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There can be weeks that I go without really thinking about food -- I kind of watch my calories and stay under 1500 without trying for the most part -- mostly I'm around 1300 on average.

But then I'll have a day, or a couple of days where I am just starving. I'll suddenly jump 500 calories and my belly will feel completely empty. I'll feel very sharp hunger pangs, a little dizzy -- the low blood sugar feeling; hunger adrenaline. I'll eat something and it will come back pretty fast, within a couple hours.

I've been trying to figure out what's happening when this happens. Is my body trying to stay at its set point? Is it hormones or what?

Are you having hungry days and are you employing any tricks to combat them? Or do you just eat more on those days and not worry about it?

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I eat more and not worry about it. I do think that some of it's head hunger though because it happens more when I'm bored. I just try to keep busy are snack on something. ;)

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Yes, I definitely have those days. A couple of days ago, I found myself feeling an odd physical sensation that I associate with hunger, but I was feeling it every couple of hours, which is not typical for me. I realized I was under some stress, and that feeling was probably acid!! Realizing that in my case it was probably acid from stress helped me get past it. Now I'm carrying Tums in my purse, and when I know it's not time to eat and I'm stressed and feeling that sensation, I can chew a Tums and drink some Water if it gets too pesky; I really don't like taking a lot of meds, though, so unless it's really hurting, I'm just going to drink something and move on. :-) Maybe not what you're describing, though--

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I totally have that. Some days I'm just fine and then others I feel like I can't get enough. Honestly, I think this is normal. I know a lot of 'natrually thin' people that go through these stages, too. And, I mostly think of kids. If you're a mom, you know children's natural body swings are like that. Your 3 year old can go days or weeks without eating hardly anything, then all of a sudden will eat like a football player for a while. The go back to not eating hardly anything. I honestly think it's natural and our bodies' natural rhythyms. I think most of us have a hard time recognizing it because most of us ate all the time, whether we were hungry or not. I don't know about you, but I NEVER felt real hunger before as I was always eating (well, except for all those diets!). Now it's interesting to re-learn my body and actaully try to figure out when I'm hungry, if it's tummy acid, if it's head/mental hunger. It's a whole new world!!!

But, yes, some days I'm starving and eat more than my alloted 1200 calories or so, some days I eat less. I have just learned to follow my natural ebbs and flows and eat my BODY tells me to, not my mind (which I still struggle with!)

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I definitely have great fluctuations in my hunger. Some days more than others, and during PMS or TOM you can just forget it! I am a (grazing) beast!

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Well, I don't have many days that I don't get hungry, but I do have some of those days where it doesn't seem to be satisfied very easily. The best I can figure is that my body knows it is about to lose more weight, and it throws out whatever it can to prevent it. My wonderful famine-proof mechanism at work! I usually find that I lose a pound or two after days like that.

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