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miss_lucy21*looks at fact that I've woken up hungry in the middle of the night four nights out of the last six*
*tries to remember eating dinner at any point in the last week*
*realizes that lunch being mostly vegetables means mostly not calories*
Oh. Right. My body needs food to function. And it probably needs a bit more food when I'm super stressed at work because my brain is working harder to function.
I had been trying to start focusing on quality of food and apparently when I did that, I didn't put enough thought into quantity. Because I am an idiot who was depending on hunger signals while on an increased dose of a medication that has a side effect of disrupting those signals. Why in the fucking hell do I keep fucking this up? (Don't answer that. I know why I keep fucking this up. It's the difference between what I think I ought to be able to do and what I actually can do. At some point, I need to figure out how to not do that. That might require actual therapy though and that's a minefield I really don't have the spoons to travel right now).
Okay. Back to quantity. I gained about 10 pounds this winter because homicidal weather and surgery. I don't particularly care about the weight, but if I'm gonna be calculating calorie needs, I have to take that into account. I'm seeing BMR numbers at roughly 2000 kcal, which means that my actual calorie intake has to be closer to, mmm, 2300-2400.
I can probably get there if I eat actual dinner. Like, with meat or some other calorically dense protein source that is not an egg. This means actually planning for dinner and having options that don't require a whole lot of effort out of me, because when I get home, I am done. I pretty much want a shower, house clothes and to sit on the couch in front of the television with my laptop until it is a reasonable time to get ready for bed. Which leads to dinner being an afterthought at best.
So, once again, it comes down to pre-planning. And probably gathering some energy to do some of the work during the week, because I'm already completely tired of spending most of my weekends getting ready for the week.
*tries to remember eating dinner at any point in the last week*
*realizes that lunch being mostly vegetables means mostly not calories*
Oh. Right. My body needs food to function. And it probably needs a bit more food when I'm super stressed at work because my brain is working harder to function.
I had been trying to start focusing on quality of food and apparently when I did that, I didn't put enough thought into quantity. Because I am an idiot who was depending on hunger signals while on an increased dose of a medication that has a side effect of disrupting those signals. Why in the fucking hell do I keep fucking this up? (Don't answer that. I know why I keep fucking this up. It's the difference between what I think I ought to be able to do and what I actually can do. At some point, I need to figure out how to not do that. That might require actual therapy though and that's a minefield I really don't have the spoons to travel right now).
Okay. Back to quantity. I gained about 10 pounds this winter because homicidal weather and surgery. I don't particularly care about the weight, but if I'm gonna be calculating calorie needs, I have to take that into account. I'm seeing BMR numbers at roughly 2000 kcal, which means that my actual calorie intake has to be closer to, mmm, 2300-2400.
I can probably get there if I eat actual dinner. Like, with meat or some other calorically dense protein source that is not an egg. This means actually planning for dinner and having options that don't require a whole lot of effort out of me, because when I get home, I am done. I pretty much want a shower, house clothes and to sit on the couch in front of the television with my laptop until it is a reasonable time to get ready for bed. Which leads to dinner being an afterthought at best.
So, once again, it comes down to pre-planning. And probably gathering some energy to do some of the work during the week, because I'm already completely tired of spending most of my weekends getting ready for the week.
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Date: 2015-05-24 09:29 am (UTC)For something cold, locate black lentils. (They only need a 20min soak before cooking, and they cook quickly.) 1 cup lentils, 3 tbs oil, 2 tbs lemon juice, onion to taste.
Alt.: fine some sort of Balkan yoghurt (Greek, Turkish, Kfir, etc.). Add thinly sliced cucumber, green herbs of choice and a bit of ice/oil/both if you wanna.
Burgul is also dead easy to cook (you cook it exactly like rice), and good when cold/room temp. You can add that to your salads for calories - being soaks in the veggies will only do it good. You want the gross burugl, the fine burgul is for coating kube and the like.
Or, an Israeli favorite: cottage cheese and honey. Yes really. It'll also work with your cream cheese of choice.
Also, choco milk. Particularly for work hours - if you're like me, then your body will like its on-the-job calories very, very accessible. If you do it homemade you can control how much sugar goes in it (use simple syrup or agave_, and if you have a fridge at work just stick a bottle in there and drink a small cup (or half a cup) every 2hr or so.
And: if you like and can get watermelon, watermelon wedges and feta or (preferably) Balkan cheese (similar texture, slightly less fatty, way saltier) - anywhere around the Med lives off this in summer.
Homemade natural juice popsicles. Or: how to get 150kcal in dead easy.
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Date: 2015-05-24 07:13 pm (UTC)My near-version is jam and cottage. A childhood favorite of mine