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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is personality, not hunger.

Some people are just more affected my outside stressors.

Just like their are adults that can’t fully function when hot, cold, hungry, tired, wet, sore.  But some can carry on see seemingly well despite being uncomfortable/stressed.

Kids are the same.  Some are just more resilient than others. [/quote]
I don't think this is right.  I was an absolute disaster during my 3 hour glucose test during pregnancy with both kids and it has nothing to do with being resilient.  I was not stressed and was completely calm emotionally, but sobbed my eyes out for the entire last hour while trembling from head to toe.  After the last blood draw, I ate a snack and was 100% fine again.  It's totally different from holding it together emotionally while on a tough hike.  It was a physical reaction, not an emotional one.  Most people don't react like that, but my mom reports that she was the samee during her pregnancies.

I have a kid that gets super hangry, as does my whole family.  The hardest part is that when she's hangry no food sounds good to her so she turns down all offers of food.  We eventually force her to eat (usually by threatening consequences for her awful hangry behavior) and then she's fine again--it's like a switch flips. Usually it happens when we offer her a non-preferred food for breakfast or lunch and she chooses not to eat it.  So then she's hungry/hangry, not because we didn't feed her, but because she chose not to eat (or eat enough).  She's a picky eater so unless we're going to feed her a diet of milkshakes, jelly beans and Cheetos, it's a constant battle to keep her from refusing normal food and becoming hangry.  [/quote]

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