Can Vitamins Make you Hungry???
Posted by Kennedy28 on Oct 12, 2007 · Member since Jul 2007 · 780 posts
Hey everyone! So quick question. I had been taking vitamins for a good 2-3 months consistently and felt fine, but then I got lazy and ran out of some so I stopped taking them for about a month and felt fine still. Now I wanted to start up again, so I took some yesterday, which was B12 in liquid form and a multi vitamin. I was STARVING yesterday, and I was eating as I normally do, but for some reason I was sooo soo hungry. Then today I didnt take any vitamins, and I feel fine, same eating i didn't increase anything. So my question is: Do Vitamins Make you hungry??? What do you guys think? Thanks :)
So it's not just me! B-vitamin supplements make me hungry enough to chew on my own leg!
whoa!!! phew I thought I was just making up excuses for wanting to eat, haha...so weird ;D
P.S. I just found this:
True or false: Taking vitamins will make you hungry.
"False," answered Dr. Deepa Vasudevan, a doctor with UT-Houston. "A lot of people do feel that way. They may just feel a lot more energy and because of the energy, sometimes they feel more hungry. But there have been no studies that show that, yes, taking vitamins will make you more hungry."
(From: http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=health&id=3929036)
Interesting...
P.S. I just found this:
True or false: Taking vitamins will make you hungry.
"False," answered Dr. Deepa Vasudevan, a doctor with UT-Houston. "A lot of people do feel that way. They may just feel a lot more energy and because of the energy, sometimes they feel more hungry. But there have been no studies that show that, yes, taking vitamins will make you more hungry."
(From: http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=health&id=3929036)
Interesting...
... wouldn't "feeling" hungry be basically the same thing as being hungry? I mean, unless they measure hunger by the emptiness of your stomach ???
Plain old B-12 doesn't seem to make me hungry, or maybe I haven't just noticed because I've assumedit's normal.
You know, I always noticed when I took my vitamins regularly that I put on weight. I always seemed hungry. I think we should take a poll and find out if this is the case with other people. I just thought it was me or psychological or whatever and now I see this is the case with others.
... wouldn't "feeling" hungry be basically the same thing as being hungry? I mean, unless they measure hunger by the emptiness of your stomach ???
Yes, I wondered this, too. I assume they said the answer is no because you're not actually hungry--in the sense that your body doesn't need food; you just feel like eating. (Like you said with the measure being the emptiness of the stomach.) ??? I wonder...
... wouldn't "feeling" hungry be basically the same thing as being hungry? I mean, unless they measure hunger by the emptiness of your stomach ???
Yes, I wondered this, too. I assume they said the answer is no because you're not actually hungry--in the sense that your body doesn't need food; you just feel like eating. (Like you said with the measure being the emptiness of the stomach.) ??? I wonder...
Well THAT's lame. I clearly remember from my intro-psych book (therefore I am now a complete expert) that hunger is literally both a physical and mental matter; you can have the hormone balance/signal/whatnot going to your brain that goes "i'm hungry!" without having an empty stomach, and vice versa (empty, growling stomach and no "i should eat..." thoughts). I totally messed this up when I went on birth control. I had "I'm hungry!" in my mind all the time, and then thought "what the heck am I thinking? I don't want to eat!"... hence weight gain on birth control ???
... wouldn't "feeling" hungry be basically the same thing as being hungry? I mean, unless they measure hunger by the emptiness of your stomach ???
Yes, I wondered this, too. I assume they said the answer is no because you're not actually hungry--in the sense that your body doesn't need food; you just feel like eating. (Like you said with the measure being the emptiness of the stomach.) ??? I wonder...
this makes sense. Not ACTUALLY being hungry, but just wanting to eat.
... wouldn't "feeling" hungry be basically the same thing as being hungry? I mean, unless they measure hunger by the emptiness of your stomach ???
Yes, I wondered this, too. I assume they said the answer is no because you're not actually hungry--in the sense that your body doesn't need food; you just feel like eating. (Like you said with the measure being the emptiness of the stomach.) ??? I wonder...
this makes sense. Not ACTUALLY being hungry, but just wanting to eat.
Yes, I assume that perhaps it's like the BC pill (as faunablues said)... Your body/mind/who knows? is telling you that you feel like eating, but it's not an actual measure of "hunger" in the physical sense. Jeez. Now I have to worry about my body maybe not needing food when I feel hungry because of my multivitamin?! ::) :-\ Grrrr.
Yeah, that "I wanna eat!" thought nagging you is frustrating when you know you don't need to. I get it for a week or two every time I get the shot. It's completely different than my eating-out-of-boredom "I'd like some chocolate..."
But, could you take your multivitamin/s soon before you do eat? In my experience they taste pretty bad anyway... might do your tastebuds good too. If it's just "mental hunger," then maybe a regular meal at a regular time will satiate it.
P.S. I just found this:
True or false: Taking vitamins will make you hungry.
"False," answered Dr. Deepa Vasudevan, a doctor with UT-Houston. "A lot of people do feel that way. They may just feel a lot more energy and because of the energy, sometimes they feel more hungry. But there have been no studies that show that, yes, taking vitamins will make you more hungry."
(From: http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=health&id=3929036)
Interesting...
Oh, yeah, "studies have shown." Or in this case, no studies have shown. The magic words. But they don't tell you a) which study b) who did it c) where d) size of sample e) field sample was chosen from or f) anything else.
And then, a month later, another "study will show" the exact opposite.
I say, if you're hungrier on the supplements, and when you stop taking them, you aren't hungry, then it was the supplements! Empirical evidence, they call that. ;D
In one way I do believe it.
The past few days I didn't take my vitamin, I take one for hair and nail just a wal-mart brand, because I am 43 and my hair was getting thin, I have being trying to lose a few pounds but always seem so hungry, well I knew over the Holidays I would eat like a pig, but to my surprise I hardly ate anything for 3 days, and when my mom and I went shopping I went for hours and didn't even think about food normaly I would have two snacks before lunch. I thought maybe I was coming down with a cold but I felt great. when I went to refill my pill case for the up coming week I noticed I hadn't taken my vitamin for 3 days and a light went off in my head maybe thats why I haven't been so hungry, when my husband said to me you look like you have lost weight , I went an got on the scale I had lost 5 pounds. I will stop taking my vitamins for a while just to see what happen to my weight. I dont know if this makes sense or not but there is a big difference.
I'm trying to make myself start taking multivitamins again. I haven't noticed the hungry thing when I was on them before, but my last ones had a lot of iron and made me feel pretty awful, even when taken with food. Pills hate me, btw.
Just a thought, vegan multi's have very large amounts of B vitamins (like 1600% of B12 in some), and B vitamins seem to make some of you hungry. Have you tried taking a multi with just 100% of your daily B's? Would that make a difference? Deva makes a mini (easy to swallow for wimps like me) multi with just 100% of B's, basically the bare essentials.
Have you tried taking your vitamin before bed? I've heard that can help if your vitamins give you trouble. I'm going to try that when my new vitamins arrive. You can't eat when your asleep right :)?