12 Jun
Family dinners are killing me softly, honestly. I've got a husband who wants proper meals, a seventeen-year-old who eats everything in sight, and me trying to quietly sneak more protein in without turning every evening into a nutrition lecture nobody asked for. What I've landed on this week is just... making sure whatever I cook has something substantial in it. Chicken thighs, eggs in things, chickpeas bulking out the sauce. Nobody notices, I don't have to cook separately, and I don't feel like I've eaten a bowl of air by nine o'clock. The other thing, and this feels almost too simple, is I've started walking round the block after we eat. Ten minutes, sometimes twelve if I'm not freezing. Started because someone mentioned it on here and I thought why not. I don't know if it's doing anything enormous but I feel less like I want to immediately fall asleep on the sofa, which used to be my whole evening. The energy crashes are still there though. Mid-afternoon I basically become a different, worse person. I want to ask my GP about it properly, not just get told to sleep more and stress less (been there). Wondering if there's bloodwork worth pushing for. Anyone had useful conversations with their doctor about that kind of thing? x