A fascinating new trend is emerging in my diet. To bestow some background, the morning hour at which I eat breakfast is determined by when my nausea wears off... typically 2-3 hours after I wake up*. As a research assistant, I got to work at 7am, pecked at a breakfast item between 8-10am and was totally stable until a 1-2pm lunch.
As a grad student, I wake up at 6am, "study" etc. until class at 9am, and still not being settled enough to eat, just forgo the breakfast entirely (gasp!). What happens next is cruel punishment. My stomach thundering in acidy mobilization by noon, I sit down to consume (very slowly) a sandwich.
Halfway through -- BAM! -- nausea is back, bitch. "How dare you starve me and then gluttonously bloat me with half a sandwich?!", blathers the Crohn's baby. And with my tail between my legs I slough off to make a cup of tea.
Clearly, the solution is to bring a granola bar to class so that the Crohn's baby doesn't start the afternoon hating before the morning hating has even subsided. And sugar being my least favorite thing in the morning (this is an artifact of colonoscopy prep), I have to find a granola bar that isn't composed of nuts and seeds but is also not drenched in sugar. Where does one find such an elusive creation?
*Although the nausea is also bested by coffee, the Crohn's baby does not accept coffee without ample absorptive carbo load, and also if I'm handling animals or microscopic pieces of fragile tissue there is just no inviting the Caffeine Shakes.
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