Not a fan of eating
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Hi
I totally empathise - when you've got stomach problems life is very different. I'm having tests for various things at the moment because I literally can't eat anything without running to the bathroom and being in excruciating pain. Type of pain where it brings you out in a sweat.
At the moment one of the things I do is to try to eat smaller amounts more frequently. It's difficult because at the moment it's not appearing to work - it just means I'm more symptomatic more frequently. However it might work for you? I can only eat small amounts at a time so that was my rationale. Flawed, but tried.
Batch-wise just today I cooked up a chicken and chickpea stew type thing which I put in small containers. Then I can just bang one in the microwave. Lunchtimes I tend to go for hardboiled egg, cucumber, tomato and avocado salad - sometimes with tuna in there. I've been told to stop gluten and dairy so I'm fumbling my way at the moment so maybe not the best person with this - but even a handful of almonds to nibble on is a nutritionally 'good' choice. When I hard boil eggs I do half a dozen at a time - that way I don't have to think about it for a few days.
Hope that helps and best of luck.
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She doesn't like to eat and yet you tell her to plan her meals. Comedy gold.It's not assholery to recommend taking responsibility for your own food choices. We have to learn that sometime. Candy-coating this truth generally isn't productive.
OP - plan your meals. Decide a whole week if you want. Plan your meals so you know what you are going to eat before you are hungry. Then the food is there, you don't have to make a last-minute distracted decision around food.0 -
Not going to read through all the stupid and nasty responses. You need to do your own research and figure out how to tackle this in the healthy way. Eat lots of fruits and veggies for a start. If you really don't like eating then you are most likely not eating the right kind of food or you will lose weight really easily once you start eating the right food. It is just as easy to pick up a carrot or apple as it is to pick up a Danish. You need to do your own work too. No one can feed you this answer, no pun intended. Taking a step to be here is a good start though because you are admitting to yourself that you have a problem. Now go enjoy the process of taking control of your health.0
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ok maybe i should explain myself more.
firstly, yes i am 25... that means 7 years in kitchens, which anyone who has worked in kitchens will tell you is long enough.
secondly, i have IBS, caffeine intolerance, and am insulin resistant (genetic before you blame my diet)
what would you lot recommend, that i can make in batches, keep to hand, be easy to eat on the go and be nutritionally good for you?
Look into the low FODMAP diet for IBS. I have the opinion that it is NOT a good long term solution, but I have seen it used successfully to help re-introduce foods that do not create IBS. My friend went on it and after 30 days began re-introducing food. Some suprises for him - no lactose intolerance, sunflower oil and seed intolerance. He deals with this much better thanks to that.
See your doctor about IBS and dealing with it.
For those suggesting apples, etc - be aware that IBS can be triggered by certain foods and the first thing to do is identify thsoe foods. It can also be a mis-diagnosis...0 -
Thank you for explaining why you don't like to eat. I think the idea of trying out foods so that you know there are some safe ones sounds good. Fear of pain can put you off anything. Can you remember what you used to like to eat before all the difficulties? Could you try enjoying those again?
As for snacks, I'm another fan of nuts.0 -
On all im really not that keen on eating food. Of course I still get hungry I just end up eating rubbish because I don't actually like the thought of eating.
What kind of things should I eat.
If I don't have to look for things and just grab what I've been told to eat then I can do that.
After years of working in the kitchen my brain just turns off when it comes to feeding myself.
After looking around the kitchen and walkin fridge at work looking at all the things I could eat. .. I tend to simply grab a pre baled Danish from the breakfast trolley after a good half hour or in the evening just procrastinate so long I end up ordering pizza with the staff.
Seek professional help
this.
Edited to just remove myself from this thread. Good luck Op.0 -
I have worked in restaurants too, and found I couldn't eat the food at any restaurant I worked in. You just see it and smell it all the time, and it becomes unappetizing. Try breaking away from work and stepping out for your meals. As for food sensitivities, I'm not sure what triggers your IBS. I know I'm sensitive to corn, wheat, and diary. I keep things like fruit, nuts, and cliff bars on had for snacks.
The people saying seek professional help probably didn't get all the info on exactly what your issues eating are. However, consulting with a nutritionist would probably be really helpful.0 -
On all im really not that keen on eating food. Of course I still get hungry I just end up eating rubbish because I don't actually like the thought of eating.
What kind of things should I eat.
If I don't have to look for things and just grab what I've been told to eat then I can do that.
After years of working in the kitchen my brain just turns off when it comes to feeding myself.
After looking around the kitchen and walkin fridge at work looking at all the things I could eat. .. I tend to simply grab a pre baled Danish from the breakfast trolley after a good half hour or in the evening just procrastinate so long I end up ordering pizza with the staff.
Seek professional help
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I really can't relate, because I LOVE eating. But several options seem obvious to me.
-- Meal replacement shakes. Not for every meal, but for at least one a day.
-- homemade smoothies - just toss stuff in a blender and drink
-- keep pre-cut vegetables on hand to eat raw with hummus or nut butter, or in a salad or wrap, or for a quick stir fry.
-- Make "batch" foods such as stew, chili or soup which can quickly be heated for a meal.
-- Roast/bake meat and keep on hand for a quick sandwich/wrap
-- There are a number of healthy canned soups available.
-- Preseasoned fish fillets or chicken breasts are avaiable that you can just toss in the over or microwave.
-- preseasoned steam in the bag vegetables.
-- Low sugar cereals (hot or cold) with pre-cut fruit and nuts
-- eggs cook up in next to no time0 -
Don't stoop. Be better.The rest of you. .. Well. .. I hope you never come looking for help one day. .. May You reap what you sow.
I did understand what you were saying in your OP. When I'm cooking and baking, sometimes I don't always feel like eating what I'm making. I get that. Keep some healthy snacks around so when you grab something it's not rubbish.0 -
I love the special snowflake analogy. It just sounds to me like you're just being lazy. You know what you can and cannot eat that irratates you, you know what a generally nutitious diet consists of, and you know that pre planning and pre preparation is something that is annoying and frustrating. Suck it up and get over the not doing it because it's annoying and frustrating. Lot's of things are annoying and frustrating, but we do them anyway becasue we have to for the sake of health, happiness, and responsibility.
For the rest of you that are replying with support and getting upset at the tough love, you probably think you're special snowflakes too.0 -
I understand the kitchen work putting you off. I worked in one for a year and during the day the last thing i wanted to do was eat, but then a couple hours after I was done, I was ravenous and ate whatever I could fit in my mouth.
Do you know what your worst ibs triggers are? Avoid those, obviously, but also read food labels to make sure they're not in the ingredient list. They sneak a lot of crap into packaged foods. May want to avoid them as much as possible. They're usually stuffed with salt and sugar, anyway.
Wash and cut up a bunch of fruit and veggies, put a couple handfuls into little containers and stack em in the fridge for snacking, and cut up veggies for cooking and make premixes for quick stirfrys. Can you eat dairy? Good quality (no gelatin, fillers, etc) yogurt, cheese, etc. Frozen veggies should be on sale in January, stock up on what looks good. Frozen fruit and veg are picked when ripe, then frozen, maintaining their nutrients better than a lot of fresh stuff you can buy, that gets picked while green and then trucked half way across the world.
Buy bulk boxes of chicken and sort them into single serving freezer baggies when you get home.
Try making a big stew with ibs friendly ingredients and freeze into smaller portions. One cooking session gives you quite a few meals.
My favourite smoothie is a couple big handfuls of spinach, a banana, 1/2 cup yogurt, cottage cheese (16g protein!), almond milk or coconut milk, 1 tbsp peanut butter, cocoa to taste (tbsp maybe 2), a teaspoon of honey if you need it. Blend it thoroughly. You can't taste the spinach, the cocoa hides the weird green colour and you get a yummy filling chocolate treat!0 -
I've had times when I feel that way for whatever reason, too. Try planning out your meals and buying the necessary things food items to make them. Know what you're going to eat for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. You can even premake a lot of it, or carry shelf stable items around with you if you're going on. And because nothing sounds good anyway, only buy healthy foods. That way you won't end up grabbing something unhealthy.
A good example is my roommates used to make a whole box of pasta and eat that for three meals. Just do it with whole wheat pasta and you're set with relatively healthy food for a few meals, anyway.0 -
For the rest of you that are replying with support and getting upset at the tough love, you probably think you're special snowflakes too.
Because we're trying to be helpful and supportive, we think we're special snowflakes? Yes, that is a very logical conclusion.0 -
Is your problem that you dislike eating, or that you're burned out on cooking? If you order a pizza after procrastinating, it seems like the 2nd option to me.0
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Yeah sometimes I have to do things that I don't like, but these bodies aren't gonna chop themselves up and walk into my freezer.0
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I don't understand how this is even possible. I wake up thinking of food, I eat something then I think of what I'll eat next. You really need to seek help, now before you get older and it gets worse.0
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I don't understand how this is even possible. I wake up thinking of food, I eat something then I think of what I'll eat next. You really need to seek help, now before you get older and it gets worse.
You could try reading the entire thread before you comment. He explained why he feels this way and the cause already. Good grief.0 -
I don't understand how this is even possible. I wake up thinking of food, I eat something then I think of what I'll eat next. You really need to seek help, now before you get older and it gets worse.
You could try reading the entire thread before you comment. He explained why he feels this way and the cause already. Good grief.
I read the post. It was a bunch of excuses. But thanks...0 -
Yeah sometimes I have to do things that I don't like, but these bodies aren't gonna chop themselves up and walk into my freezer.
Feed them to the pigs.0 -
For the rest of you that are replying with support and getting upset at the tough love, you probably think you're special snowflakes too.
Because we're trying to be helpful and supportive, we think we're special snowflakes? Yes, that is a very logical conclusion.
It's called empathy. Those of you who do not see how rediculous the original post was obviously suffer from a similar degree of narcissism.0 -
Even though I got fat mostly by enjoying what unhealthy foods do to my brain and moods, I hate to actually eat, too. I think it's kind of gross. Especially since processed foods are really pretty nasty. Legally permitted number of insect bits in your pastry, anyone?
If someone said to me, you never have to eat again, but you will never be able to eat again, and no tubes or anything like that were involved and I wouldn't feel hungry, I'd choose that in a heartbeat over having to eat every day just to live. It would save me so much time and money and bother and of course I wouldn't have to worry about my weight ever again.
I keep hoping those clever scientists will come up with a way to make us all solar powered someday!0 -
I don't understand how this is even possible. I wake up thinking of food, I eat something then I think of what I'll eat next. You really need to seek help, now before you get older and it gets worse.You could try reading the entire thread before you comment. He explained why he feels this way and the cause already. Good grief.I read the post. It was a bunch of excuses. But thanks...
You read the post, but you totally missed his question and focused only on what you deem excuses and your advice was for him to seek medical help? You're a peach. In case you missed it, here is his question:
what would you lot recommend, that i can make in batches, keep to hand, be easy to eat on the go and be nutritionally good for you?0 -
It's called empathy. Those of you who do not see how rediculous the original post was obviously suffer from a similar degree of narcissism.
Do you even know what empathy means? To have compassion, one must have a degree of empathy. That's a good thing. You're using it as an insult.0 -
I get it, I'm not huge into eating...but I do eat, and I try hard to eat clean-ish. Okay, I admit I love chocolate, there I said it. But for the most part I don't get excited about meal times. Still I understand the nutrition requirements, and I understand the emotional crap that underlies some of my poor food choices. I'd take the advice given here and take one day a week and plan things out....then you dont' have to think.0
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On all im really not that keen on eating food. Of course I still get hungry I just end up eating rubbish because I don't actually like the thought of eating.
What kind of things should I eat.
If I don't have to look for things and just grab what I've been told to eat then I can do that.
After years of working in the kitchen my brain just turns off when it comes to feeding myself.
After looking around the kitchen and walkin fridge at work looking at all the things I could eat. .. I tend to simply grab a pre baled Danish from the breakfast trolley after a good half hour or in the evening just procrastinate so long I end up ordering pizza with the staff.
Seek professional help
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It's called empathy. Those of you who do not see how rediculous the original post was obviously suffer from a similar degree of narcissism.
Do you even know what empathy means? To have compassion, one must have a degree of empathy. That's a good thing. You're using it as an insult.
One can emapthize with a serial killer if in fact he / or she is also a serial killer. If I imply that you are showing compassion for a serial killer, yes, that is in fact an insult, and also the correct use of the word by definition. Compassion in and of itself is not always purely benevolent.0 -
Baby carrots..., apples, oranges, bananas, V8.
Somedays (Wish it was more often) I don't feel like eating much. I don't think you should worry too much about that just try to grab a little something healthy so hunger doesn't hit you over the head later. Unless there is an eating disorder involved a healthy body isn't going to starve itself to death. If you eat the foods with high nutrition to calorie values I think it helps to avoid the junk food.0 -
It's called empathy. Those of you who do not see how rediculous the original post was obviously suffer from a similar degree of narcissism.
Do you even know what empathy means? To have compassion, one must have a degree of empathy. That's a good thing. You're using it as an insult.
One can emapthize with a serial killer if in fact he / or she is also a serial killer. If I imply that you are showing compassion for a serial killer, yes, that is in fact an insult, and also the correct use of the word by definition. Compassion in and of itself is not always purely benevolent.
refusing to enable is not always a lack of empathy or lack of comapssion0 -
Enabling is quite the opposite in some cases. I wouldn't think encouraging self-destructive behaviour is particularly compassionate.
refusing to enable is not always a lack of empathy or lack of comapssionIt's called empathy. Those of you who do not see how rediculous the original post was obviously suffer from a similar degree of narcissism.
Do you even know what empathy means? To have compassion, one must have a degree of empathy. That's a good thing. You're using it as an insult.
One can emapthize with a serial killer if in fact he / or she is also a serial killer. If I imply that you are showing compassion for a serial killer, yes, that is in fact an insult, and also the correct use of the word by definition. Compassion in and of itself is not always purely benevolent.0
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