Indian vegetarian cooking with a small appetite

Started 15 January 2026 · 13 replies · 100 hearts · read 1.6k times

AshwinBengaluru, IN · 15 January 2026

6 months ago

A question rather than an update: Indian vegetarian cooking with a small appetite

Anyone else navigating this? I feel as though every piece of advice I read was written for someone with a completely different week.

I am aware some of this may be nothing. I would still like to know whether other people have had it, because I have spent a fortnight assuming I am the only one.

My prescriber has been fine, genuinely. The problem is that I get nine minutes twice a year and there is no version of nine minutes that covers this.

Thanks all. Genuinely.

TanviMumbai, IN

Coming back to this a fortnight later to say it settled. Leaving the update because I hate reading threads that stop.

PietPretoria, ZA

I am the person who had the frightening version of this. I went in, it was investigated, and it was not what anyone feared. Going in is the whole of my advice.

RenFacilitatorBristol, UK

Two things, both boring. First, none of us can tell you what to take. Second, the conversation you want to have is with your prescriber, and we can help you write it down.

NemoneLewes, UK

What the reply above described happened to me too, in a slightly different order.

What helped was lowering my own expectations of the week rather than trying to hold the week together.

MorayElgin, UK

Gently disagreeing with the reply above, or rather adding the other half of it.

Have you got anyone who can be with you when you do it? It made an enormous difference to me and I felt silly asking.

BrynAberystwyth, UK

The thing that changed it for me was going slower, agreed with my prescriber. I am not suggesting you do that. I am saying the conversation exists.

7me too 1

CloverTotnes, UK

I did exactly the same and felt terrible about it. You have not done anything wrong.

NoleneDurban, ZA

Practical, boring answer: write the three questions down before you go in. I have never once remembered them otherwise.

MableBolton, UK

I am about four months behind you and I have been dreading exactly this, so thank you for writing it down before I got there.

9me too 8

TorrinAberdeen, UK

#10

What the reply above described happened to me too, in a slightly different order.

Yes to the burping. It is real, it is unbeautiful, and it does settle.

AshwinBengaluru, IN

#11

Mine lasted about seven weeks and then lifted over a few days. I cannot tell you why. I can tell you it lifted.

RenFacilitatorBristol, UK

#12

I will leave this open for a few more days and then add it to the circle's resources, because the answers here are better than anything I would have written.

PietPretoria, ZA

#13

What the reply above described happened to me too, in a slightly different order.

I have been in this circle a year and this question comes round every few months. It is not a silly question. It is the question.