I Don't Eat Enough

No you are not the only one. I am a foodie, and can cook almost anything, but when I am trying to lose weight, I tend to stick to basic foods that do not hold alot of appeal...and I end up skipping meals. Meal replacement shakes help me alot...cause if I am just not inspired to make me a seperate meal from my familys meal, then I just drink the shake.

my advice would be to make a bunch of smoothies/shakes and just keep them in the fridge for on the go. Even if it only knocks out one meal a day, that's one less meal (and potentially a good amount of calories depending on what you put into it) that you don't have to worry about.
When i make my smoothie I quadruple the recipe and poor it into plastic water bottles, which gets me through 4-5 days. You could probably make more at once and keep some in the freezer too. Just throw everything in the blender, blend it up, seperate it into your servings and you're done. Then on your way out the door each day you just grab a water bottle and you have a smoothie thats jam packed with nutrients/protein/fruit/whatever it is kind of smoothie that you like. Or you can down it at night before you go to bed.
I really encourage making a "green smoothie" or a protein smoothie (or a green protein smoothie") so that when you do forget to eat at least you've started out your day with a lot of nutrients.
I find most of my recipes on pinterest. I tried my first green smoothie last week and I thought I was going to hate it but its so good and you can't taste the vegetables at all! A full serving is about 300 calories which is like a meal replacement, but if you put some different stuff it in you could probably make ones that are 500 calories to knock more of your calories out at once.
Other than that, I would keep some healthy snacks on the passenger seat of the car (like your favorite granola bar). that way when you climb in the car you can't really avoid seeing them and you can grab one and eat while you drive (am i the only one who does this? >.>)
and my last tip is to find where you spend most of your time while at home. Personally, whenever I am at home I am in the living room, but when I lived with roommates I was always in my bedroom. Find the place that you tend to plant yourself while home, and put a bowl of snacks somewhere convenient that you could grab something while you sit and look through MFP forums, or whatever it is that you do at home Put a bowl of fruit, maybe some snack packs, crackers, those awesome little peanut butter snack size things to eat with an apple, easy stuff that doesn't require any preparation. Heck, you're sitting somewhere reading this right now (I hope) so grab a snack and munch while you read.
Get into the habit of eating more and your body will expect it and then it won't seem like a burden to fit it into your schedule.

I love to eat, but it's easy for me to forget when I have other things to focus on.

What I find helpful to kickstart my body into eating for the day is to have a high protein breakfast. And to make a big batch of breakfast, to last several days, so it's all there in the fridge. Then I don't have to think about making breakfast when I wake up in the morning - I just take it out of the fridge. For a sweet breakfast, I prepare of a mix of oats, yogurt, fruit, seeds and nuts. For a non-sweet breakfast, I prepare hardboiled eggs mixed with avocado and pulses.

You're welcome

I hardboil a few eggs at the beginning of the week - they last for about a week, and are a very quick and easy high-protein breakfast. You can eat them as they are, or mix them with whatever else you like for your breakfast. You could also cook sausages at the beginning of the week - they are nice cold, and go well with egg. Depends what food you like, really - egg is very versatile. This week I've had hardboiled egg mixed with celery, avocado, onion, lettuce and sprouted chick peas.

I don't really have recipes as such - I just make stuff up as I go along. Boil rice, fry some minced beef and onions, and you can make chili con carne or anything really. Just mix meat and veg and rice. Get some nice sauces and spices to add - but then if you're just eating for fuel rather than because you enjoy eating, you probably don't even care about taste, so you can make very simple meals.

My biggest problem with losing weight is I am never hungry; I can go all day without feeling the teeniest hunger pain and I know this is bad because when you don't eat, you're body goes in to starvation mode and saves everything you eat for energy...however, it's a lot harder to remind yourself to eat (I think) than it is to say no to eating too much...I'm not a foodie, so I there's no real joy or fun in eating for me. It's boring, and it's time consuming to make something and then sit down and eat it.

Am I the only person with this problem? Anyone have advice on how to remember to eat; or at the very least things that are easy to make and healthy to boot because there's no point in my exercising if my body doesn't have anything to metabolize.

No you are not alone. I use my phone alarm to remind me to eat. i have long ago forgotten the feeling of hanger pangs. Try setting your phone to your meal schedule. It actually helped me to eat more and i have actually felt a hunger pang or two. Good luck.

Hi, hope you don't mind but I've been looking at your pictorial blog of meals and I am curious as to how many calories you have to consume each day! Thanks!

Also, can you add a link for your Pinterest page so I could check out the smoothies you've got saved. If nothing else it'll give me a place to start. My roommate recently bought Bullet, so the protein shake this is actually a great idea, just something I've never gone through with for absolutely no good reason.

Thanks again for the tips!

this is my pinterest "food" board http://pinterest.com/jamifaith13/food/

this http://pinterest.com/pin/438115869969625654/ is the current green smoothie that im drinking, but I think the site has like 4 or 5 different smoothie, and so far this http://pinterest.com/pin/438115869969628383/ is my favorite protein smoothie but there are a couple more than im dying to try. lol im being a slight pinterest addict :P
(ps you're reading my post again. grab a snack!)

Hi, hope you don't mind but I've been looking at your pictorial blog of meals and I am curious as to how many calories you have to consume each day! Thanks!

Me? To be honest, I don't really count calories - I log my food here and MFP counts them for me, but it's different each day. The daily goal MFP sets me is 1430. I sometimes eat less than this and sometimes more. I tend to go with how I feel. I had more this past week because it was my time of the month, and I seem to need to eat more then. I've also just started doing 5:2 fasting - just started yesterday - so I will have two days a week where I just eat 500 calories, and then I eat what I like the other days.