I'm just really hungry right now and need distraction

MissSusieQ

Please talk to me.

I've had my dinner, then I've had a snack, and all I'm thinking of is snacks - within reach I have dried apricots, chocolate, yoghurt, muesli. I'm not actually hungry, but man I could eat!!

Feel free to suggest things I can do instead of eating, but I'm definitely against getting active - I've already been to the gym today and my calves are so sore I can barely hobble!

km8907

Take a hot bath and catch up on YouTube videos.

rygar1983

drink tons of water

RainaProske

A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized. ~Fred Allen


Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them. ~H.L. Mencken


A compromise is an agreement whereby both parties get what neither of them wanted. ~Author Unknown


Someone has said: "A conclusion is the place where you get tired of thinking." ~Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962), quoted from a physiology lecture by his University of Cincinnati student Howard D. Fabing in Fischerisms, 1930


A gentleman is a man who can play the accordion but doesn't. ~Author Unknown

RainaProske

1. It is a myth that dogs are color blind. They can actually see in color, just not as vividly as humans. It is akin to our vision at dusk.

2. Dogs DO have better low-light vision than humans because of a special light-reflecting layer behind their retinas

3. A German Shepherd guide dog led her blind companion the entire 2100 mile Appalachian Trail

4. If never spayed or neutered, a female dog, her mate, and their puppies could produce over 66,000 dogs in 6 years!

5. Dogs’ only sweat glands are between their paw pads

6. Like human babies, Chihuahuas are born with a soft spot in their skull which closes with age

7. The breed Lundehune has 6 toes and can close its ears

8. Teddy Roosevelt’s dog, Pete, ripped a French ambassador’s pants off at the White House

9. President Lyndon Johnson had two beagles named Him and Her

10. Franklin Roosevelt spent $15,000 for a destroyer to pick up his Scottie in the Aleutian Islands

neldabg

Hey! What works for me is pausing to take a deep breath first before deciding what to do next. Is it really just boredom hunger or something else? If you get boredom hunger often, perhaps plan your days so that you have room for extra snacks at night and/or plan to have a higher volume dinner and higher volume snack, like popcorn.
I know you say you can't do anything active, but there exist very long and gentle yoga videos on YouTube for even the sorest people, and I personally find that yoga helps alleviate any soreness I have. Pop in some music and meditate. Catch up on work you've been procrastinating.

RainaProske

We have feral cats. Lots of them. I feed them every morning. This year, we started gathering them up, taking them to the Humane Society, where they spay/neuter the adult cats then give them back to us. They spay/neuter the kittens then adopt them out. We have been amazed, upon bringing them back home, how much nicer these cats are to each other since they've been spayed/neutered. They used to fight, fight, fight, but now, for the majority, they lie down together and sleep, and they are nice to one another.

So far, we've had about 12 cats and about 6 kittens taken care of. We have two more kittens (we think) and two more cats to do.

RainaProske

I have two of my own children. When the first one was born, I thought I had to do what the doctors and nurses said. This was in the early '70s, and things were weird. I wanted to do completely natural childbirth, but they talked me into taking something that lasted right up to the final contractions. Another thing they did was come in and take my daughter away whenever they chose and bring her back when they chose.

When my son was born 3.5 years later, things were different. First of all, no drugs. Second, the doctor didn't show up in time for the birth and the intern, who was the only one there, had never done a birth before. Third, he was so nervous, I could see him shaking. I laughed at the poor guy. He responded, "I should be the one laughing, and you should be the one shaking!" But we did just fine delivering my little boy. And when they came to take him away from my room, I told them, "No!" Although it wasn't done back then, I even kept him in my room over night.

RainaProske

Let's see. What else can I write, to keep your mind off . . . well, you know.

I was born in Eureka, CA. It is a little city situated on the Pacific Coast, in the redwood forest. When I was very young there, my father was a lumber jack, felling redwood trees. Back then, we did not understand the importance of conservation, yet they were careful about which trees to cut down; regardless, they cut too many.

I loved the Redwood Forest. We would occasionally go camping there, and Father would leave our camp early in the morning, after he'd had coffee and breakfast. I would wake up to find that father had left half a cup of coffee in his mug for me. I would pour it up the rest of the way with milk, add two teaspoons of sugar, and that was very special for me.

After a little while, I would hear, from a long distance, my father shout out in his wonderful deep voice, "Timber!" The forest would hush. I would hear breaking limbs, breaking limbs, then WHUMP! The tree would fall.

On most of these trips, Father would leave with my older brothers. They would come back hours later. I didn't know what they were doing while away -- mother would not tell me. But one day, after they had come back and we'd had lunch, they accidentally let me wander away from the camp, alone. Out in the trees, I came across what I was not supposed to see: a beautiful deer with huge brown eyes, lying dead beside a tree. Then, I knew what Father and my brothers had done. Looking into the deer's eyes, I felt an encompassing sadness and guilt. Guilt, because I knew the deer would be dinner for the next weeks.

I've never hunted.

KetoneKaren

I have a funny granddaughter. She stayed overnight recently so her mom gave her permission to skip swim practice at 7:30 a.m. the next morning. She got up and decided she wanted to go, so I took her to swim practice. Afterwards, she said, "Grammy, I would like to walk home." She is 7, and it's a mile home from her neighborhood pool. So I crept along in the car while she walked home. She is a funny little goose!

RainaProske

My daughter, when she was little, used to sit in front of the mirror on her dresser and practice her sad looks while she cried. I caught her at it several times. Hee-hee-hee!

RainaProske

My son, age seven, came to me in church, after he had been praying there. He was grinning. He said, "I was going to tell G-D a joke, then I realized He already knew the punchline!"

RainaProske

Interesting factoids about George Washington

1. Education (or Lack Thereof)
George Washington started school when he was 6 years old. He left school at 15 to become a surveyor because his mother couldn't afford to send him to college.

2. Family Life
At 26, he married Martha Dandridge Custis, a widow who already had two children, Jacky and Patsy. Washington never had any children of his own.

3. Reaching Great Heights
At 6 feet, 2 inches tall and 200 pounds, he was one of our biggest presidents.

4. Favorite Foods
Some of his favorite dishes were cream of peanut soup, mashed sweet potatoes with coconut, and string beans with mushrooms.

5. Canine Crush
He bred hound dogs that he treated like members of the family. He gave some of them unusual names: Tartar, Truelove, and Sweet Lips.

6. What Ailed Him
Toothaches bothered him for years. When he was 57, he had all his teeth pulled. From then on, he wore ivory false teeth set in a silver plate.

7. Future Home Base
Although he helped plan the nation's new capital city that was named for him, he never lived there. New York City and, later, Philadelphia were the nation's capitals while he was president.

RainaProske

My first husband and I got married when we were very young. I was 19 and he was barely 21. Furthermore, I had no idea how to cook -- not really -- and I initially did not work outside our home. I was, then, the "chief cook and bottle washer."

One day, I decided to bake bread. From the same (very large) recipe, I made a braid, a couple large loaves, a couple small loaves, and some rolls. They were beautiful, and I was a very proud new bride.

My husband came home to the whole apartment fragrant with the bread. We were so excited! We decided to cut into one of the large loaves for dinner.

He took the loaf and began to cut. Try to cut. Really, really try! Both of us were speechless! The knife would not go through it! After some laughter and discussion, he asked me if I would mind if he threw the loaf at the wall, just to see what would happen. I was curious, too, so I said, "Okay!"

He threw the bread at the wall, and it bounced off, hitting the 'fridge.

Now, I can't prove this, but neither he nor I had ever seen that dent in the refrigerator door before that moment!

So we couldn't eat the bread, but it was all very pretty. We kept it several months as kitchen decorations. Not even mold would eat it -- we had it for a long time!

RainaProske

Well, that's enough for me.

Keladelphia

RainaProske wrote: »

Well, that's enough for me.

I have to commend your effort to provide distraction. I'm not even the OP and I definitely was distracted The bread story made me LOL.

KetoneKaren

My friend made yogurt all the time. Her 6 y.o son wanted yogurt. She had about 1/4 cup left, plus enough to start the next batch, so she gave him the 1/4 cup of plain yogurt. Her 10 y.o. daughter started whining about her brother getting yogurt and insisting that her mom give her what was left. My friend had already had it up to her eyebrows that day with her daughter, so she threw the yogurt at her (not the container, she held on to that). Now, my friend is usually a really great mother and in fact the daughter in question is now 40 and a confident successful woman...but my friend just lost it that day. The daughter was so shocked she started crying and then started laughing hysterically and then the mother started laughing and the two of them cleaned up the mess together and had a good talk and cry and laugh with each other. Crazy!

_incogNEATo_

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RainaProske

KetoneKaren wrote: »

My friend made yogurt all the time. Her 6 y.o son wanted yogurt. She had about 1/4 cup left, plus enough to start the next batch, so she gave him the 1/4 cup of plain yogurt. Her 10 y.o. daughter started whining about her brother getting yogurt and insisting that her mom give her what was left. My friend had already had it up to her eyebrows that day with her daughter, so she threw the yogurt at her (not the container, she held on to that). Now, my friend is usually a really great mother and in fact the daughter in question is now 40 and a confident successful woman...but my friend just lost it that day. The daughter was so shocked she started crying and then started laughing hysterically and then the mother started laughing and the two of them cleaned up the mess together and had a good talk and cry and laugh with each other. Crazy!

This reminded me. I didn't believe in spanking my children, so much of my way of disciplining included humor. One day, we were at the local ice cream parlor, and my daughter put an ice cube between her thumb and finger, shooting it at me. I told her not to do that. She did it again. So I threw the water in my glass at her. I had always taught the children to be good patrons in restaurants, etc., so she was shocked. We laughed, but she never did that again.

Hey! Where's the OP, @MissSusieQ ???

Caitlinbc

Drink a big glass of water or brush your teeth. Also, put away all snacks in cupboards. That way they aren't out to tempt you.

Try watching Netflix, adult coloring books, reading, give yourself a manicure, play a game on your tablet/smartphone or learn a new language.