Why am I always hungry?

For a while now I've notced that whenever I eat anything, a short period of time later, I'm starving. I don't really eat that much in the first place (I have an eating disorder), but whenever I'm forced to eat a lot, an hour later I'll be starving. For example, I went out to dinner with my family yesterday night and by the time I was finished eating I was way too full, but an hour later I was starving again. I don't know why this always happens. I'm getting used to always being hungry now but I'd like to know why I'm always starving, even after eat!
Does anyone know? Please help~

Dunno all your medical ins and outs (not that that'd help not being a dietician heh) but I learn quickly. But there's nutritional reasons that explain feeling hungry from insufficient fibre, to deficits of leptin (neural chemical discovered in 1994 that makes you feel full,) to a tapeworm's gobbling up all your intaken food (heh,) to some other condition of too litte/too much of something.

For my usual answer, eating's also an activity that's akin to shopping. It's making a choice and thus exercising control over our lives. People who feel like they're not in control may shop, or eat, or do other things to exercise control over something in their lives consciously or not.

Would consult an actual dietician. They'll be able to test you, find out if it's biological and such and ifso or not, take things from there. Too much literature online to pour over you're more likely to get a misdiagnosis and only come to realize you have Medical Student's Disease.

Thank you For your response, I was just curious.

Do you have any other symptoms?

Like what?

If this related to the eating disorder, and I'm not saying it is, then you might not actually be eating enough during meals although you believe you are or maybe you throw it up later instead of letting it properly digest, so you get hungry again. I don't know if bulimia can cause digestion problems causing you to not properly extract nutrients from what you're eating, but maybe that could explain it.

I'm not bulimic, I don't purge. I'm anorexic, so I'm not sure if that would have anything to do with it? Besides the fact that I don't eat. But even when I do eat a lot (using my example from my origipnal post), Iwhen I'm (sadly, ever)full I'll be hungry an hour later.

One thing to consider if you are anorexic, is that on the occasions when eat large amounts, you could actually be waking up your metabolism, and your hunger signals will kick back in.

Oh ok, I wasn't aware of that. Thank you for helping!

I don't have an eating disorder myself, but I do have a long history of dieting, and the diets I have been on which allow virtually no solid food, have actually stopped my hunger signals. As I have increased the amount I eat, the hunger signals return.