Crazy Hunger!

[brett31em]

Did anybody find that while on gluten, you couldn't eat enough food? Like, full meals wouldn't fill your ravenous appetite? Now that I am on the gluten free diet, I feel like my appetite isn't outrageous anymore. Share your thoughts! Thank you!

[coffeetime]

Did anybody find that while on gluten, you couldn't eat enough food? Like, full meals wouldn't fill your ravenous appetite? Now that I am on the gluten free diet, I feel like my appetite isn't outrageous anymore. Share your thoughts! Thank you!

I can definitely identify with you as could my also gluten free brother. I use to eat a full meal then leave the table and still be hungry. It didn't matter if I was sick, I could still eat, there was never a feeling of being full. I would often have a bowl of GoLean cereal in the morning for breakfast and it has something like 13g of fiber and be starving 20 minutes later. Now a small bowl of chex and I forget to have lunch, lol, I always wanted to forget to eat, now I do.

[Wolicki]

Yes, I was constantly starving for 1o years. There was not enough food on the planet to satisfy. Come to find out, the celiac body is starved for nutrients due to malabsorption. Once I went gluten free, the hunger intensified for about a month. I became an eating machine! Once my nutrient levels evened out, my appetite normalized. I sometimes forget to eat now. Weird how the human body works!

[CeliaCupCake]

I'm new here and hope it's okay to post to an old(ish) thread.

Yes, developing a ravenous appetite has been an issue for me too for about three years, and now I've been diagnosed with celiacs (well, half diagnosed with positive bloods and negative biopsy) it's all adding up.

Last year I went to see my doctor about putting on two stone and being starving all the time, and how nothing on earth would shift the weight, even when I went on a 1000 calorie a day diet. I put it down to quitting smoking and depression that also started at around the same time. I was convinced it was my thyroid as I had all the symptoms (overweight, depression, mental and physical sluggishness, very dry skin, etc) and it turned out to be celiacs.

I've been gluten free for a couple of weeks and have had days where the hunger isn't half as bad so I live in hope that once I start to heal, I'll be less hungry and be able to shift this excess weight.

I understand that the hunger is due to malabsorption. Please anyone correct me if I'm wrong as I'm a learner celiac.

[Dixiebell]

CeliaCupCake

I have heard that quitting smoking can be a possible 'trigger' of celiac for some people.

I believe the weight gain and hunger is because your body has been starving for nutrients and holds on to what ever it can to survive. 1000 calorie diet is not good for you, I think someone posted recently that kind of diet can cause you to gain weight because your body is not getting what it needs to function properly. Try eating more protein to keep you feeling full longer and smaller more frequent meals during the day.

[divamomma]

This is my daughter as well and was one main reason that I took her to the dr in the first place. She is a good weight, neither above or below for her age but constantly hungry.

[CeliaCupCake]

Dixiebell, thanks for the advice. I wouldn't be surprised if quitting smoking can trigger celiacs as well as other illnesses that are caused by stress because quitting smoking IS stressful.