Does NaNo make you eat?

Like you wouldn't believe.

Maybe that's why I've been so hungry this week?

Actually, I don't see a huge change from my normal habits. I generally use food and snacking as a way to procrastinate, which isn't terribly healthy. I think the hunger issue is stemming from the few times I've forgotten to eat the past couple days (not necessarily Nano related).

stress?

No, but when I got home tonight there was a stack of big macs next to the computer. -- It is a horrible enabler.

twnkltoz said:

Something about NaNoing makes me want to eat constantly. I'm supposed to be on a diet, and this is not good!! Anyone else?

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I'm not necessarily any hungrier, but during NaNo I do put myself in temptation's way more often. I like to write in coffee shops, and when I'm there I buy something to eat. And it's usually a cookie or a muffin or something sweet and fatty.

Does It's a Grind have cookies?

Dale (aka Bleen Booley)

twnkltoz said:

Will we see you there this week?

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I'm planning to be there.

Dale

My eating habits are normal, but I'm smoking a lot more.

I tend to smoke more when I'm writing in general, but normally I work with a fairly detailed outline, which makes for longer, more concentrated bursts of writing. This time I'm semi-winging it, which makes the writing bursts a lot shorter and makes me reach for the cigarettes a lot more often.

I think I may try to quit after November.

I've been sitting like a lump on a log since the 1st. My dogs need a walk. I find myself always sucking down some liquid. I switched to a non-caffine grain beverage so that I don't get all wired & can't sleep. I don't smoke-- thank God!


Today's my Birthday! I'm going to buy a new pair of pants! Woo-woo!

Happy Birthday!!

I put my snackfoods up high and only bring them down if I've been a good girl that day. But I've been drinking a lot more. Even mixing up the coffee with tea, water, juice, etc. Which is a good thing, since I can go all day without drinking a thing. Keeping something to drink next to me is keeping me from pulling out the stepladder and breaking into my treat stash....

Not snacking, but I've been drinking a lot more coffee, instant cappucino and mocha mixed, hot chocolate, tea, etc. I'm gonna have to use Crest Whitestrips before this is all over, lol. There's something about hot, soothing drinks and noveling for me.

It doesn't make me eat but it does make me hungry. XD Probably because I have a tendency to forget about the whole eating thing when I really get into the writing. I have noticed an increased in my hot beverage intake, though. Mostly tea.

I find myself fight off late night snack attacks. Sometimes I win, sometimes I don't.
I read somewhere that sleep deprivation causes an imbalance in certain hormones released by the hypothalamus. Instead of shutting the systems down for sleep, your brain activates them to keep going. This confuses you body and it compensates sending a signal to your brain that you're hungry.
Anyway that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it.

I find myself wanting to snack A LOT while I am writing. And I am supposed to be on this diet, sort of. I am trying to drink a lot of water instead. Or coke. Whichever I get to first.

Flu said:

My eating habits are normal, but I'm smoking a lot more.

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I'm also smoking a ton more too
My NaNo is trying to kill me

I have this big jar of honey roasted peanuts by my computer which has been slowly shrinking over the past few days...

I'd say it's making me eat less. I don't eat that much anyway, but i get home from college and after homework go straight on my laptop to write. Then don't come off until i go to bed.

XX

I'd say it's making me eat less. I don't eat that much anyway, but i get home from college and after homework go straight on my laptop to write. Then don't come off until i go to bed.

XX

There was a recent study that correlated thinking a lot with hunger. Apparently, thinking makes you hungry. Food for thought, I guess.

DamaNegra said:

Food for thought, I guess.

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mmmm....food.....

I haven't been eating enough. It's 2pm here and I've had a banana. I'm really hungry but I can't type while eating so I keep putting it off. Even though I'm in here. *sigh*

I bought $6.00 worth of gummi worms at the Bulk Barn at the beginning of Nano and I've been working my way steadily through them. They are not going to last the month as I assumed when I bought them.