Bipolar Check-in #83

Every morning I make a chai latte from a mix. Usually I use soy milk, but they were out so I got oat milk this time. Was bored and googling soy vs oat milk and my usual milk is best but man the oak milk is good. Does have more fiber. But still both are a lot of carbs. Really need to up protein first thing in the morning. No idea how though as I don’t like eating on waking. Thinking of giving up my chai, but what to replace it with, that’s just as easy? I drink it cold, so it’s just a matter of pouring in in a glass. Any ideas?

Not sure if you like cottage cheese or if you avoid dairy products altogether, but it is very easy and high in protein. I usually have it with diced peaches. If you eat 1/2 a cup, it's roughly 25% of the daily value of protein; 1 cup is 50% your daily value.

Oooo I love cottage cheese, I just don’t think to buy it. That would be very edible in the morning. I could switch to tea bag chai for my drink. Just make it the night before and put it in the fridge for cold morning drink. Thanks, this is doable!

Ugh. SO sexually frustrated, but I just have to remember the alternative, which is crying all the time and bawling on the kitchen floor at 12:30 in the morning, and it's not like it's still not enjoyable. It's quite enjoyable. I just never get any relief! Fck man. I wish sertraline didn't have this unfortunate side effect!

Man, 300mg of seroquel kicked my *** last night. I slept from 11PM to 6:30AM, only waking up once in the middle of the night to pee. It's amazing. I haven't slept so long in forever. Feels good. Of course now I'm behind in showering and writing in my journal, and I have to get the ezine up today because I won't have time tomorrow because it's Halloween. Only slightly panicking. It's a full *** issue. It's going to take forever to put up! Just waiting for my husband to get done on our dinosaur mac computer so I can work on it, since I can't from my laptop unfortunately.

I'm just curious. I don't know if this is a bad idea or not, but if I started a weight loss journey thread would that be too triggering for people? I'm on a weight loss journey right now, and I know a lot of us have gained weight from psych meds. I thought we could motivate each other and stuff.

I feel decent today. My cough and post nasal drip are still pretty bad. I finally took some Dayquil because of all the coughing. My meds aren't ready yet. I slept good and my moods and anxiety are ok. I've been avoiding the news. I did a lot of organzing and putting stuff in the fridge. I see my therapist tommorow.

I think it’s fine as long as you don’t use numbers, like calorie and pounds, keep it general. I lost weight, I substituted this for that and such things. I’d like that too as I want to change to healthy eating. And that seems to mean eating breakfast. Ugh. But I’m gonna try blueberries idea.

It looks like the family member we have been caring for during the past almost 7 years is dying. It's not unexpected, since this family member is 90, but it is still difficult.

She has been declining very slowly but things got faster today. She could pass very soon.

Just trying to be there for my family.

Bipolar-wise, I am sleeping just 3 hours a night. It's happening because of a slight increase in Rexulti. No other symptoms, other than being very tired all of the time.

I'm not a huge morning eater either, but I typically make a smoothie with something like (chocolate) hummus or a nut butter. I usually throw in yogurt and soy milk in there too with all the other stuff (greens, fruits, a handful of oats, whatever spices might go with it).

I think there already is (or something similar to it) in the health&exercise forums, but if you wanted to make one bipolar specific since the meds almost always make that harder, I think that'd be fine. I'd probably be triggered by it, personally, but it's easy enough to put a thread on ignore.

It doesn't really feel ED-related though. I get I mentioned the thoughts were getting worse, but I'm not actively putting in effort to lose, at least not like that. No purging, eating at every meal every day, normal activity levels. Maybe I'm oblivious to my eating habits or my liver's worse or the BC switch is doing something.