your appetite

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The soup and yardwork incident really sounds like a case of borderline heat stroke, something I'm unfortunately familiar with.

In middle school, it was probably 90+ degrees on stage during a choir concert. Being nervous and sweating profusely, I was starting to black out puked a little on stage during the concert. Being a short kid, I was in the front row, luckily. In choir class the following week, that incident was luckily skipped via the magic of fast forward when we were watching the videotape of the performance.

Newman's Own Egg Drop Soup

It's incredibly hard to get protein in take-out form. Deli snacks and portable foods are always carbs, either salty or sweet. Yesterday between phys therapy and ballet class I was crying out for protein and had to get a lamb gyro, pick out the lamb, didn't want the flatbread, regretted the raspberry danish thing, wanted a salty egg instead. Blah.

Someone told me or I read once, years ago, that cravings for sweets is a lack of protein. So I have turned to a hardboiled egg when I notice all I eat is sweets and has fixed me up. Unless I'm going through that weird nothing hits the spot thing.

I have a pretty big appetite. I think it's metabolism-related. I've always been very slim to fairly slim but have to have 3 meals a day or I get nauseous/dizzy/shaky. Even when I've been very depressed, I still ate fairly normally, but still somehow lost a lot of weight.

IME peanuts are a lifesaver when it comes to getting non-greasy protein/fat on the go

Yeah, nuts! I swear August was made with mixed nuts, ate a ton when I was pregnant.

pistachios!

Pistachios and figs, will never get enough in my lifetime...or loquats.

or kumquats...what other rarities in my diet...would eat more apricots if they were't always $4.98 a pound.

I always eat a lot!

There you sat, brokenhearted..

in the last 29 hours i have eaten two pieces of pizza (one mushroom, one sausage)

they were good, but . . . it's a place i go to frequently for lunch and it is usually manned by these two hispanic guys. but today one of them was missing and in his place was clearly a 'boss'. this dude looked like clint dempsey only more handsome. but he was clearly a pox on my pizza dudes -- the type of guy who changes things around just to make his mark/fuc with ppl.

the tension was palpable. i was given a free garlic knot because dude didn't put my slices in the oven right away (you could tell he was gonna blame someone else even though he took my order and it was his fault). screw you pizza deuce guy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLwb9NePt94

my appetite is telling me to eat a chocolate glazed doughnut all of a sudden. unfortunately there are none nearby.

good idea tho

i have pizza and a piece of melon.

appetite is alive and well these days

appetite fading, having the "nothing hits the spot" problem
kind of a bummer but it has been much worse

You think it's stress this time? Or life boredom?

i'm not bored so probably stress

had the same thing over the last two days - nothing tastes good, and the physical hunger pangs aren't showing up either. it just feels like nothing, and food tastes like nothing. bleh. but i know i'm affected because i have been in a rotten mood and feel like i'm walking among the dead. also last night my gf finally told me to get my shit together and eat something because i was being a grumpy asshole. that was a clear sign.

hopefully today will be better!

yeah that sucks
the worst part is how much worse it gets the longer it goes
sometimes guzzling a smoothie is the easiest way to feel somewhat normal again and then go from there

i went on a solo road trip over the weekend and didn't have a single craving to stop for fries. that's how i know this is real.

i can typically rely on my appetite, it's one constant, i am always up for good food. i get in cooking ruts for sure but if there is good food available i'll want to eat it. even in low moods or during winter w/ my SAD, food is always nourishing and makes me feel better. i guess sometimes when it is SUPER hot out and i am exhausted food does not always appeal.

appetite for other things can wane though. music is usually a constant need for me but sometimes there is little i want to hear or discover, it's pretty rough when that happens and it is often when i am feeling disconnected or unhappy.

well yeah but a waning appetite for music doesn't have the same physical effect as a lack of interest in ingesting food. the worst is when everything, no matter how objectively delicious, feels like a piece of cardboard getting chewed up.

yeah, especially when the food is prepared for you by friends or family or you're at a nice restaurant and you know the dish is objectively delicious but it's not coming through.

that sounds awful. :( i guess i should appreciate my appetite more.

every new year i tell myself that i'm going to put some pounds on this year, and i fail. this year i've just admitted to myself that it's not going to happen. however i'm doing very well with my new pledge to stop biting my nails, so those extra millimeters of nails should add some mass

i can also use my new nail powers to aluminum cans more efficiently, so that could also lead to some +pounds

they don't call it a healthy appetite for nothin'

karl seriously i recommend something you can get into your body with as little fuss as possible -- smoothies are the best thing for me.
frozen fruit, plain kefir, juice, some spinach -- blend thoroughly and guzzle through a big bubble tea straw. repeat for as long as needed until you feel better.

you can't taste the spinach btw

yea this does sound awful

oh, i think i'm already coming out of it. i feel pretty hungry right now, actually, so that's a good sign. generally the winter cycles of this only last a few days, whereas the annual summer version lasts a week or two.

i'm gonna go eat some goddamn pizza, fuck yeah

hell yeah

but smoothies are a great tip - i finally have the necessary gear so maybe it'll be my go-to tactic this year!

Unfortunately, my appetite for food is as healthy as ever.

Sorry LL; I hope your appetite & spirits have a healthy rebound ASAP!

Last year I made the mistake of meeting up with a friend who was in town on a day I was super soul-crushingly depressed and unable to eat anything. My friend decided he wanted to meet up with some of his other friends at a fancy gastropub, where I drank ice water for fifteen minutes before splitting because it was all just so awkward and unpleasant. Blowing a big wad of money on a meal was about the last thing I wanted to do at that point. My gut felt like it was full of rocks. (Maybe it was??)

i've been feeling really bad about how in overdrive my appetite has been the last 3 months, but i try to remind myself of how utterly awful it has been in the past to lose all appetite and physical/mental ability to put anything in my mouth, let alone actually swallow it, when i've been suffering severe anxiety.

i second the rec of smoothies and fat straws - you can add oats and nuts to the blender to make them even more nutritious and meal-like.

liquids are so much easier. i've been drinking a ton of milk.

tonight, late dinner: spoonful of honey. i resent my body's need for food, even sweet stuff is just kind of meh.

sushi is good even when my appetite sucks, though--i should get some soon.

one of the worst things about losing your appetite is the cumulative effect of not being nourished. the longer it goes on, the worse you feel and the less you want to eat. hope you feel better soon!
i wish i knew why sushi was so magical. i guess it's because it's visually appealing, cool, fresh, and delicious.

yesssss but only the good kind ime. I want sushi now but I can only get not-good sushi around here.

Sigh this morning the combo of hot hot weather plus my sunburn from this weekend were making me feel like I might never eat again. Going heavy on the fruit and nuts today. And Starbursts, which are apparently my favorite food this summer.

it happened again :(

They're by their very nature pretty unappetizing but does the idea of meal replacement shakes that allow you to forego eating indefinitely hold any appeal?

yeah they are ok -- i bought some less than a week ago but was hoping i could just hang on to them in the case of an emergency

i mean they're gross but they do provide a bit of fuel
the vegan ones i got at target seem slightly less repulsive

the worst feeling is after managing to eat some food -- i ate it, but i didn't enjoy it at all
i made some tasty lo mein noodles and tofu and barely choked down what i could -- this is the clearest sign that something is wrong bc i LOVE lo mein noodles

do the foods themselves taste different (more/less sweet/salty)? are textures different?

eat terribly like bad diet or loss of appetite?
hi 5 to all my appetite loss amigos :(

often I'll be hungry but unable to muster the desire to eat a specific food, and when I do, it's probably not the healthiest, as my diarrhea diary (speaking of embarrassing) will attest.
I feel like there isn't enough English vocabulary or idioms around appetite and hunger to express what are really very different kinds of discomfort, so they all get lumped in to "i'm hungry/not hungry"
I heard a cool one that translated to "rats running around in my stomach" which is like a specific kind of hunger, right?

i've had very little appetite lately, which makes sense. but i also feel somehow thicker, which seems rude

Sometimes I feel thicker if I haven't been drinking much water (read: tea) and so start retaining water.

I feel like there isn't enough English vocabulary or idioms around appetite and hunger to express what are really very different kinds of discomfort, so they all get lumped in to "i'm hungry/not hungry"
agree

ljub otm re: dehydration

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