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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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TillyTheTiger · 02/04/2019 23:52

After giving birth to DS. Contractions had started on the Monday night but it was the longest slowest labour (he was back to back and got stuck), I couldn't stomach anything until after he finally arrived on Friday lunchtime. By that point I was so delirious with exhaustion and hunger that I barely even registered that I had a baby, I just wanted someone to take him off me and give me a sandwich!

DeadDoorpost · 02/04/2019 23:54

A few weeks ago. I threw up because I was so hungry (I'm pregnant and have HG so don't keep much down as it is)

After the birth of DS, after 9 months of HG, once the placenta came out my appetite came back full force. Had to wait a few hours due to deliria but once I was fine, I ate what felt like 9 months of meals. (I put on 2.5 stone in 3 months) hoping it's not the same this time

TheFuckfaceWhisperer · 02/04/2019 23:54

only ate a plate of chips yesterday because I had no appetite. I woke up weak with hunger and visibly thinner

I really wish I could eat a plate of chips in a day and look visibly thinner! I don't even look visibly thinner after losing a stone Confused

Bunnylady53 · 03/04/2019 00:16

Apart from starving to have anaesthetic, I think the hungriest I can remember being was in South Africa on holiday. We went out late to eat & then waited ages for the food to arrive. I get hypoglycaemic & on this occasion I had gone “ past the point” so that when I tried to eat, at first I couldn’t. I felt absolutely dreadful but gradually managed little mouthfuls. It was freshly caught fish with fruit on top ( random!) & was absolutely delicious 😋

AndNoneForGretchenWieners · 03/04/2019 00:29

The two weeks before having most of my stomach removed, I had to live on milk, yogurt and bovril, to cleanse my liver. I was so hungry by the end of it I could have chewed my own arm off.

FurrySlipperBoots · 03/04/2019 00:45

The longest I've gone without food was a 9 day stretch at the start of a virus in February. Literally nothing but water. I'm still getting over the illness and have had a total of 16 days in 2 months without calories. The real bitch is that I've just weighed and measured myself and I've not lost the merest fraction of an inch, not one measly pound. How is that even possible when I'm 3 stone overweight?!

BUT I didn't feel hungry so It's not really answering the question! The most-miserably-hungry I've ever been was on a holiday to France when I was a young teen. It was rural area serving 'real' French food, ie, creatures with all their eyes and limbs and things. I wasn't actually a vegetarian back then but I couldn't even sit at the table never mind eat anything. My parents thought buying me a single icecream or cake at a cafe each day would sustain me for the week. Well, it had to because that was all that was on offer, but I've never felt so unhappy hunger wise.

polarpig · 03/04/2019 04:00

48 hours without food whilst waiting for emergency surgery/post surgery as it was about 7pm and no hospital food was available until breakfast.

DrCoconut · 03/04/2019 12:13

After having DS1 I just missed evening dinner. I'd had nothing since breakfast (which was what the previous occupant of the bed had ordered - 1 weetabix and a little orange juice carton, orange juice gives me migraines so I couldn't even have that). The only food option after hours was a vending machine with crisps and chocolate. I had enough money for a mars bar. That was 20 years ago. 3 years ago when in to have DS3, breakfast was on a trolley to help yourself and there was tea and toast always available. Also a hot meal and healthy snacks vending machine. The machines take cards so change isn't an issue. You even got toast brought to you after the birth Grin

Hidingtonothing · 03/04/2019 12:24

3 days in hospital after having DD with no food apart from what DH would bring in the evenings. I was too sore to move and no staff came anywhere near me the whole time I was in there, I literally didn't speak to anyone til they came to discharge me. Obviously I was trying to BF DD and I also hadn't eaten for 2 days before going in as was in slow (and v sicky) labour so was utterly ravenous. I guess food was tenchnically available but you had to go to the day room to get it and I was in too much pain (and, if I'm honest, also too anxious to just leave DD in her cot and bugger off to another room where I wouldn't be able to hear her) to go and get it. No one even clocked I wasn't eating, never been so glad to go home!

darkriver19886 · 03/04/2019 12:29

Woke up from emergency surgery six weeks ago. Was obviously nil by mouth all I could think about was all the food I wanted to eat.

Funny though when I could actually eat I couldn't face it. Still struggle now

shakeapoo · 03/04/2019 12:37

Some spiritual enlightenment thing up a mountain in Bolivia where I fasted for 3 days. Although thinking about it, I'm not sure I actually felt that hungry... or spiritually enlightened - just a bit loopy!

shakeapoo · 03/04/2019 12:38

Oh and after giving birth! When the tea and toast was the best thing I had ever eaten

Strokethefurrywall · 03/04/2019 14:50

I remember the ravenous hunger after DS2 was born, it was a voracious appetite like no other.

And the only other hunger I had was a few hours after finishing my marathon.

Geekster1963 · 03/04/2019 14:53

About an hour after I'd finished my marathon was on my feet for almost six hours and I was hungry. I ate two massive dinners that day.

Crappygilmore · 03/04/2019 19:27

Most of my teens. Sm didnt like me. Df didnt care. Their was food in the house but only for them. I stole food as i had no money. My mum had just died and i was used to 3 meals a day including a balanced dinner. I was 13. One day i was so hungry i ate food my family had scraped into the bin. Im ashamed but i had to survive. The cheapest thing in the local shop was a 15p tin of mac and cheese. I felt blessed when i had the money to pay for one. Or i would steal it. My sister always had a sat job but i was too young. I never forget my first job pay packet I bought so much food which my sm said was for everyone as id leeched off them for long enough. No wonder Im terribly overweight as i eat what i like now. Food is a definate love hate thing. I absolutely hate being hungry and apart from a few instances in my adult life, i avoid at all cost. Being so hungry that your chest burns from acid is vile.

Ownerofmultiplechimps · 04/04/2019 21:03

Stroke me too, had wolfed half a banana on the school run then went into Labour at 11. Ds2 born 7 hours later, back to back heavy baby with a giant head & I've never felt hunger like it. Tea & toast inhaled, ate all my snacks & sent dh via Sainsbury's when bringing ds1 in to meet his brother.

Angry for all those whose parents restricted food, awful for you

Equimum · 04/04/2019 21:11

I had severe anorexia for a few years. I often went through periods of living on a couple of teaspoons (dipped in) WW vanilla yoghurt and a rice cake a day. I didn’t think I was hungry at the time, but I struggled to stand up, lived in a constant foggy haze and thought about food all the time.

Crunchymum · 04/04/2019 21:17

About 40h when in labour.

Ate at about 7pm on the Monday and next proper meal was lunch on Wednesday (baby came at 1am on the Wednesday. I did have some cereal bars at 3am after delivery but slept through breakfast!!)

Frouby · 04/04/2019 21:21

I went to Ibiza in 2001. Lived for a week on ecstasy, amphetamines and vodka then did a massive weekend clubbing when we came home. So about 10 days with the odd slice of toast, mars bar ice cream and redbull and black coffee.

Got home the early hours of august bank holiday monday. Slept until tuesday afternoon, showered and got dressed and realised I was absolutely starving so had chippy lunch. Chip buttie with curry sauce. Had to count my fingers after.

Other than that (self inflicted) hunger, sunday nights always used to be horrible when we were growing up. Dmum used to shop on mondays for the week and once her shopping money had gone, it had gone. So we use to have sunday lunch, then was lucky if there was toast or soup for supper. We were pretty skint growing up, I remember bits of the miners strikes and stuff. If it was a flush week she kept back some Yorkshire pudding batter and would make us pancakes, or if we had a chicken for lunch (more often it would be chicken legs) she would make soup with little noodles in.

Dh is a bit older than me, and he remembers the hunger on a sunday night. No bread left, not much milk, nothing like convenience freezer food. My dcs wouldn't know what's hit them if they lived like that now.

I would like to say it's done me and dh good and that we are nice and slim and don't use food as comfort yada yada yada. But I have always said I don't particularly care about possessions or a fancy house or flash car or big holidays. As long as I am not worrying about food in the fridge or the bills being paid I am happy.

Bitchywaitress · 04/04/2019 21:23

At a wedding at 2pm where we left the reception at 10pm and got 1 canapé.

Justheretogiveaviewfrommyworld · 04/04/2019 21:24

When I had to make a large box of OXO cubes last for 2 weeks. Single Mum of a baby and a toddler, they got the milk and my benefits money went on fruit and veg for them and nappies. I got a mug of beef OXO and a slice of bread a day. Things are much better now. The boys are adults and I have a job and there's enough money for everything vital now, but I still can't stand the smell of beef OXO.

Justheretogiveaviewfrommyworld · 04/04/2019 21:25

Food poverty lasted a good 10 years for us in all.

neversleepagain · 04/04/2019 21:27

I was 33 weeks pregnant with twins and went to view houses with a friend (for Her, not me). I hadn't eaten since breakfast and it was about 3pm I was so hungry I could have cried. We stopped at Waitrose and went in for food. While stocking up I drank 2 pints of whole milk from the bottle in the milk isle in one go. I then waddled to pay for my food and ate like crazy in the car.

MitziK · 04/04/2019 21:37

When the ex fucked off. He put in a claim for Income Support and Child Benefit, saying he had DD and I was claiming fraudulently. I had DD. I was just 20 and DD was five months old.

Naturally, the Benefits Agency stopped everything without warning when they received his claim, which meant Housing and Council Tax Benefit stopped immediately as well, so I had the joys of dealing with a Notice of Seeking Possession (the rent Income Officer didn't seem to be able to comprehend that I had NO money, so said if I couldn't be bothered to pay ten pounds a week, he didn't see the point in giving me any leeway) and the entire year's CT being demanded once two payments had been missed - at the same time as trying to BF a baby and convince the social that I hadn't handed her over to him.

I spent another fortnight fuelled purely by packets of sugar nicked from McDonalds before a neighbour agreed to look after DD for £30 cash in hand each week if I got a job. Which, miraculously, I managed to do within that time. The main appeal of this was that she said she'd include formula milk in it because she had milk tokens she didn't use and my supply, quite obviously, was drying up by then.

It took four months before I had the money to actually buy food for a series of meals - but as soon as I did, I ate everything. And threw up. Twice. And ate more.

I've been a fat fuck ever since, because I am not going to risk losing a job and then having to rely upon benefits turning up without a couple of month's insurance against starvation.

HotChocolateLover · 04/04/2019 21:52

Had a really bad epileptic seizure where I bit my tongue so badly you could see the bite marks and I couldn’t eat properly for about a week. I was starving and in tears on the phone to my mum. It was awful. My stomach was in agony with the hunger pains.