Unhunger

You were just thinking to yourself “It’s been a while since Nikki posted one of her ‘Nikki-isms’."

Now you may not KNOW you were thinking that…but you were.

Unhungry. Best way to describe it is this. I have eaten a good, satisfying filling meal that is still, at this very moment, taking up space in my pouch. Yet I want to eat.

I call this unhungry because sometimes it’s a matter of my pouch being partially empty and I want to eat cuz I want to eat and, by the way, here is some space to put some food!Unhungry is a whole different monster. It’s pure head hunger.

Cuz right now I am WISHING I was either a) hungry or b) had room in my pouch, simply because I want to eat. Chew. Zone out.I hate unhunger. It’s the worst damn thing. And I can’t seem to shake it either.

Usually gum does the trick for unhunger (cuz I genuinely do think it is simply the urge to chew something which, for me, elicits this mental departure into nothing-land). I am out of gum and there’s nowhere to get any. I polled colleagues. They have none.

THIS is why I do not keep food at the office, btw. Unhunger. Cuz if food was here, I’d attempt to eat it. Even though I am not hungry, my pouch is still quite occupied.

Anybody else ever suffer from unhunger?

 

 

Yes! And that's such a good description too. I am trying to teach my daughter this concept, so I told her "Sometimes my mouth says yes, but my tummy says no" and then went on to explain why it's not a good idea to eat when your mouth and tummy don't agree.

I do.  I miss that zoning out and watching TV or buttery popcorn at the movies.  It's like when I was a smoker being use to smoking while you drive or while you are bored or when you drink alcohol or when you are stressed.  It's a habit.  I just want to eat just because that's what I've always done.  Then I try to listen really hard to my pouch.  Usually it says...don't feed me I'm good and sometimes it says...to hell with it one little bite won't hurt. 

I read this as I mindlessly eat 1/2 roll of Ritz at my desk..............thanks.........................

I do not keep food at work! Folks wonder why. THAT is why!

Yes - it equates to head hunger for me.  I'm having one of those days today, they don't happen often but when they do it's difficult to squeal the "want".  I do keep food at work, mostly protein rich things like deli meat and cheese, cottage cheese, yogurt, tuna.

Unhunger is a day in the life for me. Seriously. I can just finish eating and think of ... say SF ice cream, or peppers and cheese (doesn't have to be a "bad" thing) and I immediately start "well, I can have it adn still be under calories.... " - justifying it before I am even actually HUNGRY. sheeesh

Yes I go thru this all the time. I can usually ignore it. But I too miss being able to sit and watch a movie and have a whole bag of popcorn disappear. Now when I sit I'll eat an oz. of cheese. That fills me up, but I still wish I could just eat all the popcorn in the world, without thinking about it.

 Really good description for the way I feel when I've just gone shopping and bought a week's worth of food, and I can only eat 1/2 cup of one thing.  It's so frustrating!

Wow.  You just put into simple words exactly what I've been feeling lately.  A lot.  I have cut my food drawer at work down to almost nothing because of this very thing.  I keep wanting to eat, but if I really pay attention to the way I feel (and to what I've already eaten for the day), I realize I DO NOT NEED TO EAT ANYTHING.  I'm thinking this is some of the old, bad behavior trying to butt it's way into my life again.  Gum doesn't help for me, because I want to swallow something and feel it go into my pouch.  So far I've been pretty successful in distracting myself, but it could become a big problem if I let it.