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....

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'!!

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.

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?

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!

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!

in our house we call it getting 'hangry'.

(hungry and angry )

good word!