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🎃🍁🍃🍂🌾🌻 I love this time of year but it does not love me. Like a lot of people in this part of the country I have seasonal affective disorder. 🎃🍁🍃🍂🌾🌻 As the light changes and the days grow shorter, it messes with one's mood, perceptions of self and others, and really kicks a person's self-esteem In the butt! I can feel it creeping up on me with feelings of worthlessness and inadequacy. My head knows these thoughts are irrational and triggered by season, memory and low mood, 🎃🍁🍃🍂🌾🌻 ... but the brain chemistry is out of whack! So comes a period of "acting as if." What does this mean? It means an expanse of time during which I have to take extra good care of myself. I need to do the things that nourish my soul, as if my thoughts and feelings were not running amok. I also need to let my doctor know, just in case I need some medication until the seasonal blah-blah-blah of my negative thinking passes by into a sweeter, calmer me.🎃🍁🍃🍂🌾🌻 Oh by the way I use emogis to give others a smile, and cheer myself up along the way. Why am I writing about my old, crappy autumnal nemesis? Because I know I am not alone. Before I retired, I was in the counseling business -- for a lot of years -- a lot of people going through the same thing and feeling alone, unable to put into word what's going on inside. Therefore, I'm sayiing it for them, and for me: hang in there. This too shall pass and above all you are not alone. PS: At times like this it may be hard to focus on sticking to a food plan. All we can do is do the best we can, and save the "beating ourselves up" for a time when we are not so vulnerable. God bless and be with you 🎃🍁🍃🍂🌾🌻😎
Diet Calendar Entry for 24 September 2017:
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2209 kcal
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Fat: 123.22g | Prot: 63.11g | Carb: 294.81g.
Breakfast: Butter, Dannon Oikos Triple Zero - Strawberry, Ghirardelli 60% Cacao Dark Chocolate Squares, Butter (Salted), Dave's Killer Bread 21 Whole Grains Bread, Giant Food Bananas (Large), White Rice (Long-Grain, Cooked), Berries, Central Market Ground Flax Seed, Coffee with Cream and Sugar. Lunch: Xagave Agave Nectar, Herbal Tea, Bruegger's Garden Veggie Cream Cheese, Nabisco Good Thins Veggie Blend. Dinner: Toasted Raisin Bread, Fried Egg, Waffle House Grits, Waffle House Hashbrowns. Snacks/Other: Campfire Giant Roasters Marshmallows. more...
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