Hangry is an emotional state of being hungry and feeling angry.

If I don’t eat, I get hangry. The longer I go, the hangrier I get. When I travelled with my friends, they would crack jokes as they reminded me to pack a snack bar.  I used to get really upset with myself for feeling hangry. 

I wondered what the root cause of this was. Nobody else seemed to struggle with it. Why was it so difficult for me, particularly, to not experience anger when I got hungry?

In therapy, the suggestion came up: why not just eat more often? Instead of resisting your body’s need to eat, just make sure you actually have food available. In other words, you could consider accepting that you need to eat.

When would I cook? Well, why not first thing in the morning? 

But that’s my best writing and work time! Yes, but wouldn’t it be great to write in peace—knowing that you ate breakfast and you also made lunch already? 

It became one of the best things I started practicing. It changed my life.