#I've looked at those super simple cheater recipes and like.... thats still too much work

[salamanders-please]

This. Why must i eat again?? I just ate 4 hours ago??

Plus if i don't want to live off frozen dinners and takeout, i have to cook for myself. Planning meals and cooking is exhausting in itself. So eating becomes doubly exhausting if i have to cook. But i worry about becoming sick of my current staples, etc.

I can mostly force myself to eat these days, even though i don't want to (because the consequences are i feel like garbage if i don't). But cooking? For just myself? That's a special kind of torture I'm rarely able to suffer.

I wish i could at least like one or the other. If anyone has tips on how they've reframed cooking or eating in their minds or been able to do it with less pain, please let me know lol

Maybe it's ARFID but eating food is such an exhausting experience. Not just because a limited diet means you get tired of eating the same stuff eventually, or that trying new things is a painful experience. But also the constant cycle of needing to fuel your body when you just don't want to. I know there are some people who are addicted to food, but I've got the total opposite problem. Dont get me wrong, there are some foods I love! But if I could go the rest of my life without hunger or needing food.. I'd probably do it.