community-based psychiatric adventures of the mentally normal

[Mitchy1nge]

am not sure if mavis is still in this one

MFP hates negative numbers now, it used to say 'well done! if every day is like today you will be back at your birth weight within five weeks! yay!' but now if your gross intake is under 1200 (doesn't matter if you only net 120 for the day) it tells you off

yours looks festive with all the red and green! it's still averaging well below 2000 a day? mine is set to TDEE plus 10% (but have not included running in that calculation otherwise it would be ridiculous, although garmin at least is a bit more accurate in working out calorie expenditure there, was a very exciting moment for me when they joined forces!)

I'm not vegetarian, although I was (and vegan) a lot earlier in life. Can't beat animal proteins!

apart from the thrill of logging every morsel of food or sip of fluid to pass our lips what does the weekend have in store?

am mainly interested in being even more mentally normal than usual, will go for a run with groom in a minute (is fucking cold though, am waiting to see if new thermal running top will be delivered hurry up) and then ride and that's it, maybe hunt down that man in my life if he still wants to see me after I didn't show up last weekend - you?

Nice top Glad you've a good weekend planned.

I'm planning to hide in bed.

Currently got the guilts as I put an incredibly expensive pipe-dream on my Amazon wishlist last night, went to remove it today and somebody my poor elderly retired parents ahem has gone and bought it

How was your run?

I use MFP too - no exercise though.

It's an incredible tool, isn't it, Snowy? I've found it so helpful.

I find it's great for keeping track

I'm completely unaware of the virtues of MFP but feel like I'm missing something.

Had the coldest ride of the year this morning. Still trying to warm my hands up.

I love it. Now I just need to work out how to track tyramine...

Aren't horses generally acknowledged to be quite warm? I mean, you could just go and warm your hands up on a horse.

I froze to actual death riding today, started crying for the last mile until elderly horse decided he was up for a brisker pace after all (he has a bit of a cough)

I would love to wean myself off MFP, the m-i-m-l said 'this is a mental illness isn't it' when I first went to his for dinner and started weighing everything and entering it into my phone

It can definitely facilitate aspects of mental illness, I think.

Poor elderly horse

he desperately wants to come into his stable overnight but is better for him to be outside and moving about

have eaten most calorific omelette in the world ever (711 cals) 2 eggs, olive oil, onion, spinach, slices of pepperoni, 70g of grated cheddar! that should keep the cold out?

I like horses but they scare me slightly - they seem inordinately delicate and prone to carking it at the slightest opportunity.

That omelette sounds numinously glorious and I am insanely jealous of your unimpaired monoamineoxidisation abilities. DP is breading and frying some chicken and has made some Lebanese tahini sauce to have with them. I think my phenelzine is working too, as am gloriously interested in certain recently unexplored aspects of life. Have done all my Christmas shopping too, except for the jars for the nut butters I'm making.

Is it the lovely horse from the previous pictures that you're talking about? Only I think you said you will die when he does then gave a long time period, so I don't think that was an elderly horse.

Sorry. I appear to be wimbly again.

Actally, I'm not sure if it can be working as I've only been taking it for just over a week - I'm sure it's just the effect of being out of hospital. Whatever, it's a nice relief not to feel like shite even if I do fall over every time I stand up.

Are you off to bed yet, Mitch?

your food sounds MUCH MUCH MUCH nicer than my oily omelette (am used to fry light and 10% feta)

but I did 'invent' a lower calorie hot chocolate drink than options: tsp cocoa (16 cals) tsp low cal coffee whitener (13 cals) drop of vanilla extract (too little to count) and hot water

yeah that is Barney, he is old and all his old friends died by their mid twenties already but I cycle in and out of denial about his age and capabilities

is good to see your wimbly self again!

(it needs stevia :()

(This happens to me on phenelzine - kind of relieved TBH. Was worried it wasnt going to work at all. Now to hold off the lamotrigine for as long as possible...)

Poor chilly Barney. He sounds like a lovely old sod. Do they have clothes they wear in winter? Terminology probably off, sorry. Rugs, I think I mean.

That cocoa sounds worth investigating. I've been drinking a lot of liquorice tea lately, which is very low calorie and nice and sweet (though the glycorrhizin (sp?) is IIRC unhelpful for those of a hypertensive state of being).

I like sucralose. And am considering investing in a sack of erythritol.

Horsicle.

Sorry. The idea of cold horses, you see. It sets off "a horsicle, of coursicle, is such a noble beasticle".

It's so annoying. The phenelzine is just about beginning to work. But if they'd listened to a word I'd said a few weeks ago, when I knew it was coming, and prescribed me the damn drugs when I knew I would be needing them, I could've avoided this whole traumatic, expensive suicide attempt and admission. When are they going to start listening and respecting my disease management choices?

I say breaded... it's actually white poppy seeds

Oh God "disease management choices" - I am such a hilariously pompous twat

aren't you scared the seeds will get stuck in your bowel diverticuli or is that just the neurosis of the chronically apooic?