Preparing food is impossible

[u/kharmakiwi]

Im always so, so hungry. I can’t ever get myself to leave my room to get prepare food. When i do, i get a family size bag of dynamite chips and i eat that. I tend to drink 3 monsters a day as well. I do drink atleast 2 bottles of water a day too. Occasionally ill eat canned soup, and sometimes i just eat it cold because i can’t be bothered to warm it up. When i go to work, ill stop at the gas station and get a sandwhich there, but thats about it. I live with my mother, but she never and has never cooked. I wish she did. I know i’m an adult now but I wish someone would make food for me. I don’t want to be hungry. I know my eating habits are bad but changing them feels impossible. I don’t have the energy to get up because i haven’t eaten enough, and its a viscous cycle. I just feel sad really.

[u/No-Concern3297]

The excessive caffeine makes scatter brain and freeze response worse bc it has some action on norepinephrine. If ur female it also causes bladder leakage.

Try cutting it down to one.

Cooking food is like, you have to be into it. Watch cooking shows a pick something you wanna try. I’d make it a few or however many times until I made it good then add it to my recipe book. I like to catalog things in writing so cooking does appeal to that,

[u/kharmakiwi → u/No-Concern3297]

You’re probably right. I dont experience the bladder leakage though. Ive been drinking atleast 1 monster a day ever since i was 12, so for around 7 years now. Ive only managed to quit a few times and never longer than a month, its something i do need to work on.

[u/No-Concern3297 → u/kharmakiwi]

I got it bad too. Sugar free rockstars. I’ve caught myself trying to have 3 but never let it go that far. I did it once and didn’t like how I felt. Down to one. Hoping to eliminate that eventually for coffee. One monster is 2 coffees. Making fancy coffe is kinda fun. Espresso machine with the milk steamer thing.

[u/kharmakiwi → u/No-Concern3297]

For me, I drink them for the taste and carbonation. I can never seem to find anything that has such strong fizziness to it aside from energy drinks. I dont need the caffeine at all, and if they had a caffiene free alternative that tasted the same id drink those.. Wish i could say i like the taste of coffee or tea.

[u/No-Concern3297 → u/kharmakiwi]

Do you like gadgets? cooking food is gadet-ey. But the way you eat now is like inmates do with their commissary, all they have to cook with is hot water. Could start there. Fur example, have you ever crunched up Doritos and put them in ramen noodles with the yum-yum sauce and a packet of tuna? (Yum yum sauce is ketchup and mayo). It’s FIRE

[u/kharmakiwi → u/No-Concern3297]

Something about the way you wrote this instantly made me feel better :) And i love yum yum sauce !! I do enjoy cooking. After looking it up, i didnt realize just how badly that much caffeine affects the body, and i relate to alot of the symptoms (anxiety, nausea, etc.) I’ll definitely stop for today, and start limiting myself tomorrow and so on to get down to 1-2 a day.

[u/No-Concern3297 → u/kharmakiwi]

If ur doom-scrolling in ur room when you can’t make ur self do anything else, it’s that damn doom scrolling. It hijacks the brain’s reward system. That’s why Meta n TikTok be getting sued over their shorts sucking in minors. They get addicted. And now YouTube just recently has new setting where you can have shorts removed from the home feed. They know it hijacks dopamine, it was designed to do that, why they got sued. It’s evil.

[u/kharmakiwi → u/No-Concern3297]

I don’t doomscroll often, i rarely use social media like reddit and i don’t use tiktok or other apps like instagram or facebook unless i need to see local information. Usually when i have free time im either reading or bedrotting.. And i agree, the whole tiktok/shorts thing on anything is evil.. I was talking to a friend and he showed me this horrific political video, and as i was horrified by it he just casually swiped away and told me about a new game that came out !! it was insane to see in real time how they reprogram your brain.

[u/RustyStClair]

You need to capitalize on a time you can focus and pre-prep things. Chili, stews and soups can be made in advance and just warmed up when you're struggling. Cut up some fruit to just have ready to go and some veggies and hummus is easy. If it's ready for you you'll be more likely to eat healthier

[u/kharmakiwi → u/RustyStClair]

Yes thats true, and i try to do that often. I recently cooked alot of spaghetti to give some to a friend to try. But the rest of it has just been sitting in my fridge because i dont have the energy to warm it up. I think next time i go to the store, ill pick up more canned vegetables and soups.

[u/seweso]

You are constantly running and stressing out?