Its important to realise that not everytime we feel hungry we are actually physically hungry. The best bet is to make sure you are eating enough and regularly not long gaps of going without, make sure you are having enough fluid as thirst can often be mistaken for hunger and if you are eating enough and drinking enough then its likely its emotional hunger , emotional hunger often is more sudden than physical hunger and you just feel starving whatever you eat or drink, its now that you need to address your emotions, ask yourself "what is it that I am trying to avoid here? what is it that I may be trying to push down with food?" most of us do this some to a lesser degree and some to a more severe level but in each case it could be something like an issue at work, a row with a partner, something that has just made you sad, angry, frustrated, even happy most of us eat for emotional reasons and the key is sometimes realising that rather than putting your focus on the food think of why you want to eat all of a sudden, nine times out of ten if you look at it there will be a reason for your emotional hunger. Its just something I find very useful as I am a massive emotional eater yet since I have been facing the emotions rather than pushing them down with food I have become aware of when my body is telling me its physically hungry and when its emotionally hungry. Emotional hunger often leaves you never full or satisfied however much you put into your body. Em x