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What have you confused with being hungry?

OkamiLavande
OkamiLavande Posts: 336 Member
edited February 19 in Health and Weight Loss
Things I've found I've confused with being hungry are:

1)Tiredness
2)Boredom
3)Watching TV - It's just this weird thing where when I watch TV I want to eat
4)Thirst
5)Emotions

What have you confused with being hungry?

Replies

  • Baconstuffed
    Baconstuffed Posts: 18
    Its like you climbed in my mind and took all my answers lol


    I also find the thought of the taste of the food, sounds silly I guess, but the thought of eating certain foods makes me want to taste/eat them even if not hungry
  • deesisawsome
    deesisawsome Posts: 8
    mostly thirst but you already mentioned it... and nausea or cramps
  • winter29
    winter29 Posts: 4
    Thirst, tiredness, boredom, nervousness, saddness, happiness. I eat for every reason
  • ChapinaGrande
    ChapinaGrande Posts: 289 Member
    Being awake. :(
  • michellemybelll
    michellemybelll Posts: 2,228 Member
    everything.
  • Madame_Goldbricker
    Madame_Goldbricker Posts: 1,625 Member
    My belly being under the mistaken belief that my throat has been cut. Also my eyes being bigger than my belly..
  • skinnyinnotime
    skinnyinnotime Posts: 4,078 Member
    I'm not one for eating when sad/depressed/stressed, I actually lose my appetite.

    I eat when I'm hungry or really want something in particular.
  • acpgee
    acpgee Posts: 8,122 Member
    Low blood glucose.
  • siratlas
    siratlas Posts: 239 Member
    I think I've confused pretty much everything with hunger at one point or another...except hunger. So much so that when I started to actually feel hungry over the last month, I've ignored it thinking it was something else. Oops. And that is why I started logging in here : to track my intake and progress while learning how to listen to what my body needs.
  • ggilbert95
    ggilbert95 Posts: 33 Member
    Things I've found I've confused with being hungry are:

    1)Tiredness
    2)Boredom
    3)Watching TV - It's just this weird thing where when I watch TV I want to eat
    4)Thirst
    5)Emotions

    What have you confused with being hungry?

    I've never felt "hungry" before, however I often get bored or lonely and stuff my face because of it.
  • spirit095
    spirit095 Posts: 1,017 Member
    Boredom for me
  • fireytiger
    fireytiger Posts: 236 Member
    Usually boredom, but that's less confusion and more KNOWING I'm bored and going to the kitchen for something to do (aka shove in my face). For a long time when I wasn't eating right, I confused feeling sick from poor nutrition with being hungry. I couldn't tell if I was nauseated or hungry.
  • StarvingInSuburbia
    StarvingInSuburbia Posts: 130
    Being bored
    Being tired
    Being thirsty

    We're opposite-I get aggressively unhungry when I'm sad. After my grandfather died, I was wasn't hungry for a few weeks. My family made me eat to stay healthy, but it was all just unappetizing and I had to force it down.
  • tmaryam
    tmaryam Posts: 289 Member
    I'm never confused, I just like to eat! :laugh:
  • eatcleantarajane
    eatcleantarajane Posts: 10 Member
    Being social!!!

    I eat when I'm with people, or when there is food in the middle of the group.
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