My youngest is back home for a few months and suddenly I'm cooking for three again. Which I actually love, but it means I've completely lost the grip I'd started to get on eating enough protein. When it was just me I'd do eggs or sardines on toast and that was fine. Now there's a teenager-sized man-child wanting pasta four nights a week and I'm trying not to just give up and eat whatever's easiest. Anyone else navigating this? I don't want to make separate meals, that's not happening on a budget. So I've been trying to think about how to add protein into things we'd eat anyway. Lentils in the bolognese. Chicken thighs instead of mince sometimes (thighs are cheaper than people think). A big pot of something on Sunday that stretches. The weight thing is what I want to talk to my GP about, actually. I've put on about a stone over the past two years and I genuinely cannot tell if it's the postmenopause, the fact I stopped being active for a while, or just... being 59. I've written down roughly when it started because I kept reading that timeline matters when you're trying to talk to a doctor about it. The one thing that has genuinely shifted my mood a bit is walking after dinner. Even just ten minutes round the block. I started doing it because I read it might help with blood sugar and honestly I don't know if it does, but I come back feeling less sluggish and I sleep slightly better. That's enough for me to keep doing it. Not asking for anything specific, just nice to write it down somewhere people might actually get it x