I'm finally starting to feel good - but it's like super good all of a sudden
Be sure to watch your protein levels. This is what can drive you to crash from the insulin bit. Keep good protein levels and you keep steady energy through the day, and your body processes the energy from your food correctly. Rice, beans have lots of protein. If you're in doubt run to natural and organic yams & sweet potatoes. These are a "super food" used by NASA for the astronauts, kale is another, sea kelp too.
I would suggest you try getting roughly 60-90 grams of protein per day. You may need to consult a doc / dietician about that though, ensuring what's right for you. Load protein in the mornings to stay active longer into the day, high protein breakfasts keep us from petering out. If you load of an evening for supper then too, it gives your body energy to use during the sleeping / healing cycle.
Yep, and remember the vegan and raw foods mantra, "eat the rainbow". Try to eat as wide a variety of colors in your meals as you can. You can also get back to eating like a three year old child, grazing and eating when hungry. Once you feel full, stop grazing or eating, go on and live. Your body will let you know it needs nutrients when the time is right.
Don't be afraid of herbs and spices either. They can help keep you from tasting bland food. Use what you need to taste. Your body again does its own natural thing. It won't let you overdo any spice or herb, granted it might let you eat enough to pass out for a bit. That happens and can in fact be a good thing, too. All in let your body have a bigger vocal role. Try not to overthink it and crave all the junk foods, and not only candy bars but things like too much carbohydrates.
Carbs turn to "empty sugars" which in turn grow into empty fats. You need some natural fat too. But we don't need empty fats that start clogging up an efficient motor in our bodies. It takes more energy to burn off empty fats than good solid fats that also turn out benefits to your body. Good fats can be found in nuts, berries, sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds.
Boggle, I need to quit yapping. There's a good bit I know, a good bit I don't. Check in with your GP (general practitioner/doc) when you go fiddling with diet too much. Don't simply say, "well, Morely knows it all and would not tell me something wrong", because he doesn't and wouldn't intentionally but there's always that chancing it. Figure you got your own brain too, so there you are hon.
Well just a wee more, spun back on me though. Need to go to a neurological center in Parkersburg for a sleep study thing. New endocrinologist feels like me on testosterone might lead to that sleep apnea stuff. If that's the case and it can be wrangled to help out, maybe I can get beyond the Edgar Poe melancholic flatitude as I call it. "How do you feel? " "SSDD." For me that's different decade and not day.
I would like to get enthused about stuff, never have genuiely felt that. I don't get all yippie about anything really. Never have. Sure I might like something but I don't get consumed like most and I mean that in a good way. Folks get hobbies like say wrench on cars, programing computers, making crafts, playing games, sports. I don't "get into" stuff like that. More of a meh most of the time.
Aw well, get me sorted about the time I should go to retire but the wife says I'm not retiring. She'll keep me busy enough I'll not see my next being dead until too late, by then may as well keep on keeping on. Alright, I hush. Got to get going today.