"Evelyn" > wrote in message
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> On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 23:06:30 -0800, "Julie Bove"
> > wrote:
>
>>What causes hunger? I know the need for food. But I have eaten plenty
>>enough food today. It just seems like nothing is enough. I don't
>>normally
>>get hungry at all. I do know that the amount of food I normally take in
>>is
>>the right amount of food. I have been eating after dinner and I know I
>>shouldn't have. But I feel like I am starving.
>>
>>Oddly, Angela has been feeling the same way. I sent dinner with her to
>>the
>>dance studio. She did eat but she said she shared her food with some
>>other
>>kids. I had to get her early because of the snow. It is bad here. Lots
>>of
>>ice and record low temps. Could that be it? The cold?
>>
>>Anyway... She has an excuse. She's a kid and she is growing. She has
>>grown an inch in about two months. I reheated the leftover soup that I
>>made
>>on Monday and she had half a bowl of that on top of the dinner she already
>>ate.
>>
>>So does anyone know what causes the feeling of hunger when you've already
>>had enough food?
>
>
> It is a complex system of gut hormones at work. Ghrelin and leptin
> and etc. etc. I have found that the more carbohydrates I eat the
> hungrier I feel. Limiting carbs seems to also limit my hunger.

I didn't eat any excess carbs. And I don't notice that for me, carbs make
me hungry. But a lack of carbs certainly does.