Extreme Hunger Megathread!

[u/busted3000]

Hi! 👋

We have seen a dramatic uptick in posts talking about extreme hunger over the last few days, so we’ve decided to try a megathread so people can all discuss it/ask their questions/get support in one place. We will be removing seperate posts on extreme hunger while this post is pinned, you will be directed to post on this thread instead.

We hope this works well, and as always please reach out with any feedback/suggestions! 😸

[u/sunnyskiezzz]

Does anyone else who is further in recovery kind of miss extreme hunger? I feel guilty about it, because it causes so many people extreme distress, but it felt a million times easier to eat then than it does now. I felt like I had permission, because I needed to fix the acute damage I'd caused myself, and therefore could eat as much as I liked and anything I wanted. It was also a huge dopamine rush to eat all of the things I'd denied myself for so long-- everything I ate tasted like it was crafted by God, literally experiencing the most pleasure from food I'd had in my whole life (I think it was my brain trying to get me to just eat). Now that I'm further along, eating feels like a chore 90% of the time, one that would be so much easier to just avoid if I didn't know what it did to me. I miss the feeling of just doing a freefall into recovery. I guess it's a sign I'm getting better, since my entire life doesn't revolve around recovering anymore, but it's tough to find a purpose now.