# Insulin fueled hunger

**URL:** <https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/insulin-fueled-hunger/9616>\
**Category:** Insulin\
**Tags:** insulin\
**Created:** [April 7, 2020, 2:54am UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/insulin-fueled-hunger/9616 "2020-04-07T02:54:42Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![lh378](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.fudiabetes.org/lh378/32/601_2.png) [@lh378](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/lh378)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2020, 2:54am UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/insulin-fueled-hunger/9616/1 "2020-04-07T02:54:42Z")

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What is insulin fueled hunger? I have “heard” about it.

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**Author:** ![Chris](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.fudiabetes.org/chris/32/382_2.png) [@Chris](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Chris)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2020, 3:28am UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/insulin-fueled-hunger/9616/2 "2020-04-07T03:28:20Z")

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For my son, when insulin drives him low, he can eat the whole refrigerator. I would call that insulin fueled hunger.

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**Author:** ![Eric](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.fudiabetes.org/eric/32/9209_2.png) [@Eric](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Eric)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2020, 3:37am UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/insulin-fueled-hunger/9616/3 "2020-04-07T03:37:54Z")

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> [@lh378](#):
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> What is insulin fueled hunger?

Here is a personal example!  
[survival-mode](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/survival-mode/1609)

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**Author:** ![lh378](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.fudiabetes.org/lh378/32/601_2.png) [@lh378](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/lh378)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2020, 3:35pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/insulin-fueled-hunger/9616/4 "2020-04-07T15:35:14Z")

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Ok - I get treating the lows and understand completely!

I somehow get the impression that the-more-we-use-insulin-the-more-we-eat-and-the-more-insulin-we- use and then we become fat. \<- This is the reason that some people ‘advocate’ LCHF. The insulin fueled hunger is something separate from treating lows.

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**Author:** ![Chris](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.fudiabetes.org/chris/32/382_2.png) [@Chris](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Chris)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2020, 3:42pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/insulin-fueled-hunger/9616/5 "2020-04-07T15:42:35Z")

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> [@lh378](#):
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> the-more-we-use-insulin-the-more-we-eat-and-the-more-insulin-we- use and then we become fat.

This sounds to me more like a thought process leading to disordered eating more than a good rule of thumb. Because if I eat 2000 calories of carbs I will need more insulin than 2000 calories of meat and vegetables, but in the end I only ate 2000 calories in both cases despite the need for more insulin with the all carb case.

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**Author:** ![lh378](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.fudiabetes.org/lh378/32/601_2.png) [@lh378](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/lh378)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2020, 3:49pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/insulin-fueled-hunger/9616/6 "2020-04-07T15:49:35Z")

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I think that I recall reading about it as it relates to insulin resistance. Some folks theorized that some people may become insulin resistant as they eat more-use-more-insulin-and become fat. Maybe it’s more applicable to Type 2’s than Type1’s?

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**Author:** ![Chris](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.fudiabetes.org/chris/32/382_2.png) [@Chris](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Chris)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2020, 4:03pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/insulin-fueled-hunger/9616/7 "2020-04-07T16:03:00Z")

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It certainly could be. I have heard it before, I just perhaps didn’t understand what they were trying to say. Certainly in Type 2 people have a threshold where they can eat a certain number of carbs before they need to add insulin. And insulin resistance is a devilish problem for many type 2’s and some Type 1’s.