Hunger and Thirst

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Yeah I don't like drinking from plastic either.

I do feel lucky not to have those issues
I don't feel right when hungry.
I can't ignore it as after about half an hour of being hungry I get a painful feeling similar to nausea and feels a bit like a cramp in the stomach.

Hope the hunger and blackhoke feelings aren't too bad

I can't get enough to drink when I get up.
My first order of business is feeding the farm and I can't get through it without jugs of water for myself.
Sometimes I'm hungry for a drink (drink with calories).
They get a little impatient of me in the process.

I don't really feel a specific thing that feels like "hunger". I either feel nauseous from my stomach being empty + my stomach acid irritating the ulcers I have, or I feel tired and get really restless (my inattentiveness from ADHD gets worse). Then I know that I need to eat.

I also have realized that I can't feel "full". I could eat until I feel sick, but I don't really ever feel full. I usually either overeat or undereat due to that.

I also always feel thirsty. Ironically I used to not drink enough water as a kid because my baseline feeling is just "oh my f*****g god I need water" so I was used to it. I drink too much water now though because of it.

As soon as I get up, I'm hungry for breakfast. It's usually lunch that I do without but that can lead to low blood sugar symptoms (sweaty, shaky, feeling "out of it".

My issues are more with dry mouth and thirst. When I go out anywhere I must have a drink with me. And ordering drinks at a restaurant - I have at least two plus the drink I brought with me. It's due to my ADHD medication. At night if I get up to go to the toilet, I'll have a drink as well which has consequences (another toilet visit later).

My housemate is a curiosity - she has beer mugs full of ice and water all day. She loves to eat ice. It's a sensory thing for her.

Btw, I love your choice of avatar.

I'm quite bad re drinking enough fluids. I can get dry mouthed ,headachy and nauseous . Hunger was a major problem when I lived in Essex. I'd eat and not feel full up. It didn't help that I lived in a tower block in the poor part of town that was heavily targetted by takeaway places. I had over 20 takeaway menus . I'm ashamed to say I was ordering 3 or so takeaways a week and not just small amounts. Chinese set meals for 2,or equivalent. Here there's far less to tempt me when I feel hungry , and I've made a big effort to reduce how many takeaways I have. It's not easy. Sometimes the urge to eat and eat can be strong!

I struggle with this stuff. These days I try to keep to a food schedule and eat during those windows of time I set for myself. Otherwise I'll forget about food and not realize I need to eat until I stand up and the world starts spinning from being sugar crashy, or when my stomach starts growling so loudly it's like a freakin symphony in here. I still have issues with eating sometimes...I have to force myself to do so, though it's not so problematic if I'm exercising as I should be.

I also can be a bottomless pit if I particularly like what I'm eating. I don't recognize full either unless I'm so bloated I look very pregnant (that does happen to me, I call it my food baby) or I start to think I might get sick. I used to joke that I should go to one of those restaurants where you get the whole meal for free if you manage to eat the ridiculous portion they put in front of you, or enter a food eating competition or something. I can straight up destroy food if I like it.

It seems like we all have the same pattern. I wonder how much research has been done on these topics, or if it's more related to EF difficulties vs. something to do with Serotonin.

I don't know. I always assumed I had blood sugar problems, unable to keep the level stable and needed regular feeding. Apparently my dad was the same, but he died 40 years ago so I don't know if that's true.

Yes, I have trouble recognising hunger and thirst.

I set alarms throughout the day so I know when to eat. I tally up all the glasses of water I've had in a day until I've reached eight. That way I know I've had enough. When my routines are interrupted, it messes everything up and I could go hours and hours without eating, and not drinking enough water in the day.