For the past couple of days I’ve had a distant headache. Not a sharp-behind-the-eyes-just-kill-me migraine, but it’s still annoying. I have a thesis to write, brain! Could you stop throbbing for a few minutes please!

I think my many hours spent at the computer, long commute, lack of sleep, and constant stress are negating much of the good that my careful diet is doing. I’m not sure what to do. I have to finish this thesis! I have to do my TA work! I have to drive 3 hours everyday! I’m not sure how to cut out these triggers.

I’ll be a totally different person come May, I know it. I just have to make it until then. Help.

I’ve had a few mild, super-brief headaches in the past couple of days. I’m almost 100% positive they’ve been blood sugar related. I try to keep enough healthy snacks on hand so that it isn’t a problem, but long days at work + long commutes + no place near my office to grab something healthy = occasional low blood sugar and headaches.

The good news is, they’ve gone away as soon as I’ve had something to eat. When I got home this afternoon, I was starving and feeling a little headachy. I ate a couple of crackers and was fit to go on a bike ride with my husband 10 minutes later. Huzzah!

Breakfast: sunflower seed butter toast (turns out, sunflower seed butter is pretty good. I just had to stop thinking that it was a replacement for peanut butter, because then it was disappointing. But if I think about it as its own entity, then I like it.)

Snack: Celery sticks with sunflower seed butter and a touch of honey

Lunch: Leftover roast chicken, cheese (1 slice American) and triscuts, grapes

Snack: a couple of pre-bike ride, headache-ridding crackers

Dinner: ginger soba noodles (without the onions and with only a very small amount of rice vinegar), roasted asparagus, and sauteed shrimp, grapes

Dessert: We were craving something sweet so I made this blueberry cake. I’d planned to make it Sunday and only just got around to it last night. I made it using the last of the blueberries I picked (and then froze) from a friend’s blueberry bushes. We had the cake with a scoop of ice cream. Sooo good.