Breaking the grazing cycle...
I can relate. I am hungry all the time it seems. I work 11p-7a and that does not help matters. I will graze all day long. When I do that, my grazing pays me back. I have also noted that carbs are no longer my firends. I cant eat rice,bread,any type of noodles or anything that is really dry. My pouch hates me when I forget. I am okay with crackers. I know some of my problem is I am always sleepy. I also know I do not get in enough of protein.
yup i'm a member of the crazing sleepy dumping club.
connie i heard those things were made from the lips and a different part of an animal but what the heck maybe i'm wrong and it was hotdogs.
i noticed that right around the time that sugar was ok to eat sometimes in a very small amount i also developed real and true hunger. no stomach growlings like before but hunger. if i do not eat something someone is gonna get hurt.
my daughter and i go shopping most saturdays. i usually carry some kind of snack in my purse. something that will quickly raise my low blood sugar. like raisins. that gives us a few minutes to get someplace were i can get some protein. there is a nice quick food place on the mall that makes good things. i get a turkey wrap, with lettuce and onions no dressing and throw the wrap away! i use it for a salad bowl. my daughter asked me why didn't i just get the salad? the reason why is that when i buy a salad they charge me more, give me way too much lettus and not enough turkey. this way i get the stuff i want.
anyways when i don't get the quick sugar rush i get cranky. verrrrrrry cranky. and in a daze. like a walking zombie state where i can not make decisions. i've bought some terrible things in that zombie state. things that normal 54 year old women should not be buying. things that i get embarressed taking back even with the receipt! thankfully i've not been in a furniture store when this has happened.
one time i was returning a shirt i'd gotten for my future son in law. it was too small in the shoulders. this young man has very broad shoulders little waist and Oh mamma the arms on this guy! opps maybe i better go find those raisins?
welllllll my daughter and i were in line a very long time. its the holidays. why oh why did we pick that time to return a shirt! i'd lost the recept but all i wanted was an exact change in a different size we'd even picked up the new shirt!
all she had to do was take the shirt do something on the computer and then just put it in another bag. one time at this store i'd had even had them switch the item say here you go without doing anythign on the computer!
but i accept that the computer is the way to go if someone wants to keep their job. i also am usually very good and patient with sales people because i've worked sales been there done that. a patient smile goes along way this time of year.
i got a new girl. no problem.
she wanted to do things by the book. thats good.
she also shoudln't have been left alone at the register just yet. she called another associate who just didn't want to be there. they told me that i'd only be given the sale price because i didn't have my recept. i said not a problem ( i still had my patient smile on) that i wanted to do an exact exchange only in a different size. But then they told me that i'd have to pay the difference because the shirt was no longer on sale!!!!!!
ut oh not good.
we had a discussion about that and i asked that they get a manager. they didn't call her but they did get another sales associate who told me the same thing! this was turning into a nightmare.
no way was i going to pay something more for this shirt. it was an exact change size only the tags were still on it.
no word of a lie we were there for 20 minutes! 4 sales associates later waiting for another one to show up the blood sugar started to lower and i was getting aggravated then i could feel a mega hot flash coming.
WARNING women who are a certain age and get hot flashes if your blood sugar starts to lower and you start getting a hot flash, raisins are not going to help.
my eyes started to glaze i was turning into a red hot sweating mean tomato. i could have kicked the hulks butt.
my daughter knew right away what was happening. she tried to turn and run but there were other disgunted customers waiting in line behind us. she was trapped along with the 5 sales associates in the direct line of fire.
i was no longer the happy patient waiting customer
i had turned into a monster.
when they went to call the next sales associate I started to shake, my eyes were popped out of my head which felt like it was about to explode i was ripping my coat off to escape the massive heat wave and yelled you better make this one a manager! I'm not happy waiting here anylonger for something that should have taken 5 seconds and has developed into the afternoon. hell you better make it the friggin sears president cause i'm shaking and my blood sugar has dropped if we dont get this taken care of immediately after i pick myself up off the floor from passing out i will be calling my lawyer then we can all talk to him!
my daugher handed me a napkin to wipe the drool off my chin and the sweat off my face.
there was complete silence.
they handed me the correct size shirt in a new bag.
so. if anyone finds a way to control this blood sugar thing or the menopause hot flash thing let me know.
well I am printing out the timed thing that was posted that may help me at home@@
I do fine at school all day but any kind of vacation day and I could/would eat the enitre kitchen if I could!
It is really making me crazy.
This vacation has been the worst so far!
I have literally snacked into a slight coma slept for awhile and done the same damn thing...my husband thinks I am getting the flu! LOL
nope just evidently stupid enough to do the same thing over and over and over and over...@@
nic
Thanks for this post, Joy, I think we're far enough out from the surgery that we can all relate to this. The fact is, we CAN graze - 2 years ago, we couldn't. Once we OWN what the problem is, we have a CHANCE to address it. I am fine when I am at work because my time is structured: my day starts with a protein shake; I will have a stalk of celery with peanut butter at about 10:30 a.m., followed by a frozen lunch meal, Lean Cusuine or WW; I'll have an apple for a snack at around 3pm, and in-between, I drink all my requisite water and do a great hour long workout. I feel pretty terrific, healthy, alert, fit. Then I get home and the grazing begins. I can't seem to control it. Nuts, toast with peanut butter, microwave popcorn, more toast, ice cream, cookies, whatever is on hand, I'll graze for hours. It's a miracle I haven't gained weight. I think it's only because I'm balancing the grazing with the healthy, structured eating while at work. My obsession is still food, I use it to sooth raging negative emotions and beating myself up with all kinds of doubts about my self-worth. I have bouts of extreme sugar highs and lows and when the sugar bottoms I can barely think a coherent thought. All I can offer you is that when I'm treating myself well with good eating, exercise, and staying plenty hydrated, I feel great. When I'm hurting myself with food, I feel lousy. No rocket science here, darlin' - I'm in your corner. Reen
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