Why are we feeling so hungry all the time?

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Hi all,

DH and i feel hungry all the time since starting GAPS also kids seem

to eat more and are more hungry too. We had limited grains and dairy

and weaned off the month or so before the full on GAPS. Before that

i still limited grains to only a few times a week for me and kids, DH

had sprouted taost daily etc. Me on the other hand could eat one

meal and be fool for many hours or go all day and eat dinner and be

fine til the next day. I did not eat a huge plate full with 2nds

either. I was really low cal, not trying ot be but have been for

yrs.

Being hypo makes your body stop needing as many calories and i have

been fighting with one meal a day since i was a young teen. During

PG and BFing i have made myself step it up and eat more often but it

is all too easy for me to fall right back into a once a day eating

pattern at the drop of a dime. It was always a daily struggle to eat

more.

But now i am hungry while i am eating a meal, hungry shortly after a

meal, hourse after. Can you say hungry - that is me! LOL. It

appears to be the same for the rest of us and we are all losing

weight. I needed to lose so that is okay (5'7 and 225 now 207). My

DH did not really need to 6'1 and 200 now 185. My older 2 kids did

not need to lose ANY at all they are both very skinny, always have

been. We think low muscle tone etc... Both have dropped 5 lbs or

so. My nine yr old girl of normal height is about 50lbs and my 12 yo

son of normal height is about 70lbs.

We are eating basically all legal foods on the GAPS minus any dairy

or grains. We have a couple glasses of juicer (mentioned in a

previous thread) in the morn before brkfst. We eat eggs, sometimes

with beef sausage or bacon for brkfst. DH and i about 4-6 eggs each

with 2-3 pieces of bacon, 9 yo eats 2-3 eggs, and 12 yo 3-4 eggs and

their 2 pieces of bacon, my 2.5 yo eats about 3 eggs and 2-3 pieces

of bacon every morn. We ususally have roasted meat of some sort and

veggies for lunch or a big pot of bone broth soup loaded with meat

and veggies. Whichever of the 2 we did not have at lunch we eat at

dinner time. Sometimes the meat is a couple lbs of salmon, or about

a 4lb chicken, or that in beef (roast - steaks). We have a big salad

or a lot of steamed veggies - green beans, peas and carrots etc.

They eat apples or some other fruit sometimes with nut butters for

snack during day. We may have a smoothie as i posted about a few

days ago for a snack or meal.

We drink Aqua De Kefir through out the day too. We all feel hungry

after eating, it is really weird especially me who was always full

for the most part off of one meal and did not have an instinct to eat

until about 18 hrs later.

DH and i both are on 4 biok each morn and night and the older kids 3

each morn and night. My toddler i split 1 up each day - half morn,

half at night. A whole morn and night gives her loose stools.

Ideas anyone??

TIA