It's harder, much harder, when they're "there" but not "there for you", I know. That can feel worse than being, for lack of a better term, genuinely alone.
Kudos on the cooking and WOA and *also* on training your new job in what to expect.
And yeah, eating properly at regular intervals is something you *can* control, and the results repay the effort. There's enough going on in your system already without adding low blood sugar brain into the mix....
... not to mention no thyroid med. Yikes!
(I now have this mental picture of you caressing an obscenely large zucchini in the twilight .... lol.)
"Show me a completely smooth operation and I'll show you someone who's covering mistakes. Real boats rock." -- Frank Herbert