It’s almost summer, and appetite seems to be a big challenge for many of us. I’ve been hearing from people having their own challenges with eating on time, and from people who support others in healing their eating disorders.
If you have a strategy that works to make sure you eat a healthy, consistent diet (which is a foundation the circadian rhythm), please share with us! Maybe yours could be the turning point for someone who struggles with this :)
A personal anecdote here: Years ago, my grandpa told me thyroid problems and blood sugar problems “run in the family” so he always eats eggs, bacon, and a half sheet of nori for breakfast (only sometimes with a little rice).
But he’s not the only one I’ve heard from about breakfast. And I’ve noticed the people who I talk to who always eat breakfast report it’s always the same thing. Usually eggs and something—meat, veggies, cheese.
Breakfast is a key to stabilizing the circadian rhythm, and may also help those struggling with eating disorders. Eating disorders that lead to either obesity or starvation are both known to be more common in people with unstable circadian rhythms—particularly, people who don’t “wake up” until late in the day, don’t experience appetite until late in the day, and tend not to eat until late in the day.
Bright light therapy, essentially, waking up and going outside for about 10 minutes, helps both ends of the disordered eating spectrum via the stabilization and strengthening of the circadian rhythm.
But it is easier said than done. As I have shared, for me, breakfast is the most difficult part of the day even though I go outside. But with two babies still nursing, working and homeschooling the older ones, it’s not an okay choice for me to skip breakfast or not provide it for my family.
Support is key! During the immediate postpartum, I had help, but now that my baby is almost a year, it’s back to me most of the time. I am not a huge fan of extensive meal-planning, but what I have found works okay is that I have shifted to getting most of our food that we don’t get from our farm-trades from Azure Standard, and they only deliver once or twice a month. So, I do all my meal-planning in batches when I feel like it, and then all the food is on hand and what I had planned to eat. There is much less impulse-shopping at the grocery store or running out of things because of the bulk purchases. It also feels kind of homey and old-fashioned for everyone to look forward to unpacking the boxes on “drop day.”
The other thing I find really helps is getting everyone in my family on the environmental nutrition: sunlight, earthing, electromagnetic hygiene, summer naps and getting to bed early. I wrote a post back in October about how through bioenergetics we can utilize other sources of energy besides food to run our bodies, and that maybe we are meant to rely more heavily on those other systems, like melanin and earthing, than we have been. Here’s the link in case you missed it or want to revisit it:
Growing up as a vegetarian, I really empathize with those who feel a lot of guilt and shame around eating, and have found working with quantum health and quantum bioenergetics really feels right in my body when I feel funky about food and eating.
Many among us would live as bees, eating what is freely offered and nothing else, if we could.
What’s your go-to strategy when you get tired of eating?
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It’s almost summer, and appetite seems to be a big challenge for many of us. I’ve been hearing from people having their own challenges with eating on time, and from people who support others in healing their eating disorders.
If you have a strategy that works to make sure you eat a healthy, consistent diet (which is a foundation the circadian rhythm), please share with us! Maybe yours could be the turning point for someone who struggles with this :)
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A personal anecdote here: Years ago, my grandpa told me thyroid problems and blood sugar problems “run in the family” so he always eats eggs, bacon, and a half sheet of nori for breakfast (only sometimes with a little rice).
But he’s not the only one I’ve heard from about breakfast. And I’ve noticed the people who I talk to who always eat breakfast report it’s always the same thing. Usually eggs and something—meat, veggies, cheese.
Breakfast is a key to stabilizing the circadian rhythm, and may also help those struggling with eating disorders. Eating disorders that lead to either obesity or starvation are both known to be more common in people with unstable circadian rhythms—particularly, people who don’t “wake up” until late in the day, don’t experience appetite until late in the day, and tend not to eat until late in the day.
Bright light therapy, essentially, waking up and going outside for about 10 minutes, helps both ends of the disordered eating spectrum via the stabilization and strengthening of the circadian rhythm.
But it is easier said than done. As I have shared, for me, breakfast is the most difficult part of the day even though I go outside. But with two babies still nursing, working and homeschooling the older ones, it’s not an okay choice for me to skip breakfast or not provide it for my family.
Support is key! During the immediate postpartum, I had help, but now that my baby is almost a year, it’s back to me most of the time. I am not a huge fan of extensive meal-planning, but what I have found works okay is that I have shifted to getting most of our food that we don’t get from our farm-trades from Azure Standard, and they only deliver once or twice a month. So, I do all my meal-planning in batches when I feel like it, and then all the food is on hand and what I had planned to eat. There is much less impulse-shopping at the grocery store or running out of things because of the bulk purchases. It also feels kind of homey and old-fashioned for everyone to look forward to unpacking the boxes on “drop day.”
The other thing I find really helps is getting everyone in my family on the environmental nutrition: sunlight, earthing, electromagnetic hygiene, summer naps and getting to bed early. I wrote a post back in October about how through bioenergetics we can utilize other sources of energy besides food to run our bodies, and that maybe we are meant to rely more heavily on those other systems, like melanin and earthing, than we have been. Here’s the link in case you missed it or want to revisit it:
Isn’t it amazing how life turns death back into life?
One of the great mysteries of life is how we eat dead matter (call it food) and turn it into life. This daily transformation is amazing when you really think about it! There is still so much we are learning about digestion and how we turn food into energy.
Growing up as a vegetarian, I really empathize with those who feel a lot of guilt and shame around eating, and have found working with quantum health and quantum bioenergetics really feels right in my body when I feel funky about food and eating.
What’s your go-to strategy when you get tired of eating?
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