Blizzards and eating!
By ctryhnny
@ctryhnny (3460)
United States
February 9, 2013 10:20am CST
It's been snowing here since yesterday in fact it's a blizzard! I'm doing what I usually do every day and that's watch tv and I seldom go out unless it's for shopping for groceries. The thing I don't understand is since this snow started I can't stop eating! I'm afraid I'll be out of food before this storm is over. I have 3 meals a day when usually I just have two. I'm eating anything I can find in between meals. I've had some fruit, fruitcocktail, donuts, cookies, crackers with peanut butter and anything else I can get my hands on. Why do I feel so hungry during a snow storm? Is the snow storm and eating related in any way or am I just more bored than usual?
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@Raine38 (12387)
• United States
9 Feb 13
Eating a lot tends to happen when we are just stuck inside the house and most especially if we end up doing nothing. We normally eat when we're hungry but we eat even more if there's nothing to do. Sometimes, I also do that when I'm anxious or bored or even depressed.
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@wolfie34 (26770)
• United Kingdom
9 Feb 13
Whenever I am stuck in, I get cabin fever, I hate being stuck in more than two days in a row, and I start to eat, mind you I tend to comfort eat a lot. When we had the bad snow last week and I couldn't get out, I was eating all the time! It's also frustration as well, because it's out of our hands the weather, we can't do anything about it. Nothing seemed to satiate my hunger either. The weather does affect our emotions and it triggers different responses in different people, you sound like me I just want to eat.
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@Kashmeresmycat (6369)
• United States
9 Feb 13
I'm happy to hear from you today. I was watching the news and they said thousands of people were out of power and I thought of you and a few other people here on myLot.
I get days like that where I eat and eat and eat. I have no idea why but it happens. I don't know if it has anything to do with the blizzard because I could do this on warm summer days too, lol! It doesn't happen often, thank goodness...you'd be rolling me down the street. Maybe for you it's just a little nervousness because of so much snow?
Anyways, glad you're ok! 
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@ctryhnny (3460)
• United States
9 Feb 13
So far everything here is good...thank you for thinking of me. I'm surprised we haven't lost electricity but am thinking maybe tonight we will. There is so much snow and ice on the electricity lines I can't believe it. I'll be 'rolling' out of here by tomorrow...lol...I can't stop eating!
@wilsongoddard (7291)
• United States
9 Feb 13
You should be having three or four meals per day. It isn't good to only eat two meals per day.
Doughnuts? Cookies? Fruit cocktail? These are things that you shouldn't even be keeping on hand, because they are all unhealthy. You've been talking about exercise--getting a trampoline and such--but you then talk about having stuff like this in your pantry. Exercising more doesn't give one a free pass to eat unhealthy stuff.
You're eating mostly out of boredom. Even though you usually stay in, you now have to stay in. So, you're turning to food to fill your time.
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@ctryhnny (3460)
• United States
9 Feb 13
I have all that stuff because I go to a food pantry and they are usually in the bags we get. Sometimes I give that stuff away to my neighbors but for some reason I didn't this week. I can't eat 3 or 4 meals a day because I have a bowel problem. One good meal and then smaller things during the day is fine for me.
@WakeUpKitty (8691)
• Netherlands
9 Feb 13
Some people are eating because they are bored, others because they feel cold, some eat way more if they had to think a lot (studying is a good example as well), some only if they did a lot of heavy body work. Perhaps (if you are not bored) you feel the storm comming and it makes you eat more? Just like a few days before the weather is changing (getting colder, starts freezing etc) I have more allergies/eczema/skin infections. If it comes to that I am better in foresaying the weather as the weather forcast is.
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