Hi Debbie,

Just wanted to chime in, as Allison said, that low blood sugar can definitely cause anxiety.

Eating regularly, as this plan builds to, seems so simple... deceptively so. My view used to be, well, that is too simple.

Yet, I took a good long while to get comfortable with breakfast, so I wouldn't dream of not having it (and the other parts of breakfast of course). It wasn't just an external "to-do", it became part of my toolkit for daily normalcy. Normalcy? That was not ever in my vocabulary!! Not before this food program.

I used to get stuck in meta-analysis about the whole thing. I am here, over anxious again, but 'eating' should be something I am already doing... wasn't helping. What helped me, was thinking, well, I have the rest of my life ahead of me, and despite feeling the way I do, I am doing okay getting by. What if I made a small change and it helped, and then I could do another small change? I was tired of being a yo-yo... but I still yo-yo'ed, on my way through the steps, with anxious thoughts. I couldn't be any other way! and it was okay. Because the steps were building a foundation, and gradually, change caught up to me. My biochemistry changed.

It's real - our boichemistry changes, my biochemistry changed, on this food program. The expression of me, is so much closer to what I would like 'me' to be, than it was before. (I wouldn't expect to be exactly where I thought I ought to be... I think it's okay to still want to change and grow!)

Give it a try, and then give yourself permission to eat that breakfast, and post when you are verging on an anxiety yo-yo (as I have come to call it, in myself...) because being in community helps. I hope you (or someone reading this!) finds it reassuring or helpful to the commitment to keep with the food.

And tell us about your adventures with a program-friendly breakfast! My current breakfast favourite is a shake, with precooked mashed squash, frozen blueberries, olive oil, and microfiltered whey protein powder (because I don't digest lactose well).

Pleasantly,
-Lea