I have a vague memory of an incident in the last few years where I was really really busy one night with this or that and just never got around to realizing I was hungry until I was so tired that I chose to go to sleep instead.
I can remember for certain a time in college (living in an apartment) where I was out of food, and out of money, and had no choice but to do without. My last chicken fritter was gone on Saturday afternoon, and payday wasn’t until Monday. I did without Saturday night and all day Sunday.
Also, I went to bed hungry several times as a child. This wasn’t due to poverty or neglect; instead, it was due to social mores mixed with my parents’ inconsistent parenting styles. My parents love local freshwater fish; in fact, my mom could live the rest of her life on deep-fried catfish. Me, I can’t stand the stuff: bass, carpie, catfish, etc. = blech.
When I was a kid, my mom & stepdad were friends with a guy who was pretty good fisherman, and who would host three or four big fish-frys every summer. My mom & stepdad would get so excited about it that it would be all we’d hear about for days: “Jimmy’s having a fish-fry! Jimmy’s having a fish-fry! Woo hoo!” At Jimmy’s fish-frys the menu consisted of fish or hunger. No side dishes, no burgers, no nothing. Fish: take it or leave it. Mom & dad knew that I couldn’t stand the stuff, but they thought that it was insulting in the extreme for me to bring a bologna sandwich, and that I should show gratitude to Jimmy by eating fish whether I liked it or not. I refused, and got chewed out and sent to bed hungry. This happened every year for well over a decade.
The last time I went to be hungry because of poverty was probably in 1992. I go to bed hungry pretty frequently when I’ve been up past my usual bedtime.
Last night. And will again tonight. I’m trying am currently losing weight and so I have cut back on snacking and other things that help keep the fat on me.
I’ll sometimes realize that I’m kinda hungry right when I’m about to crawl into bed, but I’ve already brushed my teeth and all that so I just go to sleep. I’d say that happens at least once or twice a week. If I’m starving, yeah, I’ll grab something quick, but that’s rare. It’s usually a “I’m kinda hungry” feeling.
I go to bed pretty darn hungry once every week or two pretty often, usually due to time/exhaustion or just plain laziness.
Mildly hungry most nights. Once in a great while I’ve eaten enough to not even be remotely hungry.
I usually eat between 6pm and 8pm. By the 10 to 11 pm bedtime rolls around I am mildly hungry again.
Being in a near constant state of mild hunger is what has probably kept me nice and thin all these years. I’ve just learned to deal with being a bit hungry all the time.
I read this as “cat”, not “cast”, which didn’t interfere with the basic comprehension at all.
I got off a long (2 day) train ride having eaten everything I brought in the first day and being too broke to buy anything in the overpriced shop on board. I got off at 2 a.m. after having had a bagel in the last 30 hours, but when I got home at 4 there was no food to eat, since I was just moving in. So I went to sleep instead. I slept until about 11 a.m. to sleep, finish grocery shopping, and eat.
I frequently go to bed hungry and consider it a pretty good thing as I need to lose weight rather than gain it, and sleeping on a full stomach isn’t that comfortable. So if it’s 10pm and I realize I’m hungry, I just go to sleep.
I don’t think I’ve ever gone to bed hungry because I didn’t have any food to eat, though.
All this week, actually. I was invited to go to the Indian casino and I lost every penny in my wallet, which was about $40 set aside for grocery shopping, in those pretty shiny machines. Took about 15-20 minutes, and then it was all gone. … Nothing but peanut butter sandwiches and stale pretzels washed down with water, until payday rolled around…
Almost every night, but not for lack of food or funds. I usually eat dinner around 7:00, and I’m an up-till-midnight-or-later kind of person, so I usually go to bed with a little rumble. Not starving or anything, just “I could eat”.
I was feeling pretty hungry a few times around the time my son was born(10/2003). I was induced 10 days in a row…trying something different every day, and each day they would tell me not to eat at some point thinking that that might be the day I had the baby. So I didn’t eat for a couple days in a row, and over the course of the 10 days did that a few times.
I was so sick at the time, however, that I barely noticed the hunger.
I often go to bed hungry. If I don’t eat around 6 or 6:30, I often don’t have a chance to eat until 8:30, when I tend to really pig out. I can’t eat that much as it is without drastic consequences (my pregnancy feels like it’s already crushing my stomach slightly), so I’d rather feel slightly hungry before sleeping instead of wanting to vomit because that feeling tends to carry over into the next morning. I could snack, but even that little bit of food right before bed makes me uncomfortable.
I go to bed hungry most nights because I am losing weight (successfully!) by diet and exercise. I feel slightly ashamed that I have the choice. And that I got overweight in the first place…
When we had just moved into this house there was a three day blizzard in which 180cm (6 ft) of snow fell. We simply couldn’t get out of the house and because we’d literally moved in the day before I had a bag of rice, a few veggies, some miso and nothing else. My husband got stuck at work so it was me a toddler and a second grader. Luckily the power never went off or we’d have been in trouble. Just as the rice ran out, I was able to wade out to the nearest shop. Unfortunately there was pretty much ONLY rice in the shop as they’d been cut off too of course!
Fairly often here as well, simply because I tend to stay up pretty late as a rule and we eat at about 8 and I don’t like to eat any later than that.
But “hungry” as in an empty stomach and mild munchies, not actual “starving for nutrients/calories” hungry. Big difference, and I think a lot of people confuse the two. Our stomachs should actually be empty MOST of the time, and an empty stomach does not equal “hunger”.
I HAVE gone to bed really hungry more than once, either due to just not wanting to bother with eating due to lateness or curcumstances or due to not having anything on hand TO eat (or that appealed to me to eat). I really notice it the next morning…when I wake up just RAVENOUS!
And yes, skipping dinner is a GREAT way to lose weight, in my experience. Eat normally/reasonably all day but nothing after 4 or 5 pm or so, or if you do, just a little of something light and healthy.