S/O do people experience hunger differently?
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Anonymous
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This is a spin off of the thread “things you believe that nobody else does.”
Some posters there argued that people should not feel truly physically hungry eating 1500 calories, for the most part. I find this really crazy and enlightening. I am somehow who could eat 2000+ calories and easily feel hungry at the end of the day. The only way I don’t feel hungry while eating maintenance calories is to eat a strict keto diet. I suspect a lot of people are like me, which explains the popularity and success of semaglutides. Also, I think the way I experience hunger is fundamentally different from the way some others do. While eating a SAD, I experience hunger as deeply unpleasant. It is not just a feeling of discomfort in my stomach, but more prominently, it feels like dizziness and nausea and mild panic. When eating a keto diet, my hunger feels just like a pain in the stomach - and this makes a world of difference. I sometimes wonder if naturally thin people simply don’t feel hunger in the same way I do. What do you think? |
Anonymous
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I work with lots of folks that skip lunch. I get so hungry my head hurts and I cannot think if I eat lunch late. I definitely have friends who forget to eat. There is no way their hunger is intense.
I do think you can learn to get more used to hunger, but you still feel it. |
Anonymous
| Hunger is absolutely different for everyone. I have NEVER ever once forgotten to eat a meal. My stomach growls, and if I don't eat I can get cranky and lightheaded. |
Anonymous
+1. I’m normal weight but I get enraged if I go too long without eating. |
Anonymous
| Of course. Most people who are overweight or obese aren’t frequently eating past the point of fullness. They eat when they’re hungry and stop when they’re full, it’s just that their body wants more food than someone who weighs less. |
Anonymous
| According to my 5 yr old, yes, it is much much worse for some people. |
Anonymous
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Here’s what I would say.
Imagine you’ve been working in a room all day, you’re hungry, and someone brings in a delicious pizza. You’re really, really hungry for the first slice, right? Even a naturally thin person would say it’s hard to say no to the first slice. But then the second one maybe not so much, and the third one maybe not at all, etc. I knew this in theory, like how a psychopath can mimic emotions. But saying no to the third slice was as hard for me as saying no to the first one. Given the option, I would eat the pizza until I was physically distended, which is all I knew of being “full.” Honestly 1 week on the lowest dose of semaglutide blew. my. mind. Suddenly I DON’T want the second slice as badly as the first, and the third one maybe not at all. It’s not because of slowed digestion, because it happens too fast for that to be the difference (although it does slow your digestion). And it completely stopped the noise in my head about what to eat next that used to be there all the time between meals. Everything I’d ever read or been told about making healthy choices and moderation that I thought I was just to weak to execute, I suddenly can. So obviously it’s important to note that we can’t step into other people’s shoes and know who feels what. But given that this hasn’t changed my personality in any other way, I can’t really believe that this is just making it easier for me because I was feeling what everyone was feeling but too weak to control myself before. I’m very strong in other areas of self control and executive function but I’ve always struggled with eating. Now, it feels much more in line with the way other people describe it. |
Anonymous
| I think hunger signs are controlled by hormones. Just like some people produce more estrogen or testosterone, some people produce more hunger hormones |
Anonymous
Same. I'm athletic and have a fast metabolism. I eat 3 meals plus snacks and I get ragey when I'm hungry. I have friends who eat one meal a day and function fine, but they are not physically fit like I am. |
Anonymous
| I don’t think people experience hunger all that differently, but I do think people will have different experiences based on what they eat. Junk food is literally engineered so that you don’t feel full and want to keep eating more. Fast food and processed foods have the same effect. It’s much more unlikely that you will overeat if eating natural, minimally processed low sugar foods. |
Anonymous
| If I eat carbs, I experience hunger intensely and all the time. I lose control of my ability to regulate food intake. If I eat low carb, after about 3 miserable days, my hunger shuts off. I don’t have cravings for sugar and don’t experience hunger at all in the same way. The noise shuts off. I can tell the difference between true hunger and fake hunger driven by insulin and hormones. What you eat dramatically impacts how you experience hunger and what you crave. |
Anonymous
Sure, but I have the same hunger whether I am eating clean or not, and on average Ozempic I can have occasional sugar or take out or whatever without totally derailing my diet. |
Anonymous
| We know it’s different based on our understanding of hunger hormones. But it’s convenient for people who don’t struggle to maintain a normal weight to assign that to their moral superiority in fighting hunger than to believe they really feel less hunger. |
Anonymous
How can you say that when you're only one person? I eat minimally processed foods and I'm a person that never forgets to eat, that gets shaky when I haven't eaten breakfast. I have a good friend who literally can't eat breakfast because she has zero hunger for it. She's not hungry until 2pm, she's been this way her whole life. How can you say our hunger is the same? I've had two meals by the time she's hungry for one. And the pizza example above is SPOT ON. |
Anonymous
| No skinny fat shamers want to believe they have it easier and their hunger is different. |