How do anorexic people deal with hunger pains?
There is a point of hunger, and once you pass it, you dont feel hungry. The smell or sight of food makes you want to puke. I wasnt anorexic, i had vertigo and didnt eat a single piece of food for more than a week, just sipped water. Also, im muslim, so every year i take part in ramadan, the month long daily fast, and after about 3 days, you dont feel hungry during the day.
How do anorexics deal with the hunger pains?
i am borderline anorexic and my depression makes me look at food so differently so i don't have the same feelings toward food that you do. In fact it makes me very sad to look at food or sometimes to even eat. So i don't get like hunger pains like that. I do eat but if I eat it is a nibble and sometimes I cry myself through it. usually I do this when i am about to faint. I think it is hard to understand unless you are going through it and i am just trying to get through it so I don't become full blown anorexic. I am going through a really though breakup and losing the love of my life and it is killing me. literally
Do anorexics feel hunger?
If you ignore the feeling of being hungry for long enough you don't feel it anymore. When you're anorexic your mind is so set on that that you don't really think about being hungry. Most do feel faint and have little energy. Many people however are forced to hide their anorexia from their friends and families so have become very good at coping. It's difficult to understand when you haven't been in that mind set. tilly..
Do tums help get rid of hunger pains?
I want to loose 10 pounds before the summer, im not going aneorexic, i just want to eat less, do you have any tips you could give me on loosing the weight in 3 months? im 14, and I weigh 105. dont tell me to eat, to anyone why says that you are just being ignorant.
Don't anorexics get hungry?
I've had anorexia, and yes of course they get hungry. It's immensely painful, but it's an 'enjoyable' pain. Weight loss makes them feel in control, but anorexics can't see themselves as they really are, they see themselves as fat even when bones are showing, so for me the hunger pangs always felt like a sign that something was happening. Cos I couldn't SEE it happening. If that makes sense. So it made me feel like I was winning my stupid little weight loss game. And yeh they miss food, I had cupcake nightmares on many an occasion :)
How do anorexic people get past the gnawing hunger?
First and for most you must know that when your stomach is telling you your hungry, you are.. so eat! that doesn't mean grab a bag of chips and dig it, it means open a can of veggies, wash off an apple and indulge, or eat something lite like yogurt. Alot of times when your stomach growls, especially when you know you shouldn't be hungry, is because your thirsty. Always trying drinking a glass of water when this happens, wait it out and if it continues to growl, then you know to eat. Just a word of advice.. decreasing your food to less that 1200 calories a day will start to shut your body down and rather than using your fat to burn in order to get energy your body will save the fat, because it thinks its in a famine and will instead burn your muscles tissues which are impossible to replace! Just something to think about!
Do people with anorexia nervosa never get hungry? And what goes through their mind that prevents them from eating?
Whenever I hear someone say “I wish I was anorexic” because they think an anorexic has so. much. willpower. and they will be so super able to resist the craving around food every normal person has,… I feel sick.You know how it went for me? In the beginning, I went to sleep with hunger pangs every single night. And I enjoyed it, because I felt as if I deserved it, that it served me right, because I hated myself so much that even if I was hungry it was out of the question for me to eat.Eventually, my hunger cues became disordered, my stomach shrunk, and I felt less and less hungry. I think this is also a biologically conditioned thing, because if you enter the phase in life where food is scarce, it would be suffocating for you to have hunger pangs. HOWEVER, you want to know what replaces the hunger pangs? Food on your mind every freaking moment.I was unable to concentrate in school, I was unable to do anything, to enjoy anything, even though it didn’t seem like it because mechanically, I still managed to get good grades. But on the inside I was suffering, I was always thinking about food and eating it, even if it was about how to eat less.What went through my mind was irrational. It was fear and self-hatred. And food.If you ever again think about how nice it would be for your weight-loss plan to become an anorexic as if it´s a personal choice and a form of lifestyle, think again.
Do anorexics have food craving?
Yes. When I was anorexic, I had many food cravings because of low blood sugar caused by eating a bowl of oatmeal, a piece of cheese, and 2 rice cakes every day. They were usually for very high-calorie, sugary foods.