Fear of eating or lack of interest?

Does the fear of eating keep you from making the right choices? Is it because your afraid of regain or your just not hungry? For me lately its been the feeling I'm just not hungry. When it is so hot an humid outside I find i have very little in the way of interest in food at all. Then the excuses start. Its to hot to cook. Or that is just to heavy on a day like today. Oh I'll just grab something later. Then later comes and I still don't eat why do I do this? I know deep down I need to eat but I just can't force myself into it. How do you deal with the lack of interest in food? Do you make yourself eat even when you don't feel like it? Do you skip meals? And later binge on whatever is handy. Tell me your stories. Dawn

I am not hungry AND I am terrified of gaining weight again. I do make myself eat cheese or a protein drink. I do skip meals but don't binge later.

Ann I worry daily about regain but right now I have to agree I need to regain a few pounds. I am nothing but lose skin an bones no muscle tone at all now. If they did remove the extra skin I would be around 100 pounds or less. And at 5'8 thats not good number. When I'm not hungry which is most of the time I try to grab something a little good for me. if I can handle a shake i do that but there are times those just gag me. I love cheese but it doesnt always like me I have a hard time with milk products.

Both I think.. I dont think I really get hungry. My head wants things.. but not my body. I will not eat e ven though I schedule my eating times so I will just so I wont gain weight.. I should have had my snack 30 minutes ago.. I thought about it.. and i decided no I wouldnt have it. I wanted to keep my calories down for the day so I just didnt eat it. thats kind of how I do it.. i sparkpeople everything and even though I so get calories in each day.. I have to fight myself to eat what I am suppose to eat. Today I have slated 1100 calories for food. I am very busy so i know that eating that will still keep me loosing. I will force that much food in me because again.. i know I dont want to be in stravation mode and not continue to loose. It's all about what my head thinks... not about if I am hungry.. anyone else that way. I dont really binge either. I just dont eat and in truth I am fine with it if I didnt.. but i am trying to eat because I know i need to.

Carla I do both and then sometimes when I'm upset I atttempt to binge but we know how that works. It comes right back to bite me. So in away its a good thing I guess. i'm shooting for 1000 calories today but falling really short. But doing much better then the last two days. its not as easy as it sounds being able to get in a 1000 calories with what we can actually eat. That an the lack of wanting to doesnt help much either. I am thinking of maybe we can find some tempting new recipe ideas that are easy quick and flavorful enough to tempt us to eat when its time. think thats an idea? Dawn

For me it is the fear of not losing anymore and even worse...GAINING! Most of the time I have no interrest in food. Once you have RNY eating becomes kind of boring...I think anyway. I have skipped meals a lot, as a matter of fact it was quite common to go a day or two without eating at all. Now I am really trying to force myself to eat. I am trying to look at this logically and do what I know is right. I don't like it, but my body appreciates it. I am eating 600-650 cal a day. At this point that is not too bad. My surgeon wants me between 600-800 a day. So I do the lowest amount.