Depression and not eating

When I am depressed I don't eat. Not purposely, I just don't feel hungry or I get distracted and just.....forget. I know this isn't good for me and I try to just nibble on stuff all day, but I'm finding it so hard to eat. I've lost 5lbs in a week and a half.   Any suggestions? Other than weed of course. ; )

Proteins drinks!

I'm like this too. I have been since I was little. I just don't feel good enough to eat...? If that makes sense. I was depressed for months at a time for many years. Ensure is basically what I lived off of. It gave me the energy I needed. And after all that time of not eating my stomach had shrunk and eating made my stomach hurt, so at the beginning of the day I would make 1 whole PB&J and make it my goal to finish it by the end of the day, little bits at a time. It took forever but it worked  

<blockquote><b>Quoting Sweet Baby Blue:</b>" I'm like this too. I have been since I was little. I just don't feel good enough to eat...? If that makes ... [snip!] ... 1 whole PB&J and make it my goal to finish it by the end of the day, little bits at a time. It took forever but it worked  "</blockquote>




Eating just sounds horrible right now. The thought makes me nauseous.  

I don't know how to help, I'm kind of in the same boat minus the depression. I just don't eat. I eat probably once a day, if that. I just don't feel hungry alot but when I do feel hungry I am ravenous but I can still only eat a small amount. I had spaghetti the other day and I only had a small saucer plate and didn't even fill the whole thing and only ate about half of it and felt full.  

<blockquote><b>Quoting Katie[ღ]Siℓas:</b>" I don't know how to help, I'm kind of in the same boat minus the depression. I just don't eat. I eat ... [snip!] ... day and I only had a small saucer plate and didn't even fill the whole thing and only ate about half of it and felt full.   "</blockquote>




Your stomach has shrunk if you don't eat very often. So you will feel fuller with a smaller amount.

<blockquote><b>Quoting Chick+6!:</b>" <blockquote><b>Quoting Sweet Baby Blue:</b>" I'm like this too. I have been since I ... [snip!] ... took forever but it worked  "</blockquote> Eating just sounds horrible right now. The thought makes me nauseous.  "</blockquote>




Yeah, I didn't start with PB&Js till maybe 2 months after trying to stomach Ensure. It's a long process. And I'm even there now. DH and I are having a heck of a time trying to get along, and I'm always alone with LO I'm depressed and stressed and havnt eaten in a few days.

<blockquote><b>Quoting Sweet Baby Blue:</b>" <blockquote><b>Quoting Chick+6!:</b>" <blockquote><b>Quoting Sweet Baby ... [snip!] ... a heck of a time trying to get along, and I'm always alone with LO I'm depressed and stressed and havnt eaten in a few days."</blockquote>




Did you lose a lot of weight?

<blockquote><b>Quoting Chick+6!:</b>" <blockquote><b>Quoting Sweet Baby Blue:</b>" <blockquote><b>Quoting Chick+6!:</b>" ... [snip!] ... alone with LO I'm depressed and stressed and havnt eaten in a few days."</blockquote> Did you lose a lot of weight?"</blockquote>

Yeah, when this has happened before in would lose about 6lbs a week, but I think a lot of that is due also to stress.
I havnt been eating much all week, maybe 1meal a day if that, I have lost 3lbs since Tuesday.

<blockquote><b>Quoting Sweet Baby Blue:</b>" <blockquote><b>Quoting Chick+6!:</b>" <blockquote><b>Quoting Sweet Baby ... [snip!] ... of that is due also to stress. I havnt been eating much all week, maybe 1meal a day if that, I have lost 3lbs since Tuesday."</blockquote>




I mean, I wanna lose weight. But not like this...

I am completely the opposite. I eat too much when I feel depressed. If you cannot force yourself to eat there are always meal replacement shakes. I know my Grandma could not force herself to eat after becoming sick and the Doctor told her to start drinking Ensure. It does not taste that great, but it is not awful either. I hope you feel better soon!

<blockquote><b>Quoting Chick+6!:</b>" <blockquote><b>Quoting Sweet Baby Blue:</b>" <blockquote><b>Quoting Chick+6!:</b>" ... [snip!] ... 1meal a day if that, I have lost 3lbs since Tuesday."</blockquote> I mean, I wanna lose weight. But not like this..."</blockquote>


Yeah it's kinda a sad cycle I get stuck I. I would love nothing more than to be thin. When I get depressed I don't eat much, and then I lose weight, lots of weight. And I notice I look okay... So I don't want to eat at all. I want my stomach to shrink and shrink till I'm never hungry, and in perfectly thin the way I want to be. It's not a good weight to lose weight, but I don't care. It's rather sad. But when you do finally want to eat you get really sick.

<blockquote><b>Quoting Sweet Baby Blue:</b>" <blockquote><b>Quoting Chick+6!:</b>" <blockquote><b>Quoting Sweet Baby ... [snip!] ... not a good weight to lose weight, but I don't care. It's rather sad. But when you do finally want to eat you get really sick."</blockquote>




I actually just said that to my husband. That I feel bad not eating, but then I'm like hey I lost weight! And then I almost want to keep doing it. =(

<blockquote><b>Quoting Chick+6!:</b>" <blockquote><b>Quoting Sweet Baby Blue:</b>" <blockquote><b>Quoting Chick+6!:</b>" ... [snip!] ... to my husband. That I feel bad not eating, but then I'm like hey I lost weight! And then I almost want to keep doing it. =("</blockquote>


I hate that I like it so much. Once in a movie I heard someone say... 'Im just one stomach flu away from my ideal weight.' Why is that so true!? That we are willing to be sick and feel horrible just to be thin!
I know not eating I lose weight, but I slowly get weaker and weaker till I almost passout just standing up. I have a 2 month old and can't afford to live like that.
I just ordered a 10min daily workout regiment by the maker of P90X that on average lose 30lbs and 6 inches in 60 days, and I can do it from home without taking the baby anywhere or going to the gym for a hour or more. I'm gonna try it and hope it gives me energy and helps me be fit and thin without starving myself. I have nothing to lose right? And just 10 min a day... I'm gonna try.
Hahaha if it works I'll turn all the videos into YouTube videos so you can watch them and do it too for free. Lol. You can only go so long with the starvation method before you have no energy at all.

<blockquote><b>Quoting Sweet Baby Blue:</b>" <blockquote><b>Quoting Chick+6!:</b>" <blockquote><b>Quoting Sweet Baby ... [snip!] ... watch them and do it too for free. Lol. You can only go so long with the starvation method before you have no energy at all."</blockquote>




That sounds good. It's definitely a daily struggle. But I'm trying to work on it.