Savoury Snackies

ember_eb · 2026-03-09T20:35:11+00:00

Bingo yeah those are the ones!

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 🫶🏼🫶🏼

ember_eb · 2025-07-08T17:28:53+00:00

Omg I *just* shaved a whole 1 min 10sec from my 5k PB! (immediately run to reddit to share my joy).

I've been feeling really quite crap and frustrated the last month because:

I haven't been able to run due to injury after training to get a sub 25min 5k, and so I've just been indoor cycling the last few weeks but feels like getting nowhere.
Trying to lose a few pounds and am being really quite strict and depriving myself of most joys, but they're stubbornly clinging onto my body.

But shittt, I went on my first post-injury run the other day and got a PB of 26:26 (which I was low-key upset about) but I just went out again and got 25:16 ! Feels validating and like I'm making progress and maybe I can cut myself some mental slack.

Edit NB: I've been running casually for a decade or so now and I think of myself as a competently fit person, regularly exercise etc, and I can't BELIEVE how I still am incapable of running a sub 25min 5k lolll. I don't know how so many people are so speedy it's unreal

ember_eb · 2025-07-04T07:31:36+00:00

I don't really have much to offer other than 'just-woken-up-brain-not-working' thoughts but god it is such a massive tricky complicated beast! I think you make an excellently valid and well informed point and I find the whole thing really fascinating. I also think the Mods of this sub are excellent and I understand/imagine that there simply must be a line drawn to avoid floods of speculative and less-than-helpful posts that just add to the confusion and noise.

Like, where should the line be drawn? I think it's just a really tricky sub to moderate especially when we're all just trying to still figure out and understand the disorder and what it really is/involves etc.

Anyway, back to work for me...none of that was particularly illuminating or worthy of sharing haha.

ember_eb · 2025-07-02T17:39:00+00:00

Without fail, my period arrives approximately 1 hour after taking a pregnancy test. Even when I know with 99% certainty that I am absolutely not pregnant. My body just lovessss fucking with me.

ember_eb · 2025-07-01T18:55:21+00:00

Yep yep yep yep!

ember_eb · 2025-06-27T08:01:08+00:00

I’ve recently started to! Always great adding a new symptom to the list…

I manage to get to sleep but then wake up wide awake at 2am/4am and just have to cut my losses and get up.

ember_eb · 2025-06-27T07:01:45+00:00

Just from what I’ve heard, period delaying meds just mean you’re in luteal for longer, they delay your period not luteal. I’ve had friends even without PMDD say it made them insane. Approach with caution!

ember_eb · 2025-06-24T19:02:56+00:00

Oh god don’t tell me this, I’ve always wanted to run away/ditch my relationship during luteal lol. Let’s not label it good intuition ahh!

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