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What's the hungriest you have ever been?

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AbsentmindedWoman · 02/04/2019 21:15

Just finishing up dinner, feeling lucky that a) there was enough food in the cupboards to be able to cobble together something without going out as I'm struggling with fatigue today b) I'm well enough to eat unlike some friends with different chronic illnesses and c) I have enough money for food in general!

Hungriest I've ever been was as a child in hospital for a week after being diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. Really unwell but also very hungry after my body had been deprived of energy for so long when I was getting sick, and on a strict regime that needed the details working out. When I was allowed out for a few hours, we went to the cinema and the smell of the popcorn was torture, as I was starving. I was so grumpy Grin

What's the hungriest you have ever been?

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LoisLittsLover · 02/04/2019 21:21

When i was 15 weeks pregnant we went to a show in London. Due to rraffic we missed dinner and had to park at a random tube stop and get the train, then run from the tube to the royal albert hall (long!!). Then the tubes were finishing early so had to rush for the tube back, the bar onky aold wine gums. The tube station were we had left the car wasn't near anything resembling a food dispensary. I was so hungry i threw up in our front garden and then ate a dominoes pizza that i sent dh for!!

ThePollutedShadesOfPemberley · 02/04/2019 21:26

DH was diagnosed with the big C. I didn't eat for five days. I was in a sort of state of shock, my guts stopped moving and I couldn't eat. On the fifth day his consultant came up with a plan of treatment and suddenly I could eat again. I started with a cup of milky coffee and I will never forget the taste and smell of it.

DrMadelineMaxwell · 02/04/2019 21:26

When my DD was poorly in hospital on a children's ward for a week. No hot food or drinks allowed on the ward. In theory we were told we could go and eat in the canteen, but the nursing staff definitely relied on the parents to provide all the routine care for their children, and as DD was so poorly, I didn't want to leave her anyway.

So for 6 days I lived on cereal bars and apples. It could have been worse, but it wasn't pleasant.

HellAndDegenerates · 02/04/2019 21:27

There was never enough food growing up.
I was raised by a single parent on the dole in the 80s. We'd get a free school dinner and home for a slice of ham with bread and margerine as the evening meal.

Periods of unemployment and benefit reliance have also shadowed my adult life. Living on £70 for a fortnight doesn't leave much for food.

At various points during my life I've become so hungry that when I've tried to eat, my stomach has rejected it and it's made me vomit.

ThomasShelbysBunnet · 02/04/2019 21:28

I was heavily pregnant and in McDonald's. I had been starving and ate a large big Mac meal and was still shaking with hunger after it. Luckily I had sat in so ordered the same again and I was still starving and needed an apple pie to fill me up. Ironically I don't usually like McDonalds.

megletthesecond · 02/04/2019 21:31

Prepping for a colonoscopy. Over 24hrs without food.
I had a light breakfast on the prep day. No food all day.
Colonoscopy the next morning.
Was able to eat a biscuit that lunchtime.

My stomach shrunk though. I hardly had to eat to feel full for a few days.

giveovermypreciousss · 02/04/2019 21:31

My mother starved my dsis and I. We often watched her making large mesls for my step father whilst we had bresd dipped in gravy. No breskfast or lunch. She would not let us have free school meals either ss she found it embarrassing. Funny as she could afford 20 fags a day.

allfurcoatnoknickers · 02/04/2019 21:36

I didn't eat for three days when my dog was killed in an accident, and then when I did, I threw up immediately afterwards.

I think it was the shock Sad.

ThomasShelbysBunnet · 02/04/2019 21:37

giveover that's horrific. I hope you're some way to healing after your childhood Flowers

ItsAllGone19 · 02/04/2019 21:39

When my gallbladder was attacking me. I barely ate for almost 6 months because pretty much everything I ate triggered agonising attacks. I lost almost 4 stone.

Whilst I've known incredibly tight times with money I've fortunately never had to limit my food as badly as the limit imposed by my evil now long disposed off gallbladder.

WhiteWine4TheLady · 02/04/2019 21:40

After the birth of my first DC.

I was nil by mouth for hours and hours beforehand, as was due a c-section but kept getting bumped off the list as emergencies came in.

Then after he was born (I was pretty delirious, needed a blood transfusion) I didn’t think about food for a good while. By about 36 hours post the birth (and about 48 hours at least without any food) I was so hungry I hobbled out into the corridor to accost the lady with the breakfast trolley and ask her why she wasn’t stopping by my room with food. She said ‘you’re nil by mouth, love, sorry’.

Except I wasn’t. Turns out the staff had forgotten to take the sign down from my bed, so I’d been unnecessarily bloody starved. I was so upset I burst into tears and a sheepish nurse went off and brought me tea & toast. I’ve never enjoyed food more.

Bezalelle · 02/04/2019 21:40

Yom Kippur. Every damn year!

Glitterkitten24 · 02/04/2019 21:41

Early stages of pregnancy, out for lunch with friends who don’t know I’m pregnant yet.

We placed our order and it’s over an hour before starter came. I was ready to start a war, I was so hungry and unreasonable and furious!

I appreciate this isn’t a desperately desperate situation and many people have been much worse off then this.

keenwasalad · 02/04/2019 21:43

After giving birth I just didn't want to eat for a couple of days. My sister came round and made me a cheese, cucumber and salad cream sandwich and honestly I've never tasted anything better. It made me realise I was actually SO hungry!

ABC1234DEF · 02/04/2019 21:43

Post 65 mile ultra marathon. Ate constantly for about 3 days afterwards

Disfordarkchocolate · 02/04/2019 21:44

In hospital after having a baby, horrible food and tiny portions.

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AbsentmindedWoman · 02/04/2019 21:47

Wow, a big range of different circumstances.

Flowers to those who couldn't eat because of traumatic events, or neglectful parents.

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NorthEndGal · 02/04/2019 21:50

Had the flu, was not interested in eating for three days, then threw up what I tried to eat for the next two days.
Day six I just ate a bit of toast and tea.
Day seven I ate everything in the fridge. (Not quite everthing, but it felt like it)

Spanielmadness · 02/04/2019 21:54

I was meeting my friend for a meal and hadn’t eaten as I didn’t want to spoil my dinner. I was so hungry I couldn’t concentrate to drive, pulled out in front of another car and totalled my MR2. Lesson learned - don’t drive while very hungry!

IntoValhalla · 02/04/2019 21:55

During my army days.
Out on a particularly shitty, wet, cold fieild excercise. For the first week I got the shittiest of the shit ration packs - the vegetarian ones - this was back in the days where even the “good” ones were barely edible. I lived off cigarettes, haribo and water for a week.
But in the plus side, the second we got back to civilisation, showered and got everything cleaned, I had the most banging curry I’ve ever eaten Grin

NottonightJosepheen · 02/04/2019 21:56

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Gertie75 · 02/04/2019 22:11

After a 30 hour back to back labour with dd1 I was put on the ward just after they'd finished serving dinner and wasn't offered any food, I pushed to be discharged and went home at 10pm and raided the cupboards.

Needless to say I packed when I went in to have dd2.

Gilead · 02/04/2019 23:39

giveover are you my kid sister? Mother’s favourite trick was to cook something I didn’t like and serve it for three days until I ate and was sick. Or to create weird inedible things, lavender omelette was one!

OhTheRoses · 02/04/2019 23:47

Weightwatchers.

MsTSwift · 02/04/2019 23:48

Travelling round Cuba in the late 90s. Constant power cuts so most restaurants said apologetically that there was food but they couldn’t guarantee it wouldn’t make us ill. The food there was was dry rice and brown meat no sauce or kidney beans and dry rice if veggie. We went local helpfully rum is an appetite suppressant so we had coffee for breakfast and run and pineapple for the other meals. Lost loads of weight Grin

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