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Maybe that's the problem...
Feb. 15th, 2006 11:03 pmToday is the first day in aaages that I haven't felt completely wiped at 4pm.
Usually I get to 4 o'clock and I'm looking at the clock, wishing it was 5pm and I could go home from work. Frequently, lately, I've just gone home and felt awful for the rest of the evening.
Today, I was feeling just like I always do in the arvos - crap, but I asked![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mr_bassman to bring me a peanut butter and jam sandwich at 3.30 and I ate it at 4pm and then I felt amazing and awake and I worked happily until 5.45pm!!!
Don't get me wrong, I've been eating afternoon tea, but I've generally had a tin of tuna or some almonds or a banana. Not the solid goodness, bulk and sweetness of a peanut butter and jam sandwich on wholemeal bread - with a supplementary cup of hot Ovaltine. I didn't think I was particularly hungry either, just feeling crap.
Maybe I haven't been maintaining my blood sugar and that's why I've been waking so badly in the mornings and feeling so crap in the arvo's.
Anyway, do you think I'm eating enough? I'm breastfeeding and cycling for a total of 40minutes a day (not at the same time,splodgenoodles and any others in the chorus) This is what I generally eat each work day;
Breakfast - bowl of porridge with too much brown sugar and milk
Morning tea, lunch and arvo tea (what I take to work and eat when I feel like it, often by about 2pm) - 4 slices of bread, almonds, sandwich filling (often peanut butter or, lately, cold meat), a piece of fruit or a tin of tuna, multiple cups of Ovaltine.
Dinner - carbs and sauce or meat and three veg.
I feel a bit weird eating 6 slices of bread during the day- like I'm gluttoning or something, but it certainly went down well today and is in keeping with my philosophy of never being hungry.
BTW I think I've got a weight loss issue thing going. I'm really pleased I lost all that weight last year, I love the fact that I didn't put on any weight while I was pregnant (yes, losing weight because you're too ill to eat sucks, but it is effective). I have recently thought that by keeping my food intake at work down to the same as it was before I got pregnant I could lose some more weight, which would be great. Before I got pregnant I was maintaining my weight but not losing any, I figured the extra metabolic load of the breastfeeding would do the rest.
ANYWAY, I'm taking an extra sandwich worth of food to work tomorrow and we'll see.
Usually I get to 4 o'clock and I'm looking at the clock, wishing it was 5pm and I could go home from work. Frequently, lately, I've just gone home and felt awful for the rest of the evening.
Today, I was feeling just like I always do in the arvos - crap, but I asked
mr_bassman to bring me a peanut butter and jam sandwich at 3.30 and I ate it at 4pm and then I felt amazing and awake and I worked happily until 5.45pm!!!Don't get me wrong, I've been eating afternoon tea, but I've generally had a tin of tuna or some almonds or a banana. Not the solid goodness, bulk and sweetness of a peanut butter and jam sandwich on wholemeal bread - with a supplementary cup of hot Ovaltine. I didn't think I was particularly hungry either, just feeling crap.
Maybe I haven't been maintaining my blood sugar and that's why I've been waking so badly in the mornings and feeling so crap in the arvo's.
Anyway, do you think I'm eating enough? I'm breastfeeding and cycling for a total of 40minutes a day (not at the same time,
splodgenoodles and any others in the chorus) This is what I generally eat each work day;Breakfast - bowl of porridge with too much brown sugar and milk
Morning tea, lunch and arvo tea (what I take to work and eat when I feel like it, often by about 2pm) - 4 slices of bread, almonds, sandwich filling (often peanut butter or, lately, cold meat), a piece of fruit or a tin of tuna, multiple cups of Ovaltine.
Dinner - carbs and sauce or meat and three veg.
I feel a bit weird eating 6 slices of bread during the day- like I'm gluttoning or something, but it certainly went down well today and is in keeping with my philosophy of never being hungry.
BTW I think I've got a weight loss issue thing going. I'm really pleased I lost all that weight last year, I love the fact that I didn't put on any weight while I was pregnant (yes, losing weight because you're too ill to eat sucks, but it is effective). I have recently thought that by keeping my food intake at work down to the same as it was before I got pregnant I could lose some more weight, which would be great. Before I got pregnant I was maintaining my weight but not losing any, I figured the extra metabolic load of the breastfeeding would do the rest.
ANYWAY, I'm taking an extra sandwich worth of food to work tomorrow and we'll see.
