I can’t have pancake syrup. High fructose corn syrup. That magic word–corn–straight to my food problems. I have the organic, natural maple syrup from trader joe’s, but I can only even have that on occasion. It’s a gateway to bad food behavior for me, especially if I am having a really shitty day or if I have not had enough sleep or if I am on a horrible bender of ignoring the food stuff that works best for me (small meals, many times a day, as opposed to 3 big meals).

There’s a huge link for me between eating properly and the, I guess, inflammation of my depression. There’s also a huge link for me between sleeping properly and my ability to eat properly AND sleeping properly and my ability to manage depression when it flares up. That has been one of my absolute biggest learnings from the last month and a half, as I have been teetering on a dangerous edge–psyche-wise and energy-wise and schedule-wise.

I really love that you give recipes. I wish you lived closer than That Other Coast, though, because I would totally benefit from sitting down with you from time to time and going over what I eat, what my energy needs are, and how to look at food and figure out whether I am getting the right proportions of protein to fat to carbs to whatever that I need for the way that I use energy, for the amount of energy my schedule requires, for my horribly slow Greek metabolism, and for my fitness goals.