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

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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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Hunger is a very complicated thing. Grelin is one of the main chemicals involved, and your body produces it in cycles when you’re hungry.

Tldr tho, your body understands that hunger is very distracting. As a result, your body tends to put hunger on silent mode after it’s made its point. Eventually, you’ll start to run on stored energy, and that solves the hunger problem temporarily

Hunger will then return with a vengeance once you’ve got absolutely nothing in the tank. Kind of like your body going “I have you 72hrs to eat something, and you’ve sat on your ass, eat or die bud”.

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