Cynthia

Jun 18 · Replied

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Thank you Joan, and everyone who replied. This is exactly why I posted. Reading these has made me feel much less ridiculous, and I am adding a few notes before my next appointment.

Jun 18 · Posted

Does anyone else just completely fall off a cliff around three in the afternoon? I'm not being dramatic, it's like someone pulls a plug. I've started noticing it more lately and I'm trying to work out if it's what I ate at lunch or just... this age, this stage, who knows. I used to have a biscuit and a coffee and push through. That doesn't seem to work anymore. I'm writing down what I eat on the days it's worse to see if there's a pattern. Nothing conclusive yet but it's keeping me from just blaming everything on menopause and moving on. If anyone's noticed something similar and changed something small, I'd love to hear it. Not looking for a whole new lifestyle, just curious what others have tried. x

Jun 18 · Posted

I want to write this down while I still remember it because I usually only notice the bad days. This week I did three evening walks. Not long ones, maybe fifteen minutes each, just round the block after dinner before I sat back down in front of the television. I wasn't expecting anything from it. I'd read something here a while back, someone mentioned it helped with the post-dinner slump, and I thought fine, it's free, I'll try it. And the evenings were just... calmer. I don't want to make big claims because I've been here before where I think I've cracked something and then Thursday happens and it all falls apart. But I slept a bit better on two of the nights and I didn't have that wired-tired thing where I'm exhausted but my brain won't stop. I'm writing it down here so I can look back at it when I inevitably forget. The other thing I did was actually cook a proper dinner on Sunday and portion some of it out for two other nights. Nothing fancy, just a traybake with chicken and whatever vegetables needed using up. It meant on Tuesday when I got in late from visiting my mum I didn't just stand in the kitchen eating crackers over the sink, which is what normally happens. I'm 58 and I've spent a lot of years either dieting properly or not at all and I'm so tired of both of those things. I'm not trying to lose weight this time, I'm just trying to feel less like I'm running on empty by Wednesday. These two small things didn't fix anything but they made the week slightly more manageable and that feels worth noting. That's all really. Just wanted to say it somewhere x