Can't get interested in food

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Registered: 08-26-2001
Can't get interested in food
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Wed, 10-27-2004 - 1:56pm
My appetite and interest in food has been halved, quite literally, in the past week or two. I can't get excited about anything I used to love anymore, it feels more like a burden to have meals than a pleasure. I know I have to do it, but then I end up resenting having to eat at all, and that makes me depressed. My eating habits have become sporadic and not very healthy because I figured that anything was better than nothing at all. I don't know what to do...
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Registered: 03-25-2003
Fri, 10-29-2004 - 6:39am

Hi rosebride,


I was wondering if you could share a little more detail? Have you had a problem with an ED in the past or is this the first time you are having trouble eating/not eating? Did something happen that would cause you to be depressed or grieving and therefore kill your appetite? If there is nothing emotional going on, and the problem continues to the poiint that you loose too much weight, I would go see a doctor and see if there is anything physical going on.


Please let me know.

Love & hugs, Kristina


The opinions I have expressed here are from my own experience and are not intended as medical advice or to take the place of your own physician's advice.

Love & hugs, Kristina

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Registered: 08-26-2001
Fri, 10-29-2004 - 11:52am
Well, I just increased the dosage of my antidepressant lately, and one of the side-effects is supposed to be weight loss, but I thought that meant that my metabolism would speed up, not that I would lose interest in food. Now I look at things I used to enjoy and just think "I can't do this. I can't possibly put that in my mouth", as if I were dealing with a plate full of worms. While the increase helps, it doesn't exactly "cure" me entirely. I've never liked how I look and I've sort of been on the border of a real ED for years, flirting with crash diets since I was eight or so, deliberately skipping meals and depriving myself if I think I don't deserve something. And there's the fact that I hate eating alone, and I went to school out of state, so I don't have any friends within an hour-and-a-half drive. Eating a real meal just isn't as attractive in that sense either.