Huge appetite, cravings, loss of weight???

[DalbySun]

For the past few weeks my appetite has increased dramatically to the point where I am shovelling food in right, left and centre. I am constantly STARVING.

The other morning for my breakfast I ate 2 slices of toast with egg mayonaise, a packet of crisps, a breakaway bar, a blue ribband ... an hour or so later I had an early lunch consisting of half a meat pie and half a cornish pastie. I felt BLOATED after that, was thinking I wouldn't be able to eat for the rest of the day - yet within an hour I was absolutely starving again, to the point where I was starting to feel sick with hunger.

Yesterday was the same. Big breakfast, crisps, chocolate etc all through the morning - by lunch time I was famished so bought myself a fish from chippie, wolfed it down and was immediately hungry again.

So I'm eating like an absolute pig yet when I stand on the scales, I'm either the same or less than the previous time I checked.

I seem to have constant cravings for junk food which is unlike me really. Usually I have a very small appetite.

Also, my hair is falling out (!!) and I'm constantly tired. No way I could be pregnant. What could it be??

(Today I had peanut butter on toast for brekkie, crisps, chocolate bar - within an hour I was so hungry I was starting to get stomach pains. I practically ran to bakery in my break, grabbed a sausage roll - still hungry. I've just had a bowl of chicken soup, 2 pieces of bread and a blue ribband and I'm off to search the cupboards again).

tape worm?

I'm tempted to say that there's either some kind of nutritional deficiency going on or an imbalance in your blood-sugars - or both. The food you're describing is a lot of non-nutritious, sugary carbohydrate.... and people with glycaemic/insulin problems will often be drawn to those types of foods in order to keep their energy levels up. Trouble is that they cause blood-sugar crashes (= crippling hunger pangs) not so long later. Also, the total lack of vitamins from things like crisps and chocolate aren't doing your body any good at the same time.

I'd suggest seeing your doctor for an expert opinion and, in the meantime, try to fill up more on plenty of natural nutritious & filling foods. Vegetables, fruit, wholegrains, potatoes, pasta, meat, eggs, fish, nuts.... rather than sugary junk. Take a daily multivitamin with iron as a safety-net. You may not be diabetic but you may feel better if you ate like one.

Sounds more like hyperthyroidism which my DH has recently been diagnosed with, in fact you have more of the symptoms than him such as tiredness.....maybe head to GP if it carries on?

Agree with littlemefi. I'd go to the GP.

Agree with little and rabbit - classic overactive thyroid, which I had myself, 20 years ago!

You need to go and see your GP as soon as possible. It won't get better by itself.