#decreased appetite

[kelliaellis]

OMG - Her Appetite!

I started talking to a new fellow in October, and started seeing each other in late February. So he’s really only seen my Rexulti appetite. Last weekend, for Canada Day I went over for pool, dinner & fireworks. I grabbed breakfast on my way to his place. He was surprised that I had waited so long to finally eat cuz it was early afternoon. On the Rexulti, I was downing at least one full bowl of…

[weewooooweew]

stomach is screaming at me

[do-you-have-a-flag]

i'm not looking for advice from anyone who isn't a professional i seek out myself (in the process) but i wanted to just find a straight forward list/reference guides for foods that fit certain nutritional criteria and it is SO HARD to find something that isn't combined with a bunch of lifestyle stuff

like, i have no interest in diet culture, i'm looking to alter my PERSONAL diet and to do that i need just basic info

what i am NOT looking for is: combining nutritional info with calorie counting, specific exercise regiments, diet recipes, irrelevant dietary info

while these are varyingly useful to many people they are not what i specifically need, because i am not interested in fast weight loss i am interested in something i can maintain long term

and i KNOW the best way to do that is to start from what i am already doing and build positive momentum

i don't want to start by cutting out foods and substituting in things i don't normally eat, that's just combining a loss of something familiar with the risk of not liking or being bad at cooking something new.

so i am starting by reducing some foods or preparing them differently, the only substitutions i am making is based on time not food type as a lot of the less healthy things i eat i eat out of time/MONEY convenience.

I am starting by changing preparation style, i am prioritising pre-planning over last minute convenience, i am picking more of what i make myself, i am reducing the frequency of certain ingredients, I am cooking for myself rather than whatever my parents have made, i am switching some ingredients i like for other ingredients i like.

I don't actually eat all that poorly but the biggest pitfall i have to watch for is convenience (some call it laziness but that's a needlessly negative spin on a grander issue of limited energy and resources) . speedy preparation and eating based on what is already cooked or ready to snack is where the actual foods i need to cut out are. I don't actually have to cut anything dramatic as of yet and I already like experimenting with recipes.

there is no need to switch to boring or bland food, I wanna focus on more conscious cooking rather than limiting options.

and while the exercise i do participate in is good i'm far too infrequent with it so motivation/consistency is the name of the game there

and it's hard because there's so much to filter out when I just want like... here's a filter you can search by food item to check against various nutritional qualities. when i want a guide on how to safely do certain low impact variations on exercise for days when i can't go take a 5 hour hike.

I don't want specific recipes, i don't wan't lifestyle motivation, i don't want diet culture or fitness culture. i want common sense guidelines so i can work with what i have and be safe about it until i am able to get personalised advice from a reliable professional source.

i don't even have specific goals because i don't wanna get fixated on numbers, my goals are like "get the one number from your blood test you were warned about to within healthy range" and "find a cardio/strength based exercise routine that you can maintain without getting bored"

like, major respect to people whose hobby is fitness or nutrition, i'm not looking for a hobby i am looking for the health equivalent of background music, something i can integrate into my daily life and enjoy while still going about my regular activities.

[doukeshi-kun]

some eating related stuff in the tags

thank you for the kind words in the asks. i wanna keep them all and not lose them in the posting. but i really appreciate them.

[party-gilmore]

“I’m aware these new meds’ most common side effect is significantly decreased appetite but like i barely notice the warning signs of hunger with the ADHD anyway until i’m ravenous enough to pull out of hyper fixation mode. except now i’ll actually be able to focus and remember shit lol i can just choose set times to make sure i eat because i know, logically, i will need to eat at those times.”

[experiences an entirely new, previously unfathomable level of deep-seated pure and complete unawareness of any level of appetite or hunger or desire to eat at all until suddenly struck by a bout of dizziness weakness and nausea, wobbling a little side to side as the realization sets in that over the past extremely frantic and busy day and half, the grand sum total of consumed food has been a cream cheese bagel and half a cheeseburger]

“…oh.”

[mortimer]

gonna have to pack lunch for the next semester and i had to go to the website of an occupational therapist for autistic children to find ideas that sounded like things i know i can prep/eat outer than instant noodle OTL

[leolaroot]

it's all so funny

[ghostzzy]

does anyone else get extremely nauseated or pukey when they're hypomanic

[fatcowboys]

god i thought that i was out of my cheese bread sticks safe food which was devastating bc thats All i want to eat rn but im NOT!!! i have exactly One more. i can eat dinner

[glitterandmoondustofficial]

Not to be dramatic but I’m dying 😵‍💫

[hauntedwoman]

every morning i wake up and take my meds that actually make me feel so much worse !!!

[bitchapalooza]

I'm not very worried about myself now, they're talking about major surgery for my mom

[junipercastor]

the way my fatigue has generally been a little better since i started making myself eat again 😭 and my mental health.. ugh

[all-i-do-is-try1]

I haven’t been able to do much I’m in so much physical pain from over exerting my body plus a migrane

[feralgayemo]

sometimes i wonder if being severely underweight in 1st and 2nd grade stunted my growth. if i had been a normal weight at 6 years old would i be my mom's height right now. was there really a future where i could have been as tall as 5'2