[leach]

I’ve been moderately depressed recently and it’s been really ruining my appetite. I have the worst eating habits in the life right now, and I’m unsure how to fix it.

For reference i was always underweight, and medication i was taking was suppressing my appetite. I switched medications and ate WAY more. Was getting to a healthy weight, and i got COVID and that kinda ruined my appetite. Since then it’s almost been a chore to eat. Even when I’m hungry i struggle with what to eat, then i just don’t eat enough of it. My body will physically say “no more”

I think if i start eating a couple smaller meals throughout the day and then a bigger meal at night i can get back into the habit of eating regularly. It really is a struggle trying to think of what to eat though, and i usually go fasting all day until i NEED to eat.

[the_only_law]

> I’ve been moderately depressed recently and it’s been really ruining my appetite. I have the worst eating habits in the life right now, and I’m unsure how to fix it

God I've been here for years, and haven't figured it out let. I don't like big meals, and I don't like standard schedule. I'd prefer just to snack throughout the day, but that's somewhat difficult to do in a way that's both healthy and appealing. My hunger occurs at random often extremely inconvenient times. I also just don't have the motivation, especially reading these other comments. Life if already boring enough without eating the same thing day after day.

[leach]

Yeah it’s definitely annoying thinking of what to eat everyday, i especially hate spending money to eat two bites and not want to eat at all after.

I’ve been trying to train my body to get hungry at “normal” times. I kinda hate breakfast, always have, but now I’ll eat a piece of fruit i enjoy in the morning. Later on in the day I’ll try and eat something else that’s small and i enjoy. My thought process is that if i continue to do this my body will start to crave food at that time and my appetite may come back.

I’ve had varying degrees of success so far, i don’t have the habit of the small healthy snacks yet so i keep having to remember. I think i may set up a bot to text me to eat at X time.

The depression definitely doesn’t help, hard to motivate to eat when you’re low. Dealing with that in parallel should help. When i can exercise again I’ll probably start doing that too for 30 minutes a day to build up an appetite.