Hey everybody, This morning, I had a shiatsu session with a friend that is a practitioner and I felt bad during it. But nothing related to the session, as far as I know they are beneficial. Nonetheless this morning I was not feeling my best, little lack of sleep and some frustration, less good mood, also menstruations coming. And I couldn’t relax, as well, as I used to. I felt stressed and then kind of like low sugar. At the end of the session I had to explain her and ask if she had some fruit. Une fortunately there was nothing to eat except some cookies. I knew that I would do bad on them and don’t wanted to have it, the only was was to have some refined sugar they put on coffee and some iced tea beverage. I had the sugar and the sweet beverage. Definitely I had this maniac energy, that I haven’t had since a long time. Refined sugar actually was the first things I had stopped in my health journey. But it helped me, to feel energized again and be able to wait until having my fruit meal. And I actually ate a lot! I found it strange, I close to never had this sort of thing, one I remember younger during a volleyball match, while I was cold and had probably not eaten enough. But today I had eaten my 10 bananas smoothie with a stalk of celery. Maybe it was because it wasn’t the largest bananas. But yeah I do not understand. I don’t want this to happen again. I am not restricting, I eat a lot, listen to my hunger, that ask me more than 3000 calories per day on average while walking in total a maximum of 4 km per day, 1-2km per walk. So yeah. I understood that my body has been through with the trauma and the burnout. But even tho, things are getting better, it takes time and what happened today is something I don’t want to. I am actually proud of myself to have had what I needed and feel grateful not to have to eat some animal product or so, but still… it is not cool. I just wanted to share my story with you. Does anyone had already experienced strange things on appetite with big stress?

Hey, I wanted to have some opinions and tipps on what I am sharing. Like I told on previous posts, since end of April, I was stopped, definitely, to the point of not being able to walk anymore. So many things had happened, that it was difficult to discern. I had lived so much and was so used to push, that I firstly thought that it was maybe an overtraining, since I had never been able to come back to my level of sport. It turned out, that I was quite strong and that looking sincerely on what I had lived (important traumatism and lots of stress to keep going on since a long time) burnout was more obvious. I couldn’t do anything anymore, i barely could eat sleep, sometimes even taking a shower was to report for the next day. I had different symptoms, extreme fatigue, big hunger (a lot and more often), tachycardia etc September I saw a cardiologist that told me the heart was fine and since getting a little better, that I could walk, even that I had to go back to it. I was so so happy, to me not being able to move was the saddest thing ever, also seeing the body going so low and changing physically when you actually was a sportive person, active, eating fruits and vegetables and still eating the same way, just so much while body asking for it and yeah… So since September I began to walk a little bit, but definitely it takes time. I would say that 3km per day is the average. It depends a lot on my women cycle too. I have the impression that ovulation day and week around it is the moment where I usually feel the most exhausted like terrible. But yeah, that is a lot of things, all of this to say that, it was getting better, espacially October I would say. But November felt though! Also due to stress, financial problems and emotionally with all of this and more unbalance came again. I had a shiatsu session where, while I had had my breakfast, I had a sudden low sugar and had to eat refined sugar till going home. And from this point, I had to eat every so frequently. I have a friend that I met not long ago, that also eat 8/1/1, that had experienced adrenal fatigue some years ago, before knowing about 811 that had cured with a grazing method, that meant eating every 1,5 to 2 hours, having in each meal glucose, sodium and potassium, more concretely fruit alongside with lettuce or celery / or potato with salad and lemon juice. This with I think some supplements.

Hey everybody, I have a question about variety importance. I have always been on a budget, but since some difficulties now, it will be even more the case. The thing is that I really want to continue with this diet, I find it even more important to recover now, but I will have to do some more calculs. And I am questioning myself about variety importance. I was trying calculating some different shopping lists and definitely having more bananas is making things cheaper. But I was asking myself if it would be a problem to have for exemple half of my calories coming from bananas for 2-4 months from now? Completing with other seasonal fruits and celery, lettuce and other fruits/veggies? Or if more variety is necessary? I am definitely on a moment of needing nutrition, my body still asks for more calories than I actually move, so I don’t want to compromise my health. But I thought that having more bananas with grapes, pomegranate, persimmon, pear, tangerines, apples, mangoes and still big salads with nuts and seeds from time to time could be an idea, what do you think? I also checked at some associations to maybe get some free things left, or discount products. But yeah no other solution for now like bulk etc. Thx for the reading, looking forward to hear from you ⭐️

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