Finding it hard to eat well

[Shadowmooth]

I’ve been taking MJ two months and I’m finding it hard to eat well. I’m so uninterested in food that I don’t want to eat. When I get hungry and dizzy I eat because I need to. But because I don’t want to think about it, it’s been toast, cereal, sometimes chicken wings. I know I need more healthy foods but I just don’t want to think about food and can only contemplate the plainest things. I don’t feel sick. Just don’t want to eat!

How do I overcome this?

to add, yesterday I ate.

• one slice of toast with cheese
• an apple
• some chicken wings in hot sauce

Take less?

Yeah I'd maybe dial down dosage if the suppression is too high.

I’m only taking 5mg which is the minimum therapeutic dose. When I took 2.5mg I was starving all the time!

I guess I’m more looking for tips on palatable healthier foods you’re all eating! Sorry, should have specified.

op, you need to eat more fruit, veg,,Protein, salad, some dairy like yoghurts, etc . You need to have in to eat, and make better choices, as you will become very ill indeed. Losing muscle, hair etc.

Your main problem is not enough protein-you will lose muscle and hair. Try adding clear protein fruit drinks, adding collagen to coffee tea juice, protein shakes, protein bars. Plus small healthy meals of good protein and fat. If take a multivitamin and
1 gram protein per kg body weight you will be fine.

5mg is too high for me, I've barely been able to eat on it either. 3.75 seems to be a good balance of suppression but still feeling hungry at appropriate intervals and able to stomach food so I'm going back to that. It's a bit too miserable being totally unable/uninterested in food.

I eat a lot of chicken! Stuff like chicken satay is good for snacks. I try to get as much protein as possible really.

Lots of nibbly foods make up a whole meal. So try little finger foods or a small buffet style platter and just nibble throughout the day. It should amount to a whole meal or two by the end of the day. Fill them with healthy foods protein (lots of meat), veg, fruits, etc. It makes it easier to eat this way than eat a whole meal in one go if you're struggling.

You need to come up with a meal plan and make sure the food is in your house ready and easy to eat.

Something like:

Breakfast - yoghurt and a piece of fruit
Lunch - cooked chicken and some bagged salad or soup and bread
Dinner - healthy ready meal, or pork stir fry with broccoli

Being organised and prepared so that you have healthy and nutritious options available is going to make it a lot easier.

If you keep eating how you are now then you'll end up malnourished. It would also be worth adding in some multi vitamins to supplement.

This is what worries me with these medications. Yes people will lose weight, but at what cost? Muscle will reduce which means you'll burn less calories during the day anyway. A lack of vitamins and minerals will have its own detrimental effect.

I think you can stand down most folks do it sensibly. I eat fruit, veg, salad, proteins and work out in the gym 5 times a week. As you can see from the advice , others know exactly what to do.

the op is not doing it healthily. For whatever reason, and just like anyone else extreme dieting, be it slim fast, or Cambridge or any other shit, these folks will lose muscle and become unwell.

do,you post all over other diet threads giving it I’m so worried about slim fast and Cambridge or do you reserve that for injections?

I have a few meal
repmacement bars and sachets handy for days when I struggle with meals but I actually think 5mg is too strong for me and I'll drop back to 3.75 (45 clicks of the pen instead of a full dose)

It would be pretty easy to fill yourself up on calorie dense, nutrient low food so you're right that you need to be healthier and make what you can eat healthier.

I've been having overnight oats or moma porridge or granola (doesn't have sugar added like most easy oats) with loads of blueberries on top for breakfast.

Usually some sort of vegetable soup (I make a batch at the weekend to eat in the week) for lunch.

Then normal dinners - usually a gousto meal (although not actually buying a box, just using the recipes we've collected) and I just eat a smaller portion and tend not to eat the side carbs eg rice, noodles etc.

Snacks have been fruit or sometimes a small packet of popcorn.

I'm a bit worried about this as I have a habit of just snacking on odds and sods instead of eating meals.

In the early days, when I found appetite suppression a bit brutal, during the day I just snacked and ate lots of babybels, biltong, nuts, boiled eggs, rice cakes or ryvita with hummus, crumpets were also really palatable. Then, for tea, I'd have what ever the rest were eating, but accepted I could only eat a small amount. This would usually be a protein and veg or salad. No potatoes as for some reason, these gave me the ick for weeks! Instead of chicken wings which are quite fatty and have little meat on them, swap to a chicken thigh.

Basically you need to just make yourself eat even though you don't want to; there's no magic answer (if you're on the right dose) or big secret. MJ suppresses your appetite so it's very easy to just not eat (which is why WLM are so dangerous for underweight people with eating disorders). A couple of months of very low calories won't do you any harm as you're obese but you need to step up and sort yourself out from now on.

homemade soups?

I like having cold meats in the fridge that I can have as much/little as I want, good source of protein and I’ve been having them with salad at lunch time.

Babybels and peperami are handy to have in the fridge, easy to eat and decent protein (I’m aware they’re ultra processed!)

A sliced apple and peanut butter.

Did you eat much veg before?

Does anyone else feel a bit miffed when someone asks a question and people spend time and effort to give advice but the poster never acknowledges this? Not here for thanks but it always strikes me as a bit off.