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Gave blood today 🩸 and now I’m ravenous! Pacing around drinking pints of water and trying not to eat everything in the house like the tiger that came to tea 🐅
I know it takes about 650 cals to replace the blood cells but think that is spread over a few days...this hunger must be psychological!
View Diet Calendar, 10 December 2020:
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1504 kcal
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Fat: 61.91g | Prot: 81.99g | Carbs: 158.63g.
Breakfast: Hazelnuts or Filberts Nuts , Oats, Kiwi Fruit, By Sainsbury's Greek Style Natural Yoghurt, Almonds, Blueberries , Mixed Seeds. Lunch: Tesco Breaded Chicken Breast Fillets, Marks & Spencer Minestrone Soup with Bacon. Dinner: Green Peas (Frozen) , Butter , Tesco Toasted Sesame Oil, Edamame Beans, Marks & Spencer Puy Lentils, Honey, Spring Onions, The Fishmonger Sea Bass Fillets. Snacks/Other: Clementines. more...
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2634 kcal
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Exercise:
🩸 Blood Donation 🩸 - 1 hour, Resting - 15 hours, Sleeping - 8 hours. more...
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I was especially peckish today, too! It must be the cold weather! I cant give blood since I started bp pills. It’s a really wonderful thing to do - well done!!
10 Dec 20 by member: mincepiemuncher
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Thanks, yes maybe the cold weather too. Will try warmer socks 😀. I lived overseas for years and wasn’t allowed to give blood in case I was a mad cow, so do it now while I can. Was glad to see my iron levels still good despite the diet.
11 Dec 20 by member: JanusWoman
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I am sure replacing blood cells would use up a fair bit of energy so I am not surprised you are hungry. And the blood they have taken has removed glucose and ultimately glycogen from your system so energy levels will dip too I suspect. I think that's why you get a biscuit, to give you an energy burst. Not just for being good!
11 Dec 20 by member: Anne_145
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Good point, Anne. I was very well behaved and took my own clementine instead of eating a Club biscuit but maybe that was a mistake. Really felt it in my workout this morning too, had to drop a bit of weight. Interesting to listen to what’s going on in my body!
11 Dec 20 by member: JanusWoman
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The body is an incredible machine so you are wise to listen to it! It makes sense that you had to drop weights a bit. Muscles probably a bit depleted. Worth it for the good cause though.
12 Dec 20 by member: Anne_145
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