skipped meals
Intentionally missed eating
Skipped meals are meals that someone has intentionally or unintentionally not eaten.
The phrase typically appears in health contexts—discussions of dieting, eating disorders, poverty, or busy schedules: Skipped meals can lead to overeating later.
To skip a meal is to go without food during a time when one would normally eat: I've been skipping meals to save money.
- fastingDeliberate food avoidance
- intermittent fastingScheduled cycles of eating and abstaining
- hungerNeed for nourishment
- empty stomachDigestive tract without food
- starvingSuffering extreme hunger
stomach growling · dieting · appetite · growling · lightheaded · breakfast · lunch · dinner · neglect · busy · stress · forgetting · weight loss · anorexia · restriction · eating disorder · coffee · nausea
- burnoutburned out, burnt out, burn out, burning out, burnout
- triggerstrigger, trigger mechanism, trigger assembly, trigger pull, sear
eating regularity
skipped mealsregular meals
quantity of food intake
skipped mealsovereating
Consuming beyond bodily needs
feasting · gorging · binge eating · indulgence · gluttony