# Hungry Like The Wolf **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 18, 2009, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hungry-like-the-wolf/489820 "2009-03-18T00:45:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Green\_Cymbeline](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_cymbeline/32/9244_2.png) [@Green\_Cymbeline](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Cymbeline)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2009, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hungry-like-the-wolf/489820/21 "2009-03-19T07:06:49Z")
Today I didn’t eat all day. Around 7 pm, as I was waiting for my boyfriend to be ready to take me out to dinner, I started feeling woozy, dizzy, shaky and got a splitting headache. My stomach was hurting. This is what usually happens if I don’t eat after 10+ hours. My question to you, **Scylla** , did you have these effects and how did you get past them? Do these symptoms subside? ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2009, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hungry-like-the-wolf/489820/22 "2009-03-19T07:08:25Z")
> [@nyctea scandiaca](#): > > Today I didn’t eat all day. Around 7 pm, as I was waiting for my boyfriend to be ready to take me out to dinner, I started feeling woozy, dizzy, shaky and got a splitting headache. My stomach was hurting. This is what usually happens if I don’t eat after 10+ hours. That happens to me, too. Sometimes longer, sometimes shorter. The thing is after I feel those symptoms, I don’t even want to eat, even though my body needs food. I feel all nauseous and gross, even though I should eat. And then even after I nap or eat, the symptoms often last for a while. It’s awful! ---
**Author:** ![Turek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/turek/32/18782_2.png) [@Turek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turek)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2009, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hungry-like-the-wolf/489820/23 "2009-03-19T13:07:06Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#): > > That happens to me, too. Sometimes longer, sometimes shorter. The thing is after I feel those symptoms, I don’t even want to eat, even though my body needs food. I feel all nauseous and gross, even though I should eat. And then even after I nap or eat, the symptoms often last for a while. It’s awful! I’m exactly the opposite. I get ravenous when my blood sugar drops, even if I’ve reached the queasy, shaky stage. I find it hard to STOP eating after that, and I end up feeling horrible about 30-45 minutes later. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Fight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/90ced4/32.png) [@Cat\_Fight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Fight)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2009, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hungry-like-the-wolf/489820/24 "2009-03-19T15:19:21Z")
> [@Scylla](#): > > Indeed. With my empty stomach I am nevertheless full… of myself. Please don’t take this as a judgment on you and whatever you’re doing this for, but that’s pretty much how most anorexics feel, at least for a while. Once they get over the starvation ‘hump,’ it’s like they’re walking on air. There’s a druggy, smug air to them, like they know a secret. Then comes the hair and teeth loss, inability to climb stairs, heart attacks, etc. ---
**Author:** ![Poysyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Poysyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poysyn)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2009, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hungry-like-the-wolf/489820/25 "2009-03-19T17:05:53Z")
I find if I don’t eat for a while I get a migraine - that’s mostly why I shy away from things like this. Does that pass? ---
**Author:** ![Snickers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Snickers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snickers)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2009, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hungry-like-the-wolf/489820/26 "2009-03-19T17:19:35Z")
Propel does have calories - 10 per bottle. I don’t think you’re cheating at all, mind you, but I was a dedicated calorie counter there for a while (trying to lose weight), so I check labels. 10 bigguns. And if you’re not full, just take a big ole deep breath. All the nutrition you need indeedy. :rolleyes: Breatharians is weird. ---
**Author:** ![Scylla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Scylla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scylla)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2009, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hungry-like-the-wolf/489820/27 "2009-03-19T23:40:20Z")
We had a meeting this morning, and they brought Dunkin Donuts. I didn’t partake. After the meeting I went to work at my desk, and a while later I got up to go to the bathroom. I passed the breakroom and saw the donuts. Without thinking about it, I snarfed down two of them in about four seconds. On the way back from the bathroom I snarfed down two more. An hour later I went out for lunch. So much for my iron will. I never actually made the decision to eat all those donuts, it just kind of happened by accident when I wasn’t paying attention. ---
**Author:** ![Unintentionally\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unintentionally_blank/32/5418_2.png) [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2009, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hungry-like-the-wolf/489820/28 "2009-03-19T23:56:41Z")
That was _Eeeeevil_ Scylla that did it. I saw him. He had a goatee. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hungry-like-the-wolf/489820.md?page=1)