This may just be me but it always seems when I got to sleep on a full stomach I wake up significantly hungrier than when I go to bed without a full stomach.
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More sugar in your system. If you had a dinner with high amounts of sugar, chances of you waking up in the middle of the night hungry are very high and in the morning.
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you made me curious. Found this:
“Some people are more sensitive to large doses of carbs, which can lead to low blood sugar after a big meal,” says Dixon. “Their bodies can ‘overshoot’ a bit on insulin production in response to a carb-rich meal (especially if the carbs are simple).” The result? Blood glucose can drop too low an hour or so after eating, and this could be why someone wakes up super hungry after eating a big meal right before bed.
https://www.cookinglight.com/eating-smart/nutrition-101/reasons-you-are-waking-up-hungry
Not eating for 8-12 hours will get you pretty hungry, but even if you stuff yourself with food, you aren’t “hungry” in the morning. It’s just that bad taste you get when you wake up that only goes away if you eat something
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If I go to bed hungry, mainly because I’m lazy, tired, or uninterested in food, I’ll wake up maybe a little hungry but if I eat a whole pizza before bed I’ll wake up starving. The glucose comment makes sense.
I tend to fast a lot (mainly from being busy, or just not in the mood to eat I guess) and maybe eat one meal a day most days.
It’s so difficult to convince anyone trying to diet to try fasting. The “pain” of being hungry sucks but it goes away and your stomach shrinks. When I was younger(and I’ve always been kind of skinny) I could physically eat 3x the amount of food I do now in one meal.
Now it feels like even when I’m starving, I get full so fast eating small amounts. I can still occasionally gorge but it is not pleasant.
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