Hi, Welcome to the Young Widow Podcast. I'm Britany, your host, and thanks for joining today for Episode 25: When Grief Took My Appetite. All right, so this one's going to be a little bit more of a harder one to record. You know, I hesitated to even sit down and record this one in a longer version. If you've been on my Instagram, I did a shorter reel of this, but there was so much feedback on it that I wanted to dive into this one. This is something I still struggle with today and I think that's what makes it worth talking about because I'm five years in grief.

And so let's jump in.

Today we're going to talk about grief and food, or for a lot of us, the way grief completely destroys our relationship with eating. And not in the way people might assume not the dramatic, I can't eat because food is repulsive. No, food stopped existing. I stopped caring. I stopped noticing hunger at all.

Why grief messes with our appetite, not just emotionally, but what's actually happening in our brain and nervous system.

And then we're going to talk about how food became an afterthought and grief not just for me, but for so many of us and why it's so damn hard to change even years later.

And then I'm briefly going to touch on why some of us have a different response to food, which is eating everything that we want to eat whenever we want to eat it.

So Let's jump in!