) Her site is about eating disorders and a system for recovering from them. This involves eating at least 2500 calories a day if you're a woman, preferably more.
Because of pain, painkillers that negatively impact my appetite, and worry about money, I've been eating far less than usual in the past year. I'm starting to really feel the negative impact of that -- I have more pain and less strength than I did before, and I was starting to become obsessive about food, which I never was before. So I decided to try this system myself, though modified. I'm not terribly strict about it, because I don't have negative feelings around food and eating enough food.
Oh my gosh. All the physical effects she predicts happening in this post are happening to me. (Though my abdominal distress isn't bad.) I'm definitely having water retention, and it's not the week before my period. And I am ravenous. I'm also sleeping a lot less. I thought I was sleeping 12+ hours every night because of my disability and painkillers, but nope! I'm back to 9 hours of sleep most nights now. I was literally sleeping my life away because I wasn't getting enough to eat. Also, my sex drive is recovering to its normal extremely high level, and sex is returning to its normal extremely satisfying level.
To help the money issue, I'm trying to eat calorie-dense foods. Blue cheese dressing on my salad. A good slice of Publix chocolate creme cake, which is not expensive, every day. (The one thing I will miss when I leave Florida is Publix, especially their bakery.) Consciously eating more snacks when dinner is based on beans. My normal mode of eating is to graze all day, and I'm trying to go back to that. It's tough because I have to ask Beroli to get me nearly everything; he doesn't mind, but I feel bad about it. Still, it's working. I'm regaining a lot of my life that I thought I'd lost due to disability, but that I'd actually lost due to simply not eating enough.
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Date: 2012-09-06 08:00 pm (UTC)