Posted: 5/16/2017 7:53:23 AM EDT
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For about the past six months, I have been hungry even when I eat. I eat breakfast and feel hungry not even an hour later. Same with lunch and dinner. And I don't eat a ton of carbs so it's not sugar causing me to want more sugar or anything. It's a pretty bad hunger, too. Stomach rumbling/gurgling, feeling lightheaded, and everything. Plus it's like I have a severe craving for something and I can't figure out what. When the craving hits I will try salty, sweet, sour, crunchy, soft . . . you name it. Nothing works.
It has caused me to gain about fifteen pounds in no time flat. Usually, I would be full after two pieces of pizza. Now? I reckon I could eat the whole thing and still want more. Per my doctor's suggestions . . . I started breaking my meals up into six small meals a day. That didn't work. So, I tried eating breakfast, lunch, and dinner and two healthy snacks like fruit and nuts. Still not working. I'm not anymore active than I've always been so I'm not burning more calories. I am not on any new medications that could cause hunger. I take the same daily vitamins I've taken for years. Nothing has changed in my life other than being ravenous. I don't know what to do. Even when I willpower my way through it I feel miserable as hell and light headed like I haven't eaten at all. I've had tests done via my doctor. He's checked me for everything he can think of. I don't have worms. I don't have a hole anywhere other than my ass where food leaks out. WTF is happening to me and what can I do to stop it? I don't drink anything but water and milk with the occasional Sprite. I drink about six Sprites per year. |
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You're eating more carbs/sugar than you think. Just in that post you mentioned pizza, fruit and nuts. Once your body reaches that tipping point wrt blood sugar and insulin resistance that's all it takes to keep you in that eat/hunger/eat cycle.
Load up on fat. Also, take a magnesium citrate supplement. |
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You must have been bitten by a vampire at some point. That's the hunger.
The hunger will never be satiated. 
Sorry OP. Dibs on stuff though! source: I'm basically an expert thanks to years of Dungeons & Dragons and a shit load of fantasy video games. I just finished Witcher 3. |
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You need way more fat and protein like bacon and eggs for breakfast instead of carbo garbage. Also I find that the poor people trick of adding hot sauce to everything helps too.
Nuts are good, fruit not so much. Also drink more water so you have something to do and feel full. Edit to add.. Snack on cheese and salami rolls or hard boiled eggs instead of things like "sweet. Salt, sour.etc" |
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You must have been bitten by a vampire at some point. That's the hunger. The hunger will never be satiated.
Sorry OP. Dibs on stuff though! source: I'm basically an expert thanks to years of Dungeons & Dragons and a shit load of fantasy video games. I just finished Witcher 3. |
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I mentioned pizza as a frame of reference to show how much I would likely be able to eat in one sitting. It's probably been about 6 years since I had any type of bread at all and it's been longer than that since I've actually had pizza.
My wife and I are SUPER STRICT about how we feed our kids. They don't get junk and they don't ask for it. They've never tasted a chicken mcnugget or fast food hamburger. I refuse to poison my kids through their diet. I don't poison myself either. This is my typical diet. Breakfast: Bacon or Ham/Sausage Eggs (sometimes with cheese, sometimes an omelet) Sometimes homemade yogurt with a small amount of fruit and granola in it No Bread Water Snack: Handful of nuts (peanuts, cashews, pistachios) Lunch: Tuna Salad on bed of shredded lettuce (made with mayo, mustard, no relish) No Bread Water Sometimes homemade veggie soup or plain salad instead Sometimes house salad with grilled meat, no salad dressing because I just don't like it Sometimes homemade chicken salad on bed of lettuce One fruit like an apple, orange, or banana Dinner: Meat (grilled chicken, pork chop, steak, roast, or fish .. never fried .. sometimes baked, often in pressure cooker or crockpot) 2 vegetable servings like peas, green beans, asparagus, Brussel sprouts, broccoli, cauliflower Sometimes I'll put melted cheese on the veggies and serve as a medley 1 Carb which I seldom eat like mashed potatoes or rice Sometimes pasta which is always whole wheat and sometimes homemade Sometimes Tacos, I eat everything but the shells No Bread Water Snack: 1 Handful of nuts or About 15 grapes Half an orange String cheese Raisins I really don't take in many carbs. There are some days that I probably stay at around 20 carbs or less (like Atkins Induction Phase). I've eaten like this since we adopted our first child and I wanted to make sure I was feeding him (and myself) a healthy diet. I don't know what the hell is going on. |
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I mentioned pizza as a frame of reference to show how much I would likely be able to eat in one sitting. It's probably been about 6 years since I had any type of bread at all and it's been longer than that since I've actually had pizza. My wife and I are SUPER STRICT about how we feed our kids. They don't get junk and they don't ask for it. They've never tasted a chicken mcnugget or fast food hamburger. I refuse to poison my kids through their diet. I don't poison myself either. This is my typical diet. Breakfast: Bacon or Ham/Sausage Eggs (sometimes with cheese, sometimes an omelet) Sometimes homemade yogurt with a small amount of fruit and granola in it No Bread Water Snack: Handful of nuts (peanuts, cashews, pistachios) Lunch: Tuna Salad on bed of shredded lettuce (made with mayo, mustard, no relish) No Bread Water Sometimes homemade veggie soup or plain salad instead Sometimes house salad with grilled meat, no salad dressing because I just don't like it Sometimes homemade chicken salad on bed of lettuce One fruit like an apple, orange, or banana Dinner: Meat (grilled chicken, pork chop, steak, roast, or fish .. never fried .. sometimes baked, often in pressure cooker or crockpot) 2 vegetable servings like peas, green beans, asparagus, Brussel sprouts, broccoli, cauliflower Sometimes I'll put melted cheese on the veggies and serve as a medley 1 Carb which I seldom eat like mashed potatoes or rice Sometimes pasta which is always whole wheat and sometimes homemade Sometimes Tacos, I eat everything but the shells No Bread Water Snack: 1 Handful of nuts or About 15 grapes Half an orange String cheese Raisins I really don't take in many carbs. There are some days that I probably stay at around 20 carbs or less (like Atkins Induction Phase). I've eaten like this since we adopted our first child and I wanted to make sure I was feeding him (and myself) a healthy diet. I don't know what the hell is going on. Anyway. The hunger comes from two things: lack of tangible things for the stomach to play with and break down for a couple hours, and/or lack of leptin in the brain. Leptin is easy- 4 to 8 ounces of meat every meal. The meat has to come from something that had a face. No third world proteins. The tangible stomach thing is easy too: there needs to be enough food to keep the stomach busy. But no amount of food will help with a lack of leptin; its why vegetarians suffer with hunger, or resort to many small meals a day, which leads to diabetes. The other thing is fat. Fat is soap that transports the proteins and healthy carbs around the body. Without enough, the nutrients aren't absorbed. Maybe look around here: https://robbwolf.com/what-is-the-paleo-diet/meal-plans-shopping-guides/ <--- four years on Paleo in Aug. Not overweight. Never hungry. |
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Those all cause inflammation. Not healthy foods. Anyway. The hunger comes from two things: lack of tangible things for the stomach to play with and break down for a couple hours, and/or lack of leptin in the brain. Leptin is easy- 4 to 8 ounces of meat every meal. The meat has to come from something that had a face. No third world proteins. The tangible stomach thing is easy too: there needs to be enough food to keep the stomach busy. But no amount of food will help with a lack of leptin; its why vegetarians suffer with hunger, or resort to many small meals a day, which leads to diabetes. The other thing is fat. Fat is soap that transports the proteins and healthy carbs around the body. Without enough, the nutrients aren't absorbed. Maybe look around here: https://robbwolf.com/what-is-the-paleo-diet/meal-plans-shopping-guides/ <--- four years on Paleo in Aug. Not overweight. Never hungry. |
