Help, I can't stop eating! (Lighthearted - ish!)

[CountArthursgroupie]

I had a nasty cold at the weekend, but had to work on Monday, and it was manic. Day off yesterday, slept lots. Woke today, had normal breakfast ( Fruit & Fibre with milk) and that usually does me until lunch at 2. But I'm so hungry! I've had a mint Viscount, a pack of lentil curls (calm down, they're from Aldi) with a ton of jalapeno cheese spread, and now I'm foraging for more. I'm going to end up like one of those people who has to be taken out of the window to get out, aren't I, when I inevitably need an ambulance because I've exploded? 😢

Get some more protein in yourself woman!itll take away the hunger.

I'm not taking advice from a hungry hippo, all you eat is little plastic balls!

have you never heard the phrase "feed a cold and starve a fever". I'm not sure it means this, but I've always taken it to mean when you have a cold you can eat what you feel like, and as much of it as you like.

Excellent, sounds like a plan. Bring on the chip butties and trifle! 😀

Haha, so I know. That’s why I’m always hungry!

Wait, you can get lentil curls at Aldi? You may have made my day!

I eat soooo much when I have a cold. I try to keep it healthy as I want to support my body’s recovery, but I certainly have a strong urge to eat more calories when unwell.

nods Lentil curls from Aldi throws some to you all. I think they were about 75p for six packs.

Jalapeño cheese spread? Where can I buy that? 🤤

The jalapeno cheese spread was Primula in a tube @RitaMills we got it from Iceland. The shop, not the country.

I don't eat when I have a cold as I'm too busy feeling sorry for myself but, when I recover from it, I find that I really want carbs, far more than I'd normally eat so there's definitely something there.

Eat what you fancy while you have this cold, Count, don't string it out longer than a week though, that's my advice.

Feel better soon.

Oh I saw those lentil curls, I didn't buy them - I bought the Wotsit (but healthier) type cheese and herb thingies... I still scoffed them all.

Infant eat when I'm ill, but as soon as I recover I could Hoover up food.

Op i feel your pain, I've spent the last 2 months on slimming world (with a staggering loss of 3 whole pounds cos I'm shit at it) and in tbe last week my self medicated carbs for the cold i have has put me right back to square one. Fuck sake.

I can,t eat
So many typos because too busy scoffing beef curry. Slurp

Nothing useful to add other than I'm always famished when I have a cold and I bloody love Aldi lentil curls!