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Type 2 Contingency food

woollygal

woollygal

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So I think I have my day to day diet pretty well sorted. Not perfect but it works.

But I worked late last night and didn’t get home till 9.45. Got to bed by 10.30 but had lousy nights sleep, long story short woke up at 1 and didn’t get back to sleep till 2.30 ish and back awake at 5.

Today has been a slog. Felt lousy all day and my food felt all wrong. Didn’t seem to have the right kick of energy.

Having said that I’m not sure if it was a problem or if it was my brain playing dirty tricks and trying to make me eat naughty stuff. I didn’t btw.

But where usually what I ate would be good today it just didn’t feel right, I needed more energy.

So my thought is I need a plan for when I have days like this. Can’t use sweets and Diet Coke is I need a new coping strategy. They don’t happen as often but I will have days like this and I need to deal with them safely.

Any ideas of what I can include in my contingency plan to give my body more energy when it feels like it needs it?
 
Fat bombs?
 
Diakat said:
Fat bombs?
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I made some of those st the start but they have to be kept frozen or they just collapsed and melted. So I can’t have them in car as they won’t survive all day
 
I have squares of cheese and slices of cucumber and some little gen lettuces always available in my fridge for emergency snacking or when i am too tired to make anything to eat.
 
lucylocket61 said:
I have squares of cheese and slices of cucumber and some little gen lettuces always available in my fridge for emergency snacking or when i am too tired to make anything to eat.
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It wasn’t that I did t have anything. I did. I had everything I usually have. It just didn’t hit the spot today.

Plus I’m a driving instructor so I need to have things available in the car.

Today was ridiculously hard and I don’t know how I got through the day.
 
Glass of double cream in the morning with cocoa sprinkles on top. Tastes lush and will keep you going from dawn ‘til dusk and beyond.
 
Tbh if I’m feeling like that through lack of sleep (as was the cause of your blah feeling no?) then food never has revived me or solved the problem be it the rubbish I’d eat before or low carb stuff now. Sleep is the problem and the solution not food for me on days like this. If food does work for you though I’d find the highest fat thing I could keep in the car in a cool box with extra ice packs if need be. Cream, cheese, cold bacon strips etc.
 
Dark chocolate (85%), cubes of cheese, cherry tomatoes, celery with cream cheese, jar of almond butter with a spoon, Nine Bars (fairly low carb nut bar) @Brunneria pointed me towards these. Flask of coffee with cream.

Sometimes just a long drink of sparkling mineral water helps when I get the munchies.
 
Cana said:
I made some of those st the start but they have to be kept frozen or they just collapsed and melted. So I can’t have them in car as they won’t survive all day
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Pre cooked bacon? Waitrose and M&S do packs of crispy streaky bacon .. great snacks on the go.
 
Low carb cake? Make one, slice and freeze so it’s not a temptation. Ona bad day take a slice with you, thaws in car, eat as afternoon boost?
 
Cheese, nuts, jerky, biltong, boiled eggs, olives, dried salamis (LIDL do some small packs, the ones with walnuts in are lovely), popped seeds (sunflower seeds in a hot dry pan, wait until the popping stops, add wheat free soy sauce, let it evaporate) but once you’re used to low carb, you won’t need it. Remember, you don’t have to feed hunger, it’s ok to be hungry.
 
HSSS said:
Tbh if I’m feeling like that through lack of sleep (as was the cause of your blah feeling no?) then food never has revived me or solved the problem be it the rubbish I’d eat before or low carb stuff now. Sleep is the problem and the solution not food for me on days like this.
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Bloody Mary if Im all wound up,then I sleep.
 
@Cana - My question, which others have asked too is what made you feel like that?

If it's too little food, we can help with that.

Did you eat late, and therefor had a poor night?

If it's too little sleep only you can decide how to manage your sleep.

Whilst many have eons of history of comfort eating, assuming a form of comfort eating will address all ails doesn't feel to me to be the way forward.
 
DCUKMod said:
@Cana - My question, which others have asked too is what made you feel like that?

If it's too little food, we can help with that.

Did you eat late, and therefor had a poor night?

If it's too little sleep only you can decide how to manage your sleep.

Whilst many have eons of history of comfort eating, assuming a form of comfort eating will address all ails doesn't feel to me to be the way forward.
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I had a work thing that meant I didn’t get home till 9.45pm. Had hot choc then in bed by 10.30 but just didn’t sleep.

Woke up at 1 and legs were burning then itching then arms etc, then hungry and was just tossing and turning. Eventually slept by about 2.30 but then woke up at 5. So with the very long day the day before (left house 07.00 and got home 9.45) then the bad sleep I was done in.

I don’t think food was the issue, I just needed energy to get through the day and other than food don’t know how to get it.

I git through the day but it wasn’t my best performance.

So it was long day then lack of sleep but that’s life and I will have more long days like that as I do those meetings at least 2 in a quarter. So i just need to learn how to deal with needing more energy and not being able to get it from food.
 
Cana said:
I had a work thing that meant I didn’t get home till 9.45pm. Had hot choc then in bed by 10.30 but just didn’t sleep.

Woke up at 1 and legs were burning then itching then arms etc, then hungry and was just tossing and turning. Eventually slept by about 2.30 but then woke up at 5. So with the very long day the day before (left house 07.00 and got home 9.45) then the bad sleep I was done in.

I don’t think food was the issue, I just needed energy to get through the day and other than food don’t know how to get it.

I git through the day but it wasn’t my best performance.

So it was long day then lack of sleep but that’s life and I will have more long days like that as I do those meetings at least 2 in a quarter. So i just need to learn how to deal with needing more energy and not being able to get it from food.
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What time does that meeting start and what do you do beforehand?
 
DCUKMod said:
What time does that meeting start and what do you do beforehand?
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It’s a strange one. My trainer drove me there as we live quite close. Got there 4.30 and meeting started at 6.
I had hot chocolate then at 5 when we got into room I had my dinner (I took Chechen salad). I then had Grenada bar through the meeting and gallons of water.

I then had banana before we left as was shattered.

Got home then had another hot choc.
 
Cana said:
It’s a strange one. My trainer drove me there as we live quite close. Got there 4.30 and meeting started at 6.
I had hot chocolate then at 5 when we got into room I had my dinner (I took Chechen salad). I then had Grenada bar through the meeting and gallons of water.

I then had banana before we left as was shattered.

Got home then had another hot choc.
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So, effectively you had plenty to eat yesterday?

I'd say your best bet on a day like today would be to fuel up well in the morning - whatever your chosen hefty breakfast might be, with coffee with cream, or the like.

Personally, I don't enjoy cream in coffee, so I'd not have that, but personally, where I usually have a decent dollop of Greek yoghurt with some of my beloved stewed rhubarb to get me started, if I thought I was going to flag a bit, I might just add a dollop of cream to it, so that any lack of get up aand go was certainly not going to be hunger.

With a decent level of fat, I'd be very unlikely to be hungry, or even interested in food.

Have you had any carb cravings/grumbling from the banana?
 
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