Cammy: I have no idea if my stomach hurts because it is sick or because I am insanely hungry.
Match: That is a problem, love...
Indeed. Glad his two psychology degrees are serving us well here...*
It is a problem. I've had this stupid stomach virus since Saturday, and it is really, really frustrating me. I've been really good about getting my calories in, but it seems like instead of being rewarded for that I've been punished. I could really use a little bit of this both to and from my body:
I think the main issue is that my hunger cues are whacked out even in the best of circumstances, so when my body is also a bit (or a lot more than a bit, as it has been the past few days) off I have no fucking clue how to read it. Does it hurt because it is hungry and needs a big meal after being sick for a few days? WHOOPS no wrong move, it hurts because it was still sick and now I've done gone and pumped the wrong kinds of food into it. Or later when it's quiescent but uncomfortable, I don't know if it needs fed or if that will make it worse again. I may as well be trying to read instructions with a blindfold on. Commence the agony here.
And here I will also cease the whining. Sorry y'all.
*that is a JOKE, and probably a bad one that I may delete. I am super-careful about never treating M. as my personal therapist or making him feel like it's his job to help. He encourages me to let him know when I'm having a hard time, with the understanding that I neither need nor want him to fix it for me.
4 comments:
After eighteen months of weight restoration I still have this problem. It's partly because I have IBS, partly because I am phobic of being sick. If I don't eat enough because I'm ill or somehow forget, I do get to a point where I honestly can't tell if I'm sick or hungry. Usually it's hungry. But even though my stomach hunger cues are still screwed, my body usually tells me when to eat in other ways. Quite a challenge to intuitive eating, but it still works for me except in circumstances when I can't eat until it's gone too far.
I hope you feel better soon!
Sandwich bread and eggs always work for me in this situation. Sometimes I can handle a crusty bread with a soup, but other times that backfires. It's super tough. I hope you feel better soon :(
buttered bread. :)
Feel better soon!!
Don't delete the joke, I thought it was amusing :) and I understood it to be a sort of cynical amused joke before you said so.
As for the being sick verus eating deal, i empathise with you a lot on that one. I have a lot of food intolerances and allergies and so sometimes I'd adversive to food because its food and going to make me sick and sometimes because I have an eating disorder. Not fun and never fun trying to figure out what it is that you CAN eat that won't make things worse.
If only they printed out a strip that told us exactly what to prepare and eat, that would be helpful!
Hope you feel better soon hun xo
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