Hungry when bored, not when busy (oversimplified).... Anyone else?

Deschodt · 05-05-2009, 05:07 PM

Actually it's not that simple... Any doctor on board that could venture a guess as to how that works?

Whenever I get home from work, it's like a reflex, I gotta eat some crap, cookies, something... I feel genuinely hungry, to the point where I will get borderline hypoglycemic if I don't eat soon (shakes, bad mood etc..). Same if in the morning I have a breakfast too high in starch/sugar... by 10:30 I need food, fast, or else !!!

Now same scenarios but say I gotta adjust the valves on the porsche when i get home... I'm busy, I don't need to eat, I'm not hungry, I can skip the junk i'd have eaten AND the meal that I would have killed for in the other scenario... Or on the breakfast scenario - say work is super busy that morning - no problem till noon or even later, even with the same "bad" breakfast high in sugar...

I get the bored/hungry connection, but it's not just psychological when the exact same food is ingested in both cases: either I have enough sugars in there, or I don't... How can simply being busy (or enjoying what you do) make such a difference in food absorption or speed of sugar processing ? Any ideas ?

PS: I know a diet that'd work for me. More project cars... I can see it already.. The porsche restoration diet !!!

Oh Haha · 05-05-2009, 05:57 PM

I'm the same way.

My wife typically has dinner ready when I get home or it's cooking. If it's cooking I'll get a cookie or a small snack and wind down.(Usually on Pelican.

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Tonight I was still on the job at 6 pm so I grabbed a sub and a bag of chips and had supper in my truck. I had told my wife to have dinner without me.

When I got home about an hour and half later I still grabbed some cookies and headed to the computer.

I wonder if it has anything to do with the venerable "afterschool snack" from when we were kids?

masraum · 05-05-2009, 06:08 PM

I'm the same, if I'm busy, I can go all day without eating. If I'm not very busy, then I eat constantly. But I don't feel hungry and I don't get hypoglycemic, I get a craving. I suspect that you're the same, but that you're cravings are stronger and something about them triggers the other feelings (hunger and hypoG type effects).

911Rob · 911Rob's Garage

I'm always hungry.

Shawn 357 · 09:47 PM

I used to start feeling like crap and after thinking for a while I would realize I had not eaten for more than 24 hours! Same thing as you if I was working on a project I would forget or not bother eating lunch and dinner (and I never ate breakfast). Now I have started making sure I eat something about every three hours and I now get hungry even when I am working on a project. I remember one time I was in a close points race at the end of a race season and had to reclip my car in two days....I couldn't figure out why I felt so terrible at the end of the second day but it was because I was going on almost 48 hours of only coffee, cigarettes, and Mountain Dew. My projects take a lot longer now that I'm trying to be healthy

legion · 05-06-2009, 04:23 AM

Same.

I've taken up swimming two days a week (in addition to the weight lifting I've been doing two days a week for years).

Suddenly I don't have any time to eat anymore.

vash · vash's Garage

not me. i can set my clock according to my hunger pangs. busy or not, if i get hungry, i eat. the trick it to have healthy stuff on hand. i dont buy chips or cookies..EVER!

i wish i had to time to "graze" all the time. better for us, but scheduling a constant stream of little foods is time consuming.