| Sometimes I feel crazy |
Today I felt like I was crazy.
Here's why. Because I have hypoglycemia it is really important that I watch what I eat. No sugar, low carbs, and only complex carbs, lots of veggies, not too much fruit. I also need to eat many snacks throughout the day and not eat large meals. If I eat poorly for a couple of days it catches up with me. Today I paid for eating poorly. I am under a lot of stress because of deadlines for my new job. Stress exacerbates my symptoms. The symptoms I experience are - stiff neck and shoulders, headache, coldness, extreme (extreme to me) irritability and irrationality. I felt like these symptoms just attacked me today.
The worst symptom is the irritability and irrationality. I feel like I don't have control over my thoughts - but I do, I just need to try hard I think. Today I quickly left the kitchen while I was making supper - I left and prayed for Jesus to take control. Usually the thoughts that seem out of control are strong negative thoughts about myself because of some minute mistake I've made -- I blow things way out of proportion.
If I eat regularly and properly irrationality and irritability is really reduced, I just need to be consistent. Tonight I had a yogurt, raspberry, orange smoothie. Even though Melanie won't be able to believe it, I enjoyed it so much, it was such a good food choice for me and it tasted great (don't puke okay Mel, I'll never make you drink one). Tomorrow I will try to get on track again.
I'm heading to bed now - 2hrs earlier than usual. I think that will be good for me. It is so interesting to me that the body is totally interconnected. How we eat can even effect our emotions and how we think. I think North Americans are very good at compartmentalizing and not acknowledging interconnectedness.
Just some thoughts.
Aimee
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