I’m interested in interpersonal variation on these issues. Some people feel very strong “hangry” emotions and even physical pain, whereas some people (like myself) feel almost no negative emotions or sensations when they don’t eat for prolonged periods.
But some people have an insatiable appetite, and when they start eating, they can’t stop. If there’s limitless food of the right type available, I can easily put away 2000+ calories in a meal.
I wonder if these are anti-correlated in an interesting way. It seems that there could be an evolutionary logic that we need signals to eat, but these work through fairly distinct pathways, leading to subtly different “hunger phenotypes”.
Yeah, I’ve found it interesting to compare myself to people like exfatloss (who naturally has an endless appetite), and to compare across diets. I’ve done the Croissant Diet, where I never felt full and learned that not feeling full is fine, and the potato diet where I always felt full and sometimes had an appetite even after eating, but also felt great mood-wise.
I’m currently taking retatrutide (a GLP-1 drug) and it has the weird effect of basically destroying my appetite entirely while still experiencing (weak) hunger pangs, so I know at an intellectual level that hunger pangs mean I need to eat something, but I don’t have the drive to eat at all. I plan to write a longer post about this once I have more data.
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I’m interested in interpersonal variation on these issues. Some people feel very strong “hangry” emotions and even physical pain, whereas some people (like myself) feel almost no negative emotions or sensations when they don’t eat for prolonged periods.
But some people have an insatiable appetite, and when they start eating, they can’t stop. If there’s limitless food of the right type available, I can easily put away 2000+ calories in a meal.
I wonder if these are anti-correlated in an interesting way. It seems that there could be an evolutionary logic that we need signals to eat, but these work through fairly distinct pathways, leading to subtly different “hunger phenotypes”.
Yeah, I’ve found it interesting to compare myself to people like exfatloss (who naturally has an endless appetite), and to compare across diets. I’ve done the Croissant Diet, where I never felt full and learned that not feeling full is fine, and the potato diet where I always felt full and sometimes had an appetite even after eating, but also felt great mood-wise.
I’m currently taking retatrutide (a GLP-1 drug) and it has the weird effect of basically destroying my appetite entirely while still experiencing (weak) hunger pangs, so I know at an intellectual level that hunger pangs mean I need to eat something, but I don’t have the drive to eat at all. I plan to write a longer post about this once I have more data.