warning - very obvious statement coming up!

[picklepud]

I feel much better than I have done in weeks. I have also eaten three proper meals per day and snacks too! Could the two be connected perhaps? I no longer feel my three year old has the devil in her, I feel as if I might be an adequate parent and that she might make it to adulthood without being completely messed up! I have also stopped swearing at the saucepans in the evening whilst unloading the dishwasher! Now, obviously I just have to feel guilty that I didn't work it out before....

[slightlyonedgemum]

Lack of food or sleep turn me into the devil woman.

Last night I was hungry and had to leave the room before I had a go at my husband over something that wasn't his fault and was in my head (thankfully I realised this...)!

When we were dating I told my husband this and he thought I was nuts. Then he saw me hungry. After that he kept cereal bars in his car 'just in case'!!

[popperdoodles]

Lack of food so low blood sugar turns me evil too! My dh has often yelled at me "will you just eat something!" I eat a buscuit or piece of chocolate and and my mood improves very quickly.

[picklepud]

Shouldn't be a surprise but my husband learnt very quickly in our relationship that if I said I needed to eat now, it didn't mean after an hour of leisurely browsing of menus outside restaurants, or gourmet cooking - more or less the first thing edible would be advisable! He calls it me going "pathological"! Why I hadn't connected it to child rearing I have no idea - breast feeding a four month old - why would you need to eat nutritious food?

[slightlyonedgemum]

I'm surprised your husband didn't pick up on it-mine is always the first to say 'yes but your hungry/tired' if I'm being irrational.

I had an ex boyfriend who if I said I was hungry would decide to pop to Tesco, walk round leisurely whilst I was trying to hurry him on and then wonder why my fuse got shorter. He didn't learn!

[picklepud]

Ah - all fine evenings and weekends with my dh as blood sugar monitor on hand - we eat evening meal together almost as soon as he walks through door. I feel silly enough - but had had plenty of junk to eat so lots of calories, just followed by grumps fairly soon afterwards!

[DevilsAdvocaat]

in our house we call it getting 'hangry'.

(hungry and angry )

[picklepud]

good word!