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There’s a bit too much to take in here.
I can say that I was originally taking a better quality shake, but it got really expensive, and that was a good enough reason/excuse (can’t seem to tell the difference) to switch to the one that my grocery store stocks. Which is a diet one.
I know my pharmacy keeps the hospital grade nutrition supplement drink. I’ve avoided switching to that because the calories are impossibly low. So switching to that would mean also eating stuff.
Vege shakes. Um, no! I can down a glass of V8 juice quickly, which I’ve used in the past to get my vege intake up (this isn’t exactly a new problem). I was doing frozen veges for a while not that long ago (maybe a few months or more). There’s not much calories in that but it’s the extra nutrition I’m supposed to take with these shakes. But it required meal preparation (which I seem to be really uncomfortable about atm) as well as eating more food.
I’m going to have to come back to this. It’s a bit overwhelming and extremely uncomfortable.
ETA It is definitely not a straight forward case of one day deciding to limit my calories by that much. It’s happened in stages, although the issues have been around for a long time now. And a big part of it is that I have fairly significant depression, which has been part of my pathology for at least 10 years.
I may be wrong with this assumption, but in terms of daily function, healthy menu planning and meal preparation is one of the first things to go for people with low mood, yeah?
It’s not me trying to excuse anything. But there is an easy solution: prepare a healthy menu each week, do a comprehensive shop, and prepare proper meals.
Then you start to factor in depression, ptsd, anxiety about shopping centres, SI, good old self-loathing and dissociation from body (which is also pretty common - not being aware of things like, “I’m hungry”, or “Ouch, that hurts”), and...
Shakes were meant to be a solution. A dietician suggested them to me when I was in hospital a few years back and had malnutrition from living off breakfast cereal for brekky, lunch and dinner (Weet-Bix, bleh!). It’s just kind of slipped a bit too far again I think...maybe
I can say that I was originally taking a better quality shake, but it got really expensive, and that was a good enough reason/excuse (can’t seem to tell the difference) to switch to the one that my grocery store stocks. Which is a diet one.
I know my pharmacy keeps the hospital grade nutrition supplement drink. I’ve avoided switching to that because the calories are impossibly low. So switching to that would mean also eating stuff.
Vege shakes. Um, no! I can down a glass of V8 juice quickly, which I’ve used in the past to get my vege intake up (this isn’t exactly a new problem). I was doing frozen veges for a while not that long ago (maybe a few months or more). There’s not much calories in that but it’s the extra nutrition I’m supposed to take with these shakes. But it required meal preparation (which I seem to be really uncomfortable about atm) as well as eating more food.
I’m going to have to come back to this. It’s a bit overwhelming and extremely uncomfortable.
ETA It is definitely not a straight forward case of one day deciding to limit my calories by that much. It’s happened in stages, although the issues have been around for a long time now. And a big part of it is that I have fairly significant depression, which has been part of my pathology for at least 10 years.
I may be wrong with this assumption, but in terms of daily function, healthy menu planning and meal preparation is one of the first things to go for people with low mood, yeah?
It’s not me trying to excuse anything. But there is an easy solution: prepare a healthy menu each week, do a comprehensive shop, and prepare proper meals.
Then you start to factor in depression, ptsd, anxiety about shopping centres, SI, good old self-loathing and dissociation from body (which is also pretty common - not being aware of things like, “I’m hungry”, or “Ouch, that hurts”), and...
Shakes were meant to be a solution. A dietician suggested them to me when I was in hospital a few years back and had malnutrition from living off breakfast cereal for brekky, lunch and dinner (Weet-Bix, bleh!). It’s just kind of slipped a bit too far again I think...maybe
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