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November 22, 2008
Readers Pick April's Dinner
Sorry for the delay in posting... I've been super busy with work, super tired and hit with a rather unpleasant bout of Seasonal Affective Disorder which I only last year figured out that I have. Apparently returning from gorgeous, sunny Houston just in time to catch Philly's first real cold snap of the year was a bad idea. I also fell off my exercise for part of the week, which is obviously unacceptable. The psychological benefits of working out are so huge that I really can't afford to skip a day.
Anyhow, my close friend from college, Francis, is here visiting from LA, and we're going out tonight to the Philadelphia Fish and Company, where I can get a low cal, high protein meal. It's the place Robin and I went a few years ago when she came to visit. Check out the menu and see what you think I'll order!
Note how things seem to come with a parsnip puree. Gotta be a good sign.
Posted by april at November 22, 2008 12:26 PM
Comments
I also, suffer from SAD. I found out I had it long before it was accepted as a "real" condition. I have a sunlamp to help counteract it and sometime visit the tanning bed (with sunscreen) in the winter. Somedays are worse than others. I have a "Florida" room in my house, where I keep the sunlamp. I have a huge picture of the beach blown up on the wall and have a CD player with a waves CD, seashells as decoration and I often use a coconut-lime candle in order to "fake" the season.
I also relate with the exercise! The very MINIMUM I can get away with every day is 30 minutes, although I almost always get in one and a half hours.
Good luck and take care~
Posted by: Cortney at November 22, 2008 12:53 PM
I had SAD in 2005 too! It was the first year I got it, I think it came about from the decrease in exercise I did. Because I used to play football every evening before CR.
Posted by: Matthew Lake at November 23, 2008 12:11 AM
hey parsnip puree is very scottish.
and I seem to love a lot of scottish things. Parsnip puree is one of them. I first tried it in edinburgh last august and it rocks!
z.
Posted by: zeynep at November 24, 2008 7:58 PM