Why is life so much suffering?
When I’m super stressed and completely demotivated, I’ll eat even more than usual because food gives me that sweet sweet hit of dopamine
Yes, that’s what the sleeves of saltines are for!
The forbidden knowledge is to butter the saltines like toast
Not so much eating, but having to choose what to eat, prepare/order it, and clean up afterwards. Sometimes, after a full day, it’s one chore too many.
My depression meal is just biting straight into a block of cheese. 5 bites or so is like 400 calories. Easy, quick, and it’s cheese.
Three spoons of peanut butter in the kitchen at 1am
Spoon of PB gang. If I don’t “feel like” eating but I know I need to that’s my go to also.
Cheese sticks do this slightly better because then you don’t have the big block going bad from your mouth germs.
I either eat nonstop or don’t eat for 2 days. There’s rarely an in-between. Friends have said I eat like a snake lol.
I have the unfortunate timing of always being in the non-stop eating mood when I am almost entirely out of food and waiting to get paid.
You walk down the street and every neighbor is cooking some deliciously smelling food.
You hear laughter, families enjoying themselves.
Then you get home. Oh shit.
Yes. it’s tied to my depression. I know I need to eat, I feel the hunger but it’s just: meh.
One thing that does help when I’m like that are things like Ovaltine or the Muscle Milk I drink every day at work to get an extra dose of protein. I’m old now and it really does help. I buy the Muscle Milk powder and have a couple of shaker bottles, it’s really hard to mix otherwise. I chose that brand because it’s super cheap and has a tolerable taste/texture. Some of the whey products are almost chewy.
Definitely not. Making food and eating are among my top pleasures, I’m always motivated to do that. So I rather have to be careful to limit my intake when I’m feeling down.
Had it frequently throughout highschool whrn I was taking my ADHD meds. I hated it, I’d go for a long day of school, only to get back home in the evening, touching none of them
Sometimes I will be hangry but no particular food seems appetizing, if that makes sense. It’s like my body wants food but my brain doesn’t. Eating just seems like a chore sometimes but I can’t focus on anything if I skip it.
Definition of first world problems, I know
It’s my weight loss strategy
I get this way with cooking. Like, I don’t want to cook, prepare, or go out to get food. I’ve found that having other people to cook for makes me much more motivated to prepare meals.
Yep. Often and for various reasons, usually related to some mental anguish. In times like this, plain buttered toast with maybe a little salt sprinkled on top is the winner for me. With a glass of water to help chase it down. Definitely not the healthiest thing you could eat but it works for me when I’m hungry but have no appetite.
I’ve just had a bad relationship with food forever
For the first 15 years of my life, I have to give my mom credit, she did a lot better than most moms. She believed in cooking and greens on every plate. She was a horrible cook and most stuff was frozen and bad quality but at least she tried.
But from around 16 to 40, I just ate like trash. But by that point my alcoholism was already in the swing and my priority was booze, not really eating well.
Once I sobered up, there was five straight years where I would just ignore my hunger signals until I had a freak out and then I would eat like seven “family” bags of chips. Those were like 700 g, and they don’t sell them anymore lol
My relationship with food got better when I went to attachment therapy. The therapy really didn’t address the food issues, that was sort of a wonderful side effect of the mental healing
Then what happened is I taught myself to cook from scratch, and I ended up losing 130 lb. I had only planned on losing 40, the rest was kind of an accident and I also got fit by accident
I enjoyed for about four straight years, a totally normal relationship with food where I could eat when I wanted and my body would clearly signal to me what it needed and I would listen to it
Now in the last couple years, something is creeping back where I ignore the hunger signals and I freak out. I’m still very fit and I’m not obese anymore, but I can totally see my food patterns reverting to early post-sobriety. If you looked at me you would think I was a fitness professional, but now my food scheduleing life is verrrry poor
Part of that is because being fit and muscular makes it so that you actually have to eat so much it becomes an exhausting task. Needing to eat 4,000 calories a day just to stay alive is actually a daunting task when it’s not fast food that passes straight through you
I’m struggling with wanting to lose some muscle, and get back to some form of normalcy where I only have to eat two or 2,400 calories a day
I actually don’t really know what’s going on right now, I know I have to stop ignoring my hunger signals, and I know I have to eat. But knowing is useless because it’s all emotional at the end of the day
I’m kind of in a shitty place right now but things are actually okay in the grand scheme
Yeah, sometimes when I’m angry or stressed I don’t like to eat even if I physically feel hungry.
My appetite seems to be tied to heat, weirdly
Like I could be hungry one minute, but if I step outside on a hot day my appetite would be gone the next
100%. It’s not my favorite lol.
