Forgetting to Eat?

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If I'm hungry, I'm hungry. It's a major priority in my case; if I don't eat when I need to I feel rotten.

Yes definately and it became a problem.

OH MY WORD!! !! ! YES! I do this, and I've never found anyone else who does, in fact people usually just say "how can you FORGET to eat?" oh wow, I thought it was just me... amazed

I do it all the time.

I have always been bad about this. I have been known to go days without food and weeks with only 1 meal a day. Some times I'm simply not hungry, but others I am too engrossed in a project to bother. My metabolism is pretty weird. I tend to eat very little for a few weeks, and then eat a whole lot for the next week or two. And if I happen to have a specific food I am obsessing over, nothing else will do. It is either that food or nothing (I can no longer eat Fettuccine Alfredo because of this, think I had a 2 month straight at least). Liquid, on the other hand, I must have at all times. I sip every 30 seconds to 2 minutes, or when stressed.

@ OP:

i forget eating too.

it's a very typical autistic "eating disorder".

I used to do this a lot when I lived with my parents. Work on maths problems for six hours and then have my mum knocking at my door saying "you need to eat!". But now I live in supported accommodation and I have only one room that I own to myself. Most of my food is in the kitchen, but I have snacking foods in my room within arm's reach, so I don't forget so easily, especially as I'm now on antipsychotic meds which make me hungry. Thankfully my snacking foods are apples and breadsticks. Otherwise I wouldn't be able to stay slim.

I don't experience that.

When I was in the Army back in the mid-80s, I saved up my money to buy a car...a 1967 Mustang. I was so excited when I finally took possession of the car on a Friday, and then spent the entire weekend driving, playing with it, etc. When I got up Monday morning and was preparing for the day, I suddenly noticed that I was getting very very weak and it dawned on me that I hadn't eaten all weekend. (whoops!) Fortunately, the mess hall was right next door to my barracks, so I headed over to grab some breakfast. But halfway there I got even more light-headed and actually went blind! I could NOT see anything! By feeling around, I was able to get into the mess hall, bypass the line waiting and locate some cold cereal. Once I ate the cereal, my vision slowly returned, so I then went and got back in line and got a real breakfast. It was actually a very scary experience.

In the present, I tend to drink a LOT of Mountain Dew, which has enough calories to keep me going without eating much...although I know it's definitely NOT the healthiest diet.

Do it all the time. Ill even go make my food while the website loads if its full of pictures and videos. Start watching and forget i made food.

Yeah, I'm always forgetting to eat. At one point during my community college years I got dangerously thin because I was too busy doing homework or research. Gotta tell myself to eat!

Not eating when absorbed, yes.

Also not able to eat at certain times in the schedule.

Rarely interrupting a project to eat, though if I ht a breaking point - finished that operation, need to decide what to do next - I may stuff my face.

My wife finds this disconcerting as she needs to eat on her body's schedule, regardkless of time and day or state of project.

Or so she says - if she is busy with certain things supper may be hours later than usual.

But her operation is different from mine.

I've always been accused of forgetting to eat. It wasn't so bad when someone else cooked for me. Then they would just shove food at me and I'd eat while I continued doing what I was doing.

This is what confuses me about the thing about needing fixed schedules. Because if I don't have to be on a fixed schedule for work purposes, I eat, and sleep, whenever I feel like it--or remember to. It's definitely not a fixed schedule. But this could be yet another thing I'm misinterpreting.

I, too, will continue on with whatever I'm doing even when I realize I'm hungry, because I can't stop or I'll lose my momentum.

I did it all the time. Even as a kid I'd go hungry unless my name was called that food was ready. Even as an adult I'd starve and then I got better when I found out I was pregnant and I still remember to eat. I will eat one thing for lunch or dinner if I am too lazy to make something so I will only make one thing or grab one thing. That's how I have always eaten when someone didn't make anything for me and now I have gotten lazy again.

But if I don't ever eat, I get sick to my stomach I feel like throwing up. That will get me to eat something.

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