- Username
- Turtle123
- Date posted
- 5y ago
I have the same issue too. I don’t have time to eat and i struggle for the want to eat. I usually don’t eat a lot and I am upset with that. I relate to the dinner so much. Something that helped me pushed to eat was using an app the helped me count my calories. I got see what I ate and it helped me plan out the calories I needed (I would eat 3000 at one point hurray). I stopped so I’m back to point one. But it is very useful to plan your meals. Try having peanut butter to eat with your breakfast and cereal. Just mix or dip your mini wheats into the peanut butter and drink all of the milk in your bowl. I always found it easier to drink milk after my meal. Buy some snacks to snack on during the day when you are hungry. Set some timers. I am sorry but if you feel like you can’t take anymore bites, you have to. Force yourself to. Eventually you will get used to eating more and more. I at one point would gag if I ate too much. Good luck (: I gained about 4 pounds doing this! I used LifeSum. I love it a lot! Please be safe,, take breaks eating if it’s too much. We will be right here with you. You’re not alone.?
Thank you so very much that was really great advice, thank you ?
Can you explain to me why you feel that way?
It’s the anxiety
I don’t know, I used to love eating, fruits, vegetables, pizza anything. Now I’m hungry but nothing, including fruit or really anything looks good and I don’t want to eat, so I don’t. I need to be eating as well, as I am doing ballet and conditioning everyday. I don’t eat breakfast and I hardly have anything for lunch, maybe a muffin or sandwich, sometimes nothing, but that’s it. For dinner I hardly eat at all because I don’t want to. I know I need to eat but can’t seem to make myself. All I ate today was cereal and a quarter of what my mom made for dinner. Frosted mini wheats with milk is the only thing I can bring myself to eat and it’s really frustrating, because I’m hungry but can’t bring myself to eat. I have had some minor issues with loss of appetite, if that is what this is, but I was always able to find something to eat for every meal. A while back about two years, I had severe emetephobia and wouldn’t eat anything, and I got used to it, and I was probably 20lbs underweight and working out for 3+ hours a day. I really hope that I am not going back to this because it was awful. Thank you for taking the time to read this, this was very long and all over the place.
Ps. It’s easier to eat if you face things you like (:
Can't eat cos Contamination OCD says that nothing has been cooked correctly and I end up burning everything I cook. Fml I'm hungry, sorry I'm just done with this illness. I don't want to get sick by eating something but screw it, I haven't eaten in two days you know? Rant over, take care guys :)
I’ve struggled with disorderly eating in the past (I.e. avoiding meals, feeling guilty about eating, becoming very thin, etc). Luckily I was able to get it under control, and I’m okay now. It’s hot, and my family are in bad moods because of the heat. I had my lunch at 12, and it’s like quarter to 6 as I write this. I’ve not snacked, and I literally had a piece of toast for my lunch, and no breakfast. I asked my family when they were going to make dinner, and my mum scowled at me and was like, ‘how are you hungry?’… I was shocked and said that I’ve literally only ate a piece of toast, and I said that was nearly 6 hours ago, and she just looks at me and goes, ‘Why does everything have to be on a timeline with you?’ I don’t ever talk about ‘times’, so she’s clearly just trying to find something to justify why she’s so angry for no reason. Anyway, I know this is irrational but I can feel some of my old thoughts and feelings sneaking in…, like, ‘maybe you shouldn’t be hungry’, ‘maybe you’ve gained weight, that’s why she’s saying that’, etc. I don’t know… can someone give me some advice?
I feel like I’m living in my own personal hell right now. Everyday, all day, my thoughts are focused on food. My brain is stuck in a cycle of fearing eating and I want it to be over, but I don’t know how to get unstuck! It’s basically like, “Okay the wife told me that we’re having pizza for dinner tonight… but am I in the mood for that? Will I have an appetite for that later? What if I don’t have an appetite and I try to eat it and the texture feels gross in my mouth and I gag or vomit? What if the smell of the pizza makes me feel nauseous? Oh god, but if I don’t eat dinner my blood sugar will get low and it’ll make me feel worse and I’ll get more anxious, so I’m gonna have to eat the pizza to feel okay, but now the pressure of eating this pizza is stressing me out!!” And it’s like that all the time!! I’m trying to push through and not pay the spiraling any mind and just eat like normal, but it’s hard when something that’s such a simple task feels like a herculean struggle, and it doesn’t seem to be getting any better :(
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