I'm not eating and I dont know why?

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I havent been hungery for the past 3 days I don't know why. I have been eating, but not much, like 2 meals a day if I remember at all.
I have dropped 4 pounds and I am really starting to worry . Why am I no longer hungry does anyone else have this problem??????

Have you taken a lot of stimulants, like caffine? I know that for me, Adderol (a stimulant prescribed for ADD) decreases my appetite. It sucks because it takes all the fun out of eating.

Recently, have you been moving around less than you usually do? When I exercise, I tend to get hungrier, so when I stay at home, my appetite shrinks.

You might be ill, you might have caught a bug. If this persists for a week, then go and see the doctor. Weight loss like that is dangerous.

I'm not taking any medication at all , Ive been cleaning like mad, (so that counts as increased activity) and I haven't been drinking any more caffeine then usual . But I have had the runs for the past two days, its passed now but perhaps it could have been water loss, but then I have been drinking A lot of fluids so i don't get dehydrated .

Its not that I can't eat, I just have a complete loss of appetite, and I have been so busy I forget to eat. I have been eating even though I am not hungry because I don't want to loose to much weight and have health problems.

It is just so weird that I was starting to worry.

Yeah, sometimes I just go days eating peanut butter on toast at really irregular times and not really thinking about eating.

It just seems like a low-priority thing when my mind is stuck on something else. I just kind of forget about it. It's weird how I don't feel hungry though. Then after a few days, I just come out of whatever it is and go back to "normal".

Don't know if that really helps. I know an AS friend of mine does the same thing though - actually, they do it all the time - so there has to be a few of us at least. I think for me it's not so much the eating, it's the hassle of focusing on getting it together to eat. Going in the kitchen or to the shop and organising it. It's just too much bother. Somehow the adrenaline of being absorbed in whatever it is I'm doing cuts out the hunger pangs or something like that.

Like I really know what I'm talking about.

for about a month after the rowing season i lose my appetite. i just forget to eat, despite intense workouts and such because during the season i work out A LOT so i think the sudden drop in physical activity does something to me.

If it's just for a few days, even a couple of weeks, it's probably not a big issue.

if there's some major emotional episode, or something that should have been a major emotional episode, around when you stopped being hungry, it's potentially the onset of an eating disorder.


If it keeps up more than a couple weeks, please get it checked out. . . could be stomach cancer, or overtraining if you were an athlete, or any of a wide variety of things, some of which are bad.

good luck with that. .

I don't really set a meal time for myself, I just eat when I am hungry... and that can range from 1 big meal and a snack a day to 3 full meals a day.... there have been days that the only thing I ate was a bowl of cereal, I just didn't feel hungry enough.

could be the cleaning agents or stress involved with the reason that you are cleaning so much.

maybe try some Ensure, it sure taste like crap but it should help if you haven't
been eating. I sometimes go 2 or 3 days before eating, I don't get hunger pains.

I quit eating when I was 14, not because of anorexia but because food was like poison....

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Are you on any medication? A high dose of welbutrin sometimes will make me forget to eat. Sometimes i had to set my watch to a certain time of day to remind me to eat.

Could you explain this a little more?

just-me, sometimes stress can cause people to lose their appitite. Stress and other mental health issues such as depression can cause other physical symptoms (including diarrhea).
I'd suggest to go to the doctor for a complete physical examination to rule out any illnesses. If your fine physically, then look into the stress suggestion.

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Well, I'm never hungry (or full) so I do have some idea what that's like. I've accidentally gone 48 hours without eating several times without noticing any hunger or other ill effects. Thank God I'm not diabetic.

I've read that people with AS often have wonky portions of the brain that regulates eating (hypothalamus?) so it could be that you're experiencing a little malfunction there.

I'm often not hungry--especially around mealtimes.

Stress decreases appetite.

So does dehydration. How's your water intake been for the past few days?

Personally, I've dropped 20 pounds in the past year just from being too busy too eat (and general lack of funds in regards to snack food).