Raging Hunger --AHH!

Sometimes when the "hungry" is making loud noises I will pop a couple Tums.  I already take Protonix but sometimes I still get breakthrough acid - and it kind of feels like the old raging "hunger from the past.  (Which makes me wonder if my hunger in the past was actually really bad acid and I never knew it!) 

Don't forget about hormones! Sometimes I'm just hungrier than others. As long as I keep my food consistent, my hunger is usually back to normal within a day or two.

My hunger has returned, too, and I'm tracking it in my period tracking app.  It's been amazing to see how hormonal it is, for me.  I track hunger and cravings separately.  I crave food around ovulation but I'm legitimately hungry right before and during my period.  On those days, I allow myself to eat more calories but I make sure they're all protein or healthy fat.  I do not allow extra calories to be indulgent ones....those are separate and much more moderated.  

I also have started back on my PPI (OTC) and will do what Tracy does when I first feel hunger - pop a TUMS or two - to make sure it is hunger and not acid.  I've found that coffee stimulates an insulin response in me and can make me quite shaky.  For a while I was confusing that w/ hunger.  Now I know it for what it is.  Still have to eat a cheese stick to curb it but have worked on cutting back coffee to eliminate the shakes all-together and that seems to be working.  Now drinking 2-3 cups a day...had been drinking coffee all day long.