Food..

.. is hard. Demands, sensory aspects, executive function, these combine to make food a complete nightmare for me.

So it definitely doesn’t help when I start losing my appetite again. Might be to do with reducing my risperidone. Might also be to do with staff nagging me too much about how I’m going to lose weight – I do not need extra demands around food or exercise because then neither will happen.

For now I’m aiming for low spoons nutrition. Smoothies, cereal, microwaved baked beans, protein from the freezer, lots of potato, meals that just need putting in the microwave or oven (and nothing else), and multi-vit water. The highest spoons food I have is apples, which I need to cut up to eat because biting into them makes my gums unhappy.

Hopefully I can settle into a good rhythm, eating like this, that can sustain me. Smoothies are definitely a low demand, low effort way to get a little more fruit and veg than I was previously.. and the more fruit, veg, carbs and protein I eat, the less processed food I should need to snack on to feel full.