Food and mood
May. 11th, 2019 10:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mtbcI had mentioned how sometimes I feel both hungry and not like doing anything useful. It makes for an interesting challenge to try to use awareness of this to manage it. It reminds me of how I also feel more like doing things if I can see a pleasant outdoors on a sunny day which is one reason why I plan to move back to a house in a field in the rural Midwest or similar, somewhere with decent windows and porches (our previous house in Ohio was blessed with an abundance of both): I expect to not only be happier but also to get more done.
I woke up this morning feeling fairly productive and did some stuff. I should be alone in the house this afternoon which would be a good time to make major changes to the router through which we are online. However, this occurs toward the end of my fasting window so I get to do something non-trivial while possibly not feeling great.
Knowing this is coming up may be a help. Perhaps I can put some music on, make some tisane or somesuch so that there is at least something in my stomach, etc. Or, I can be more mentally prepared, knowing in advance that I can take my time and divert a little effort into ignoring being hungry. It should go fine: once I am into the work then it is likely to be akin to many of my workdays where mid-task I have an obvious short-term what-to-do-next step, the sequence of which hold my attention ongoingly.
I feel as if I don't have a good enough handle on my various to-do's but when an opportunity comes up to do something that seems both important and time-sensitive then I figure the way's clear to just go ahead and do it without overly fretting about relative priority against other maybe-forgotten tasks.
I woke up this morning feeling fairly productive and did some stuff. I should be alone in the house this afternoon which would be a good time to make major changes to the router through which we are online. However, this occurs toward the end of my fasting window so I get to do something non-trivial while possibly not feeling great.
Knowing this is coming up may be a help. Perhaps I can put some music on, make some tisane or somesuch so that there is at least something in my stomach, etc. Or, I can be more mentally prepared, knowing in advance that I can take my time and divert a little effort into ignoring being hungry. It should go fine: once I am into the work then it is likely to be akin to many of my workdays where mid-task I have an obvious short-term what-to-do-next step, the sequence of which hold my attention ongoingly.
I feel as if I don't have a good enough handle on my various to-do's but when an opportunity comes up to do something that seems both important and time-sensitive then I figure the way's clear to just go ahead and do it without overly fretting about relative priority against other maybe-forgotten tasks.
