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[tylik]

So I've been off the pill for a couple few months now, and one of the joys is getting reacquiainted with natural hormonal cycles. This is only half sarcastic -- some of it is pretty amusing (not to mention the libidinal effects are pretty amusing). I don't like having moods swings before my period, but I do like the way that the stress just seems to drain out of me once it starts... and sometimes I like the fact that there are whole catagories of stuff I can only put off dealing with for a month at most. (I tend to think of myself as pretty aggressive and non-shit taking, but I can get into the habit of putting up with shit pretty easily. Sometimes this is a bad thing.)

Anyhow the latest, which I'm attributing to the cyclical bit is that I'm now feeling oddly down on food. Food is feeling like a depressant. I mean, not any food, but any large amount of food, and any rich food. The apple was really good. The bite of a luna bar when I was starting to get light headed in class was good (though I still think it probably would have gone away on it's own, and I'm almost feeling like I should have let it go a little longer -- I'm generally so protective about keeping my bloodsugar even that I don't really have much recent experience with what happens when I don't, and I think the hypoglycemia is increasingly a non issue). Anyting greasy, anything with meat in it is bad (except perhaps sushi, I think sushi might be good, but then by long family tradition sushi is a vegetable). Bad things make me feeling grumpy, sleepy, and fuzzy headed. (I bet that's how Nikko feels when she gets into the commercial cat food.)

This is a pretty noticable change from, say, last week...

For the moment I'm going to run with it, and see how my body reacts. I'm vaguely wondering if trying a fruit only fast for a day might sort of clean out the residual blarkyness from my system... I think I could do that.