How I get it in when nothing appeals

Started 13 October 2025 · 18 replies · 152 hearts · read 2k times

OsricSalisbury, UK · 13 October 2025

9 months ago

Starting a thread on this because it keeps coming up in ones and twos: How I get it in when nothing appeals

The logistics of this are defeating me more than the medicine is.

The social side of this is harder for me than any of the logistics, and I have not found anywhere else where that is discussed practically.

I have a specific situation coming up and I would like to plan for it properly rather than improvising on the day, which is what I did last time.

If anybody has an arrangement that works and is willing to write it out, I would be very grateful.

AshwinBengaluru, IN

I found the strength work protective in a way I did not appreciate until a difficult stretch where everything else fell away.

NemoneLewes, UK

Osric, I have been where you are and I would rather say so than stay quiet.

What I found is that the evening is where mine falls short, because by then my appetite has gone and I am tired.

RenFacilitatorBristol, UK

I want to slow this down slightly. Every household described in a thread like this is real, and not one of those arrangements transfers whole to anybody else, which is why the detail matters more than the conclusion.

14me too 7

TabbyMargate, UK

Something practical: I worked out four things I will always eat and I stopped trying to be varied about it.

TanviMumbai, IN

My dietitian gave me a target and then, more usefully, gave me three ways to hit it that did not require me to want food.

BoWhitby, UK

Thank you for writing this down. It helped.

OndineLausanne, CH

Reading Bo, I recognised more of that than I expected to.

Twice a week, whatever else happens. That is my whole strength plan and it has survived two years and one house move.

BertrandToulouse, FR

I found bodyweight work at home more sustainable than a gym membership, and it has been enough for what I needed.

10me too 1

BramGhent, BE

Ondine said something I want to sit with for a second.

Something I got wrong was doing too much at the start. Two sessions I could keep beat four sessions I abandoned in March.

RonanBelfast, NI

#10

The thing that convinced me was noticing that carrying the shopping had got easier, which is a much better measure than anything I could count.

LenaMunich, DE

#11

My protein went up and my energy followed within about three weeks, which was a much faster effect than I expected.

RohanPune, IN

#12

What I would say is that this is the least interesting and most reliable part of the whole business. It works and it is dull.

NadineLyon, FR

#13

Somebody here suggested spreading it across the day rather than one large meal, and it turned out my body was much happier with that.

MaritGroningen, NL

#14

Bookmarking this. Thank you.

6me too 2

ClemmieNorwich, UK

#15

Marit has already said most of this and I want to add the one part that was different for me.

I keep a shake for the days when eating is not happening, and it is not elegant and it means the day is not a write-off.

9me too 7

AnnikaStockholm, SE

#16

What surprised me was how much easier the strength side got once the protein side was solved. They were not independent problems.

RenFacilitatorBristol, UK

#17

Stepping in to say that asking for help with logistics is not a smaller kind of asking. It is most of what makes this sustainable.

RunaAarhus, DK

#18

My experience is that this needed a plan for about eight weeks and then became automatic and I have not thought about it since.