Jeans aren't quite as good at dealing with cold as sweatpants, and they're significantly worse at windchill, but both are better than leggings in my experience. But I don't tend to overheat in sweatpants till it gets to like 80-85 Fahrenheit, so I don't know that you'd find jeans to be any better than leggings in that regard. ...I'm not sure if that train of thought made sense.
(It may be relevant that my preferred temperature range is right around 80 Fahrenheit; it may also be relevant that my sense of warm and cold has been borkened ever since 2010 when I had my big burnout/collapse - I feel really warm while I'm moving around at all, like t-shirts down to 50 F kind of warm, but sitting still at work I have to have a sweatshirt or I get chilly, even though it's probably about 75 F in there. It may furthermore be relevant that I've been about a hundred pounds overweight, by my own estimation of my ideal weight as being around 180-200 pounds, for most of the time I've lived in Arizona, and that I carry most of my body fat between my waist and my knees, so what kind of pants I'm wearing doesn't really... affect how warm my legs feel, at least down to knee level, because I'm insulated anyway. Actually, now that I think of it, my shins are really sensitive to the cold because I have these old injuries on both shinbones, not broken but dented from tripping over concrete steps several times when I was fifteen, that hurt like hell when they get too cold. So that may partly explain my preference for sweatpants or jeans up to around 80 F. (Sweatpants these days because I kept getting fatter and my jeans did not. ;P But if I keep losing weight down to that 180-200 range, I can probably start wearing jeans again. I like them because they're sturdier; there were a couple of weeks where I was wearing sweatpants with a hole in the ass to work because I snagged them on something and hadn't the money to buy more till payday. But sweatpants are comfier to sit in all day also.)
Uh. That got long. Yes, I would like recommendations for diabetic-friendly snacks and meals, but you may not have much, because the most relevant restriction is that my cookery options are limited to a small microwave and a minifridge. I'm not allowed to use a crockpot, hotplate, or any similar apparatus in my room, and I don't have the spoons to be around old men watching Fox News in the common room long enough to use the communal kitchen, nor do I want to store ingredients in the common fridge/freezer because according to the gossip I have heard, people here do not respect you writing your name on your stuff. I'd especially like recommendations for shelf-stable stuff if you have any, though.
(Other dietary restrictions: I have bad luck with biting on non-edible things in chicken, green beans, broccoli, and to some extent tuna fish. I'll usually eat tuna anyway, carefully, although the chunk of vertebra I nearly choked on the other day has put me off it again for now, but I try to avoid the other three completely, because my gag reflex is really hyper-reactive to finding things like that in my mouth. :P I can do turkey, I've had good luck with turkey so far, but ham has to be diced very small. This is why I tend to prefer extremely processed meat like hot dogs; I'm not bothered by knowing it's made of gristle-y things as long as it doesn't feel like gristle in my mouth. :P Yeah, I have a bunch of very specific food issues.)
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Date: 2019-01-25 07:17 pm (UTC)(It may be relevant that my preferred temperature range is right around 80 Fahrenheit; it may also be relevant that my sense of warm and cold has been borkened ever since 2010 when I had my big burnout/collapse - I feel really warm while I'm moving around at all, like t-shirts down to 50 F kind of warm, but sitting still at work I have to have a sweatshirt or I get chilly, even though it's probably about 75 F in there. It may furthermore be relevant that I've been about a hundred pounds overweight, by my own estimation of my ideal weight as being around 180-200 pounds, for most of the time I've lived in Arizona, and that I carry most of my body fat between my waist and my knees, so what kind of pants I'm wearing doesn't really... affect how warm my legs feel, at least down to knee level, because I'm insulated anyway. Actually, now that I think of it, my shins are really sensitive to the cold because I have these old injuries on both shinbones, not broken but dented from tripping over concrete steps several times when I was fifteen, that hurt like hell when they get too cold. So that may partly explain my preference for sweatpants or jeans up to around 80 F. (Sweatpants these days because I kept getting fatter and my jeans did not. ;P But if I keep losing weight down to that 180-200 range, I can probably start wearing jeans again. I like them because they're sturdier; there were a couple of weeks where I was wearing sweatpants with a hole in the ass to work because I snagged them on something and hadn't the money to buy more till payday. But sweatpants are comfier to sit in all day also.)
Uh. That got long. Yes, I would like recommendations for diabetic-friendly snacks and meals, but you may not have much, because the most relevant restriction is that my cookery options are limited to a small microwave and a minifridge. I'm not allowed to use a crockpot, hotplate, or any similar apparatus in my room, and I don't have the spoons to be around old men watching Fox News in the common room long enough to use the communal kitchen, nor do I want to store ingredients in the common fridge/freezer because according to the gossip I have heard, people here do not respect you writing your name on your stuff. I'd especially like recommendations for shelf-stable stuff if you have any, though.
(Other dietary restrictions: I have bad luck with biting on non-edible things in chicken, green beans, broccoli, and to some extent tuna fish. I'll usually eat tuna anyway, carefully, although the chunk of vertebra I nearly choked on the other day has put me off it again for now, but I try to avoid the other three completely, because my gag reflex is really hyper-reactive to finding things like that in my mouth. :P I can do turkey, I've had good luck with turkey so far, but ham has to be diced very small. This is why I tend to prefer extremely processed meat like hot dogs; I'm not bothered by knowing it's made of gristle-y things as long as it doesn't feel like gristle in my mouth. :P Yeah, I have a bunch of very specific food issues.)