my 2am raid fuel is water and gum now

Monday at 10:20 PM 656 views 2 posts

gamer schedule here so most of my eating happens after midnight. started this 13 weeks ago mainly to kill the two-liter-a-night thing and that part actually stuck. the bottle next to my keyboard is a 32oz water now and there's a pack of gum i go through embarrassingly fast. i think i just wanted something to do with my hands between queue pops.

down 21 lbs. nothing wild but it's the first time in years my mornings don't feel like a hangover i didn't earn. the part i didn't expect is how hard the appetite thing flipped. around week 6 i'd look up from a match near 2am and realize i hadn't eaten since noon. not in a cute way, just foggy and irritated. now i set an alarm and make an actual plate around 9 before i log on.

anyone else on a late schedule find a rhythm that works? my whole day kind of orbits the gaming window and i'm still figuring out where food fits in it.

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ngl 32oz water + gum at the desk is basically my dorm aesthetic too. The thing that helped me was embarrassing: I taped a sticky note to my monitor and tally every time I open the mini-fridge between queue pops. After one week it was like 11 out of 14 urges were pure hand-boredom, not hunger. Now I keep a ziplock of bulk-bin roasted edamame or wasabi peas as the emergency raid fuel and only touch it