Period...ugh.

Ugh.  Nothing stalls weight loss like the week before my period.  I don't sleep well, I toss and turn all night.  I'm cranky.  And this is ME, I'm NEVER cranky.  I feel wicked bloated and I'm gaining water weight in my sleep.  UGH!  I wi**** would just START already and I could get back to feeling like myself again. I actually work up yesterday thinking "Man, I'd like to have some blueberry crisp for breakfast" and I haven't had a sweets desire since surgery!  That was the first time!  Stupid period.   On the up side, I'm sitting here eating a graham cracker with reduced fat peanut butter (yes, Jaquie OK'ed it)  and I don't have enough room for even just one graham cracker with 1tbsp peanut butter.  I ate half.  And I'm STUFFED.  So that's pretty cool. Why did the NUT recommend the occasional graham cracker and reduced fat peanut butter snack?  Cause I've been running enough to sometimes get mild dizzy spells, most likely low blood sugar.  I guess when you don't really eat ANY sugar (I haven't even tried fruit yet) and you run 2-1/2 miles, you get low blood sugar.  So she said a light snack of something that is carby and protein, not JUST protein like I was doing, on days I run.   Smart lady. Well, I'm feeding the rest to the dog and  going to bed.  Goodnight all, hopefully I'll be back to being my usual self instead of PMS Umber soon. I know my kids hope so!!!

Have you tried eggface's blog?  She has some incredible WLS recipes---she recently had a cherry cobbler of sorts, I bet you could substitute blueberry!  LOL.  As far as the grahm cracker---I know everyone says listen to the dietician but I would be concerned (not right out) that it really is a slider food and I would try to find something more complex than that.  JMHO.  In the short term they are not an issue I am sure.

Anything complex will just sit there, and make me feel sick when I run.  So I need a quick little carby protein to slide out of my stomach quick but give me that little bit of glucose stores so I can run without dizzy spells from the blood sugar dip.   I wouldn't eat it as a real meal or snack, just pre-run fuel.  I think I'll try applesauce for that, too.  No protein, but as a slider carb it should give me that touch of glucose and them get out of the way pretty well.   I haven't tried eggface's blog yet.  I'm not really able to fit in anything more than my protein as this point.  The NUT said once I get my required protein I'm allowed to go on to trying some cooked veggies or some fruit.  But so far, it never happends.  I can just barely get in my protein and then I'm just way too FULL.  I guess it just takes time.  But right now eating cobbler means displacing a protein meal - which is why I really shouldn't have gone there.  Hormones make you crazy, I guess.