Metaleaf dan Blorie Posted November 10, 2004 Share Posted November 10, 2004 I'm currently . . . too lazy to eat. I'm quite hungry, but I'm also low in energy and getting up, making food - even instant food - and eating it just seems like too much work. :| I've never particularly liked eating. It takes time away from other things I could be doing. Thus, I always have a book at the table if I'm eating alone. (Sometimes even if I'm not.) And I'll often forget to eat if I'm doing something interesting. Does anyone else here feel that way? Like there could be more efficient ways of fueling one's body than ingesting parts of the environment? Link to post Share on other sites
TheMadPoet Posted November 10, 2004 Share Posted November 10, 2004 Keep crackers, lunch meat (I like pepporni), and cheese on hand. Or carrots and ranch. It doesn't require any cooking - just pop open the bag and eat :-D If you can, buy salads already made - some delis make them. Just add dressing. I used to do that. One finals week, it was nothing but corn flakes and milk :-D Have a good day, Serenity Link to post Share on other sites
quietbraggadocio Posted November 10, 2004 Share Posted November 10, 2004 I'm a great cook but I never have the time. What I've been doing lately is opening a can and eating the stuff out of the can at room temperature. 1 can = 1 meal. I eat ravioli, spinach, and corn. Actually the other night I notice I had 3 slices of bread that were just about to go moldy, I took the three slices, some peanut butter, some jelly, a banana, and a squirt of honey. I had made a triple-decker peanut butter-jelly-banana-honey sandwich. Quiet good, but rather hard to eat, to wide. :o Link to post Share on other sites
Aeireono Posted November 10, 2004 Share Posted November 10, 2004 I love eating, but cooking bores me and I get impatient. I can smell food and I want it NOW! But at least there's something good at the end... and mmm, food, love it. I have that sorta "this is too big a waste of time" idea about sleep, myself. I'm currently trying to get by on less, since it's just a waste of time and I can never get to sleep at any socially acceptable hours. I'm a night-person! Link to post Share on other sites
Qwerty Posted November 10, 2004 Share Posted November 10, 2004 I usually only think about cooking dinner when I'm hungry and then it's too late. I never cook anything that tales more than 1/2 hours to prepare except if it's dessert. Link to post Share on other sites
chibiryuu Posted November 10, 2004 Share Posted November 10, 2004 I place many things at higher priorities than food. Such as doing work. And play. And sleep. And just about everything inbetween... As if my brain doesn't recognize hunger --> eat now... But I thought this was something about me. Or maybe something about skinny geeks. *shrug* Link to post Share on other sites
Beanz Posted November 10, 2004 Share Posted November 10, 2004 Sort it out now or you're screwed. Most of my lifes problems stem from lack of food. I've never had a huge appetite, but when I got sick a few years ago I couldn't eat. I was eating only a spoonful or two of dinner and one apple a day. I ended up loosing half a stone. Since then I have been suffering. I can't eat when I'm busy, worried, stressed. I'm still losing weight, and am now almost a full stone under what I was. I live off snacks because they aren't too much hassle. They're small so I don't get bored of eating, and also they don't look so daunting! It's not a great lifestyle, but it gets me by. You need to get into a proper routine. Set your alarm to certain times of the day and get up and eat. Even if it's just a crisp sandwhich. And try to eat breakfast. Pop tarts, a banana, anything. Have set meals with the peopleyou live with. Read while you eat. have finger food. Just don't get into a habit of missing out on food! Food = energy. Sadly, no food equals no energy equals too tired to do anything equals dont want/need/bother with food. Aslo, if you get into this habit, you're stomach shrinks. So you'll be hungry, starving but unable to bring yourself to eat and it's a horrible place to be in. Link to post Share on other sites
winter Posted November 10, 2004 Share Posted November 10, 2004 i'm really active, so my stomach is basically a bottomless pit. but it's very common for me to forget to eat. if i'm working i'll look at the clock and say, 'oh, i'll get lunch when i finish this next bit' and then it's 6 hours later and i'm wondering why i'm feeling sluggish. bex is right though, you should try to eat breakfast and such. and snacking on little things through out the day as opposed to your standard large meals is a good alternative too. Link to post Share on other sites
chibiryuu Posted November 10, 2004 Share Posted November 10, 2004 Yeah, I know I should eat more regularly. My periods of activity and random hyperness tend to be what remind me "hey, eat if you want to keep this up". Hard to keep good habits when most of your peers don't, but I'll work on it. Last year, when I lived in off-campus housing, I would only walk the 15 minutes to school once a day, so I'd eat about once a day, and less on the weekends. I was fine, but I'm sure that's a very bad idea long-term. (Basically on the weekends I ate whenever I went to go play DDR, which takes quite a bit of energy, and on the weekdays I ate whenever I was just hanging with some friends who happened to have decided to go for food.) Definitely noticed the stomach shrinking problem... when I went home for winter break, I got stuffed -- and spent the rest of break sick. Sometimes I look at a snack and think "ooh that'll make me fat..." even though I definitely have nothing to worry about. But this year, between taking aerobics and actually living on-campus so I'm close to food sources, I'm pretty sure I'm doing much better. "Oh, I'll just eat later" ends up making me miss normal breakfast and dinner times a lot (I grab dinner at about 10-11 PM when I remember, or 4pm when I forget lunch). I don't really have lunchtime but right after aerobics I'm starving so I skip history to eat. In any case, my parents are always on my tail, bugging me to eat... and just recently my roommate got a rice cooker, so that's a good start for anytime food. Back towards the original topic, I think the ability to just absorb sustenance from the environment effortlessly would be cool. Then I wouldn't get bugged about eating, and I'd be healthy! Win-win! Link to post Share on other sites
Kevin Wood Posted November 10, 2004 Share Posted November 10, 2004 No, I quite enjoy the whole spectacle of food and its constituent parts; plus the preparation and all the fandango involved. I've lived on my own for some time now, and find I enjoy self-catering and experimenting with potential culinary disasters. And then fulfilling that failure, with a dead pan expression. I understand your feelings - sometimes it does seem a waste of time though. I think we all go through phases where, for one reason or another, we don't bother much with food. Quite normal. Link to post Share on other sites
Kensington Posted November 10, 2004 Share Posted November 10, 2004 I've never particularly liked eating. It takes time away from other things I could be doing. Yes! I couldn't agree more! I only ever have one meal a day and I'm always doing something else while making and eating it. I barely eat anything at all and some people think I'm anorexic or something but I'm still always full of energy and stuff so I guess I'm just a freak. :P Heck, sometimes I don't even have a meal and don't realize it until the next day. ;) Link to post Share on other sites
Metaleaf dan Blorie Posted November 11, 2004 Author Share Posted November 11, 2004 And try to eat breakfast. Pop tarts, a banana, anything. I agree with that - breakfast is the only meal I make sure I eat, even if it's a small bowl of cereal. It's also my only meal that's based around an event in the day, rather than that general 'Maybe I should eat something' feeling. I might try that alarm-clock suggestion, but my schedule is generally so messed up that any attempt at regulation is doomed to failure. Maybe I'm not into food because I don't have a very active lifestyle. My father was vegetarian up until he worked in a logging camp - then he literally couldn't get enough food to have enough energy for his highly demanding job, even when he ate all the meat they threw at him. He ate a gigantic breakfast, a massive lunch, and a titanic dinner, and still went to bed hungry. I have that sorta "this is too big a waste of time" idea about sleep, myself. I'm currently trying to get by on less, since it's just a waste of time and I can never get to sleep at any socially acceptable hours. I'm a night-person! I'm with ya on the night-person thing, but I couldn't imagine voluntarily cutting back on sleep. Dreaming's just too big a part of my life. I'm an bit of an odd case, though. Wasn't there a famous scientist who was convinced that sleep was unneccessary? Link to post Share on other sites
Kez Posted November 11, 2004 Share Posted November 11, 2004 Oh, no. I neeeeeed sleep. I had 13 hours sleep the other night ( albiet drugged sleep, but sleep none the less). I have to have at least 8 hours sleep a night, otherwise I can't function. Link to post Share on other sites
Aeireono Posted November 11, 2004 Share Posted November 11, 2004 I don't know about not sleeping at all. Considering we still don't even know the function of it, I don't think anyone's in much of a position to say that. But I have heard of people cutting down the amount of sleep they get per night to very small amounts and living quite healthily. I'm kinda stuck between the fact that I like sleep and the fact that it takes up so much time in which I could be doing other things! So I'm starting smallish, not letting myself sleep more than 6 hours at a time. I've been doing this a few days now and so far I feel good (it helps that it's November, aka NaNoWriMo months, aka the official sleep deprivation month!), and quite energetic, for some weird reason. This is really weird, because I always considered myself to be a 8 hours at least type! I dunno if I'll try and cut back further, but I want to get better at 6 hours before I try anything. I don't think it'd be a good idea to go headlong into 3 hours a night just like that! I really should research how healthy this all is, come to think of it. I noticed I'm getting dark circles under my eyes... but besides that, I feel fine. We'll see, I guess I wish I dreamt more, though. I know I must do, but I rarely recall them, though I sometimes get the odd really vivid one. I woul like to try and remember them better... I'd also like to lucid dream someday. Hope you can still do that while cutting back... Link to post Share on other sites
Metaleaf dan Blorie Posted November 11, 2004 Author Share Posted November 11, 2004 Random lucid dreaming tip: Try looking for your hands in your dream. Focus on them. They're clear - they're your hands. You know what they look like. As soon as you're sure of your hands, shift to looking at what's around you, trying to make it clearer - as clear as your hands were. When the environment starts to waver, look back at your hands. Look back at the environment; look back at your hands. Repeat. This is hard to do, but it does result in lucid and controllable dreams if you can pull it off. [/wierd] Maybe I'll try the less-sleep thing for a bit. I slept for fifteen (fifteen!) hours last night and I've just dreamed through the day (well, afternoon and night) - I'm so groggy it's like I've not woken up at all. Link to post Share on other sites
silentcrow Posted November 11, 2004 Share Posted November 11, 2004 I love eating :lol: But the thing is, I usually only do it so that I won't be hungry. I don't do it because it tastes good. So when I'm hungry, it doesn't matter what the food is--I want it at that minute. I usually eat cold leftovers that have been in the refridgerator for days if I'm alone :oops: I never could understand how one could wait 5 minutes for a slice of pizza to cook in a toaster oven if it tastes the same cold! Link to post Share on other sites
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