Today was very hot out in Chicago, the temp was 95ºF (35ºC) (over 100ºF with the heat index) and I just don’t feel like eating anything. I just don’t have any appetite.
I drink tons of water, as I don’t have A/C and spent most of the day at the library which has A/C, but I don’t think it’s just the extra water that is killing my appetite.
So what about you? Do you lose your appetite and not feel like eating when it’s hot out? Or do you get more hungry? Or doesn’t it effect you at all?
Yep, it sort of kills my appetite, and changes what I want to eat. When it’s really hot I want fruit, fluids, fish, fluids, salads, fluids, and, oh yes, fluids to wash it down.
Unfortunately, all that fluid seems to come out as sweat. Well, actually that’s probably a good thing, as it keeps me from getting heatstroke or whatever but it’s icky. I don’t like hot weather, in my case defined as “over 80 degrees”. Never understood the appeal of places like Florida.
Yeah, I think that’s generally supposed to happen–eating and digestion means energy and warmth, which you need more of during the winter (as well as storing up more fats). That’s a very simplistic explanation, and I’m pretty sure someone else could expand on that, but not being hungry on a hot day is very much natural.
Also, it’s 99 degrees here. I have to make dinner, and I’m not remotely hungry. Blurgh.
I chose yes, but it doesn’t totally kill my appetite…if it didn’t I’d totally lose all that weight I put on eating all winter.
I seriously eat way less in the summer though.
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Must have been the heat.
I wouldn’t say it “kills” my appetite, but it definitely is reduced somewhat. I think it because I tend not to exercise as much.
and I don’t like eating hot food in summer. I eat a lot of cold sandwiches.
I work in a very hot factory, today temps inside were ranging from 95 to 115 degrees. I keep hydrating all day, but you just pour it right back out the pores.
None of us are eating a lot for breakfast/lunch, but I actually get hungrier at dinner time, particularly hungry for anything that’s a good vehicle for salt. It’s the only time of the year I enjoy potato chips, and I’m loving all the cheap fresh vegetables to salt and eat.
Skin-meltingly-hot weather kills my desire to do pretty much anything. I’m not eating dinner today. Fuck that.
Heh, if hot weather killed appetites around here we’d all starve to death. 102F today and I just finished a big Chinese dinner. I’ll probably fire up the grill tomorrow and make hamburgers.
Yes, but only if the humidity matches the temperature (yes, literally matches -> 90F + 90% humidity etc). Simply being hot - for NE values - doesn’t seem to bother people’s appitites…today it was over 80F but only 60% humid and no one was fussed at lunch.
I don’t eat much during the day anyway, year round. In hot weather I’ll drink my morning coffee on ice, maybe have a yogurt around noon. I’m not one to stand over a hot stove at night, so I do any cooking early while its still cool, to be reheated in the micro later. Otherwise, it’s sandwiches, Lean Cuisines, or the occasional fast-food run. And ice cream! :)A lot of ice cream (after all, I’m hardly eating other food at all, I say to myself, I can afford the ice cream calories…uh huh …which cancels out the weight I could lose by not eating much in the summer:().
I said no. And with the rare exception of very spicy food, it’s true. There’s very little connection between my appetite and the weather, or between my appetite and anything else, really. When I’m hungry, I eat. It’s of no particular importance what food I’m eating, at least that I’ve discovered, and I’ve eaten some particularly unsettling things. I can appreciate good food, but for the most part, I eat for energy. I just put food in me. That’s about as much consideration as I usually give it.
It’s hot and humid here. Ugh. I’ve been feeling very ill a lot already this year, just from being hot and sweaty.
Not only am I less hungry naturally but I have to deliberately eat less than I desire, unless I have the wherewithal to spend the next few hours in arctic air conditioning. Eating makes me incredibly overheated in hot weather.
If I ever feel chilled, having a meal with plenty of fat and protein heats me up within 15 minutes in cold weather.
It makes sense, because I eat a ton and don’t gain weight easily… it has to go somewhere, I guess a lot of it is burned as body heat.
You post says how I feel better than I could say it myself. I sleep best when I’m cool. The only thing I’d change in your post is to say “over 75 degrees” rather than 80.
Yups, to the point where sometimes even thinking of food makes me queasy.
We tend to do a lot of cold stuff in the summer, chopped salads, fresh ice cold fruit embedded in sugar free jello [we like the wiggle] raw cut up veggies with dip for mrAru[ he like artichoke-spinach dip, or french onion dip] and hummus for me, corn chips and salsa makes a nice summer snack, the individual serving bags from shopping clubs is a godsend =) and if we do hot protein, we precook in the sous vide when appropriate and finish it off on the grill so the heat stays outside. If we grill then we will grill the veggies as well, and do something like fruit kebobs on the grill for dessert.
I find that it reminds me of being on chemo, the light constant ug feeling, the light tickle of constant nausea [I do not handle heat well at all] so I tend to revert to chemo eating.
I said no, but I guess kinda. I had some pizza last Saturday for lunch, when it was balls-hot out (90+) and our air conditioning is still broken (bad week for it, wah). And I kinda forgot to eat dinner. I didn’t think about it until I was in bed that night, but strangely I wasn’t hungry and didn’t feel bad, so I just shrugged and went to sleep.
I think it’s most accurate to say that if I have air conditioning, I’ll eat normally. But if I have to sit and sweat in hot-ass temperatures, I move as little as possible. I wait as long as I can to go to the bathroom, I put off getting up to grab food, etc.
no, but I lose the energy to do anything about it
Heat? It’s 61º right now. I remember one year when we had the 100º day I made spaghetti outside on the turkey fryer rather than boil it inside.
Heat does kill my appetite, which means when I do eat, its likely something cool and sweet. Ice cream treats become my meal of choice in the summer.
BTW: has anyone else had the Reese’s Peanut butter cup Ice cream treats? Oh man - I found my official meal of Summer 2011!