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cportwine
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Posted: 10 Dec 2010 05:57 pm |
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I think I talk myself into being hungry and I'm really not. I have been trying to wait for my body to let me know if I am hungry. But, it seems like if I think about it for awhile then I suddenly get hungry. Is this my mind playing tricks on me or am I really hungry.
It's really weird. I was sitting here thinking I should eat before I leave to work at the food thing at wrestling tonight. I thought it would keep me from eating there. Well, the more I think of about it the more hungry I get. I wasn't even hungry until I stated to think about it.
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Nir
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Posted: 11 Dec 2010 08:42 pm |
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and when you were feeling hungry, where in your body was that feeling?
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fatbegone
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Posted: 30 Dec 2010 12:15 pm |
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| Eat before you're hungry. Think about that one for a while. ;) also...do what ever the #%@&! it takes...to eat 4-5 smaller meals a day. That will help alot, so in case you DO get hungry...guess what? It's time to eat! :) lol..
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oliviaarachnids
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Posted: 17 May 2011 10:26 am |
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Most of the time, we really need to be careful. sometimes, we feel like we are hungry and want to consume foods that will come to our mind only to find out that we are just thirsty and need only 1-2 glasses of water to get full.
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PamelaViktoria
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Posted: 18 May 2011 04:34 pm |
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I used to crave food when I wasn't hungry. After I concentrated on getting more plants in my diet, I don't anymore. I must have been lacking something.
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MoniqueDiet
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Posted: 18 May 2011 04:53 pm |
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Thank you for posting this! I often feel the exact same way  Good to know I'm not alone.
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samantha22
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Posted: 23 May 2011 08:06 am |
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| Try short-short meal 3- 4 times a day and drink lots of water eat healthy snacks .This way you will feel full
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louise
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Posted: 2 Jun 2011 11:03 am |
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Well yes, usually if I'm not hungry but I think about food, I will become hungry - so just stop thinking about food! I know it's difficult but just try and do other things to occupy your mind.
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TheVonSays
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Posted: 2 Jun 2011 08:46 pm |
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Here is the interesting thing about that, there is no true "feeling" for hunger. So, every time you decide you're hungry, it's likely a neurological function. I know most people will say, but what about when my stomach growls? Everyone knows that means, you're hungry. No, it doesn't. Those are just either gasses, or digestion itself. Here are a few ways to tell when you're TRULY hungry. If you try to move around and you feel weaker than usual, it's usually a sign your body is in need of "nourishment". Also try to look out for salivation. Or there is that feeling of regurgitation/vomiting after not eating for a long period of time. So, whenever you talk to yourself and convince yourself you're hungry, you're probably NOT unless you experience something similar to the symptoms described. What you're experiencing could possibly just be cravings and not necessarily hunger.
People tend to eat unnecessarily when they fool themselves into thinking they're hungry. It usually happens when they're bored, sleepy, thirsty (sometimes, surprisingly), etc. So, try to look more into that and distinguish what's truly going on before partaking in that extra meal.
Hope this helped.
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louise
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Posted: 9 Jun 2011 07:39 am |
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TheVonSays wrote: I know most people will say, but what about when my stomach growls? Everyone knows that means, you're hungry. No, it doesn't. Those are just either gasses, or digestion itself.
Well how come that only happens when I haven't eaten in hours?!
Or mostly when I've gone to work without eating breakfast? It's clearly not digestion - there's nothing to digest!
Logic pretty much says that your stomach growling signals a need for food. When this happens I can even feel that my stomach's empty. Yes we might not be starving but that's a completely different matter to being hungry and needing nourishment and energy.
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TheVonSays
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Posted: 9 Jun 2011 04:56 pm |
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You just took one word out of everything that was said and attempted to make an opposing argument. Whose logic is telling you this? Have you done research into the matter or just made the assumption that because someone told you that when your stomach growls, you're hungry? So, that means every few hours after I don't eat, if my stomach growls, I should eat again because "logic" tells me I should? That stance, coupled with self-produced neurological thought patterns is why people ignorantly overeat. I could write a book on this, but you need to understand borborygmi for yourself. That would involve actually reading and looking into the matter.
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ItsOnlyMe
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Posted: 14 Jul 2011 09:16 pm |
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| I read somewhere recently that a good test of hunger is to ask "Would I eat a dry jacket potato (no butter or toppings) if that's all that's available?" If we would, we are hungry. If not, we're not really hungry - we just think we are.
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Nir
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Posted: 15 Jul 2011 12:06 pm |
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| But I like these (the drier the better). For better results ask me how keen I am to eat some salad vegetables.
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ItsOnlyMe
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Posted: 15 Jul 2011 12:35 pm |
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Nir wrote: But I like these (the drier the better). For better results ask me how keen I am to eat some salad vegetables.
OK, so then we should modify the jacket potato test to a food you find unappealling (in your case, Nir, certain veg).
I do like jacket potatoes, but I would need to be quite hungry to eat a dry one on its own. (I limit my consumption of potatoes to cheat days, but that's a different subject).
Sometimes, I don't feel hungry until I can smell food being cooked. Obviously, my stomach hasn't suddenly become emptier, yet I feel the pains of hunger (imagined or real), so the smell of food must have an effect (psychologically or physically) on our bodies.
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Tankgirl
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Posted: 19 Jul 2011 01:53 pm |
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| my "Jacket Potato" Is canned herring or sardines. I like them, but they're definitely something I'd crack into if I just had the munchies!
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louise
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Posted: 28 Jul 2011 09:34 am |
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TheVonSays wrote: You just took one word out of everything that was said and attempted to make an opposing argument. Whose logic is telling you this? Have you done research into the matter or just made the assumption that because someone told you that when your stomach growls, you're hungry? So, that means every few hours after I don't eat, if my stomach growls, I should eat again because "logic" tells me I should? That stance, coupled with self-produced neurological thought patterns is why people ignorantly overeat. I could write a book on this, but you need to understand borborygmi for yourself. That would involve actually reading and looking into the matter.
Calm down. No need to get so riled because someone disagreed with you.
And I may have picked up on just one thing you said, but you ignored everything I said.
Are you not able to answer my questions?
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Nir
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Posted: 29 Jul 2011 05:48 am |
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louise wrote:
Well how come that only happens when I haven't eaten in hours?!
Or mostly when I've gone to work without eating breakfast? It's clearly not digestion - there's nothing to digest!
Logic pretty much says that your stomach growling signals a need for food. When this happens I can even feel that my stomach's empty. Yes we might not be starving but that's a completely different matter to being hungry and needing nourishment and energy.
Louise, I would urge you to Google for one of Dr Joel Fuhrman's articles about 'toxic hunger' vs 'true hunger'.
When our stomach is empty (as would be the case a few hours after our last meal or when we wake up) we are going to feel uncomfortable because now that the body is not busy digesting it can do other things. This is closely related to us either not eating a healthy diet right now or previously eating an unhealthy diet so that the cells of our body are in need of 'detox' (sorry I'm hazy on the science here)
Once we have committed to healthy eating and have eaten this way for months, we no longer feel "growling stomach hunger". Sure, I still feel hungry from time to time but the feeling is not in the stomach, it is in the mouth and throat.
So although the poster you were previously debating this with was not very clear, your 'detox'/'withrdrawl' symptoms are related to digestion in the following way: they only occur when your body is not digesting. You can hide these detox symptoms by being in a perpetual state of digestion, eating something every 2 to 3 hours, but this will hinder your body's ability to truly recover.
Eating healthy foods like vegetables, beans and fruit every 2-3 hours would of course be better than eating more questionable fayre but ultimately to let your cells detox you will need to let your body be not in a state of constant digestion and live with those uncomfortable 'stomach growling' symptoms for a while. And then they'll be gone!
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