Similar. I made mushroom stew lately, it was nice but I put it into the freezer and Alvaro ate almost the whole thing. Even on my very off days when I don’t try to avoid plants and mushrooms, I just taste and don’t want a proper amount. It may be pretty normal to you now but still very odd to me. I am not this good with everything but vegetables and mushrooms? I won’t get much carbs from them, that’s sure.
Carni will be nice when I go back to it, right now I can’t even think about trying to eat meat again. I probably overdid it for a few days. November was fine, I ate everything, eggs, cheese, some other dairy and in average, 0.64 pounds of meat a day, it was a nice amount, not too little, not too much… At least I could handle it for a month (except my few off days). Then I stopped eating eggs, had some very meaty days (at least percentage wise, my appetite wasn’t the usual after the accident) and it has a backslash now. Not the best as I don’t see a single good option regarding my eating but it’s not so bad and I will start to try eating meat (and more eggs) without desire soon, I just eat as many bites I can without real force… It’s possible it will work very well but I really should avoid these food aversion situations in the first place. November was the meatiest month in my whole life, probably by far and I changed a lot pretty quickly for me… I expect more changes in the future. It’s not comfortable to be “forced” (it’s not so bad but I must be careful and that’s troublesome) to eat every usual food group (eggs, dairy, meat) very nearly every day or else I will get bored of my food and chaos ensues unless I do my best and focus all the time (but that’s tiring).
Sleep: I miss the old times when I lie down with the intent of sleeping and I fell asleep in a few seconds. So waking up (good luck to wake me up in the first 6-8 hours. it’s a very, very hard task even now) was never a problem, I could went back to sleep.
Now… I usually sleep or watch something until I fall asleep. It happened at 4am yesterday but I napped a bit before. And if I properly wake up, no matter how I lack sleep… I can’t go back to sleep.
Fortunately I don’t wake up in the middle of the night (well, I go to bed in the middle of the night :D). Alvaro does and go back to sleep. If he wakes up early, like, at 4am, he can’t sleep again.
And his Mom told me lately that she wakes up in the middle of the night and he must sit for an hour but it’s due to something with her back. I would be a zombie after such a bad sleep, I need my 6-8 hours in one. And if nothing extreme happens, I have at least most of them, alarms can’t break though. Hunger is out of question. And I definitely don’t need to pee at night, no matter what. I drink very much in the evening and at night before bed, no problem. I was always good at this.
But if someone enters the room, I wake up. It must be normal as in maths camps all the girls woke up when the person responsible to wake us up silently entered and even more silently stood in the middle of the room. We all wake up quickly.
So if I am alone and go back to bed late, almost nothing can force me to wake up at the right time. My alarms has no chance. If the alarm is super insistent, loud and agressive, I will have a very bad nightmare about the alarm that can’t be turned off. There is always an alarm clock, I take it apart, get out the batteries, whatever, it keeps ringing. It took ages for me to wake up. After several such nightmare I made sure my agressive alarm sounds are cool songs, not some annoying nightmare fuel. But I easily ignore those if I didn’t sleep nearly enough. I always had this skill.
But if I barely wake up and immediately go back to sleep, I have dreams I remember… My tiny naps are filled with dreams too. The naps happen when I have lack of sleep and it’s afternoon and especially after a big meal. I sleep wonderfully then.
And I probably simply can’t fall asleep when hungry. I almost never tried it all my life but when I did, it almost never worked. Once I was very stubborn and that sleep was my worst ever so never again. (My short starving was “okay”, I wasn’t hungry so I slept well enough. And I always stop fasting if I get hungry so that is fine too.)
I never noticed my woe would have any effect on the quality of my sleep. Well, sure, if I would feel horrible when awake due to some horrible diet, my sleep would be bad too but if I am even remotely fine, my sleep is similar.
Or… Maybe not feeling a moody super low-energy zombie in the morning means I sleep better now? It’s hard to tell, I definitely slept enough before too, I feel those things. There is a thing that enough but not good enough sleep? Probably.