eli5: Why do you feel less hungry the longer you don’t eat?

Question

So when your body is expecting food and you don’t eat you obviously get those strong hunger pains, but why does that feeling begin to die down if you leave it for a bit?

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Answer 1

Hunger is a complicated thing also because it involves the brain. Not eating or eating could really go two completely different ways, depending on your perception as well. Whether you perceive it as “starvation” or otherwise.

So yeah, my eli5: the brain is a complicated thing.