Guest guest Posted January 25, 2008 Report Share Posted January 25, 2008 Nina, Thanks for sharing about your "Hunger" sensations. It is good to know someone out there is experiencing a lot of the same situations! I look forward to our guts being healed, but I'm so glad we can enjoy the incredible satisfying foods along the way. Tina Kautzmann SCD 1 yr. Celiac, Kidney disease, Leaky gut and CandidaNina Gilmore wrote: Hi Shonda,What you say makes sense to me. I've noticed two types of "Hunger" sensations in myself: (1) A deep hunger where the food I eat is incredibly satisfying (especially the chicken soup), and I want to eat far more of it than is reasonable in any one sitting. The thing I notice most about this hunger is that eating, in response to it, is a pleasure and extremely satisfying.(2) A restless hunger that is accompanied by a sense of panic, anxiety, or otherwise unsettled physical sensations. This hunger is not satisfied by food, and often if I eat in response to this hunger I will feel "full" in my stomach but there is no change to the hunger signals I'm feeling.I've come to understand the former hunger as being related to undernourishment and malabsorption, and the depth of it leads me to believe that my body is just asking for nourishment in a very persistent way. The other hunger -the unsatisfied, unsettled, screaming kind- I believe is due to die-off. There's no other way I can explain the accompanying panic/anxiety feelings....it almost feels as though I am breaking an addiction of some kind and just have to sit in the trenches and let it pass. It can be really unpleasant when that kind of hunger reaches a crescendo. Fortunately, the satisfying hunger is such a GOOD thing that it helps me get through the other. It also helps to share it (here, on the list), because it allows me to see the humour amidst the challenges. :-) Nina in MA ----- Original Message ---- It would seem to me too that until our guts heal, we may be more hungry than it seems we should be, because of the malabsorption we've had. Once our guts start healing, our bodies have a lot of catching up to do nutrientwise. I'm just guessing here though.ShondaSCD 6 m Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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