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Never Hungry

Heathenlass

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I noticed today that I don't feel hunger. In fact I can't remember the last time I felt hungry, and seem to have lost physical indicators that I need to eat Even at hypo level, there are no symptoms of hunger at all.

It's not a loss of appetite as such, I eat to refuel but can go for hours and hours in between meals without any internal reminder that I need to eat, so if I'm absorbed in something or just plain busy, I forget to eat And don't feel any need to eat, it's hard to describe . Previously I knew that food was needed, and experienced intense hunger with hypos.

I think in retrospect this has been the case for a couple of years now. Has anyone else experienced this, and has the feeling of hunger returned ?

Signy
 
Since I stopped eating snacks between meals I rarely get hungry, however I do still get the hunger feeling when getting going low, had this happen the other night even though my bg was 3.7
 
I have a pronounced reduction in hunger when I low carb. The more consistent and strict I am, the less hunger feelings I have. For a while there is a kind of "ghost" hunger that is just psychological, then that goes too.

It makes me think I have never actually experienced hunger, only carb withdrawal.
 
same, before low carb and diagnosis, I'd have a big carby tea and an hour later I was back at the fridge and pity the person if they were standing in my way.
now, I don't get the starving hungry feeling
 
I don't get hungry since lowering the carbs. I missed lunch today even after doing my circuit training this morning - just didn't feel the need to eat.
 
Well I used to be like all of you. When I reduced carbs I stopped feeling hungry. However, I've just started taking some new medication and I'm hungry all the time now, regardless of how much fat I eat. It isn't very nice.
 
I wrote this post earlier this year
Actually, I very rarely feel that hungry with a hypo and am often reluctant to treat because of that.
I certainly don't classify myself as someone who eats a low carb diet.
 
Never been hungry..never ate cos hungry.. Just eat cos have too!! Been this way.. Sorry 50+ years now.. Never changed and don't want it to either!!
 
I used to be hungry all the time.
Nothing filled me or satisfied me. It was like living with a black hole inside me.

Now I experience hunger before lunch and evening meals (but never before the first food of the day). Sometimes I have to eat before bed, in case The Hunger won't let me sleep.
 
I think it's whatever you get used to.
I don't feel hungry if I'm working, food was really just something to pass the time for me.
And I must have passed a lot of time!
I went low calorie, so I'm conscious that i should eat, but not overeat.
I eat some carbs, I find it helps me longterm if I keep the ability to eat them without them taking me high.
But I never find I need to go back and eat more.
Probably the opposite in fact, if I eat a low carb meal, I feel I need a little bit of carbs to round off the meal.
I've worked all day today, I was fine with ryvita for breakfast, salad for lunch, 3 chicken drumsticks with a salsa sauce, french beans, and baked sweet potato and swede slices.
Ok all day, sitting here not working, I could eat, but don't need to.
I may succumb to a bit of fruit later though.
 
zand said:
It's an anti-depressant - citalopram. It says on the leaflet that it may cause weight gain, and I can see it would if I ate till I was satisfied, because I never am!
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IMO, they can put on weight without eating, if you still have a hunger side effect after a couple of weeks, I would see the Dr to swap, there is no good or bad one, it's what suits your system and it's trial and error
 
jack412 said:
IMO, they can put on weight without eating, if you still have a hunger side effect after a couple of weeks, I would see the Dr to swap, there is no good or bad one, it's what suits your system and it's trial and error
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Thank you.
 
I have felt that way for years often forgot to eat for a day or more while working shifts. The first thing my wife used to say time was "have you eaten".
No idea how I was suddenly 20 stone.. I'm sure I eat more than I used to and have lost loads of weight.
 
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I used to eat two days food in the evening.
 
Going on Metformin and low carbing has really knocked the edge off my appetite.before diagnosis I was like a bad tempered Trex in search of it's next meal. Now I get bored with eating half way through my meals , frequently leave stuff on plate ( unheard of before- sometimes I'd feel physically sick shovelling the rice and pasta in but inviting leave it ) and the only time I really fancy something is round that time of the month when I may have an extra small snack at bedtime. I've lost three stone since May so not complaining.
 
Thanks guys, that's interesting - I hadn't connected it with the low carb eating ,and precious carb intake affecting hunger . Thinking back it started to happen before I changed my diet, but that wasn't, I think, when I was suffering from depression and that's why at that time.

I'm glad it's not just me though, I was beginning to think it was another manifestation of Just Plain Weird

@zand , I feel for you . I've never been on Citalopram, but haas friend who was and she said it was like a compulsive hunger that was never satisfied, even when she felt nauseous She did change to another one fairly early on because she was piling on the weight and did fine on that . Apparently, it's a side effect that affects some people and not others So as has been suggested, it may be that you need to go back to the GP . I hope you are feeling a bit better ?


Signy
 
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