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Lost my apertite

jessica16

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Hi everyone, I'm 16 years old and was diagnosed with type 1 five months ago. Recently in the last two weeks iv completely lost my apertite. The thought of food makes me feel sick! I have to eat something to keep my sugars up and I really don't want to I just hate the thought of food and even if I do eat it I don't enjoy it. Has anyone ever felt like this? And will it always be like this?




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Why not find a treat, that you like and once you' eaten a couple of meals, breakfast, lunch, one day treat yourself then extend incl a light tea, do the same next day light lunch. & tea reward. And go from their, I can remember being told so much for breakfast,lunch,tea then snacks I was 10/11 at the time and couldn't do it, so.
I know what it is like. Also try the children's/ teen section, you may find someone feeling like you do, needing to talk??
 
Hi,

I'm old enough to be your grannie but the same happened to me in the first year of diagnosis. I couldn't stand the sight of food and when I was asked what I would like to eat my response was that I didn't fancy anything. It does get better though. I now eat flavoursome foods at every meal.

What foods did you like before you were diagnosed?
 

Thanks Julie I shall defiantly try this and yeah I'll post on there twoo and see if I get a response


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Hi thank you for your comment, and I literally liked everything but I don't seem to want any thing


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Absolutely, I've only been diagnosed 8 months myself and I'm finding myself having those same feelings. I'm pretty active and had always eaten just as I felt like it, weight stable etc, but now there's some element of compulsion associated with the insulin, and it's that that I don't like.

I'm finding myself eating more low or zero carb meals, and sometimes as you say missing meals. Last night I made a very nice lamb tagine, one of my favourites, but couldn't bring myself to eat it until about 10pm.

SO you're not alone, but you've come to a good place to be "weird", we're all weird here.
 


Hi thank you for your comment! That's the same with me, I can't stand the meals I use to like the most


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Hi, I was diagnosed when I was 7 and I'm 19 now, when I was about 12/13 I had the same thing, food just didn't appeal to me and the consultant thought it was a body image issue but I literally just couldn't stand the thought of food as I wasn't hungry. Once I realised I had to eat though I did slowly get my appetite back, although there wasn't a 'quick fix' or anything, but it did return in time. I found light snacks/meals that didn't fill me up much were good for when I wasn't hungry, like fruit.
 
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