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Title: Intense food cravings, are they related to hormones???
Post by: Elsa.G on October 14, 2012, 06:33:02 PM
I've been taking hormones for the past 2 years, ive taken Estradiol the whole time- for the past year or so i haven't always been able to afford them so there has been times where i stop taking them. Anyway i recently got some hormones- about a month ago and i noticed this past weekend i have had intense food cravings, i have no idea why its never happened this badly, but it's been so bad this weekend that i binged horribly :( i know im not depressed right now, ive actually been okay except for the cravings. This weekend alone ive had burgers, pizza, chocolate, pasta, cookies and cake. I feel horrible now, but has anyone else experienced this?
Title: Intense food cravings, are they related to hormones???
Post by: Padma on October 14, 2012, 06:42:08 PM
Yes, though with me it was more craving for very specific foods, greasy and/or fish. It's pretty common for pregnant women, who have hormone frenzy going on (and who, like us, are growing new stuff...)
Title: Re: Intense food cravings, are they related to hormones???
Post by: MadelineB on October 14, 2012, 07:12:26 PM
Yes, and its usually not related to the absolute level of hormones in your system, but rather the change in levels. Get on a steady dose and stay there and you'll see most cravings disappear especially the need to eat the entire refrigerator, though you may want to work on good nutrition since you are a "growing girl" now, and your body will crave things it isn't getting enough of, like pickles and ice cream.
Title: Re: Intense food cravings, are they related to hormones???
Post by: MaidofOrleans on October 14, 2012, 07:39:22 PM
This would explain my fast food binge over the past couple weeks after starting hormones. I almost never eat fast food but for some reason I craved it almost every day.
Title: Re: Intense food cravings, are they related to hormones???
Post by: Joelene9 on October 14, 2012, 07:43:22 PM
  Yes and the cravings are still there nearly 2 years now.

  Joelene
Title: Re: Intense food cravings, are they related to hormones???
Post by: Elsa on October 14, 2012, 11:04:20 PM
Pickle!!! :P  :laugh: yup food cravings are a daily part of every woman across the world.

And they don't stop or slow down till menopause and increases during pregnancy, and changes depending on hormones and for us the dosages and timings and method used for taking HRT, as well as the meds themselves i.e what type of medicine you are prescribed or what suits you also to some extent influence what you crave and when you crave for it.
Title: Re: Intense food cravings, are they related to hormones???
Post by: AbraCadabra on October 15, 2012, 08:20:22 AM
Plus 13 pounds later (since starting HRT) and still having a hard time walking past the fridge, I'd say YES!

A lot of my thinking is still revolving around food...

Will it ever stop? I still have some hope :)

Axélle
Title: Re: Intense food cravings, are they related to hormones???
Post by: jainie marlena on October 15, 2012, 08:58:50 AM
yes and as long as it keeps going where I want it a diet is out of the question for me. lol. ;D
Title: Re: Intense food cravings, are they related to hormones???
Post by: PHXGiRL on October 15, 2012, 12:25:17 PM
omg yes! i eat sweets like all the time!!! ice cream! chocolate! yum! lol I NEVER liked sweets like i do now.
Title: Re: Intense food cravings, are they related to hormones???
Post by: ZoeNicole on October 16, 2012, 10:19:25 AM
My current vice is peanuts. They are so hard to resist. Other than that everything else is fine :)
Title: Re: Intense food cravings, are they related to hormones???
Post by: Rita on October 16, 2012, 12:05:57 PM
Puberty... sucks for diets. But the twins under my neck* are happy so I am happy  ;D





*Yes I mean my tatas
Title: Re: Intense food cravings, are they related to hormones???
Post by: Robert Scott on October 16, 2012, 12:49:33 PM
I was reading an article on food cravings and the differences between men and women...it said women tend to crave salty and sweet foods and that men tend to crave red meat and greasy food.  So, there are studies and research about food cravings between the genders.
Title: Re: Intense food cravings, are they related to hormones???
Post by: Rita on October 18, 2012, 09:40:42 AM
Quote from: Robert Scott on October 16, 2012, 12:49:33 PM
I was reading an article on food cravings and the differences between men and women...it said women tend to crave salty and sweet foods and that men tend to crave red meat and greasy food.  So, there are studies and research about food cravings between the genders.

I guess I must be 75% androgyn according to that  ;D  I crave it all except for red meat which my desire has dropped significantly.

I am slowly moving towards a more vegitarian diet.
Title: Re: Intense food cravings, are they related to hormones???
Post by: Brooke777 on October 18, 2012, 09:45:09 AM
Quote from: Robert Scott on October 16, 2012, 12:49:33 PM
I was reading an article on food cravings and the differences between men and women...it said women tend to crave salty and sweet foods and that men tend to crave red meat and greasy food.  So, there are studies and research about food cravings between the genders.

For me at least, this has proved to be true. My desire for salty foods has gone up tremendously. I used to dislike salty foods, now I want them a lot.  I also crave sweets more often which I don't mind because chocolate is great!  I told my endo this and he said that is a good sign that my body is accepting the hormones without any trouble.
Title: Re: Intense food cravings, are they related to hormones???
Post by: DanicaCarin on October 18, 2012, 11:12:21 AM
OMG, I just started this phase 15 months into HRT. Mostly salty or carbs. But I went from losing weight to gaining and feeling like a bloated bag of water! :embarrassed:  I've been drinking dill pickle juice and "loving it"! I thought it was from the Spiro, but maybe not? ???
Title: Re: Intense food cravings, are they related to hormones???
Post by: Natkat on October 18, 2012, 11:30:03 AM
Quote from: Elsa.G on October 14, 2012, 06:33:02 PM
I've been taking hormones for the past 2 years, ive taken Estradiol the whole time- for the past year or so i haven't always been able to afford them so there has been times where i stop taking them. Anyway i recently got some hormones- about a month ago and i noticed this past weekend i have had intense food cravings, i have no idea why its never happened this badly, but it's been so bad this weekend that i binged horribly :( i know im not depressed right now, ive actually been okay except for the cravings. This weekend alone ive had burgers, pizza, chocolate, pasta, cookies and cake. I feel horrible now, but has anyone else experienced this?

I had this for a time on T actually where I had the biggest desire for pizza.
now I dont eat much, thought but right in the beginning I started to eat more.
Title: Re: Intense food cravings, are they related to hormones???
Post by: Rita on October 18, 2012, 01:24:36 PM
My appetite is starting to normalize again as well, instead I am slowly being a bit pickier and more disgusted by certain foods. 

Not so much a direct result of estrogen as it is my body changing.

But when I get urges they must be satiated  ;D
Title: Re: Intense food cravings, are they related to hormones???
Post by: Carolina1983 on October 18, 2012, 02:16:12 PM
I hope that htey are hormone related because I am going bananas when it comes to candy and certain types of food.. It seems like my body craves fat over everything else :S.
Title: Re: Intense food cravings, are they related to hormones???
Post by: JoanneB on October 18, 2012, 06:15:41 PM
I haven't craved chocolate like I do now since I was like 12 y/o. But not quite what your question was about.

My craving for food is driven primarily by emotional factors. Sure hormones do play a part, but very minor in my case. It's been a life long battle of the fork for me and I've been forked over a few times  :o

If you got a new batch of meds it just may be that particular formulation. All pills are not created equal, plus plain ole Quality Control issues.
Title: Re: Intense food cravings, are they related to hormones???
Post by: generous4 on October 18, 2012, 07:03:05 PM
Quote from: Serena Lynn on October 15, 2012, 12:25:17 PMchocolate! yum!

:o
All of you have it wrong.

Chocolate is so full of antioxidants, you must consider it a form of medicine. ;D

That is how my partner and I handle it: "It's not a craving; it is a therapeutic need."  No guilt, plenty of destroyed free radicals.
Title: Re: Intense food cravings, are they related to hormones???
Post by: Brooke777 on October 18, 2012, 07:20:44 PM
Quote from: generous4 on October 18, 2012, 07:03:05 PM
:o
All of you have it wrong.

Chocolate is so full of antioxidants, you must consider it a form of medicine. ;D

That is how my partner and I handle it: "It's not a craving; it is a therapeutic need."  No guilt, plenty of destroyed free radicals.

Now that is a wonderful way of looking at it!
Title: Re: Intense food cravings, are they related to hormones???
Post by: Jayne on October 18, 2012, 07:33:22 PM
I thought we weren't allowed to discuss self medicating on here?  ;)

I like the thought process here, i'm not being greedy i'm just taking my medication. . . nom, nom, nom
Title: Re: Intense food cravings, are they related to hormones???
Post by: MadelineB on October 19, 2012, 03:24:23 AM
Quote from: Jayne on October 18, 2012, 07:33:22 PM
I thought we weren't allowed to discuss self medicating on here?  ;)

I like the thought process here, i'm not being greedy i'm just taking my medication. . . nom, nom, nom
True, let's not advocate self medicating, and refrain from talking about dosages.

So if chocolate is a drug, I won't say how many pounds of chocolate I eat a year or where I obtain it. I will say though, that chocolate is just what the doctor ordered! That reminds me, I think I have a dose of Moonstruck dark chocolate with chili peppers that I should be taking instead of typing.
Title: Re: Intense food cravings, are they related to hormones???
Post by: generous4 on October 19, 2012, 07:00:24 AM
Quote from: MadelineB on October 19, 2012, 03:24:23 AM
...dark chocolate with chili peppers.

:o
WHOA!  Peppers in chocolate?  NOOOOOOOOOOOO!  That sounds more like self-assassination! :laugh:
Title: Re: Intense food cravings, are they related to hormones???
Post by: Brooke777 on October 19, 2012, 08:42:11 AM
Quote from: generous4 on October 19, 2012, 07:00:24 AM
:o
WHOA!  Peppers in chocolate?  NOOOOOOOOOOOO!  That sounds more like self-assassination! :laugh:

Chili powder in chocolate is great! Especially the really dark chocolate.
Title: Re: Intense food cravings, are they related to hormones???
Post by: MadelineB on October 19, 2012, 09:11:00 AM
Quote from: Brooke777 on October 19, 2012, 08:42:11 AM
Chili powder in chocolate is great! Especially the really dark chocolate.
That's how the Aztecs, inventors of chocolate, always ate their chocolate (and still do). There is a restaurant at the national museum in Mexico City that serves authentic Aztec dishes, including a chocolate based Mole Poblano that is to die for. The cousins of the Azteca family that run the restaurant in Mexico City run two of my favorite restaurants in the world, The Blue Iguana, and The Red Iguana, in Salt Lake City Utah.

Dark chocolate creates a burst of euphoria and energy when combined with capsicum, which dilates the capillaries and increases the absorption of the active ingredients (as well as setting you on delicious fire). Mmmm.
Title: Re: Intense food cravings, are they related to hormones???
Post by: Rita on October 19, 2012, 09:26:08 AM
Food is the best form of self medicating  :laugh:

Eating very spicy food cleans out my body in more ways than one.