Sleep! Give me sleep!

[lexin]

I am exhausted. My psychiatrist increased my anti-psychotic and I feel as if I've been stuffed with cotton wool – weak and floppy and squashable. I'm struggling to put one foot in front of the other.

A friend from the union came round and borrowed a frock I made for a convention. She's going to a Renaissance wedding and needed something to wear; I offered as I hardly wear those frocks. It was a bit stretched on her and she suggested that we both go on a diet. I don't feel much like dieting – I've got enough to think about without adding that.

I was too weak to say so, and now I'm feeling guilty about every mouthful, while still eating as much as I usually do. So that's got me precisely nowhere. Suggestions that I 'just eat less' will be treated with the contempt they deserve – if it were that easy, I'd have done it already. Besides, I know nobody IRL who's dieted and kept the weight off. There may be such people, but I'm not one of them and I've never actually met one of them.

I want to go to sleep!

Comments

[briarwood.livejournal.com]

You probably shouldn't be dieting. Not now.

One thing that does work, though, if only in the short term, is eating a lot of high-fibre, low calorie stuff. Salads, high-fibre crispbreads, vegetables, brown rice. The theory is that it takes more energy for the body to digest it than such foods actually contain, so you can stuff your face and still lose a little weight, without putting your body into starvation mode (which is the reason the weight never stays off if you're naturally not a stick-figure).

But if you don't want to diet, don't. It's the only four-letter-word I firmly believe should be censored.

[lyorn.livejournal.com]

The theory is that it takes more energy for the body to digest it than such foods actually contain,

I doubt that theory. It would mean that if you lived only on brown rice and vegetables, you'd starve faster than if you had nothing to eat at all.

[lexin.livejournal.com]

I'm coming to that conclusion myself. I'll have to tell my friend that she's on her own.