to be driven up the wall by my manager constantly going on about being hungry?

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My manager spends all day talking about how hungry she is. She eats normally. It is just this running commentary that never ends.

She will finish a call and immediately say that’s made her hungry. She will go round asking everyone if they’ve had their lunch. If I say no, she will keep telling them to have it.

She will have a meeting, come out of it and say it made her hungry. Rinse and repeat all day.

It is constant. Every meeting, every gap, every bit of small talk turns into her talking about being hungry. If I ask her about something, she will say that has made me hungry.

It is relentless and draining to listen to.

Lucky you not to have any real problems.

Lucky you that you have such an insight into my life and think this is the only thing going on 🙄

What do you think her problem is ?

Not sure but she does not appear to be able to tolerate even a tiny amount of hunger. Maybe she is confusing hunger for thirst which can happen.

Say something! "Stop talking about food! It's boring!"

Sometimes you have to be cruel to be kind!😉

If she's thirsty that often she may have diabetes.
It sounds more like an emotional thing.

If it was a colleague I would!

She eats more than she drinks. Maybe she does not realise she is thirsty and mistakes it for hunger.

She still shouldn't be thirsty ALL the time when it's not particularly hot. I'm convinced it's emotional. Stress or boredom or sadness or just habit!

It will definitely be one of them! All I hear all day is her munching.

Ugh. Now you’ve made me think about that bloke at work. He eats - no kidding - minimum eight pieces of fruit every day plus at least 2L of water. So whole day is munching, peeling, chomping, crunching, squelching and gulping. It’s non stop. And a big pile of festering rinds and cores and pits and peels next to his keyboard.
He must do elephantine dumps.
The water is the most annoying. There is NO NEED to drink litres of water sat in an office. He just can’t not be putting something in his mouth every two minutes. It’s infantile.

"He just can’t not be putting something in his mouth every two minutes. It’s infantile."

Did he used to smoke? They say smokers are stuck in the 'oral phase' so maybe that's how he got off the cigarettes. Still looking for a baby bottle...

Sounds less like hunger and more like a verbal tic at this point. I’d just stop engaging with it and change the subject every time.

Is it a verbal tic? She keeps saying she is hungry and then eating. Nobody engages with her when she says it.

Yes it sounds tic like to me, just something to say, the replication and repetition, can be quite common

Is there such a thing as an eating tic? Her saying she is hungry is followed by eating.

Normal BMI, but constantly going on about being hungry?

Ask for a private moment in her office and ask if she's OK

People in the office are worried, blah blah

She seems to be obsessed with food, blah blah

Is she having any counselling/therapy?

If she needs support, you and the team would be happy to help, but it's disturbing the office and could be triggering for some

Make it clear that you and others have noticed how food obsessed she is, you are all worried about her and want to help

Any comment about your eating choices should be met with a comment on the lines of 'stop harassing me about my food'. You are uncomfortable about this, it is unwanted conduct at work.

Any chance of you being able to work from home? Or asking for an exception to the number of days in the office, and when asked why, say it is because of the relentless comments about food?

You're not unreasonable to be annoyed; it is annoying when someone talks about the same thing constantly, whatever that may be.
I wonder whether there is something in her home life or something that causes the excessive eating at work. At work I have a drawer full of chocolate and to most people, it probably looks like my diet is terrible. In reality, I don't have chocolate at home as the kids can sniff it out no matter where I hide it, and they don't need my chocolate on top of any I choose to give them, so I leave some at work to snack on if I fancy it. If I had a partner that commented on everything I ate, I'd probably eat away from them. The constant talking might be almost a justification for all the rubbish she is eating, like people are less likely to comment on eating a whole pack of biscuits if she says she is starving rather than she just fancies them.
Regardless of her reasons, I'm guessing from your comments you don't have the sort of relationship to say anything about this without risking your job, so I guess you either need to find a new job or hope that she does!

That would be ok if she just ate more at work rather than at home. I don't understand why she keeps saying she is hungry all day. I just finished a phone call - that made me hungry. I came out of a meeting - that made me hungry - on and on!