Meera

Jun 19 · Replied

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Thank you Nicola, 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

ok so tiny thing but i actually made eggs this morning instead of just grabbing a coffee and half a biscuit on the way out and i did NOT crash at half 2. like properly did not crash. sat through a whole meeting without counting down the minutes til i could find sugar could be coincidence obv. probably is. but i'm noting it because normally by 3pm i'm basically useless and today i wasn't?? going to try it again tomorrow and see. not calling it a diet or a plan or anything, just... eggs. that's it x

Jun 12 · Replied

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Thank you Julie, 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 12 · Posted

Has anyone actually talked to their GP about the afternoon energy crashes? Like not just tiredness, but that horrible 3pm wall where I feel like my blood sugar has just fallen off a cliff. I've started writing it down because every time I get into the appointment I end up talking about something else and forget to mention it. I've been trying to notice what I eat beforehand and whether it makes a difference but honestly the pattern isn't obvious yet. Wondering if anyone has had bloodwork done for this specifically or if there's something worth asking about. Don't want to go in and just say "I'm tired" because I feel like that gets dismissed so easily x

Jun 10 · Posted

Ok so this is a tiny thing and I am fully aware it might mean nothing but I am writing it down anyway because I never write down the good days. For about three weeks I have been trying to actually eat something proper in the morning before I leave the house. Not a biscuit grabbed on the way out. Not just tea. Something with eggs or yoghurt or whatever I can throw together in ten minutes. I started doing it because someone mentioned the afternoon crash thing in a thread here and I thought yes, that is exactly what is happening to me, every single day around 3pm I feel like I am dissolving. This week I have made it to 4pm three times without that horrible shaky foggy wall. Three times! I know that is not a cure. I know next week might be rubbish again. But I have been so used to just writing off the second half of every working day that I genuinely could not tell you the last time I felt okay at 4pm. I am not saying it is the breakfast. Could be sleep. Could be that work has been slightly less chaotic. Could be the ten minute walk I started doing after dinner most evenings, which I am also noting down because I want to see if there is actually a pattern or if I am just being optimistic. I have been so fed up with being told to eat less and move more as if I have not been trying that for twenty years. This does not feel like a diet. It just feels like... feeding myself properly? Which sounds so basic I am slightly embarrassed to type it. Anyway. Noting it. In case anyone else is in the 3pm crash club x