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My crohn days are over (at least for the diagnosis), but I'm with you on this one. I follow a strict schedule with eating and then just sit around (this usually means breakfast at 7am and then waiting an hour and a half, similar thing for lunch), but whenever an empoyer comes up with "team breakfast" or "early standups" I'm in a difficult situation.

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My schedule in the undiagnosed celiac days was to get up, and only drink coffee instead of breakfast since food made me intensely exhausted. Then I had good productivity until lunch. After lunch it was a tossup whether I’d be basically okay, a little slowed down, feeling like a nap, or incredibly exhausted and feeling like I was dying. At some point I found that drinking only alcohol for lunch left me feeling less horrible than food, on average, and that was puzzling, somewhat convenient and not helpful.

Work gatherings based around food are a huge problem, now and then, in several ways. For various reasons, I always got felt sick after eating at restaurants.

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