so, here's a thing: I pretty routinely get food cravings late at night. being a night-owl, I always figured this was something to do with my circadian rhythms being all messed up - like, even though I'd had a full day's worth of food, my body hadn't always registered it.
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now, I'm in this weird space wrt adhd, where certain things point to me having it but I have a lifetime of just... not having it, and I feel extremely weird even talking about it, but. the article rings enough of a bell that I think, 'huh, lemme try something.'
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so I go to the pharmacy and buy myself a bottle of glucose tablets, which are very cheap. and for the past week or so, whenever I've started to crave sweets or carbs at night even after I've eaten enough food, I have half a tablet (they're really big tablets).
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and so far? I've gotta tell you, it's been WORKING. like, the specific cravings for carbs/sugars - which is pretty much what I always want at night - just *go*, in a way that lets me assess if I'm genuinely hungry or not.
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once or twice I have been (I've been exercising a lot lately, so it's reasonable for my body to be like, 'actually moar pls?'), but with the craving gone, it's way easier to have a better, smaller snack, like some salami or cheese, instead of chocolate or bread.
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and the rest of the time, I have the tablet and just... forget that I wanted food. because I wasn't actually hungry in the first place; my brain was just yelling at me to Give It The Thinky Sugar. and now I can, and it's AWESOME.
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OH DAMN this is. Wow.
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...wait really?
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Yeah when I learnt this it suddenly recast a lifetime of food experiences for me


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I now carry those chemist jellybeans with me at all times (in the car etc) and it makes a big difference.
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