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Got thinking about symptom management lately and realized there is one thing I have been struggling with. TW for diet, food and appetite talk.

I've had lack of appetite and food aversion for a while. Typically it's in the form of "I know I need to eat but nothing seems appetizing, but I guess I'll just eat properly anyway". The last couple of weeks, that last part has been more difficult and I have missed meals.

Missing meals is not great. I have low feritin and a tendency toward anemia. I also frequently end up low in vit Bs and Vit d. Low blood pressure is also affected by how well I'm eating and drinking. I take supplements, but I know that is a stop-gap and not a substitute for eating regularly.

On top of that, I've been having more digestive symptoms lately, which has knocked out some of my go-to, easy to get down meals. I'm reacting to dairy more often (so there goes yogourt and my usual smoothie recipe), and rice (which is the base of the gluten free bread and cereal I eat). With almost any meal it feels like there's about a 50/50 chance I'll end up bloated and uncomfortable after.

This is not ideal and I really need to get a handle on it. I can usually manage dinner, but breakfast and lunch are harder. I'm trying to keep a handle on meal planning so that there's easy stuff to me to just grab, but I also have less time and energy for cooking. So I can plan a great meal for later in the week (current plan is a huge pot of chilli on Wednesday to get me through my busiest days) but on the day it can be a push to actually get it made and not resort to take-out (which is never as nutrient dense as what I planned on making, but is better than nothing).

It's really frustrating because I want to eat well, I want to have home-cooked food. I genuinely enjoy meal planning and cooking. I just don't always have it in me to do it. My husband has been doing a lot of the dinners lately, so there is at least one good meal most days, but one is not enough. Resorting to spoonfuls of peanut butter is not a long term solution.

SPOILERS FOR LOKI FINALE

...Do you think Loki-Who-Remains and The Watcher ever meet? Maybe they hang out at the end of time, or loki created him to watch over the timelines. Are they friends? Employee/boss? Acquaintances? They have to have crossed paths at some point

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