Showing posts with label healthy nutrition for anxiety. Show all posts
Showing posts with label healthy nutrition for anxiety. Show all posts

Sunday, August 7, 2022

Eat Right Terrified

We are supposed to eat "right" to stay healthy, I get it. Trouble is, on bad days, and by that I mean anxiety-riddled days, the ones that come when there's something BAD going on, I don't want to eat at all. (Or if I do, it's mostly ice cream).

I should have liked to have a great breakfast (fruit, whole wheat toast and oatmeal)? Lunch should have been tuna salad and cukes and then dinner, I don't know, salmon or chicken with broccoli or string beans? Plus the hardest one for me: 24 ounces water and 24 ounces almond milk.

Instead: a half nectarine breakfast. Skipping lunch. Burger for dinner and hardly any water or almond milk.

I'm doing whatever I can to make things worse, but-- it's really, really hard to concentrate on eating when my life feels like it's breaking apart. A few weeks ago, everything I expected about my life (work life) turned over, and I don't yet know where it's going to land or mainly, where I'M going to land. 

The support system I thought I had work has mostly evaporated, too, making it a lot more like Anxiety-ville than I needed (especially with a book coming out).

So. Nutrition. Yeah. 

I think there are just those days when you have to make yourself eat right (and sleep right). Do I even mention exercise? Yes, since walking is something I love. So. Note to self: Make yourself drink the water and milk. You'll thank yourself for that some day.

And. Give yourself permission for burgers and ice cream. At least once a month.


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