Looking for Help in All the Right Places

I am in a funk.

I want to post details. I better not post details. Believe me when I say the details are not interesting.

But the funk it leaves behind is. Interesting. Or at the very least, a tool. Learning tool.

I'm kinda puzzling through it this early morning right along with you dear grokker. Or dear mocker. ;)

So, I am pushing through. I think I am? I am! The sugar of yesterday becomes the resolve of today?

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I was doing some reading this morning about cravings and resolve and depression and how biology affects these seemingly willpower-based behaviors. Kinda amazing how damaged internal systems will spiral our bodies into an even more damaged state. I can see that these things are not a simple fix.

Leptin resistance and adrenal compromise seem to be key in all of this. My insomnia and cravings seem to be only symptoms of a bigger problem. I have flirted with all of this in the past, but have not taken most of it seriously enough. I think it may be serious. You'd think just the insomnia would be incentive enough!

I am researching a local resource to help me as wading through all of this information is a bit overwhelming!

I am looking for the start. It isn't as easy as you'd think.

This plant seems representative in a way today. This is my cat's contribution to the decor. He seems to need some greens!

Mother's Little Helper

Well, not really, but maybe? Not just mothers though. Even though I'm a mother. I think I just lost my train of thought. I really hate it when that darn train leaves me on the platform all alone and thoughtless. Ha!

I am struggling with cravings. Hugely struggling. Following lots of advice:

• eat more fat
• eat more protein
• eat within 30 minutes of getting up
• eat more carbs
• eat less carbs
• get more sleep (yeah, right - heh!)
• take magnesium
• no - that's the wrong kind of magnesium! 
• take this kind instead
• no, that's wrong! this kind!
• eat more often
• eat less often

oy to the vey I say

But, this little piece of advice I did see over and over.

I'll report back.

Oh and btw - I made Pup take that damn box of Nut Goodies with him to work. He bought it at Costco last night. I nearly stole one for "later," but didn't. Why do I have to live with a sugar-maniac? {whining}.