Why am I so hungry?

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  • JustYandy
    JustYandy Posts: 221 Member
    Actually, I am not sure what your point is.

    I would bet that most people think that if they get hungry, they have to eat because their body needs calories.

    Not true.

    I would bet a lot of people think that if they don't eat breakfast, their glucose will crash down to dangerous levels.

    Not true.




    Even anorexics and potential anorexics need to know how their body works.

    Basic stuff.

    The OP was wondering why she felt hungry all the time.

    She has probably learned something here.



    My body craves food and I eat when I feel hungry I dropped from 30% body fat to 24% in 2 months and only lost 8lbs,but I'm pretty sure that 8lbs was all body fat.I didn't deprive my muscles and ate well so I didn't loose lean muscle weight just Fat.
    Point being if you don't feed you're body right ...think it's safe you say "ya you can loose weight by not listening to you're body,but lean muscle will be the first thing lost and little fat loss".
  • michaelsontag
    michaelsontag Posts: 12
    All your calories seem to be from carbs. Very little seem to have originated from proteins or fats (2 things your body needs). I would look at the "balance" of your average daily eating plan, so that you have more protein/fat in the AM to give you teh stability to take you through the day. I am not a big fan of the "a calorie is a calorie."
  • nikilis
    nikilis Posts: 2,305 Member
    I agree with the "time of the month" suggestion. I have trouble controlling my appetite and often have a little binge during it. Coupled with a 5 pound water weight gain, let's just say that my drive and stamina is only good 3 out of the 4 weeks of the month. :\

    Also, sometimes it just seems like the constant deficit eating sometimes just gets the better of me and I have to eat closer to maintenance for a day.

    I can vouch, personally, for the stomach shrinking effect. Call it reduced stretchability, but I could only finish one plate of food this Thanksgiving (instead of 1.5-2 plates) and when my stomach gets used to not stretching pretty much every day (back when I was packing on pounds), going overboard now is pretty damn uncomfortable.

    pffff... sounds ore like pregnant to me.

    I don't know if I should take you seriously or not, as the last few posts I've read where you commented, you were very adamant that the OPs were pregnant. And last time, the OP was abstinent. Are YOU pregnant, and that's why you're convinced everyone else is pregnant?

    Its possible, the lord works in mysterious ways.
  • Supertact
    Supertact Posts: 466 Member
    Where has the OP gone?
  • QuietBloom
    QuietBloom Posts: 5,413 Member
    Wrong.

    In a deficit state, glycogen goes first.

    Then fats start to be burned.

    To keep the levels of glucose where they should be, labile amino acids are broken down.

    This is called gluconeogenisis and it does NOT involve "lean" muscle.

    That is another misconception.

    The amino acids come from non-essential protein like enzymes and smooth muscle.

    Only after days of frank starvation does "lean" muscle or brain tissue start to get broken down.

    Dieters do not have to worry about that.

    Please. Do you have any reference studies that support this position?
  • Cheri_Moves
    Cheri_Moves Posts: 625 Member
    Because you probably need to eat more. most people on here don't eat half as much as they should be eating.
  • nikilis
    nikilis Posts: 2,305 Member
    Wrong.

    Only after days of frank starvation does "lean" muscle or brain tissue start to get broken down.

    So after a few days of starvation, your brain eats itself?

    seems legit.
  • jofjltncb6
    jofjltncb6 Posts: 34,415 Member
    Dieters do not have to worry about that.

    So people dieting do not suffer from breakdown of "lean" muscle?

    Sweet! I'll help you spread the word that LBM loss isn't a concern for "dieters".
  • SLLRunner
    SLLRunner Posts: 12,942 Member
    Wrong.

    In a deficit state, glycogen goes first.

    Then fats start to be burned.

    To keep the levels of glucose where they should be, labile amino acids are broken down.

    This is called gluconeogenisis and it does NOT involve "lean" muscle.

    That is another misconception.

    The amino acids come from non-essential protein like enzymes and smooth muscle.

    Only after days of frank starvation does "lean" muscle or brain tissue start to get broken down.

    Dieters do not have to worry about that.

    Please. Do you have any reference studies that support this position?

    More importantly, as I asked of Steve in a prior thread where he was adamant in his conclusions, I would like his qualifications to purport such information.

    Steve, you a doctor? A dietician? A nutritionist?
  • QuietBloom
    QuietBloom Posts: 5,413 Member
    Besides which, the body does not burn pure glycogen, then switch to pure fat. It burns both, only in differing ratios dependent on a lot different factors. It will switch to pure fat ONLY once it has reached the threshold of depletion to the point where the brain becomes in danger of low glucose levels.

    Steve talks a big game, but I have yet to see him back anything, except to quote some... author? rather frequently.
  • tigersword
    tigersword Posts: 8,059 Member
    Wrong.

    In a deficit state, glycogen goes first.

    Then fats start to be burned.

    To keep the levels of glucose where they should be, labile amino acids are broken down.

    This is called gluconeogenisis and it does NOT involve "lean" muscle.

    That is another misconception.

    The amino acids come from non-essential protein like enzymes and smooth muscle.

    Only after days of frank starvation does "lean" muscle or brain tissue start to get broken down.

    Dieters do not have to worry about that.
    Again, all false. While it may be true that the protein used in gluconeogenesis comes from non-essential stores, the fact you are conveniently ignoring is that lean muscle is constantly being broken down on a minute by minute basis, to be repaired and replaced. It's how the human body functions. Cells die by the millions every day and get replaced. When the protein that SHOULD be replacing the lean muscle if forced to be used for energy instead, that lean muscle can't be rebuilt and that lean muscle is "lost."

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