My doctor looked at me like I was a lunatic when I said that I eat exclusively out of habit. It’s interesting to find others in a similar boat.
Far better than eating out of boredom :/
I eat because my colleagues look at me weird when it’s the 5 th time I forget to eat in a week
ADHD time blindness.
That feel when you go too long without eating so when you do finally realize you’re starving you eat way too much and feel miserable after.
Psssh IMO the concept of time itself is far less natural than the ADHD it molests.
I didn’t realize this was a thing until a couple of years ago. I thought I was just cold when it turns out it’s just my body telling me I’m hungry
Damn I wish, I’m more like: Body: I’m hungry Brain: but I just ate a child sized burrito Body: don’t care, want more Brain: yeah you’re right, we should probably eat some more
Genuinely, what got me out of such feelings was to not eat for a day or two a few times (not in a row).
Learning the difference between real hunger and “stomach is just empty” made a BIG difference. I can basically ignore first-world hunger now without even trying. Also probably omeprasole helped, since a highly acidic stomach sucks and can turn normal hunger pains in to nasty heartburn that only certain foods can quench.
At the moment eating a lot is very advantagous to me, I know a couple of people who are way too skinny because they do tons of exercise and don’t eat enough. And some who will just chug some olive oil because calories. But I’m a healthy weight and I get to eat all the time, I’d say it’s a good position to be in.
I’ve been more in this camp for most of my life. I have no solutions, the only thing that worked for me was HRT.
Just need a little bit of gender fluid to make things right lol
Interesting, how does the HRT help? Like this?
I basically never felt satiated from eating, nor did my brain tell me what nutrients I needed. Nowadays, I will literally not be hungry for certain types of food while craving others.
For example, I used to eat an excess of greasy or unhealthy food in order to feel full (satisfy my nutrient requirements). If I tried that now on estrogen, I would not even want to eat most of the greasy food. I feel queazy at the thought of eating cake if I had any sugar that day, or of eating a burger two days in a row. I instead crave unprocessed vegetables or fruit. It’s like my brain actually communicates what my body needs for the first time in my life.
Brain: You get water until you stop complaining
“I stood up from a squat quickly and feel light headed, I should probably eat something.”
That’s most likely just normal blood pressure fluctuations. Hypoglycemia is straight up concerning in feeling. Like worse than vertigo.
A little light headed is perhaps a bit of an understatement to what I feel sometimes. Sometimes it’s “op, almost lost consciousness there for a second”
Drink more water, get sufficient salt. This happens to me sometimes if I forget those and I’m a 6’/200lb dude. It’s pretty embarrassing having to sit down quickly on a diirty work floor to avoid slamming face first unconscious into said floor.
Can confirm. I have low blood pressure (runs in the family), and I always need to make sure I’m drinking a lot of water and consuming enough salt or I’ll get crazy vertigo after standing up. Stay safe people!
Some people with blood pressure issues can literally black out if they stand up too fast. The point is the fleetingness of it. If it’s only for a second or few, it’s most likely not electrolytes nor blood sugar issues.
100%
Double-whammy’d my appetite with blowing up my liver and losing my smell.
The only draw to eat is:
- oh shit I’m shaking it’s been days
- weed
i wish i were dis…
but instead i drink about 6 liters of water but am STILL hungy… grrrr
When I was younger I had a really fast metabolism, so it was very hard for me to gain weight. People always told me I was lucky, but I would explain that it comes at a price. If I skipped a meal, I would get the shakes and start to get a headache.
I hate it, I can’t skip meals because it makes me feel terrible and I can’t gain weight to look a bit chubby… I wish i could gain weight ffs
Used to be me. I grew up during heroine chic so it was intentional fasting. Gaining even a pound was unacceptable. That behavior stuck around even though nobody cares anymore. These days, I have rice cakes throughout the day, so I don’t get the shakes. And those little power bar gels.
Shakes likely come from a lack of electrolytes. Multivitamins and/or good sports drinks (ones that aren’t loaded with sugar and have more than a bunch of salt) would help more than rice cakes or most power bars.
Makes sense, I didn’t know that. The power bar gels I eat at basically electrolytes and a little caffeine.
Ahh, they sound reasonably handy to keep around then. Just remember there are quite a few kinds of electrolytes, used for different purposes. https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diagnostics/21790-electrolytes salt is just the tip of the iceberg!
I had no idea. Tyvm for the info.
I lost 100lbs living like this. I even passed out once. Good times.
Holy crap, what weight did you start at?
Start? About 7lbs, 14 oz.
Ended up around 300 when I was 30. Then went back down to 200 at about 34.
Lol cheeky. Seriously though, that’s awesome and actually doesn’t sound too unhealthy in the long run. Gratz on the healthier bod!
Easy. Just don’t eat 👌
On holiday and I almost collapsed while ordering a doner kebab in Helsinki yesterday because I forgot to eat after walking around the city for 5 hours straight lol. This meme resonated hard
Snake meal. One meal a day usually. Sometimes I skip it.
but how much do you eat in that meal
About 60-3000 calories, depends if I’ve got time to do more than grab an apple
How many calories is in 1 cup of dry rice once it’s cooked?
Cuz that’s my normal meal. Just white rice. With soy sauce and hot sauce if I have it. Once every other week or so I’ll make some pinto beans to have with my rice. But the rice is always there.
My unsolicited advice: Splurge on a bottle of multivitamins, take one with your rice meals. If you’re missing those vitamins and nutrients you’ll feel a positive difference within a few weeks.
are you ok
I’m great.
This post is calling me out, HELP
It was real wild to just kinda lose hunger, but it has done wonders for my dieting. It’s real easy to lose weight when stuff like shakes are the only way my body tells me I haven’t eaten.
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