skipping meals
Passing on food
Skipping meals means intentionally or unintentionally going without eating at regular mealtimes.
The phrase often appears in health contexts, where it's discouraged: Skipping meals can slow your metabolism.
But it also describes busy-life realities: I've been skipping meals just to meet this deadline.
The practice ranges from deliberate fasting to simply forgetting to eat.
- fastingDeliberate food avoidance
- hungerNeed for nourishment
- starvingSuffering extreme hunger
- dietingControlled eating regimen
- calorie deficitIntake below expenditure
empty stomach · running on empty · blood sugar · growling · lightheaded · hangry · restriction · appetite · nausea · coffee · busy · time crunch · forgot · exhausted · willpower · control · anorexia · eating disorder
- bad habitssmoking, drinking, lying, swearing, gossiping
- doing withoutfasting, rationing, going hungry, abstaining, forgoing
- eating habitsvegetarian, vegan, omnivore, carnivore, pescatarian
- survival tacticspanhandling, dumpster diving, scavenging, squatting, rough sleeping
- povertypoverty line, poor, poverty rate, impoverished, generational poverty
- abstinencesobriety, celibacy, chastity, teetotalism, fasting
skipping mealsovereating
Consuming beyond bodily needs
binge eating · gorging · grazing · overindulging · gluttony
skipping mealsovereating
Consuming beyond bodily needs
binge eating · gorging · feasting · gluttony · overindulging
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