What makes me eat like there's a famine coming on?

L6steel

L6steel

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I don't get it!
Don't know if any of you guys are like this but when I sit down at the table I go through chow like it's the last meal I'm ever gonna get. I had cheese burger hamburger helper tonight, man do I love that stuff!! Ate half the pot with some rolls and felt satisfied but man did I want to go ahead and scarf down the rest of it! I sat there lookin into the pot askin myself why I was going to stuff myself with the rest of it and it made me wonder what makes me eat like this and do many other folks have the same problem.
I do the same thing with stuff like a bag of M&M's, once I start I seldom stop till the bag is gone, even if it's the big one pound bag. Unless of course I start to feel sick.
What the hell makes us do this?
 
Satiety, or the feeling of fullness and disappearance of appetite after a meal, is a process mediated by the ventromedial nucleus in the hypothalamus. It is therefore the "satiety centre".
Various hormones, first of all cholecystokinin, have been implicated in conveying the feeling of satiety to the brain. Leptin increases on satiety, while ghrelin increases when the stomach is empty.
Therefore, satiety refers to the psychological feeling of "fullness" or satisfaction rather than to the physical feeling of being engorged, i.e. the feeling of physical fullness after eating a very large meal.
Satiety directly influences feelings of appetite that are generated in the limbic system, and hunger that is controlled by neurohormones, especially serotonin in the lateral hypothalamus.

So there you have it. (clear as mud to me). Funny you should mention M&Ms, I almost OD'ed on some a few minutes ago:)
 
Rat Finkenstein said:
Tapeworms?
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(Larry Fine ordering dinner at a restaurant)

Larry: I'll have a piece of burnt toast and a rotten potato.

Waiter: A piece of burnt toast and a rotten potato???

Larry: Yeah, I have a tapeworm and that's good enough for him.
 
Thomason said:
Satiety, or the feeling of fullness and disappearance of appetite after a meal, is a process mediated by the ventromedial nucleus in the hypothalamus. It is therefore the "satiety centre".
Various hormones, first of all cholecystokinin, have been implicated in conveying the feeling of satiety to the brain. Leptin increases on satiety, while ghrelin increases when the stomach is empty.
Therefore, satiety refers to the psychological feeling of "fullness" or satisfaction rather than to the physical feeling of being engorged, i.e. the feeling of physical fullness after eating a very large meal.
Satiety directly influences feelings of appetite that are generated in the limbic system, and hunger that is controlled by neurohormones, especially serotonin in the lateral hypothalamus.
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What Thomason is saying is, that if we implant electrodes in th right places, we can cure that.:D I am kidding, you know--but it is true.
 
I had the same problem, I used to east 4 arbys sandwiches 2 fries and 2 drinks for example. Part of it was being oyung but another part was intellectually learning how much food is enough, then I began to identify what it feels like to be full, which I had ignored previsouly.
 
DaveH said:
I had the same problem, I used to east 4 arbys sandwiches 2 fries and 2 drinks for example. Part of it was being oyung but another part was intellectually learning how much food is enough, then I began to identify what it feels like to be full, which I had ignored previsouly.
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Same here. I notice that if I eat any kind of refined sugar I have and intense urge to eat a couple of hours later. I think it's because the sugar jerks my blood sugar around. I also forced myself to start eating slower and I eat much less before I get "full".
 
Hey L6....

Yaa man,, I've done that once or twice...

That $hit will kill you Dude!!!...

Several years ago I was going to therapy about 35 minutes away,, so on the way home I'd get a large coke and two Super sized fries at Mc Donalds, dump the fries in the bag and scarf them down.. I LOVE Mcdonald's fries...
I did this 2-3 times a week,, nasty habit,, and put on some weight to prove it...

I now try to limit my intake and don't eat fries much any more..

Take it easy dude.. You don't want your knives to become collectors items too soon!!

ttyle

Eric
O/ST
 
L6steel said:
What the hell makes us do this?
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So you can qualify for the T-shirt:

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maximus otter
 
Wrestled 127# Sophomore year in High School (1978)
Started the Citadel at 160# (1980)
Over Christmas break, down to 145#

Ate everything in sight. Did not eat sweets, just a lot of food. Kept trying to do that & 20 years later I broke through the 250# mark. Finally realized I can't do that anymore, so I cut WAY back on my eating, and have taken up bike riding again, riding between 12 & 20 miles 3 days a week. 3 months into it & I am down to 230#, pants fitting better every day. Tacos & Yuenglings are my weakness, & our family likes tacos, sometimes twice a week.

Glad to see you're still hanging around Mike... Don't be a stranger!
 
Ravenous hunger is frequently a sign of hypoglycemia (low blood sugar) Since this a serious problem, you might want to get that checked out
 
It just gets to be a habit, filling up on so much food.

Two things you can do to control the effects of overeating -- first start your meal with something high-calorie, maybe a glass of juice, to take the edge off your hunger. Next, fill up on salad or vegetables.

The big question, though, is what's the effect on you of all this eating? If you aren't seriously overweight, and are physically active, you may simply need all that food to fuel your lifestyle.
 
I've been having problems regulating my glucose levels to the point where the doctor put me on a slightly modifed south beach diet.... not for weight control, but to help stabilize the glucose level swings.
I've known long before becoming diabetic that eating something high in sugar, like pie or pound cake will make you hunger again an hour or two later. What surprised me since being on this new diet, though, is that bread, rice and potatoes (And other quickly assimilated carbs) seem to do about the same thing! I've loved various kinds of bread, rice and potatoes all my life, but after a week or two without them I didn't miss them or crave them at all. The Pavlov reaction to them is completely gone.
I really don't feel hungry between meals anymore, either.
Apparently, any fast burning carbs at all, whether sugar or not, greatly increase your appetite.
 
I'll have to think about it some more, maybe I can figure it out!
Thanks guy!!!
 
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