So my youngest is still at home, husband works late three nights a week, and I've got my mum coming round Sundays. I am absolutely not cooking four different meals and I am not doing sad salads at 58 either, thank you very much. What I've started doing, and this is very unglamorous, is picking three dinners at the start of the week that are high enough in protein that I'm not raiding the biscuit tin at half nine. Lentil soup with a big chunk of cheese on the side. Chicken thighs in the slow cooker because they're cheaper than breast and I honestly think tastier. Eggs and beans on toast which my husband considers a proper meal and costs practically nothing. The family eat it, I eat it, nobody's getting a separate "menopause plate" which I would find deeply depressing. The other thing is I've got a GP appointment coming up and I want to ask about bloodwork, specifically whether there's anything in my results that might explain why my energy is so patchy. I've been postmenopausal for a few years now and assumed I'd feel more settled by this point. I don't. I'm writing down when the crashes happen before I go in so I'm not just saying "I'm tired" and getting sent away with a leaflet. Anyone else taken a food and energy diary into an appointment? Did it actually help? x