She's Baaaaack...Abby Finally Posts

TA DA!

Hello, everybody!

This lovely little peanut sized fetus of joy is why I haven't been posting.  Specifically, that once I realized Zoidberg (yes, we've named the fetus Zoidberg, you shut up) existed, I had to immediately STOP TAKING MY MEDICATION.  Yes, I checked with my psychiatrist to make sure it was safe to quit "cold turkey" so to speak.  No allergy medicine, no ADHD medicine, no anti-anxiety medicine.  Sigh.  It's taken everything I have to keep functioning for the past 16 days (we found out I was pregnant on the 11th of March.)  Tim has been wonderful and understanding and patient and sober and this makes me very happy.

I got lost 3 times this week and it's only Tuesday and I've been living here since 2006.  I'm back to half-sentences.  I really miss my medicine, but I shall persevere.  Victory is mine!

I am 4 out of 7 dwarves most days (that's Happy, Grumpy, Sneezy, and Sleepy, tyvm).

It's inevitable that I'll be blogging about life as a pregnant woman with ADHD.  However, that's not ALL I'll be blogging about.  It'll be all over the place.  Get used to it.

In other news, I've gotten to work on time or early every single day since I last posted...even once I went off my medication.  Routines for the WIN!

Zoidberg demands that I sleep now.  Goodnight!

Persephone Links You to Food

This is not so much a resource post as it is a jumping board for y'all to explore some other blogs or websites that I've found help me out as I learn this new lifestyle I'm working on.  I'll break these up into categories and make this a series.  Today we'll talk about food.

FOOD - "real food" / Paleo / planning:

Plan To Eat - This is hands down THE best meal planning site I have used.  You can import recipes from anywhere (easily) and share them with others.  You can also plan your meals using the planner, which generates your grocery list.  If you have the item on hand you can send it from the shopping list to your "pantry".  Lastly, if you are tired / hungry / out of options you can click the "Cook from my pantry" button and it will tell you what you can make with what you have on hand.

Paleo Plan - This site got me jump started into cooking / eating Paleo, though now I'm using Plan to Eat for most of my meal planning.

Nourished Kitchen - This is a great site for recipes and knowledge. Traditional cooking.

The Healthy Home Economist - Also traditional cooking, but this blog will also keep you apprised of what's going on in the real food movement, current events, big pharma, and how to heal yourself with food.

Mark's Daily Apple - Everything you need to know to go "primal" and find your inner Grok.  Food, fitness, science, play - this blog has it all.  Primal food based (close to Paleo).

The Bulletproof Diet - via the Bulletproof Executive, this is "upgraded Paleo"

The Food Lovers Primal Palate - Great resource for recipes!

My Food board on Pinterest - As I snag yummy recipes from the internet, I pin them there. 

OK, I think that covers the food basics.  Happy eating!

-Seph

Persephone says good night

I'm working on a "big" post, but didn't manage to get all of the data I needed in time to post it tonight.

In other news Abby Normal returns triumphnatly to the blog on Saturday.  (At least, that is what she told me.)

So, I'll be back on Sunday with loads of info.

-Seph

Persephone Discovers Biohacking - Consider Yourselves Warned

...alternate title would be "Persephone is Potentially One Step Closer to Taking Over the World"...

Sometimes I stumble upon something (like Akrasia) that makes me light up like a 5th grade science experiment.

Today it was BioHacking via The Bulletproof Executive.

My super simple explanation of biohacking, based on all of an hour or so of absorbing as much information as I can is this:

Hacking into your own biology to upgrade as a human!

Art by  http://tibots.deviantart.com and Cyberman copyright BBC

The Bulletproof Executive biohacks a lot of things, weight loss, muscle, nutrition, coffee...

AND SLEEP! 

He claims you can have optimal health / regenerative sleep in less than 5 hours per night.

A couple of you know that I am contemplating a DRASTIC sleep schedule change, where I would be AT work 15 minutes prior to my current wake up time, which would mean going to bed at an unreasonably early hour  (all to maximize sunlight hours while not failing out of college or losing my job), so the idea that instead of backing up my bedtime, I could actually just function on 5 hours of sleep is super intriguing.

Some of you also know that my uber awesome therapist is a sleep specialist.  She's also conveniently on maternity leave at the moment, and cannot swiftly kick me in the teeth on this one.

My boss says no, and I am pretty sure my sensei agrees, but I'm actually really intrigued by the science behind this and am not yet deterred, so stay tuned and I'll keep you all posted regarding any sleep hacks I actually try.

This could be fun!  *cue evil genius maniacal laughter*

-Seph

I'm so much cooler online

So I didn't get a whole lot accomplished this weekend in the physical world.  However, I did clean up the layout of this blog, edited the "about me" section, and added buttons for twitter and pinterest.  Feel free to add me.

http://pinterest.com/sephraynes/

https://twitter.com/#!/SephRaynes

I can tell you already that I'm hooked on Pinterest, so I hope y'all will follow me or least a couple of my boards.

Tomorrow morning I go back "on book".  I just finished writing my schedules and printing my recipes and putting the binder together.

I need to get going to bed, so I'll see you all on Tuesday.

-Seph