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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RuthW" data-source="post: 1209298" data-attributes="member: 148713">I know I'm really boring because I am more than your mother's age, I am sure, but really on those days when you have things squashed up against each other like that, you need a packed lunch! I think that idea is probably pretty horrifying to someone your age but it is the kind of thing that you can prepare in the morning or the night before (or your girlfriend can) and you wouldn't have to do it every day. Calendar on the fridge perhaps to remind you?For me, I have got more and more assertive about this stuff as I have got older. I am much more likely to insist on my OWN meal times, on my OWN food and actually sometimes on NOT eating (when people are pushing me to eat with them). Frankly, with time, I have just learned that I feel much better when I do that. And I say it to people who are mucking up my routine. That includes my husband who is a regular night owl. We both freelance a lot so we can keep odd hours but I have started insisting that we don't because when I get up late my meal timings go out of the window and my blood sugars go crazy with them. I really need to have three meals a day with at least four hours between them. then I can sometimes have snacks in between, if I am running about a lot so my blood sugar drops. On stationary days, I don't snack.You can go ten minutes late to class because you stopped to eat a sandwich and an apple. And you can explain that to your tutor and say why. They will see that you are not being lazy but responsible. Another thing that works is to prepare a whole set of lunches in one go, and stick them in the freezer. Literally, I mean that you can actually make a set of ten sandwich packs on a Sunday evening, put them in sandwich bags and freeze them. You then grab one every time you have a rushed day. Since your timetable is irregular,  half an hour's work on a Sunday can save you lots of trouble over a week or even two. I don't know what kind of foods you eat at home, but a lot of bean dishes also freeze well and can be eaten cold for lunches. So I often freeze leftovers from meals like that. With  bit of practice it gets really quick and easy. And the more you do it, the better you feel, the more energy you have, and so the easier it gets!The obvious thing that I have found is that my mood is so much more stable and so much more cheerful when my blood sugar is stable. i remind myself of that when I am feeling like skipping lunch or something similar. With practice you get into a 'virtuous circle'. (I learned all this stuff because when I was a bit older than you I was a single parent and working, and sometimes studying, so I had to do it like this if I wasn't to collapse in a screaming heap of stress!)</blockquote>

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