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Originally Posted by unaluna
Blueberrybook - not sure what you mean by a raging metabolism? Myself, I try to eat controlled sodium - my Weight Watchers app tells me i am not quite succeeding! I usually eat 2x sodium per calorie - like 1500 calorie, 3000 sodium, where i hope to eat 2000 sodium max a day.
My point is, if i eat "other peoples food" (restaurant, or anything where i dont have the nutrition label in front of me!), well, ive been too afraid to even track, but the extra sodium will make me ravenous, even if my hunger has been on an even keel. I turn into the Salt Sucker from the first ever episide of Star Trek!
But really its like a hole in my stomach. I had some fat free cottage cheese and canned pineapple this past week. Even with my hunger-abating turkey sandwiches, my "full" signal was obliterated. I read somewhere your body is just trying to get enough stuff into you to neutralize the sodium overdose. But its not smart enough to choose wisely. It will even choose more sodium!
Hope this helps  im always "sleeping it off" so i dont recommend that! |
It goes beyond being ravenous, just feels like I burn calories so fast, my stomach will be growling often and feeling completely empty. These type of days I can eat and eat and pretty much burn through everything in my thinking as I do not gain weight through them and often end up even losing weight. The thing it most reminds me of was when I was breastfeeding, I was ravenous, couldn't even keep weight on (though my daughter was extremely slow to take to solids, so I pretty much exclusively breastfed her entire first year). But the other times I've felt like this it was right after my metabolism bounced back from my ED initial recovery (it was slow at first) and I mean I didn't binge eat but nearly every hour, 1.5 hr. I have to have something to eat. I feel this way when manic too except then I don't bother to even care to eat, I just have to keep going with whatever projects I have on, don't even bother with food then. Maybe exercise combined with lack of sleep and coffee has brought it on, I really don't know.
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