You ate breakfast two hours ago. A full breakfast. The kind that should hold you over until lunch without question.
But here you are again, staring into the open drawer where you keep emergency snacks, aware that you're not exactly hungry but unable to shake the feeling that you need something. Maybe salty. Maybe sweet. Maybe both at once.
You check your calendar app. Nine days until your period.
Oh.
There it is again. That pattern you've noticed for years but somehow still catches you off guard every single month.