hunger from, like... nowhere?

[KD Jones]

Today, after having my diet pretty much stabilized for 5 weeks, no caffeine and no refined sugar (only sugars that occur in blueberries), I was completely, ravenously hungry.

No reason. No really intense work yesterday or this A.M., no signs of illness.

I've had much smaller "blips" in the past 5 weeks, but today I think I could have picked a possum off the road and roasted it...

Anyone else have this experience, once, or from time to time? I'm really, really curious.

[Connie Brown]

Go back 4 days in your food log and see if you had a "spike" of hunger, excitement, some kind of trigger-y food?

Was it stomach hunger or head, jones-ing-for-a-hit hunger?

Movement 3 days back too. Any huge demands or something different? Gambling? a rock star performance?

Any changes in drugs? prescription, of course.

5 weeks after stopping sugar and caffeine cold turkey, you are sitting duck for a hit of anything that spikes dopamine or beta-endorphin. Because receptors are still recovering. That can lead to that kind of hunger.

[KD Jones]

Got it. Had some white flour tortillas last night.
Clearly from today's experience, these are verboten.
(Noticed a minor sinus flare as well.)
Also, my ADD meds were off today.

Hard to say what kind of hunger it was. I don't think I'm sensitive enough yet to know. It felt... well, bodily - neither head nor stomach. Like you feel when some important component is missing.

Tomorrow wil be a better day.

Good call on 2 counts, Connie.
You are the queen of everything.

Blessings. Yep. That kind.

[Connie Brown]

Awww KD. Your intuition will just get better and better as you learn these things. Scott wrote once that no one just "knows" about their body without a long time reading training logs and the same goes for this stuff.

White flour tortillas really do it to me too. There's a lot of flour in some of them things!