Just a bit of bread for breakfast and now I am stuck doing extra hours at work. Which would be great, except it wasn't planned and I have nothing to eat.

Baked chicken, stuffing, mashed potatoes, and some Hawaiian sweet rolls (those things are so addictive.)

just came back from my aunts place, she made a quinoa salad, lamb and homemade pizza. and before that, for afternoon tea, we had a homemade cheesecake with lots of berries. it was sooooo good~

Kuuki wrote: ↑Apr 10th, '25, 04:25 Just a bit of bread for breakfast and now I am stuck doing extra hours at work. Which would be great, except it wasn't planned and I have nothing to eat.

Have you had a chance to eat at this point? That sounds really tough. Extra self-care later to compensate, right?

Sometimes I can ignore hunger pangs…other times, I’d feel sick if I’m hungry. Lol

Hotarla wrote: ↑Apr 10th, '25, 20:06 Sometimes I can ignore hunger pangs…other times, I’d feel sick if I’m hungry. Lol

I often confuse hunger and thirst.
(This is actually a step up; I didn't use to notice these sorts of bodily signals at all when I was younger, lol)
But it can still be annoyingly confusing.
So if I'm "hungry", I go for water, and then I feel "full", and all is well... maybe.
Other times, if I'm "hungry", I go eat, I'm still hungry, I eat more, I'm still hungry, I finally notice the headache and realize it's a dehydration headache and I wasn't hungry at all to begin with, I need to drink something.

It can be annoying, but also useful if something like that happens, because I can just keep drinking constantly and never notice that I haven't eaten.

Mostly it doesn't matter because I can just go "eat at xxx time" and then I'm fine, but when the schedule gets weird, it all goes strange.

I don’t think I’ve ever mistaken the two? I know I’m hungry bc my stomach starts to growl and I get hunger pains. The only other symptoms I can think of is if I’m anemic. I’ve gone through THAT before too, during my periods. I’ll start getting lightheaded to the point of blacking out and I know it’s not hunger bc I don’t feel hungry. Usually if I feel anemic, I eat some candy. XD my go to was Fuzzy Peaches. Pftha

I know a lot of weight loss advice is "if you feel hungry, you're probably thirsty, so go drink". I can't tell the difference though. Hunger and heat exhaustion make me light-headed. Thirst usually just gives me dry mouth.

I haven’t eaten yet today. O3O

I don't want to lose weight, I just want to stay healthy

Not always easy.

Oh, oops, cat hairball. Ew. Hang on, have to go clean this up.