The best thing I have found to deal with craveings like that is
1) radical acceptance. - they are there, the food is there and you know it is the fault of the drug. ( in my case it is a blood sugar thing if I haven't been eating well) ( they won't put me on anything other than inhaled steroids, because of the fun stuff it does to blood sugar)
2) make a deal - I'll eat good food first then I can have the not so good stuff. and I will not eat anything I don't like.
For me the act of denial makes the physical craveing worse.
I don't know if it will help with steroids - but it does seem to modify they ones I get with blood sugar ( both too high and too low will do it - but the too high one is a false craveing)
"I'm stuffed up. I should have a cookie" or "Today was absolute hell so I deserve cake" or even "I just tripped over my own feet. I need peanut m&ms."
Heh. Yeah, that is so me unless I actively am trying to resist that.
didn't feel a thing here, but those are too small to be felt very far
What's up with all the stabbing? Are you stabbing people with your hobo knife? You OK, Aimee?
2) make a deal - I'll eat good food first then I can have the not so good stuff. and I will not eat anything I don't like.
Yeah, I end up eating a lot of salad this way, and not needing the snack.
looked at the map - looks like someone reported feeling it in hayward ( the town jorth of me) but my house is in a 'special earthquake zone' and I felt nothing
But since they're building her place, I guess that makes V the anti-Dent.
until they try to knock it down, anyway.
re: tipping
not sure that the first aid qualifies you to reduce your tip. I think that $5 was perfectly fine, as 10-15% is the norm for hair services.
Take care, shaky Bay Area.
For me, steriod eating wasn't related to bad food cravings. I didn't crave sweets or salty snacks. I just wanted/needed food and lots of it. 20 pounds of salad? Bring it on.
::spins Aimee around three times and pushes her toward the bad boss::
