As stated above. I can go months without eating an egg, for example, and suddenly crave eggs benedict for breakfast everyday.
Good thing is my dietitian is aware of this executive dysfunction/quirk/habit and works closely with me to help me out planning meals in a way that works me.
Right now I am on a soup kick: Soup, soup, soup everyday, all day.
ETA A word
“dysfunction”?
Our bodies tell us what we need. Not all cravings are signs of something necessary missing, like aa craving for candy or cigarettes or coffee. But a craving for candy could be a sign of just body needing carbohydrates of some form (and just thinking of the easiest way to get them), or a craving for stimulants being a need for sleep, but us consciously knowing we can’t so brain turns to alternatives.
The two common reasons for craving eggs are underlying vitamin B-12 or vitamin D deficiencies.
Do you notice that these cravings happen in the winter (less sun = less vitamin D) perhaps? And perhaps during the summer months, less so?
In a similar vain, I’ve heard that if you’re hungry but can’t decide what to eat you’re actually thirsty.
Can be, yeah.
Tangentially related fact: dolphins never drink in the wild (what with the salt in the water), but get all their water from what they eat. When they’re given fresh water though, they will drink it, but this will “confuse” their metabolism and they won’t eat for days.
Growing up with an eating disorder fucks up hunger cues among other things, then add food insecurity to the mix and it gets complicated. Intuitive eating doesn’t work for some people.
Yes but getting cravings, in general, does not a dysfunction make.
Especially if there’s an easily fixable underlying issue. Like how many people reading this recognise themselves to have a weird thing about chewing ice? At least on occasion?
It’s pretty common and an indicator of possible anemia.
I agree with you that craving something is not a dysfunction. I was makig a reference to my own executive dysfunction and how it interferes with meals/feeding but I think I didn’t do it properly. Language barrier and what not.
By “executive dysfunction”, do you mean sometimes craving eggs?
Are you getting enough vitamin D?
Could be neurodivergent. I’ve ADHD and it’s an executive dysfunction disorder and I go through periods where I get really into a specific thing for days, I’ve definitely experienced hyperfixation on things like milkshakes or waffles, my current food fixation is cheesy chips because I’ve been unwell and haven’t had any for a long while.