Eating.

What do you guys do when eating seems like too much effort?

I am sick of eating, period. I also have an eating disorder, which makes it that much worse. I need to have enough energy for school and work, so I force myself to eat stuff, but it's mostly junk, and I know I need to eat better.

What low effort things do you eat when everything feels like 'too much'?

I'm sick of eating cereal for dinner...

I don't have an ED, but I can sometimes overeat (not always, but sometimes).

There was a time when I didn't feel like eating.

Today, I feel like eating, but it's hard for me to cook because of my physical disabilities.

Some things I've done to make cooking/eating simpler include:

1. If you're going to eat "junk food," there are healthier choices that are filled with vitamins (and are lower in calories), such as health/nutrition bars, cereal bars, granola bars, etc.

2. If you need to increase your caloric intake but don't feel like eating solids, drink flavored coffee (e.g., cafe mocha) or flavored tea (e.g., chai tea latte with vanilla is one of my faves); such flavored drinks tend to have 500 calories, give or take.

3. If you need vitamins in your system, a health shake (they typically come in cans) can replace a meal, but they may not taste that great.

4. If you are low on energy and don't feel like cooking, you can nuke frozen meals in the microwave. They have diet meals to keep your caloric intake down, if that's a concern for you. They also have tasty meals if you need to increase your caloric intake.

5. You can also nuke a tortilla and some cheese in the microwave, and then call it a quesadilla. I've done that a bunch of times, too. There's also ways to cook eggs in the microwave. Whatever foods you feel comfortable eating.

6. Nuts, trail nuts, almond butter and crackers (if you don't like bread), dried fruit snacks, and yogurt - these are all healthier substitutes for nutrition bars, since nutrition bars tend to be filled with a bunch of preservatives and sugars; these are also high in protein, which gives you energy and supply you with nutrients.

7. Eating a small cube or slice of cheese by itself.

8. Mixing tuna with mayo (or light mayo), or having tuna by itself, and then using crackers to eat the tuna with. You could also make yourself a tuna salad sandwich or a tuna melt with a toaster oven, an oven, or even the microwave for the melt.

9. Eating a bowl of cereal with soy or almond milk.

10. Eating gluten-free products, if you're sensitive.

11. Eating oatmeal with fresh or frozen fruit added.

12. Choosing meals within your time budget, your monetary budget, your caloric budget, and your taste-buds budget; you know yourself best, so make a list of affordable foods that you enjoy, which meets your caloric, nutritional, and time needs. If you don't like spending a lot of time preparing or cooking meals, list a bunch of already prepared foods you can nuke or eat right from the pack. If you're limited on funds, choose affordable meals only.

13. When planning outings with friends, and if eating with them is an issue for you, try planning outings where you all bring your own meal (such as hiking). That way, you're still enjoying a meal with others, while also exercising before or after the meal (or both), but you're not isolating and you are getting socialization in.

Hope these suggestions help.

Also, whatever your therapist, nutritionist, and other treatment teams (including physicians) say.

I hope this list helps.

Hello, SoSorry7735. In view of your contamination concerns, have you tried anything like Lilib's #3 above?

Also frozen veggies can be heated in the microwave and they are healthy and can get pre-made rotisserie chicken, and bake a sweet potato, simple and easy. Also cook a few meals on the weekend and freeze in individual servings in the freezer.

I make pasta when I'm lazy because it is super easy--boil water and dump pasta in--and I like the way it tastes.

these are good ideas.

and since when was " flavoured coffee", a thing?

I've never heard of it. I thought it just came in 1 flavour

@raging vortex lol... flavoured coffee is what you hear from Starbucks, such as a cafe mocha... It is not like regular coffee because it has a ton of chocolate and sugars in it, which add up to like 300 to 500 calories.

I am so verbose that I got tired when trying to read what I wrote. You must have been exhausted reading the list I wrote, lol.

I probably need to get out more

next I'll be questioning what a chicken nugget is.

(I'm being serious, I need to get out more.)

Lol. Please do not tell me that you do not know what a chicken nugget is. JK. But, just in case...

It is a soy/chicken staple of McDonald's, probably processed and described as "mechanically separated chicken." It tastes good, but what it is really made of, I am not sure. LOL ... Joking, I think.

thankfully, chicken nuggets are something I'm well aware of (and love them)

as for what they are made of, well... I would seriously hope chicken, but you can never tell