Do you 'forget' to eat lunch?

Jruzer

Story time.

Back when Mrs Jruzer and I were engaged, I was invited to go along on a shopping trip with her and her mother to help pick some things out for the wedding. I was reluctant, so they sweetened the pot with the promise of a restaurant lunch at the conclusion of the trip. Sold!

After many hours of shopping, we were done. Now being very hungry, I asked where we should go for lunch. And they both laughed at me! "It's too late for lunch", they scoffed, as if that were the silliest question they ever heard. I was beyond pissed - they'd totally screwed me over!

I'm still resentful about this, more than 20 years later, and I occasionally still bring it up with my good lady wife. Don't get between me and lunch.

Treece68

I have never forgotten to eat. I have experienced no appetite, and I have been to busy to eat but I get to a point I can't function without food and have to eat something if it is to late in the day I will eat a spoonful of peanut butter or some cheese until dinner. I have also experienced days where I am hungry all day no matter what I eat.

annaskiski

oolou wrote: »

annaskiski wrote: »

So Amy Schumer did a humorous bit a while back, about people who 'forget' to eat lunch. She said something like, "those words have literally, never come out of my mouth".

I thought that this was hilarious, because while I have sometimes skipped lunch on purpose, I have never 'forgotten' to eat lunch.

Of course my husband (who I am convinced is a mutant) has frequently forgotten to eat lunch. He also has never had a weight problem.

So confess, do you forget to eat lunch, and do have/have you had, a weight problem?

I remember hearing that joke and loved it too - have you seen her sketch on the perfect diet - slap chef? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfsAi95ghuU

Yup, never forgotten to eat lunch! I deliberately miss meals, rather than forget about them.

that was awesome! Thanks!

amusedmonkey

Machka9 wrote: »

amusedmonkey wrote: »

I'm wondering if by "lunch" people mean a set meal time. I consider anything between morning and noon "breakfast", anything between noon and evening "lunch" and anything evening and later "dinner". I may effectively forget to eat at exactly 12 if I'm too focused on something, but it's still lunch to me if I eat it at 3.

When I've forgotten "lunch", I mean that I might head into the library to research at 11 am and emerge at 4 pm thinking to myself, "Odd ... why am I hungry? ........ Oh look at the time!!

Yeah, that's true forgetting. Never happened to me.

fiercefit76

Back in high school when my lunch break consisted of chain smoking cigarettes in my mini van in the school parking lot..I was skinny af too. I would skip eating lunch all the time then. I was intermittent fasting before I knew what intermittent fasting was. At 3 pm I'd hit up the vending machine to grab a coca cola and Doritos to eat in class.

Carlos_421

I've never considered it "forgetting to eat" but there have been rare occasions when I was super into what I was doing and lost track of time and only when the hunger pangs really kicked in hard did I realize "oh snap, it's 4pm, no wonder I'm hungry..."

nevadavis1

I never forget. I'm starving by then. But a few times I've been forced to postpone it until I'll just wait for dinner, due to work. But mostly, even if work is busy, I'm starving and find a way to eat my lunch.

nevadavis1

PS yes, I have a weight problem

FilterTube

I usually forget to eat dinner, but that is because I have really heavy lunches.
...that I never forget.

fbchick51

Before this year, I would have answered never. But since modifying what I eat and being more consistent with my life time workouts, it happens quite often. Amazing what getting a decent amount of fiber per meal can do for ya!

Speaking of, I should probably eat some lunch now.

hooperuk

I follow 16:8 fasting so eat between 12pm-8pm, so I miss "breakfast" Sometimes if Im busy and cant get food then I might not eat til 1-2pm but I usually make sure I have set some time aside to eat on time. I dont get people who can "forget" to eat. My mum was someone who never got hungry, I never understand people like that lol

JeepHair77

Sometimes. It hasn't happened in the last year or two, because I've been focused on eating at a deficit, or recomping, or whatever. But before that? Yeah, I would forget a meal sometimes. Lunch, maybe, if work was really busy, or even dinner, when I was single and didn't need to feed anyone else. If I'd had a pretty big lunch and never got "hungry," I'd totally forget dinner.

GottaBurnEmAll

kwaasen wrote: »

GottaBurnEmAll wrote: »

I do skip breakfast on purpose to help manage my calories now, if that counts.

Oh! Doesn't that affect your energy levels or give you cravings later on?

No, I run for 3 miles and walk for 2 every morning and then go without eating for another good 5-6 hours after that. In fact, most days I get 16-18K steps in before I eat my first meal. It doesn't affect my energy levels at all.

I don't get cravings later either.

I found the reverse to be true. I've found eating first thing in the morning sort of turned on my appetite switch and made me hungrier throughout the day. Delaying my first meal keeps my appetite on a more even keel.

papercut2k

I skip, never forget. My stomach won't let me.

BusyRaeNOTBusty

I feel like I think about food way too much. I'm always planning for and thinking about the next meal or snack. That being said I've never had a serious weight problem. But I just can't fathom people who plan things without including food. My husband's family planned a funeral that ran from 10am with a "luncheon" at 4pm. This was so weird to me. I seriously sneaked in subs to the church kitchen and told everyone they were there. People appreciated it. I know it was a funeral and they were obviously grieving but this isn't something I'd ever do.

Machka9

BusyRaeNOTBusty wrote: »

But I just can't fathom people who plan things without including food.

And yet I wonder why people feel the need to include food in events. I've worked in offices where it is expected that there will be a plate of cookies or donuts or something on the table during the meeting, and I think ... why?

I also used to tell people that if they wanted to get together with me, or catch up with me, they could get on their bicycles and ride with me. Their suggestions were usually going out for coffee or something.

That social aspect of food intrigues and puzzles me.

KimmalyS

Ahhhh I cannot even begin to understand how someone would forget to eat! Eating is what I do best! Haha
I don't care how busy one might be, your body naturally reminds you when you need to eat and drink.
Cmon now

CattOfTheGarage

Perhaps when I was in labour. But then I had no idea what time it was, or what day it was. Also, I was on a drip.

Apart from that, never. I've skipped meals a few times, but only at times of very extreme stress (like death-of-close-family type stress), and I always thought about the meal, maybe even made it, but just couldn't eat it.

Generally an unfamiliar concept to me.

timeforwork

I oftern forget a meal and more times than not it's lunch. If iv had a biggish breakfast and a busy day it just doesn't cross my mind. Unfortunately the second I remember iv forgotton to eat my body/ mind or maybe both start to panic so I'll eat dinner as normal then without meaning to all pick all evening mindlessly finishing packs of biscuits sweets Ice cream tubs ect so it's in no way a good thing for me to miss lunch as it's these days that are realy stallng my loss .

noobletmcnugget

It's hard to forget lunch when it's all you think about from the minute you wake up haha

tomteboda

Machka9 wrote: »

BusyRaeNOTBusty wrote: »

But I just can't fathom people who plan things without including food.

And yet I wonder why people feel the need to include food in events. I've worked in offices where it is expected that there will be a plate of cookies or donuts or something on the table during the meeting, and I think ... why?

I also used to tell people that if they wanted to get together with me, or catch up with me, they could get on their bicycles and ride with me. Their suggestions were usually going out for coffee or something.

That social aspect of food intrigues and puzzles me.

You have to consider that food has been social as long as humans have been social. There's a reason it shows up in the Bible as "breaking bread together". In Genesis, the first people are FARMERS. I use this as an example of a historical text because it is one of the older ones known, but there are other ancient texts that also center on food and the social use of it; including cuneiform writings

Basically, the human need for food has by and large driven our need to be social. And thus the offering of food is the first offering of true aid, in meeting a direct physical need (even If you don't think you need food). And in most of human history, the meeting of people could almost guarantee that at least one party was hungry and in true need of sustenance. This is a deep-seated biological imperative.

danika2point0

Jruzer wrote: »

Story time.

Back when Mrs Jruzer and I were engaged, I was invited to go along on a shopping trip with her and her mother to help pick some things out for the wedding. I was reluctant, so they sweetened the pot with the promise of a restaurant lunch at the conclusion of the trip. Sold!

After many hours of shopping, we were done. Now being very hungry, I asked where we should go for lunch. And they both laughed at me! "It's too late for lunch", they scoffed, as if that were the silliest question they ever heard. I was beyond pissed - they'd totally screwed me over!

I'm still resentful about this, more than 20 years later, and I occasionally still bring it up with my good lady wife. Don't get between me and lunch.

Over 10 years ago, my brother ate the leftover pizza I had in the fridge. I am not sure I have forgiven him yet.

As regards lunch, if I get deeply engrossed in something (especially statistics or shopping), I might delay lunch for a while. But no, I have never forgotten it.

scarlett_k

I wouldn't so much forget as I used to have an aversion to making any kind of home lunch (throwback to childhood I think. Home made lunch meant soggy sandwiches). So I would chug a load of coffee and feel like crap by mid afternoon. I wasn't overweight at that point but I had been before and I am now! I am learning to make provisions for a lunch I will eat now.

MaddMaestro

I've never forgotten to eat. I've either been too busy or too tired.

CattOfTheGarage

scarlett_k wrote: »

I wouldn't so much forget as I used to have an aversion to making any kind of home lunch (throwback to childhood I think. Home made lunch meant soggy sandwiches). So I would chug a load of coffee and feel like crap by mid afternoon. I wasn't overweight at that point but I had been before and I am now! I am learning to make provisions for a lunch I will eat now.

I'm averse to soggy sandwiches too. Sometimes I take sandwich fixings to work so I can make it and eat it right away. It's much better that way.

cosmonew

LOL...yeah!!! There's no way, I would forget about food EVER!!!!!

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kommodevaran

I never forget to eat. But sometimes I forget that I have eaten.

MichelleWithMoxie

Never ever ever. I cannot fathom how this is possible.

scarlett_k

CattOfTheGarage wrote: »

scarlett_k wrote: »

I wouldn't so much forget as I used to have an aversion to making any kind of home lunch (throwback to childhood I think. Home made lunch meant soggy sandwiches). So I would chug a load of coffee and feel like crap by mid afternoon. I wasn't overweight at that point but I had been before and I am now! I am learning to make provisions for a lunch I will eat now.

I'm averse to soggy sandwiches too. Sometimes I take sandwich fixings to work so I can make it and eat it right away. It's much better that way.

I seldom eat sandwiches at all now. Entirety of my school years just makes me think of soggy cheese and cucumber sandwiches with margarine. I'm scarred for life!