Symptoms of feeling hungry

The feeling of hunger is a natural sensation that appears after the activation of the food centers in the brain. Thanks to this sensation, a signal is given to the body that it is time to eat.

Often, it is precisely the constant feeling of hunger that prevents us from gaining the desired weight and keeping ourselves in shape. All sorts of ways to avoid it or deceive the appetite do not always give the expected result. As a result, losing weight over time is associated with discomfort, a constant alternation of abrupt restrictions and breakdowns, which negatively affects both the process of losing weight and the psychological state of a person.

The diet should not imply too strict restrictions: the feeling of hunger, oddly enough, only hinders getting rid of extra pounds.

The feeling of hunger after eating is one of the varieties of constant hunger. At the same time, after eating, a person does not feel full. There are many reasons for this, they should be considered in a separate topic. Of course, the feeling of hunger after eating cannot be considered normal and indicates some failures and malfunctions in the body or in the digestive system in particular.

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Strong feeling of hunger

It can manifest itself as a feeling of emptiness in the stomach, characteristic sounds in the stomach, as well as general weakness, dizziness, flashing spots before the eyes, trembling in the limbs. If the sensations are true, then such symptoms usually appear only after a fairly long period of time after the last meal. In this case, we can talk about a real strong feeling of hunger.

However, in some cases, such symptoms are a sign of low blood sugar or a lack of nutrients in the body, which can be caused by long-term adherence to an overly strict diet, or diseases, most often associated with a violation of carbohydrate metabolism. In such a state, a person most of all wants to eat something sweet, and after eating, he calms down, his condition stabilizes.

A slight feeling of hunger

Usually it is not intrusive and often goes away even without additional food intake. Sometimes mild hunger can be eliminated by snacking on an apple or simply drinking a glass of water or a cup of tea.

Some experts even tend to consider a slight feeling of hunger a normal state of the body, which must be maintained. Indeed, the recommendation to "keep your feet warm, your head cool, and your stomach hungry" has some sense. However, the main thing in this case is not to overdo it.

Mild hunger is exactly the state when you need only a couple of spoons of food to reach the saturation stage. It is not for nothing that nutritionists advise getting up from the table with a feeling of mild hunger. The fact is that signals of satiety, coming to the brain's food centers, do this with some delay. For this reason, in order to avoid overeating, you should leave a feeling of mild undernourishment in the body. In 20-30 minutes, this feeling will pass, and you will feel quite full.

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Frequent feeling of hunger

It is determined not so much by the level of glucose in the blood, but by reasons that we usually do not take seriously:

• it is a manner of eating food;
• this is the quality and caloric content of the food consumed;
• These are the products that are on our plate.

The appearance of a feeling of hunger can be influenced by countless different external factors, which include shared lunches and tea parties in the office, prolonged idleness or prolonged TV watching, the habit of eating outside the kitchen or dining room, not at the table, but on the run or on the couch. By the way, our seemingly harmless eating habits are precisely those unconscious reasons that contribute to the appearance of this symptom, overeating and subsequent poor health and gaining extra pounds.

Frequent feelings of hunger develop gradually, starting with simple and seemingly frivolous moments:

• if you can’t imagine tea drinking without cookies, sweets or a sandwich;
• you often allow yourself to overeat;
• you would rather eat a hamburger or munch on some chips than an apple;
• you are obsessed with losing weight;
• you are prone to stress, often get nervous, and then calm down by eating something “tasty”;
• you drink a lot of coffee;
• you can't watch TV or read a book without taking something to chew on;
• You rarely eat at the dining table, preferring the sofa, computer desk, or generally like to eat on the go.

Of course, these are far from all the reasons, but the above factors are very, very common, so you should definitely pay attention to them.

A gnawing feeling of hunger

Why is the feeling of hunger associated with a feeling of "sucking" in the pit of the stomach? What is this connected with?

A sucking feeling of hunger is expressed in the appearance of not very pleasant sensations that bother in the area of the stomach projection. As a rule, such a sensation is referred to as a "sucking" in the pit of the stomach. If the hunger is strong, the condition can be aggravated by the addition of nausea, weakness, and general loss of strength.

The feeling of "sucking" in the pit of the stomach is associated with emptiness in the stomach. There will be no such feeling when the stomach is full. Sometimes, with a pathological feeling of hunger that occurs when the stomach is full, one can observe general manifestations of hunger based on the excitation of the food center in the brain. The characteristic "sucking" is not observed.

Feeling hungry before your period

Premenstrual syndrome, known to all women, is the appearance of increased fatigue, pain in the lower abdomen, irritability, headache. However, for most women, the main symptom of PMS is a feeling of hunger.

The feeling of hunger before menstruation is explained by cyclic hormonal changes in the woman's body. In the second phase of the cycle, progesterone begins to be actively synthesized among female hormones, which is responsible for a possible pregnancy and tries to do everything so that the body is ready for it. In particular, one of the tasks of progesterone is the accumulation and retention of nutrients in the body so that the tissues do not starve, and the embryo develops normally. Under the influence of progesterone, the body begins to demand additional nutrition from us in order to stock up on all the necessary substances in case of pregnancy.

If pregnancy does not occur, the level of progesterone gradually decreases, and by the 2nd-3rd day of menstruation the increased feeling of hunger disappears.

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