I do not understand

[miss_lucy21]

Why this week is so damn hard.

Okay, it makes sense as to why Monday sucked. Almost passing out and then working a full day and then tutoring was perhaps a good reason for the day to suck.

But everything else this week? No sense. Yes, there have been some annoying things- I tweaked my back, but not badly and it's pretty much fixed itself. One of my teeth is extremely sore and sensitive for some reason, but it's been like that for a couple weeks. People at work are doing things that are annoying, but that's not news. It's cold, but yeah, January in Ohio, and it's nowhere near as bad as last week. Seriously, there is nothing obvious to explain why I want to just hide in bed.

Vitamin deficiency, maybe? Lack of sunlight? I have no idea.

Comments

[ernads]

Just a bit of advice, if I may - since I have used this link to my benefit: (http://cronometer.com/)

If it's indeed vitamin deficiency as you suggested, you may want to use this program and log in everything you eat - every bite. It’s a bit of a work, but the Cron is highly accurate, and it will show where you stand on vitamin, calories, minerals, and everything. You need to create a password and user name, and use the Profile page to update your targets. Also, if you prefer to just see how much vitamins the various foods contain, you can search them up and it will give you full info on how much crabs, protein, fat and vitamin they contain.

Good luck, and I hope you will rest up in the weekend and feel better:)

[miss_lucy21]

Yeah, that would probably be a good idea. I just need to come up with the spoons to deal with it. I have anorexic tendencies, although I can't be diagnosed (I didn't meet the weight criteria, although I met most of the others), and most of the time I'm fine now anyway. But tracking food can hit my buttons hard, so it can be a challenge. It's good advice, though, thank you.

I'm intending to not do very much this weekend, and it's a federal holiday on Monday, so I'll be off work, and that should help, too.

[ernads]

yes, I have to fight to find my own spoons as well - but it helps me find holes and plan my food, and most of the time I think it's worthwhile.

I am far from being an expert on Cron - Hagar taught me everything I know and I am working on it since - but Cron contains a wealth of data about food nutrition’s.

one thing that's annoying to do the first time but can really save time long run is creating recipes - if you tend to eat some things often and repeatedly. And then, instead of, say, adding “rice+chicken breast+catshop” you add the recipe and that’s all.

Here is for a better week:)

[hagar_972]

Cron is about as painless as those things come. It also has a good database. (For adding things, I'd recommend using New Recipe and not New Food.) It also allows for OpenID; I use my G account for it.

I'd also recommend to not worry about anything not lower than 80%; but if you go below that on anything there may well be an issue. (I distrust blood screens as means to identify nutritional lacunas, since my experience is that symptoms start looooong before blood screens will show anything.) Oh also vit.E is always obnoxiously low (as in, it's a good week when I make 50%), so don't worry about it.

For fat:carb:protein breakdown, unless you have reason to prefer anything else I'd recommend 60:20:20 for starters. Most calories should come from carbs, and there's no reason to go above 20% from fat. (And making it to 20% is surprisingly easy.)

[ernads]

yeah, I have no problem making it to 20% on fat - I have the opposite problem, actually. (currently I am at 24% calories from fat and 22% is the lowest I ever got.

Also, if you do not find a food item, you can add it - I have to add a good bit of foods items. You go to the Food tag, choose Create new food, and update all the information you have on it. After you save it and add it to the data base.

Also, if you wish to keep the calories target, it’s important to add physical activity you do – anything above 10 minutes counts.