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Tufted Titmouse
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 Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2008 11:52 pm Post subject: Forgetting to Eat? |
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This may sound funny, but does anyone else become so engrossed in projects that they forget to eat, then suddenly find themselves very hungry and shout something like, "Ah! That's right, food. Damn it!"?
Sometimes even after remembering I'm very hungry I still want to finish something and so continue on working only to forget again. What makes the doubly worse is that I'm terrible at keeping my apartment stocked with the basics, and usually have to go out for a meal.
Thank you 7/11 on the corner. |
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Orwell
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Yeah, I do that fairly often. I don't even necessarily have to be extremely engrossed in a project as just not thinking about food when it would be convenient for me to eat. If I don't eat when I'm hungry, the sensation of hunger goes away after a bit. I typically only eat when both conditions are met: a) I feel hunger, and b) food is easily and conveniently available. As a result, I will commonly miss several meals in a row by accident, and then suddenly realize "Oh crap, I haven't eaten in a while. I should probably get on that." It doesn't help that the dining hall closes so damn early at my school.
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Electric_Kite
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| Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2008 11:58 pm Post subject: |
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GeneralDisarray
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I do.
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Taly
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| Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 12:08 am Post subject: |
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| I do it a lot. And there are weeks that I only drink coffee and eat dark chocolate. I ususally lose weight than in the other week eat a lot. |
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Carbonhalo
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Yep... that's me...
I'd be interested to note everyone's body type... I'd be thin... except I'm 6'6"...so I look skinny.
I survive on sweetened tea with half milk... and dinner.
Never eat breakfast.. rarely remember lunch..
Speaking of which... it's 3 PM and I havent eaten yet... better scratch up something.  |
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GeneralDisarray
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I'm underweight and am on a fairly strict mealplan. Often, when I do forget to eat something, I freak out and don't know what to do, or what to eat. I'm working on it with my nutritionist.
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Aurore
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| Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 12:22 am Post subject: |
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I rarely eat. But when I do, it's always in a massive amount. I loves me mah foodz...
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Pithlet
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| Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 12:39 am Post subject: |
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| Yes, on my days off. At work it's much easier to remember to eat on schedule since my work doesn't interest me. On my days off though, if I'm doing things by myself I often forget to eat my first meal until I get a splitting headache to remind me. I love to eat, I'll just get totally absorbed in something else. I need to stop doing this though because my blood sugar drops way low even when I eat on a normal schedule. |
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Unknown_Quantity
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Yes. Less so now, but when I was younger I didn't actually associate hunger with food. I'd get aches and pains in my stomach and I'd just ignore them, then I'd realise the last time I ate was yesterday or sometimes the day before.
I'm much the same with drinking. I'd forget to drink water and get terrible dehydration migraines. Addiction to caffeine as a teenager/young adult helped both problems to a certain extent, because I would actually have an association that would remind me, "wow, I could really go for a couple of litres of frosty cold Coke right about now!"
Damn, now I actually do feel like a frosty cold Coke and I haven't drunk coke in over five years!
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IdahoRose
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| Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 1:43 am Post subject: |
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| I used to be that way when I was younger. My mom would get worried about me because I forgot to eat sometimes. |
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IdahoRose
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| Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 1:44 am Post subject: |
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| I used to forget to eat a lot when I was younger. I remember my mom would have to remind me. |
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Irada
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| Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 1:58 am Post subject: |
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I forget all the time >.<
Luckily for me I generally "zone" back in just before I start to starve. |
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sgrannel
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| Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 2:02 am Post subject: |
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Yes, eating, drinking and sleeping, if fact I'm awake now at 2 am. Very erratic.
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poopylungstuffing
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| Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 2:03 am Post subject: |
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not in many years..in fact, I went through phases where food was an obsession and I could not stop thinking about eating...but as a small child, I did all the time...I was often sent to the cafteria to get a snack by my teacher because I would wind up dizzy from hunger...
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