Some people experience a lack of appetite when they cut back on cannabis. This may happen if you often got high before meals. Cannabis tends to stimulate appetite. When used regularly, your appetite may have become dependent on cannabis to get it stimulated. Here are a few tips to reset….

Act as if you are hungry and eat on a schedule. (Acting “as if”, an Adlerian concept later adopted by CBT, is essentially “fake it till you make it.” By behaving as though something is already true, it can gradually become true, demonstrating that confidence is a skill that can be intentionally cultivated.)

• Try not to skip meals. Eat at regular times and in regular amounts. But definitely don’t beat yourself up about not finishing something. (Eating something is better than nothing at all.)
• Even though you may not feel hungry, your body still needs the food. If you don’t eat, you will feel more tired, irritable, and anxious, which can play into withdrawal symptoms you may also be having.

Note: cannabis stimulates appetite…until it doesn’t. For a subset of people, after years of partaking, they develop a severe stomach pain called Cannabis Hyperemesis Syndrome. This is likely due to a buildup of THC. Symptoms are vomiting, abdominal pain, nausea, gagging, possible sweating, and anxiety. Hot water can help with the pain in the moment, but they should pause on weed use and consult a doctor.