7 Jun
Family dinners are doing my head in a bit at the moment. My husband wants pasta, my daughter wants "something quick", my son eats approximately four foods, and I'm sat there thinking I genuinely need more protein or I'm going to fall asleep at my desk by 2pm again. So I've started quietly adding things. Chicken thighs instead of mince in the bolognese. A big pot of lentil soup that I pretend is just soup but actually has enough in it to keep me upright until morning. Nobody has noticed. Nobody has complained. I'm calling that a win. The afternoon crashes are the thing I want to talk to my GP about because they've got worse this year and I can't tell if it's food or sleep or hormones or just being 55. Probably all four. But I'm keeping a rough note of when they hit and what I'd eaten beforehand, just so I've got something to show her that isn't me going in and saying "I'm just tired all the time" and getting sent away with nothing. The other thing that's helping, or I think it's helping, is a short walk after dinner. Not a proper march, just round the block, ten minutes, sometimes less. My husband started coming with me which I didn't expect and now it's become a thing. Possibly the nicest part of the day actually. x