I remember seeing a post where someone said something along the lines of, "Oh, you lose your apetite when you're nervous? Lucky! I stress eat; I'd so prefer to not even want food, that way I could stay thin."
As someone who's had both, losing your apetite is so much worse. Like, imagine already being stressed and conciously knowing, 'I have to eat something for my own health and safety,' and not being able to.
Imagine already being in the throes of anxiety and feeling the physical effects of not eating for several days, but the second food touches your lips, you feel sick and spit it out, which only makes you anxiety worse.
Sitting there, knowing that you have to eat, but you physically can't it's genuinely one of the worst feelings imaginable.
If anyone else is suffering from that, what helped me was nutrient/electrolyte ice pops, pre-bottled nutrition drinks (the simpler, the better), and to pay attention to how you're feeling right that moment; if you feel like you can stomach something in that moment, take advantage of it.
