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I do that all the time....more in the winter....when it's cold in the house....I have one of my eskies in the kitchen because he fights with my other boy who is upstairs with the rest of us in the warm part of the house during the winter....but then I will go down in the kitchen to take care of him & totally forget about food....I get distracted & sometimes go a few days without eating until I realize I'm going to pass out from low blood sugar.

I'm the only human in my house & I know I have to take care of myself to take care of my dogs....& go figure I'm going to be 60 in a couple of weeks. Just mostly don't have an interest in food to start with. It's easy to forget about eating when the body doesn't really tell me I'm hungry....from the many years of not eating enough anyway.

When I get stressed, the my metabolism seems to jump high & without eating & with the higher metabolism, the weight loss gets greater also.

I know I have to keep myself healthy to take care of my dogs....but sometimes it's so hard between not sleeping well & not eating well.....I get involved in things & just ignore the most important things for living healthy. I don't always understand how this happens....I loose track of time also & there are times that by the time I realize I haven't eaten it's 4am in the morning & I'm trying to figure out what I want to eat for dinner.......UGH.

I can relate to how you are feeling.....but sometimes it feels strange to me that by my age, I'm not better at this taking care of myself life thing......know at times keeping the weight down is an issue if I've seen it creeping up....but most of the time it drops so quickly if I don't eat, it's NOT GOOD