So, I started my diet back up last Monday. Before that I had binged for a couple of weeks. While I would love to tell you that I started up again due to a desire to be healthy, in actuality, I just haven't been hungry.
I've always been one of those people who LOVES food. I think about what I'm going to eat far before it's time to eat it. If I have a bag of chips open I'll keep eating it until it's all gone. But for the past two weeks I've had no desire to eat stuff. For instance, I'll get hunger pangs and I'm like, oh I haven't eaten yet! What should I have? And the second I start to think about food the hunger pang goes away. I've never in my life had a hunger pang before because I've never not eaten before (did that make sense?).
Has anyone else ever experienced this? I'm still eating my minimum amount of calories every day but only because I know I should-not because I WANT to. I can't decide if this is normal (i.e. the way skinny people always feel) or if something is wrong with me...lol. Sad that I wouldn't be able to tell the difference.
While I haven't been through this exact situation, I can say that sometimes I just don't want to eat. I know that I should and all that, but my body just doesn't feel like having anything. It's been happening more often lately, so I'm curious to see if other people have this happen too...
I can tell you that I have read about this happening to others here at 3FC. It's a fairly common thing. Are you eating things that low on the Glycemic Index. When I stick to the low foods, I experience the loss of "gravitating towards food" thing myself.
On a related note, I never force myself to eat nowadays. If I am not hungry, I trust my body. Lord knows there have been many-uh-day in my existence to eat when I WASN'T hungry!
I don't know what the glycemic index is! Hmm...I don't know. I'm eating the same stuff now I've always had when I dieted in the past. I just have no cravings for stuff like I normally do. I'm the type of person who will think about raisin bran and then I HAVE to have it! But not at all recently.
I hate to eat when I'm not hungry bc I'm trying to train myself to only eat when I am hungry (trying to change my relationship with food). But I know that I have to eat. I've stuck to about 1200 calories a day...some days slightly less (like 50 or so under). So I'm not too concerned about that. I'm just hoping this lasts! It's much easier to diet when I'm not constantly thinking about food!
I feel like i have been going through something similar, however it started after i began dieting... the past couple of weeks i have had no appetite to eat, no hunger pains, no cravings for certain food, and for almost a week i was under my weight watchers points range! this has never happened to me before, this week is a bit different i have been a bit hungrier and i think that my mind and body were just adjusting to eating a lot less! overall lets embrace this opportunity to NOT OVEREAT!
Girl I would kill right now for a no appetite...haha!!! I would do that a lot in the past when I wasnt working out as hard about a wk or so after my period would end I wouldnt have much of an appetite. Try to keep healthy snacks around like peanut butter and apples or nuts that you can snack on to get some nutrition.
Sometimes I'll spend the last hour or two at work thinking about nothing but dinnerdinnerdinner, and then the second I get in the kitchen and smell my food I'm not hungry anymore! But then, once I start eating I definitely remember how badly I needed to refuel the tank.
It's great that you're not constantly hungry (I've recently experienced a decrease in appetite from the magic of Maalox--but that just means I wasn't really hungry before!) If you're worried about getting enough nutrition, I would make it a rule of thumb to eat a little something every X hours to keep your blood sugar up. The X varies from person to person--for me three is a good number, and six is the absolute limit.
I should have read this before I posted my new thread.
I feel the same way. I got over my binge-eating, eating because i'm bored, eating because I'm upset hump.... and now I don't feel like eating, period.
before, I would eat when I was upset, but now, it's the opposite. Recently at work, my managers basically chastised me for doing poorly in my position (and I feel that their actions are making me slip in my position, and that I'm doing quite well), and I didn't eat that whole day until 9pm when I got off work. I was just so angry I couldn't eat. It's so weird.
Loss of Appetite?
