your appetite

Sympathies to you LL.

My own eating habits are admittedly strange but probably not fatal. I almost never eat breakfast. I often skip lunch altogether. At most dinnertimes I'll pick lightly at food in an obligatory way but my heart's usually not in it. Throughout the day, I'll grab a handful of almonds or dried cherries or something and I'm good.

At the same time, every week or so I'll have one rich, dense, sybaritic meal, like a pizza or a bacon cheeseburger the size of my head, and I seem to live on that for a while. That's how some snakes eat, right? Nothing for weeks, but then a whole monkey all at once, which takes weeks to digest?

Left to my own devices, I think I would eat only when I really wanted to. It's complicated somewhat because I am in a family, so we kinda have to keep up a regular rhythm (adults can choose to just graze; kids can't and shouldn't). So I keep up appearances. I pack lunches for the children. Every other night, I prepare and serve a decently balanced dinner, but frequently my heart isn't in it.

wow seriously, when i was a kid, one of the things i looked forward to most about being a grown up was not being forced to eat when i didn't want to, to be able to graze as i pleased. now that i can, i take full advantage and eat only when and what i want. usually that is a-ok fine, until one of these spells hits.

that is not a commentary on parenting -- just a memory, like going over to grandma's and being asked to eat a huge plate of food for thanksgiving that i really didn't want. my mom is a grazer too.

i had some gnarly food poisoning a couple days ago and i have stabilized but the only lingering effect is a lack of appetite. i ate 3x yesterday but not much each time. i guess it takes a while for everything to regulate after a shock like that.

^^^ that time suuuuucked

It’s 2 years later and I’m glad I haven’t had to bump this thread since 2018 but today I did. Nauseated and very unable to finish my (delicious homemade) dinner for the second time in a week due to appetite loss & nausea. NOT GOOD!!

i've been eating one meal a day for close to a week. it's not unpleasant, i'm just not hungry at all

Not a good sign friend!!
I’m surprised more people aren’t plagued w this affliction of appetite loss during our extremely stressful times that we’re living in.

I think mine is work related, just so much uncertainty + hostility + exhaustion a person can stomach (lol) before it has a noticeable effect.

since i started WFH i have been snacking way less during the day, hardly at all now
but i think i am eating healthier bfasts & lunches which prob helps

we wont talk about what happens to all that on weekends tho lol

i've been eating one meal a day for close to a week. it's not unpleasant, i'm just not hungry at all

― mookieproof, Monday, August 3, 2020 4:44 PM (twenty-one minutes ago)

same.

same, for weeks now

part of it is a summer thing, but undoubtedly stress too

not much desire to ear here either except when I'm suddenly shoving tons of garbage into my mouth at 11pm :/

that is very real

haha oh man otm