your appetite

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?

tastes the same, nothing is different except for my reaction to it
it's not like i have some kind of food dysphoria -- i'm not hallucinating

is it more anhedonia or active nausea? I feel like with the former it's more like indifference, but choked down sounds like the latter.

b

are the stereotypical "eat apples/toast/crackers when you have stomach flu" lineup of foods easier to get down?

yeah usually - that's what i have been eating
this is a little embarrassing
are you a doctor?!

nope! just a dude who eats terribly and sometimes suffers for it. it's been awhile since appetite, hunger, and the food in front of me have aligned.

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