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    OK, when I had some nasty shit come down 5 1/2 months ago (two people very close to me died in 4 days), I completely lost my appetite. It's not like I was laying around crying--I was too busy taking my best friend's place in the club, for one, and trying to help out my stepdad.

    I'm not feeling traumatized at all now, though I do get sad sometimes when I think about it--but my appetite is still gone...

    Of course, the smoking (cigarettes) really makes it way worse, but still--I have no desire for food, whatsoever.

    I mean, I'll go to the store and come home with all of my favorite foods, as much as I want, and there it sits in the refrigerator. I can afford to eat out wherever and whenever I want--no thanks.

    I've been living on chocolate milk (by the fucking gallon, lol), and whatever I can force myself to eat. It's really strange for me since I was known as "Djoser the Voracious" in college (substitute real first name there), and have always had a prodigious appetite, if much less during those times I have smoked cigarettes.

    I have heard this can happen if you lose a close family member, but how damned long does it last, lol?

    Now my stomach has shrank, too, I think. I'm about 10 pounds underweight now, and holding. The one time I was this much underweight was when my avater picture was taken in Key West, after my first big Biketoberfest, five years ago, but I was eating more right away after that.

    I would have killed for this body at 20 years of age (I was thin then), but I am used to looking like a bad-ass, and I miss it. Sorry, I'm a bit vain, lol...

    Does anyone know of any supplementary liquid diet type stuff I can use until I get it back? I prefer to avoid sugar in whatever it is.
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    Default Re: Loss of appetite

    Muscle Milk. http://www.a1nutritionproducts.com/b...rm=Muscle+Milk

    Protein Ice. http://www.a1nutritionproducts.com/b...sa/protein_ice

    I drink Protein Ice all the time.It tastes great!!!
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    Thanks! I'll go get some of each...
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    Hope you feel better,man.
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    Default Re: Loss of appetite

    muscle milk is my choice, to me it tastes the best...

    if u like the taste of frappacinos, buy chocolate muscle milk...and mix it in a shaker according to directions...use half water half milk...add about a teaspoon of instant coffee...shake it up and put it in the freezer about 20 minutes or so, until it gets icey...shake it up again and WALL AGHH!

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    I'm going throught the same thing...

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    Default Re: Loss of appetite

    I don't know how active you get as a matter of course.

    When I was recovering from the stomach flu I had a few weeks ago, and trying to get my appetite back, it helped me to take note of the time of day I was most likely to finish food (evening for me, but think back to whatever time you habitually need to eat most, whether it's morning or night or whatever) and exercise hard around that time -- which sent the "need fuel" signals and so increased my capacity.

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    Ordinarily when I hit the bag I will definitely eat more--but right after this happened and I did that a while, there was no effect--that's when I knew something different was going on...

    I wish I had somewhere to hang the damned thing, I am thinking it would work now--but not in this hotel, lol!

    I should be moving in a week or so, and a good tree will be a high priority. It'll be funny--"Great, wonderful, nice place--hey, any trees in back!?"

    In the meantime I'll get some of those drinks, and gear up more for the quitting smoking thing. All this should take care of it.

    CorsicaFire, sorry to hear you have had trouble as well--what happened to you? You can PM me if you'd prefer, or of course keep it private if you'd rather do that.
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    Drink some Ensure shakes. Also get a presriction for Periactin. It's a weight gainer...







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    This doesn't answer your original question, I guess, but loss of appetite is one of the key indicators of depression, and you did recently experience a big loss followed by many months of what sounds like stressful working conditions. Depression doesn't always take the form of the sadness that most people associate with it, especially if you are someone who is used to keeping emotions under control. When I was clinically depressed, the symptoms were mainly physical -- loss of appetite, insomnia or oversleeping, exhaustions, unexplainable aches and pains, dizzy spells, etc.

    If this is what's going on, protein supplements might treat the immediate symptom of weight loss, but they won't get at the root problem. I would suggest doing a little reading on depression to see if the other symptoms seem to fit you. (Just Google 'depression' -- you'll get a trillion hits, some of which will be from pharmaceutical companies, but many of which will be useful.) There's nothing weird or wrong with being depressed -- our brain chemistry changes constantly as a result of our experiences. In the commonest form of depression, the brain temporarily or permanently loses the ability to regulate levels of seratonin, the neurotransmittor associated with feelings of happiness, a healthy appetite, normal sleep cycles, and the supression of pain. Basically, your body can't regulate its level of seratonin the same way the body of a diabetic can't regulate glucose levels.

    Depression can be temporary, but the longer it goes on, the harder it is to treat and the more likey it is to reoccur, so if you think you might be depressed, do something now. There are many ways to treat depression, from diet and excercize to various froms of therapy, to medication. I've been dealing with this for a long time and am pretty educated about it. Feel free to PM me if you have any questions.

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    ^^^ I agree. You should get to the root of the problem.

    This EXACT thing happened to me except I experienced a horrible death and thought I was fine...until I lost my appetite and then other syptoms occured. Mine was a liitle depression but alot of it was anxiety....I know this sounds cheesy but you should see if there is a support group for loss and grieving...they will give you the tools to make you feel better. It worked for me and I am eating again. I do still have my days but nothing like a year ago!

    Best of luck!

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    I have problems with having had no appetite pretty much my entire life and depression as well. My doctor prescribes Remeron to me, apparently it makes most people plump up like hippos. I've gained a pound or two with it. But mostly what's made me gain weight is walking a mile or two every day, drinking only water - no caffeine, and supposedly drinking pineapple juice in the morning stimulates your appetite for the entire day.

    Good luck, I know how frustrating it is to not want to eat when you know you should.

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    oops, I meant to also add that I drink Muscle Milk every day as well, and that's helped me gain muscle weight, too Every quarter pound to me is probably about equal to a "normal" person gaining a pound or two - so I think if you really attacked this thing and did all of what you could, you can definitely beat it.

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    If you want to buy protein shakes/powders, etc. (which will help you put on weight without much in your stomach) or any type of nutritional products for wholesale prices try www.dpsnutrition.net. It can be a little bit of a hard website to get through since it is really made for people in the business that know what these products are, but with a little fumbling around you will find what you are looking for. They have excellent products for VERY good prices and you will literally get your package in 2-3 days UPS. The best way to search is at the top left of the page there will be a "Product Categories" drop down list. Scroll down to Protein Powders, or whatever you are looking for.
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    I was the SAME way when I was with my exboyfriend of two years........after the first half of a year, he was so crazy and made my life such a living hell that I was always worrying and crap over what he was doing when he wasn't with me.......He cheated on me a LOT and I would always catch him up either IN shit or lying about shit, and the list just goes on and on.

    By the time the two year mark hit I HATED food. I told my mom I hated it.......I literally had to force myself to eat in order to stay alive. It took me probably a good six months or more to get back into a regular eating habit. Just watch yourself, cuz once you do get back to a natural eating habit you're so used to being skinny (since you ate nothing) that you automatically think "OH I don't gain weight!" BUt like in my case, I gained 10 lbs cuz of my OLD eating habits still lingering skinny thought in my brain.

    It'll come back naturally.

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    ...no caffeine, and supposedly drinking pineapple juice in the morning stimulates your appetite for the entire day.
    This is interesting, since I do drink a fair amount of coffee, even when I should be trying to sleep.

    But the amazing thing is, the one food I seem to want to eat at all is pineapple (in fact I am eating it now as I read this, lol--what's the odds of that?!).

    Looks like the body is trying to tell me something...

    I really do appreciate all the advice. It's pretty obvious to me that something's going on, maybe because when it happened I didn't grieve so much as I needed to, and instead plunged into the maelstrom of this club I've been in, and committed myself way too much to it.

    The strange thing is, when it happened my reaction was to feel empowered by it all--which may seem callous and cold, but what was both of them would have wanted--there's no doubt in my mind of this--so strong was the spirit in both of them (it's weird, they never met, and came from entirely different backgrounds, but had much in common, especially in the power of their personalities).

    But I should have known it was a little too good to be true...

    Years ago I lost a brother and wound up drinking for three months straight, an even worse way of dealing with it, which fortunately dawned on me one day, so I stopped.

    Well, my last night in this club was last night--long overdue I suspect, much as I did love that crazy circus--and though I'm going into another club tonight to talk to them and will very likely get the gig, it's a bit calmer in there, lol.

    Thanks again, everyone--it's been very helpful!
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    Sorry to here about this DJOSER....I hope you feel better ASAP. Take care of yourself!!!!!

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    Djoser, lad, you must take care of yourself. Come to Chi-town and I'll force feed you high-calorie steaks and martinis.

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    The thing with caffeine is that it makes you fidgety. And if you're already a fidgety person, it just escalates the problem. I recently read in a medical journal that 'chronic fidgeters' burn more than 700 calories a day JUST fidgeting. Insane, huh?

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    Yeah, that explains a lot, lol...

    One reason I never cared for blow that much (cocaine, for the uninitiated), one line and I'm bouncing off the walls. The hell with that.

    Sexejaz, I'm at that club right down the street I told you about--the one you tried and had the problem with the idiot losing his money.

    I just got hired 5 minutes ago, and might even be put on tonight. I'll PM you with details, but get your fine ass down here, lol--it'd be a pleasure to work with you, and a pleasure to stop warning women away from my club for a change!


    Bottom line is, I'm not one to let depression or any related symptoms hold me down for long. Getting the hell out of that club will I think be what I needed to get me back on track.

    OTOH, I'm sitting here with a unopened bag of Wendy's fast food, and typing instead of eating, lol...
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    Do you eat alone a lot? ...that might have something to do with it. If I'm in work-week mode and go too long without much normal human interaction, that in and of itself depresses me and makes me not want to eat. It's like you can't figure out what you're hungry for because mostly you just want the company, the conversation, the feeling of a meal being meaningful... and when those things aren't possible your brain and stomach go on strike. This is coming from a girl who has thrown at least one TV dinner against the wall in complete frustration... I like being by myself for the most part, but sometimes enough's enough, especially when I want to eat.

    Try some good company and a glass of wine... I bet it helps.
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    That is excellent advice--and something I hadn't considered at all. But yes, I always eat alone, except the occasional after-work breakfast with some of the dancers--and come to think of it I do eat more then...

    The TV dinner at the wall thing is funny--I've done things like that, lol. But hey, it shows you've got spirit, always a good thing in my mind.

    OK, less typing, more eating.
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    I think red red red has a point-- they've proven that you eat noticeably more in a group setting; maybe you should go out to dinner with a group of friends a couple times a week? Something nice and fattening.

    As for the depression aspect, I can tell you that I went through the same thing less than 3 months ago. Food was the last thing on my mind for weeks. Luckily, I had my amazing roommates to keep me from dying, and had been put on anti-depressants just prior to the tragedy.

    Good luck.

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