What the heck is going on with my body/appetite?

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  • ILiftHeavyAcrylics
    ILiftHeavyAcrylics Posts: 27,732 Member
    I don't have any advice, as I have also been ravenously hungry lately, but I hope you figure things out. :flowerforyou:

    Me too. Maybe there's something in the water.
  • Makoce
    Makoce Posts: 938 Member

    I have gained back 2 - 3lbs in the past few weeks this has been happening to me .. what is going on?

    2-3 lbs can be fluctuations, i weigh 2 lbs more every night. find a goal range not specific number.

    I know there can be fluctuations, but its been pretty consistent ive defiantly gained/been gaining
  • Makoce
    Makoce Posts: 938 Member
    SUGAR... the fruit sugar, sounds like it's triggering your glucose or spiking your body sugars which will make you feel like you are starving! (excess fruit, which means excess for YOU will cause bloating also) I am not a Doctor but I know a LOT about blood sugars and since your wt. is about perfect for you ht. (maybe a tad low depends on bone structure) cut back on the fruit, might need to go in and get your sugar tested an A1c done, you can buy the test at most all drugstores for about $10 - $20 if you can't go to the Doctor right away.

    I had issues on processed foods with blood sugar issues, but nothings ever come up in my blood tests/work thats originally why Ii stopped eating processed foods because I was crashing on cereals and oatmeals and the like. ( and binging on them )
    Never thought id have problems with fruit though...
  • MyChocolateDiet
    MyChocolateDiet Posts: 22,281 Member

    I have gained back 2 - 3lbs in the past few weeks this has been happening to me .. what is going on?

    2-3 lbs can be fluctuations, i weigh 2 lbs more every night. find a goal range not specific number.

    This^, I can gain more than that from morning to evening. It's not actual weight "gain" but just fluctuations.

    I think your real issue is the sudden overeating and I do think that it would help you to raise your cal goal.

    Add up the cals you ate on the 20th and 23rd. add up the days cals in between and those surrounding it till you have 7 days added up.

    do the binges occur weekly? if so do an average right there at the week point and see what an average day would have looked like and compare that to a TDEE calculator.

    do they occur monthly if so add all those days in there too and divide by how many days were in that whole month for your daily average and compare that to a TDEE calculator.

    Perhaps eating closer to this level will keep you from getting to where you're feeling more and more hungry and tired and dragged down day after day till you get to a frenzy point and just eat way too much.

    I'm just comparing what you're talking about to what happens to me in a day. If I don't eat enough of my calories early in the day, I can be pretty ravenous by the end. Maybe you are able to fight that for many days but then you reach a breaking point.
  • Makoce
    Makoce Posts: 938 Member
    The past few weeks I have been ravenous, I cannot stop thinking/obsessing over eating / feeling hungry.
    A few weeks. From starting a new job. I usually slept till noon. Now I get up at 5.
    But I get the same hours of sleep. Kinda goes together huh?

    Okay....looks like we have a likely first-level cause. OTOH, you should have adjusted to a 7 or 8 hour time-shift by now (adjustment for jet lag is generally a day per time zone, and you effectively shifted 7 time zones, more or less).

    Are you enjoying your job, or do you come home tired as crap (maybe not physically, but mentally strung out). When are you fitting exercise into your schedule?

    Dont really enjoy it, no. I yawn all day long and come home both physically and mentally exhausted.
    Then I eat, and go to the gym 2 - 3 days a week after.
    Usually get my energy back at the gym for a bit
  • Makoce
    Makoce Posts: 938 Member
    If I don't eat enough of my calories early in the day, I can be pretty ravenous by the end. Maybe you are able to fight that for many days but then you reach a breaking point.

    Breakfast is usually pretty calorie dense for me, then a light lunch, and another calorie dense dinner.
  • hill8570
    hill8570 Posts: 1,466 Member
    The past few weeks I have been ravenous, I cannot stop thinking/obsessing over eating / feeling hungry.
    A few weeks. From starting a new job. I usually slept till noon. Now I get up at 5.
    But I get the same hours of sleep. Kinda goes together huh?

    Okay....looks like we have a likely first-level cause. OTOH, you should have adjusted to a 7 or 8 hour time-shift by now (adjustment for jet lag is generally a day per time zone, and you effectively shifted 7 time zones, more or less).

    Are you enjoying your job, or do you come home tired as crap (maybe not physically, but mentally strung out). When are you fitting exercise into your schedule?

    Dont really enjoy it, no. I yawn all day long and come home both physically and mentally exhausted.
    Then I eat, and go to the gym 2 - 3 days a week after.
    Usually get my energy back at the gym for a bit

    OK. I'd say that's your main issue then. If you're tired your body often interprets it as low blood sugar, and you get hungry (and vice-versa, low blood sugar often feels like "tired"). Not sure why you'd be yawning so much after 8 or more hours of sleep, 'tho, unless you naturally require a lot of sleep. Do you feel rested after you get up (or relatively soon after), or do the yawns come on later, perhaps after eating something high in simple carbohydrates (ye olde blood sugar spike and crash)? Not that I see much of anything in your food diary with a high glycemic index or glycemic load (other than on your binge days, and I assume that junk is during your binge, not before it).
  • Francl27
    Francl27 Posts: 26,371 Member
    I'd venture to say that you're not eating enough. I'm a bit confused about how a relatively active 21 yo can maintain on 1700 calories, and you're often eating way less than that... Is it really a surprise that you're so hungry?
  • Makoce
    Makoce Posts: 938 Member
    I'd venture to say that you're not eating enough. I'm a bit confused about how a relatively active 21 yo can maintain on 1700 calories, and you're often eating way less than that... Is it really a surprise that you're so hungry?

    I was maintaining on 1800, but now Im in a vicious cycle since gaining and have lowered it...trying to compensate.

    And yes hill, they are during not before.
  • hill8570
    hill8570 Posts: 1,466 Member
    Might want to try a "how I feel" diary for a few days -- maybe doing an hourly jot-down of how you feel at that particular point of the day (heck, you could probably use the "notes" section of the MFP diary so everything's in one place). Might help you pinpoint the source of your excessive tiredness. Really doesn't look to be diet-related to me -- the binging looks to me like a response to something external to what you're eating.

    Of course, I'm not a doctor, and don't even play one on TV....

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