Curiously, boredom is more likely to make me eat than hunger. Particularly when I'm alone
and bored. Isolated extravert = fat extravert!
It's interesting how many intellectual people will treat the separation of body and mind as a good thing
Well, I don't think of myself as "intellectual" (though others do, to my annoyance), and I don't treat it as either a good or bad thing. It's not even a "thing". Just a fact... it's not like I sit there deliberately ignoring hunger/pain and feeling proud of myself for it. It's almost as if it's more difficult to notice it, for me, than to "endure" it, if "endure" is the right word for something that doesn't bother you on any level.
The idea of it hurting my mental processes is interesting... bit of a trade-off really. The mental process that's currently going on, ie. me being absorbed in something I'm doing, is infinitely better served by its
not being interrupted. To break it off to go and eat would mean I'd find it VERY hard to get back into it again; that process would be actually killed, most likely.
And in fact, I seem to concentrate better when I'm just a little bit hungry. I don't know why.
It doesn't have to be some thrilling intellectual pursuit... even just walking along the street can do it... any external stimulus (though not everything external stimulates me!) pretty much absorbs me so much as to shove the whole concept of my physicality out of my sphere of awareness, leaving possibly only just enough awareness that I'm flesh and blood for me to stay out of the way of moving traffic (though really it's more force of habit - "these moving metal things I'm vaguely aware of, they're to be avoided", though I barely "see" them) ... that's why it's only usually if I'm alone and bored that I think of food or eating, or notice I'm tired, in pain, or whatever.