To think some amount of pain when hungry is not necessarily a problem?

The stomach is just under the bra area. That's where it sits.

Everyone feels hunger differently, some people don't experience any hunger cues whereas others quite extreme such as pain. It's all to do with our sensory needs and the 8th sense called interoception. I personally experience pain and discomfort when hungry and because of this will actively avoid going without food for long periods of time.

There are some fucked-up attitudes to food on Mumsnet.

Pain is your body telling you something is wrong.

Eat some food, for God's sake!!!

I’ve never felt pain from hunger. Just rumbling and growling occasionally

At worst I feel an empty rumbling tummy and I quite enjoy that feeling and then eating when I can afterwards. It’s not painful or uncomfortable at all.

I don’t get pain from being hungry but if I’ve not eaten for too long I get a bad headache and start to feel dizzy

I've never felt pain, or even discomfort.from being hungry.

Ive learnt a bit too late in life that what I thought were hunger pangs were acid pangs, that gnawing feeling

I have soemtimes been so hungry I feel sick, that is very very hungry

Sometimes Im just comfortably hungry and it suddenly occurs to me that Im hungry. Its such an unusual feeling that I think that I shoujld feel it more often, it sort of feels natural

Its akin to one of our senses I think and I think we have lost sight of it (no pun intended)

I like to wake up hungry. If I eat too late in the evening(like today yet again) it doesnt happen and then it sets my day off badly because Im not hungry enough to eat in the morning but then wont get time at work and then I'll be ultra hungry and then like others have said, want to snack.

@Carla786 I think you've used the word pain completely wrong here

Pain is you've twisted your ankle really badly and can't stand up, for example

I would never use pain to describe hunger - you might get that if you'd gone without food for a few days but I've never done that

Did you mean discomfort rather than pain?

I get the hungry stomachache thing. I understand that I had it when I was little. But it was an ache, not a pain. Big difference in my view.

I definitely wouldn't advocate not eating until you actually feel pain, but I doubt anyone's doing that

I have far more energy before I eat - digesting is tiring, it’s why older people have a nap after lunch.
Hungry is the natural human state - we hunted to eat, not the other way round.

I've never had actual pain from hunger... And I have gone a couple of days without eating before.

Do people have actual pain when they're hungry? What?!

EDIT: I have however felt sick/nauseous from hunger, as pp have said

Yes. But everytime i have ever asked someone if they ever feek sick from hunger i have been told "no" so at least i now know I'm not the only one 😀

Feeling hungry is normal feeling pain is not

Yes I think it’s difficult to get any idea from other people, because lots of people have mentioned discomfort but I suppose the line between discomfort and pain is a bit blurry - one person’s discomfort is something another person might class as pain and vice versa.

It's fine. When I diet to drop the winter weight I give my tummy a massage and get up and moving and it soon goes away.

Feeling hungry is supposed to be uncomfortable because its how your body reminds you to eat. You can choose to ignore it if it suits you and if you can't access food because you're on shift or something it no big deal.

Historically we wouldn't have been 30 seconds from a fridge and unlimited food and our bodies haven't caught up.

I've experienced this @PullyDog, I presume it's low blood sugar or something.

@Catza I sometimes wonder how on earth our ancestors survived, most of them wouldn't have had regular meals in the way we think of them. Feeling constantly under the weather must've been normal a few centuries ago.

I would say a hollow rumbling stomach, not actual pain.
I think people have forgotten what it's like to feel hungry because of snacking.
I actually prefer to be properly hungry at mealtimes because I enjoy looking forward to my meal and eating it more if I'm really hungry.

The hungrier I get the worse my choices around food. I tend to eat twice a day but if that first meal is later than I expected I will definitely be reaching for chips.

The only time I experienced "pain" when hungry was when I had ulcer caused by an H. Pylori infection. It just got worse and worse for years until I sought treatment.

Or else they're just not eating to try to lose weight. I was in pain like that quite a lot of the time for over thirty years, before Mounjaro.

I get a pain in my left shoulder if I'm really hungry. I've tried looking it up over the years but can never find why this is a thing. Does anyone else get this too or am I a medical marvel haha?

I get painful stomach cramps if I wait too long to eat. My DD is the same. I also get lightheaded and shaky when I get hungry.