That depends on the food and the amount of available body fat.
Hunger is not starving. Start being honest with yourself and you will know why you don't want to eat the food.
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Nailed it!
There was a Twitter post that said "I'm hungry and all I have are ingredients" and I think about that one a lot.
I've not seen that Twitter, but I have seen that on a sign in somebody's kitchen. They apparently sell them at Walmart or something now. Trademark your shit, people.
Executive Dysfunction.
You’re not starving
Good ol' ARFID (Avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder) for me. It's cyclical for me, and when it rears its ugly head I'll basically stop eating for a week or two. Normal meals turn into protein shakes since my throat will refuse to swallow normal food.
Oh I totally do the same thing. Thank you for making me feel seen!
I've never heard of it, that sounds like a huge pain in the ass.
It's definitely not fun
Best of luck to you.
I had not had an issue in over a year. All of a sudden, I lost my appetite. Since then, on most days, I struggle to make myself eat. I’ve been at the “protein shakes are good enough, I guess” stage for about a month now.
I’ve lost so much weight, that everyone around me is telling me how concerned they are. It’s been over 2 months now. It’s not a good feeling, both physically and mentally.
People who know, know.
Depressed
Food fatigue, its a real thing. Humans can't eat the same thing over and over forever.
My autistic ass on my 10,000th chicken nugget looking at you mid-chew
"Two sandwiches and some carrots" has served me well
i have what i call the ihop theory. when you feel this way go-to ihop and order off their lunch menu. everything about the experience will be horrible and you'll feel terrible for having paid for it. literally the next meal you have will be the best thing you had in ages and you will value every bit of it.
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That's the closest thing to what I feel when I feel like this, I think.
The problem is that usually there's no food, only ingredients.
Learning to stock my kitchen with things that can be eaten as-is or microwaved changed my life.
e: I want to share this "recipe" I have for frozen meal prep that's massively improved my diet. I take ten tupperwares (0.8L, but it doesn't matter) and roughly portion out:
- crushed tomatoes with herbs
- kidney and black beans
- lentils
- mushrooms
- broccoli
- spinach
- fish scraps
- barbecue sauce
- salt
Everything's in a box or frozen without me needing to do anything except rinse the beans, which kind of sucks, but I manage somehow.
I get the fish scraps free from a restaurant because they're trash, and they cook in the microwave. I recommend replacing them with a vegan protein like tofu or seitan if you can. If you use meat you're going to have to cook and separate it.
I get the fish scraps...and cook in the microwave
Ok, calm down satan
I possibly should explain that the fish is safe to eat raw, and the cooking is done completely incidentally to reheating the frozen meal. This would not be a safe practice for most other animal proteins.
It's not the reheating/cooking that's the problem, it's the fact that it's being done in the microwave. A device notorious for absorbing smells and evacuating break rooms when fish is cooked in.
Really? I've never noticed a strong fish smell, and no one's ever said anything about it. I checked and my microwave just smells of popcorn. Maybe it's because the fish is submerged in other ingredients and/or because I keep the lid on the tupperware. Or maybe it's because the fish is actually fresh and doesn't yet have a smell?
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german have a word for that (?)
The German word would be exactly that but in German and without space.
starvingbutwouldratherdiethaneatfoodinthekitchen
This is how German have a word for everything.
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Could be "Heißhunger"... A deep carving for something or a specific meal mostly not available at the moment...
Appetitlosigkeit is in the dictionary unlike those other suggestions. But it just means not having an appetite. If the problem is making a decision you could talk about Entscheidungsparalyse bedingte Nahrungsaufnahmeverweigerung (rejecting food consumption because of decision paralysis).
It's Kühlschrankgefüllteseelenleeresehnsucht
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Schadenfiod
This meme says that they want a specific word with a specific meaning while simultaneously misusing another word that has a specific meaning.
Interesting.
- Scarving-Can be pronounced 2 ways.
- Sparrving
- AFIH - Avoidance of Food I Have
- Voil - Idk, sounded like it fits.
Kühlschrankinhaltsverzweiflungstod
Küchenvermeidungshungertodpräferenz
The love of my life gets hangry like this… the conversation usually goes something like:
I’m hungry
what would you like?
I dunno, I just want food
We could make _____
No! not that.
Okay, does ____ sound good?
that’ll take too long
how about _____
that’s too much work
what about [takeout]
I can’t wait that long for you to go get it. I’m hungry now.
How about [fastest takeout in town]
TOOOOOOOOO! LOOOOOOOONG!
I NEED FOOD NOW!Uhh… Uhh… We have cereal?
Eww! Gross!
I don’t know how to help you.
I don’t known how you can’t understand that I’M HUNGRY. All I want is food. It doesn’t matter what.
Well apparently it does matter.
I don’t need that attitude! I need you to FEEEEED MEEEE!
Good God! Here’s a snackbar and a sparkly beverage. Go sit down away from the kitchen and I’ll have a box of risotto ready in less than 15 minutes.
Is the love of your life a spoiled child?
An uninspired cook
Isn't that Schadenfreude?
Nah. Schadenfood.
This does not have enough upvotes
Unsure if this is serious but Schadenfreude is somewhat like the satisfaction you get when someone gets karma/gets what you think they deserve (in a negative way).
I gochu, it's called 'picky'.
Boredom.
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