ASD and trouble eating?

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Do people on the spectrum have trouble making time to eat? I just pace around stimming or reading and not want to eat sometimes, like it's something I don't want to do even though my stomach growls.

I'm having so many eating problems. If I like a food I will eat it for months everyday and forget about what I liked previously. My diet is so limited, I can't eat most things because the textures make me want to throw up.

I'm getting so sick of not being able to eat normally. But I don't know what to do. If I didn't have my favorite food I must eat everyday I'd probably not even bother much.

When I have medical marijuana I don't have trouble eating but when I don't I eat like once a day at night (if that).

Yes. Lately I have trouble actually eating and swallowing. I suppose I'm not hungry when I try to eat.

I have to track my calories every day to ensure I eat enough to support my sports. I have many times, caused myself damage by undereating. I frocking hate to eat and to buy food and to clean up, etc. I wish I could just take a pill. HATE stopping what I am doing...

i binge eat... i go all day sometimes two days without eating then eat everything in sight for a few hours. I don't vomit or anything but i definitely have eating issues.

i wish there were a pill, too. i hate that i have to eat every.single.day. we should have solved this problem by now! i have problems with lots of textures and flavors, so i try to eat quickly to get it over with...i'm not one to savor my food. it's a means to an end.

I never had a big appetite, another thing my family always made fun of, I often heard "you eat like a little bird". When I like something I can eat the same for days in a row, latest being kimchi soup lol (I buy big boxes of them). I can also easily forget to eat if I am focused on something.

Yes. Part of the problem is that I experience hunger - if I'm aware of it at all - as pain and nausea. So when I feel hungry it makes me not want to eat. Or I don't feel hungry at all. Or I only feel hungry after I've forced myself to eat. It doesn't make sense.

Sometimes I eat cereal several times a day. If it were healthy, I would just eat cereal for every meal.

Before I got pregnant, I used to go all day without eating usually. Even when I be starving, I still be putting it aside thinking "I'll eat later" and then later comes and I am still on the computer. My mom said I had always been that way. As a kid I ate fine because I had a mother who always cooked and called us to dinner or made us lunch. Now as an adult making food choices is hard so I end up eating the same things. I buy the exact same health foods every time we go grocery shopping.

Now I am supposed to be eating every two hours and I keep forgetting.

Also I do not know I am hungry until I am starving.

Plus I also had an eating disorder where I was obsessed about my weight and I felt fat and I used to punish my body with food by starving myself. I realized no matter how thin I get, I am always going to look fat. Then I was too afraid if I eat normally again, I will get fat. Whenever I get told I am too skinny or underweight, it always makes me feel I am supposed to be fat and it makes me not want to eat even more because I want to stay thin and staying away from lot of food is a way to do it. I think it's all about me liking to be in control. It's gone now because I need to eat more food. I just hope I don't relapse like I did last time.

Yeah telling people they are skinny should be rude just like it's rude to tell people they are fat. Telling people they are too skinny can also lead them to an eating disorder because then they feel they are supposed to be fat because they don't think they are that skinny.

I have a really hard time eating, when I'm upset about something. That's happened so many times, this year. I'm currently following the Weight Watchers Winning Points system with the points ranges, so that I eat enough food, each and every day and not just when I'm happy.

I dont like the amount of time needed to cook healthy food, but I wont eat junk food very much either, so I just wait until I cant stand it anymore.

I used to have every eating disorder known, I think.
anorexia, bulumia, and binge eating...Now I think that I have a healthy relationship with food, but I dont like the mess and the preperation healthy food takes.

I usually eat a small breakfast and 1 big meal in the middle of the day and that is it.

I used to have a texture thing going on too...I would gag on rice and big noodles

I notice I tend to not eat when I am depressed. I just lose my appetite. But luckily I am not depressed anymore. It be bad if I got PPD, then I would have to shove food down my throat to be healthy so I can keep breast feeding. Basically that is what my parents did when I was in my teens.

Yes! I hate eating. I'd rather have drinks or have nothing at all. Sometimes I forget to eat. Or I "don't have time to" < which ultimately means I was doing something else too interesting. My mom comes home and is like "What have you eaten today?" and sometimes I can say and sometimes I lie about it. My dad is the same exact way. Recently I've learned ALOT more about him and I have seen that we almost have the exact same traits. Which makes me wonder if he is an aspie too!

The only reason I eat regular meals is because my wife makes them.

How does this play off against the need for routine? I suppose if I wasn't married I would just eat the same thing every day.

This is pretty much me. I don't eat breakfast, which is no big deal, but then I'll get involved with whatever and just . . . not eat. Sometimes I don't get hungry, other times I don't realize how hungry I am until I start making dinner in the evening, and other times I'll be starving but it just seems like too much trouble to make something.

But, I like food. I'm fortunate to not have the food sensitivities that others on here do. Well, maybe I do, sort of, but not as an aversion to different tastes, or being "tied" to a narrow range of tastes/textures. Instead, food seems to be wired directly to my pleasure center. For me, eating can be a very profound experience, and I have actually caught a buzz before, simply from eating (very, very) good food. Doesn't happen often, but when it does . . . ohmy!

Something that makes this "forgetting to eat" thing even more bizarre is the fact that I'm quite good in the kitchen. I'd go so far as to say that it's one of my "interests". I like cooking, I'm not afraid to try new recipes, and I get lots of compliments for stuff I make. I make very good meals for us 3 - 5 times a week, and go overboard when we have company for dinner - who makes a gourmet 7 course meal for a cookout?

I have a rather odd relationship with food.