Hi Kim (formerly Vanessa, who I do remember seeing!)
Welcome, welcome. Welcome back.
It's a huge lifechange, you are talking about, your children moving out. Doing the food can help you hold the feelings, to be there even when it is painful to be. But it takes time, and there is no shame in having some medication on board, too, to help with the depression, while you work through the steps in the food plan.
Myself, I do generally well, with the food - but I had a huge setback when my Dr gave me a short prognosis, that meeting where he said 'you have such and such time to live' (I have metastatic breast cancer). I resisted taking antidepressant medication mightily, but accepted, when three months later I was still depressed. It has definitely helped, and I am still taking it, with the food plan in place. I think what is tough for me is the constant unhinging of the treatments, it sends everything out of whack, blood sugar, BE spikes galore. So that helps me to be understanding of myself - gentle with myself.
It's an individual decision, maybe give yourself a suitable length of time (in retrospect, three months was too long for me to wait, I should have reconsidered taking meds earlier). And be as gentle with yourself as you can, with the decision. After all, you are the coordinator of your health, you have the direct line to knowing really, how you are. (I tell myself that, it seems to help me!).
In the meantime, breakfast! Mine this morning was shake. We've had lovely fruit harvest locally, so I bought and prepared cherries and peaches for the freezer. So in shake this morning, I had frozen cherries, peach slices, precooked brown rice, cinnamon, olive oil, and some warm water to help it blend. Mmmm!
I like note of gratitude okay, mine here...and I am grateful to have people to look to, here, who clued me in to being able to 'know' and trust my body and to love her/me instead of being in a battle...
Pleasantly,
Lea (snoozey)
: Today was oatmeal with protein
: powder, milk, nuts and
: strawberries. And coffee. It was
: delicious. And I am grateful for
: this forum of people who
: understand.