Ok, this is the weird$ place on ET, might as well discuss my unusual quirk. I hate eating. Tried Googling for the term but I get completely orthogonal results. Anorexics who really, viscerally, hate eating. I don't hate it for some physical reason, I hate eating because it's so disrupting to my otherwise hard to achieve "mental flow". Getting into flow is 99% the key to great results, only like 99% of my wake up time is spent: Starting to feel like I'm hungry and being pissed about it (can't concentrate, need to eat) Well, eating. Can't concentrate, I'm eating. Feeling like I just ate hence need. to. nap. Like a cat after a meal, can't concentrate, I'm sleeping. There's a brief period when waking up after the after-lunch nap when I'm neither sleepy nor hungry and takes just a bit of effort to get into flow. I do 99% of my work then. Problem is the system is extremely inneficient and inevitably hunger creeps in hence GOTO #1.
You need to seek the flow of eating, or fleating. At first you might find the feeling of fleating is fleeting, but persevere and that fleating feeling will become second nature.
Sorry, don't know what "fleating" is and I can't seem to find a definition for it. On the other hand I know a guy that claims to adhere to the OMAD (one meal a day diet). I don't know how that is even possible except for a brief period of time and essentially undergo a period of self-imposed starvation.
I always thought the term "hangry" meant getting angry because one was hungry and could not eat or something. An angry hungry. Or perhaps an anger that you were hungry? That latter part is what I think you are on about. For me, I do not get "hangry". I just get annoyed that I have to eat food. Like you, I think it is annoying at this point. It takes up time that could be better served elsewhere. The prep and cooking, the portions...All that to feed this stupid body? I eat only because I know I have to, to keep the body going. But it is such a loss of time. I get what you are feeling, man. But you know what? Nothing wrong with a couple of days of fasting to put you back on track. For me, when I get tired of eating and fast for two days? My body gets hangry for NOT eating, hehe.
You need to find the perfect balance for yourself! Where is the combination of optimal action and result! This is love for your work))))
Never fastened in my life. I'm trying to figure out how to add more mileage to a refill. I know approximately how much eating various stuff will last me, it's in the 2h - 8h range. 8h is not bad at all but I rarely get that, seems to be cumulative, built on previous lower numbers. Like yesterday it was like this: 8:30: a pretzel-dog (a hot dog inside of a pretzel) and a cup of yogurt. Kept me for 3 hours. 11:30: for lack of inspiration and hanger settling fast, repeat pretzel-dog + yogurt. Strangely it took almost 5 hours till hangry again. 16:00 This time said to myself, I'll stuff as much as I can. Beans soup with smoked ham + sour cream + onion salad + bread. Then fried pork + sausages + potatoes + pickled cucumber. And an apple and an orange at the end. All this 700% percent caloric and quantitative addition to the puny pretzel in the morning, got me from 5 hours to ... 6 hours Around 10 in the evening I was trying to get to sleep but from the sensation in my stomach and the insurmountable feeling of annoyance it was clear I have to fill up again, although highly unhealthy (as said by experts). A cheese sandwich + glass of milk did the trick but nevertheless, I still had to fight the urge to empty the fridge for a while after, before the brain got the notice that I actually put something in the gas tank.
You might want to try cooking as a form of relaxing. At the same time you can listen to some podcasts, so your time is not totally invested in just cooking the meal. Then you will enjoy the food a lot more, you have produced the meal. Eating will take about 15-20 minutes and should give you enough energy to carry on with your day. A good nap after the meal for another 15 minutes will charge you for 4-5 hours. Sometimes we are in too much of a rush and feel that we are wasting time doing mundane things, but they are part of a greater purpose. Your productivity comes from a proper routine of good meals and a right amount of rest. So it is all done for a reason.
I am not sure if this will make you more hangry or less, but if you don't know about this guy from the UK, Beardmeatsfood, watch some of his videos on his channel. I first learned of him some years ago when he was on the Nathan's hot-dog July 4 contest. He has a ton of videos stretching back years. He is both the same and opposite of hangry I think, depending on how you define the term.
The amount he stuffs in is surreal (assuming it's true). Reminded me of this folk story: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarrare