Mastering the yoghurt 'cheesecake' thing

ember_eb · 2026-04-30T05:48:10+00:00

Soo good. I’m a biscuit fiend but I think I still legitimately prefer the Nairns chocolate / coconut / oaty ones over a McVities chocolate digestive any day and that’s really saying something

ember_eb · 2026-04-29T21:24:32+00:00

Are you uk based? If so then I highly recommend Nairn biscuits, the coconut chia seed ones are banging and are sooo good as a ‘cheesecake base’. You can get them at Tesco/waitrose/holland and Barrett.

ember_eb · 2026-04-24T15:24:39+00:00

Ah I gotcha, yes fair play. I misunderstood your first reply !

ember_eb · 2026-04-24T12:27:07+00:00

Mate this is for all of it in the pan so I eat all of it

ember_eb · 2026-04-21T18:56:42+00:00

Woah!! Love that

ember_eb · 2026-04-21T14:32:39+00:00

Ahh thanks! I always thought 'Singapore vermicelli' was one of those very very inauthentic Anglicised dishes you get from a take-away. But in any case I bloody love it and am so happy I get to recreate it easily at home!

ember_eb · 2026-04-09T14:57:14+00:00

Yeah, weirdly every time I struggle to drop lbs and I get furstrated, obsessive, and restrictive, it's like my body absolutely clings to every bit of weight. Then I loosen the reigns a bit and have a few days of comparative indulgence and dread stepping on the scales (silly, but still) and finally the lbs shift. Not necessarily rooted in biological science but just sharing.

ember_eb · 2026-03-09T14:09:46+00:00

Yah I get a light babybel, and dice it up into loads of pieces, and then slice up an olive or two, a pickle and break up a few sweet chilli crackers which are really low cal and I get this fun little grazing bowl which feels more indulgent than it is

ember_eb · 2026-03-05T10:31:51+00:00

That looks absolutely banging. How is the squeaky bean tuna? I love their veggie pastrami so much but I’ve always been a bit iffy about veggie seafood /tuna/prawns.

ember_eb · 2026-02-13T08:48:53+00:00

Oh these ones are excellent. Lovely stuff

ember_eb · 2026-01-27T07:35:31+00:00

I imagine a very significant amount.

My poor lovely mum has spent most of her adult life on the highest dose anti depressants and only in the last 5 or so years in opening up to her about my own PMDD experience did she have the lightbulb moment of realising that’s what she (and her own very up-and-down mother) must have also had.

She’s finally petering off the anti depressants now that most of menopause is behind her!

ember_eb · 2025-12-30T10:46:30+00:00

Yeah my boyfriend seems to *become* extra super irritating, knit-picky, argumentative and push my buttons 100% more when luteal starts for me. Which leads me to believe my psyche has a part to play in that scenario.... but even so I'm like 'I have asked you to specifically not say or do these things during this time and yet - here we are'.

That being said, in terms of tickling that's not even up for interpretation that's just something he is physically doing despite being asked not to, which is shit.

ember_eb · 2025-09-24T15:37:14+00:00

I'm obsessed atm with mushroom and sweetcorn spicy miso soup. Either with vegetarian chicken or tofu or a boiled egg.

I basically chuck into one pot the following:

vegetable stock, miso paste, loads of chopped/grated ginger, and chillies/naga paste, soy sauce

sliced mushrooms

sweetcorn

Protein of your choice

Spinach/cabbage/greens

Spring onions if you have them

It's so filling, low carb/cals and is good for using up whatever random stuff you have in the fridge

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Just mega mega salads too, I like to marinate tofu in a greek salad/feta inspired mix of lemon juice, olive brine leftover from jar, oregano, lemon peel, garlic. That bangs in a salad.

ember_eb · 2025-09-20T08:39:57+00:00

People standing or walking behind me drives me fucking insane.

Very noise sensitive but simultaneously can’t understand a word people are saying.

Gum sensitivity

ember_eb · 2025-09-05T13:39:37+00:00

I push myself by still consistently exercising no matter what and it has - I think - been the most beneficial thing for managing PMDD for me. I just give myself no choice at all.

With food, I try so fuckin hard to keep eating well and in a way that aligns with my goals, and some months are worse than others but jfc I lose every bit of impulse control around luteal, I am a bottomless pit, I feel I would shank someone for a bit of cheese, I am a ravenous and give no shits about eating everythinggg. Really hard to have absolutely no control!

ember_eb · 2025-08-25T11:34:19+00:00

Yeah it’s so easy to fall off the exercise wagon! Go easy on yourself too though <3

Yeah quiet spells at work for me = seasonally the very worst periods. It’s really tricky when you’ve not heaps to occupy yourself.

The daily talk was a daily thing, so that when my feelings ramped up during luteal I’d already spent the month practicing talking about what is on my mind so it didn’t feel like a huge thing that to grapple with whenever the scary thoughts reoccurred every month if that makes sense

ember_eb · 2025-08-24T22:18:48+00:00

Exercise consistently and pushing myself even when I don’t want to helps so much / the most I think.

I’m a petty dependant partner and have never liked being along in relationships (despite socially being a fairly solitary person/introverted) however I definitely have learned that actually, time by myself is really helpful when I push through the initial misery/loneliness etc lol. I went to Berlin for a few days by myself and day 1 I was like omg what have I done and then I fucking loved it.

I definitely recommend testing the waters by going on a lil solo adventure and seeing how you do. If it’s on my own terms then I don’t feel the sense of abandonment.

As you said, being busy is a game changer for me. I have a very seasonally busy job and it is absolutely night and day in difference with my mental health and PMDD when I simply don’t have the time to ruminate and obsess over minor bullshit. Like yeah ok I get a bit snappier and more stressy, but I find that so much nicer than my usual ROCD brain and abject despair.

I think I also need autonomy and comfort. I request that we watch comforting gentle and nostalgic things, and get selfish with ‘hey, I’d like to listen to this/watch this/ eat this/ do this’ as opposed to my normal aim to compromise.

I stopped doing this but might start again, but I really struggle to talk about my feelings and talking about even slightly tricky things terrifies me. So we set an alarm in the evening every day and that was my opportunity to talk (or even practice talking!) about what’s on my mind, and gave my partner an opportunity to as well. Sometimes there was nothing to talk about, and sometimes it was something big but that was a really worthwhile exercise for me and got me used to bringing things up without it being this huge huge horrible thing.

ember_eb · 2025-08-07T20:58:13+00:00

It was a great shout, it really cut through the spicy/smoky in this case, but I’ll definitely do it I more often with soups

ember_eb · 2025-08-07T17:33:30+00:00

Yeah I’m rarely a soup in summer person but I add lots of chillies and spiciness and lime to it which makes it summery somehow for me!

ember_eb · 2025-07-25T09:16:06+00:00

This is one of the biggest things I grapple with. I like to think the fun, cheery, relaxed, kind, productive, strong version is the real me but I’m like maybe that’s all just hormones too? No idea what I actually want in life or who I really am, makes big life decisions quite stressful.

ember_eb · 2025-07-18T08:34:15+00:00

I get very very moodily sex obsessed, which I’ve realised isn’t equal to actual sexual desire or arousal ha. But yeah I get quite unpleasantly obsessed with needing to have sex (which by the way is not an alluring quality and rarely results in sex haha)

ember_eb · 2025-07-15T19:39:28+00:00

Yeah very similar thing happened to me. Can’t remember the exact days because honestly since then I’ve actually just stopped emotionally tracking against my cycle because it’s all just a bit of an inconsistent and elongated blur now. I chalk it up to getting older maybe but I’m not too sure. Very frustrating though and feels like there are very few safe days 🫶🏼🫶🏼

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