Hunger at night means you’re overtired, OP. Try not to eat!

Anonymous wrote:My lived experience is that I need three meals and many snacks between waking at 7 am and sleeping at midnight. Unless I have dinner very late (9 or later) I usually have something between dinner and bed and I'm usually hungry by 8 am. I feel like I have the appetite of a 200 pound athlete.

With all this eating, I have no trouble maintaining a healthy weight of 120 at age 52. My DH only needs one small and one moderate meal per day, never snacks, can forget to eat entirely, and has a BMI of 34 or 35. We're all different.

This is rather meaningless. Are you 4'8"? 5'8"?

Anonymous wrote:Empty stomach is not hunger.
Growling stomach is not hunger.
Takes getting used to.
Drink warm liquid.

Oh i thought growling was hunger. What's hunger then? Are there cues besides feeling it or timing?

I’m like this, too, OP. I always assumed it was my insulin and blood sugar evening out or something overnight. No idea.

My lived experience is that I need three meals and many snacks between waking at 7 am and sleeping at midnight. Unless I have dinner very late (9 or later) I usually have something between dinner and bed and I'm usually hungry by 8 am. I feel like I have the appetite of a 200 pound athlete.

With all this eating, I have no trouble maintaining a healthy weight of 120 at age 52. My DH only needs one small and one moderate meal per day, never snacks, can forget to eat entirely, and has a BMI of 34 or 35. We're all different.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Empty stomach is not hunger.
Growling stomach is not hunger.
Takes getting used to.
Drink warm liquid.

What in the world?? Of course, it's hunger.

What if not these symptoms is hunger for you then? Passing out on the street?

Growling stomach can have a variety of causes. Empty stomach doesn't mean my body needs fuel.

It's digesting my last meal. I don't usually eat between meals or after dinner. I have GERD and don't lie down after eating,

People with glucose issues may have different lived experiences.

Anonymous wrote:When my stomach is legit growling at night I can’t sleep because the hunger pains hurt and keep me up. I eat a few crackers and it goes away. If that destroys my weight loss plans, well then , so be it

This. It doesn't happen that often but if it keeps me awake at night, I'm going to eat those two pieces of cheese so I can go back to sleep.

When my stomach is legit growling at night I can’t sleep because the hunger pains hurt and keep me up. I eat a few crackers and it goes away. If that destroys my weight loss plans, well then , so be it

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Empty stomach is not hunger.
Growling stomach is not hunger.
Takes getting used to.
Drink warm liquid.

Not "growling". Ghrelin is a hunger hormone. I'll admit I had to look it up, but she didn't mean to say "growling".

NP here but “growling stomach” is a pretty common phrase and “gherkin stomach” is not, so…. She probably just meant growling

Anonymous wrote:Empty stomach is not hunger.
Growling stomach is not hunger.
Takes getting used to.
Drink warm liquid.

Not "growling". Ghrelin is a hunger hormone. I'll admit I had to look it up, but she didn't mean to say "growling".

Anonymous wrote:Empty stomach is not hunger.
Growling stomach is not hunger.
Takes getting used to.
Drink warm liquid.

What in the world?? Of course, it's hunger.

What if not these symptoms is hunger for you then? Passing out on the street?

Empty stomach is not hunger.
Growling stomach is not hunger.
Takes getting used to.
Drink warm liquid.

This happens a lot to me. I think it’s my body running low on energy and turning to food for it, when it really just needs sleep.

*no longer hungry, pardon the typo -op

I frequently go to bed hungry which feels wrong, but in the morning I am not longer hungry. (I am in a deficit for maintenance.) Is this just ghrelin and to be ignored? I find it very annoying that hunger signals ≠ real hunger. Or am I thinking about it wrong?