check in for Tuesday, August 30, 2011

[panda]

How is everyone doing? How's the eating going today? Eaten anything new and interesting (for whatever value of "interesting")?

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Commenting and encouraging people is always welcome (unless someone states otherwise, of course).

Comments

[claire_chan]

I still have trouble eating - the pro tip that eating nothing gives you stomachaches helps me convince myself to finish whatever it is now and that food just might be a good thing - I have a three quarters eaten granola bar next to me. Step 2 will be remembering that taking smaller bites helps.

It should get better though because I'm just waiting for a bus home!
The most stressful parts of my day are over. ^^
(I had an 8am Comp Sci class, then I was coerced to munch something before horseback riding, then I nibbled on something miniscule to help the thinking for my next class, Biblical Greek, then I spoke with the head of my major department, who is a very scary man!
I totally forgot I wanted to minor in the Classics and that I wanted to make my Bassoon lesson a 3 credit endeavour. D: So that'll be probably tomorrow... u_u if I ever manage to make myself brave!
I just learned that brave and barbaric stem from the same word!)

[panda]

For a while I was on a drug that suppressed my appetite, so the way I could tell if I needed to eat was when my stomach started hurting! It would have been better if I set a timer and just ate at regular intervals though, because when your stomach already hurts, then it's hard to force yourself to eat.

Is it okay if I give you some other suggestions? It sounds like you have some very busy stressful days where good nutrition would be very important.

[claire_chan]

I read that tea suppressed appetite - I finished that cup and have been rather hesitant to brew more since.

You certainly may! Life just keeps coming at me @_@

[panda]

I doubt that's true? Otherwise dieters would all be guzzling tea constantly. Plus I drink a lot of tea and I still get hungry. But that's just my personal experience and obviously I'm not a nutrition expert.

In terms of suggestion:

1. you're a uni student, right? Does your uni's student health service offer dietitians that students can see? When I was having my problems with no appetite, I went and saw one of the free dietitians from the uni, and we sat down and made a list of easy foods I had the ingredients to make. It was helpful to have that list written down, because often when I wasn't hungry but needed to eat, I just wouldn't be able to think of anything. It helps if you can take the dietitian a sheet that says "this is what I have been eating every day for the past week" so that they can get an idea of where you are at, nutritionally.

2. It seems you already know it's important to eat to help your brain function, but this site goes into detail about the science of it, and how eating the right things can actually help your memory. It's a long page, but at the end they have a list of foods with their glycemic index value- low GI foods are better because they don't spike your blood sugar as much, which means less of a crash. Things like dried apricots are easy to take with you to class to munch on- assuming you like apricots, of course.

I also don't know if this has been your personal experience or not, but when I eat enough, I feel better, mood-wise. I feel more like I'm capable of doing things, instead of "bleh, but I dun wanna :("

[claire_chan]

Tea is a diueretic, one of which's adverse affects across the hypercalcemia column is anorexia.
*shrug* I'm not a nutrition expert either - the closest I've got is that a former oboist colleague in my studio has changed majors from Oboe Performance to Nutrition.

Perhaps I could see about conversing with a free uni dietitian! Next Wednesday is a Student Involvement Fair...

Thank you for the Franklin Institute link!! *munches dried apricots*

I eat whatever I can whenever I can, so a strict list of what I've had recently would be difficult to construct. @_@ It's a good idea, though!

Thank you for your help ^_^

[panda]

I had a sandwich on GF bread with shredded beef and tomato for breakfast.

For lunch I experimented with making a rice noodle soup thing. It didn't turn out well, but oh well, that happens when you experiment X3

[tassosss]

But at least your experimenting! That's a good place to be, I think.

[erika]

I ate breakfast! I ate lunch!

Holy shit, y'all, she's going for the triple crown!

[tassosss]

Awesome!

[tassosss]

Another three!
Cereal again for breakfast.
Then a big lunch with beans and salad and noodles and a banana.
Snack was a pbj, and dinner frozen pizza at a friend's with carrots and celery sticks.

I did well on veggies today.

Day 5

[ex_daily276]

Breakfast: Special K w/2% milk, juice
Lunch: Tater tots, chicken burrito
Dinner: Lean Cuisine TV dinner
Snack: Popcorn, Hostess Twinkies(On the plus side, I took care of the baked sweets craving without baking and keeping around a large tempting batch of cookies or cupcakes.)

[all_adream]

Eh, I find that I eat almost nothing lately too, due to stress or being busy or whatever. Maybe it's going around in some ways.