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    I'm not sure where else to post this, but my appetite is definitely lacking. I can feel hungry, but I can't feel the urge to eat or anticipation of eating. My body is fine, it can tell my brain I'm hungry, but my brain doesn't care and doesn't give me the feeling or desire to eat. Eating becomes a chore and depresses me. The only thing that seems to help is intense exercise, but its effect is temporary, less than an hour, it just seems to make me want to eat food rather than desire it if that makes sense.

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    This is familiar to me as well. Sometimes I feel the physical sensations of hunger and do not feel compelled to eat. The sense of hunger increases for some time and eventually decreases even though I haven't eaten.

    Being hungry often helps me to reconnect with what is most important to me. When I am hungry and I don't want to eat it is usually because I am living a pattern that is becoming increasingly meaningless to me and at some level I am ready to change but I don't know how. The slight discomfort of hunger helps me to keep in mind this willingness to experience a more deeply meaningful life, and a sustained will to connect with life in a more purposeful way eventually results in a new perspective.

    Historically speaking the concept of intentional fasting has been found in many cultures all over the world for thousands of years. I believe there is value in dropping familiar patterns as a catalyst in helping us to discover what is most important to us.

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    [quote='Emotion' pid='486' dateline='1409557495']
    I'm not sure where else to post this, but my appetite is definitely lacking. I can feel hungry, but I can't feel the urge to eat or anticipation of eating. My body is fine, it can tell my brain I'm hungry, but my brain doesn't care and doesn't give me the feeling or desire to eat. Eating becomes a chore and depresses me. The only thing that seems to help is intense exercise, but its effect is temporary, less than an hour, it just seems to make me want to eat food rather than desire it if that makes sense.
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    The lack of appetite definitely comes from the fact that you're depressed, emotion. If you're not hungry, you shouldn't eat or, insted of that, try to eat something like a fruit, a smoothie or something healthy.
    Intense exercise makes you feel better because it releases a lot of chemicals in your brain.

    Neverthless, if you become underweight, you should see a doctor.

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