Weed and appetite suppression

[Foreigner]

None of my friends have ever had this problem. When I smoke or eat weed, my appetite vanishes. I could be starving before smoking and once I smoke I don't want to eat anymore. I used to think this happened from regular use but I just smoked weed for the first time in 3 months a couple of days ago and my appetite was suppressed right away.

Today I ate weed after breakfast and I have gone more than 10 hours without eating. My energy just keeps getting lower and lower, but the food inclination is not there.

The funny thing is that once I get a bite of food, I realize how good it is and eat a full meal. But I have to get to that point by force because appetite is not driving me.

I know CB1/CB2 receptors also govern hunger response, but it seems like most people get the munchies and want to eat MORE from smoking. With me its the opposite. So what creates the difference between these two groups?

 

[Black Rabbit of Inle]

I find that the higher my tolerance, the less of an appetite I'll have. When I was smoking 24/7 I wouldn't eat for days, but now that I only smoke one week a month I get hardcore munchies again.

(I voted for ROA because you didn't have a tolerance option)

 

[Tryptamino]

Idk sometimes i don't get an appetite change, and sometimes it's vastly increased. Never supresses my appetite, though, at least not as far as i remember.

 

[Foreigner]

I find that the higher my tolerance, the less of an appetite I'll have. When I was smoking 24/7 I wouldn't eat for days, but now that I only smoke one week a month I get hardcore munchies again.

(I voted for ROA because you didn't have a tolerance option)

I edited the poll to mention tolerance and removed your vote from ROA. Feel free to vote again!

I've heard it said that the medicinal aspect of weed can make the appetite factor fluctuate. For example, if you haven't been eating enough lately and you take weed, it will make you hungry; or if your digestion has been overburdened lately, it might kill your appetite.

But I dunno... the trend has remained the same for me no matter what. Also, weed has never made me more sleepy. If I smoke after 9pm I'm forced to be awake until 3am no matter what strain it is.

Could it be a metabolic issue?

 

[bit_pattern]

Depends on ROA (explain)

I used to smoke with tobacco, now I vaporize, the tobacco and the smoking tended to suppress my appetite and I'd feel nauseous when I woke up in the morning so avoided eating. Now I vaporize I find that it generally stimulates my appetite - damn, I'm hungry now.

 

[Black Rabbit of Inle]

I edited the poll to mention tolerance and removed your vote from ROA. Feel free to vote again!

I still can't vote again, you'll have to add my point to the tolerance option manually

 

[DOB]

when i smoke weed i get so horny and hungry that i just fap and eat lol

when i am hungry and smoke i become so hungry that i cant enjoy anything or focus on anything all i want is to eat some big tasty food

 

[PsychedelicHaze]

If I have a low tolerance I'll become a pig.

if I have a higher tolerance I can eat more than usual and still enjoy my food but nowhere near as enjoyable if my tolerance is low.

 

[drug_mentor]

Wouldn't it depend on strain as well as tolerance? I have certainly seen a number of strains advertised as inducing the munchies, and I have read before that cannabis strains which contains significant amounts of THCV suppress appetite.

I don't really get the munchies, haven't really on a regular basis since my mid teens I don't think. I have been a daily smoker for a fairly long time now, there have been breaks in there but during those breaks I tend to abstain from cannabis almost entirely and go back to daily use when I start smoking again. There ARE times when I am stoned as and get quite an appetite, but since I am almost always drinking when I smoke (I part take in both activities every day, stupidly) and drinking can give me an appetite, it is hard to say what is doing it.

I mix my cannabis with tobacco, as is the norm where I live, I am quite sensitive to the appetite suppressant effect that tobacco has so after I smoke my appetite tends to be immediately reduced due to the tobacco, but it does not take more than maybe 15 minutes at most before this goes back to normal.

 

[Desohigh]

I smoke weed once a month or once 2months.
When the session is over I eat every sweet thing in the house. Fuckin can't hold myself.

 

[4meSM]

Now after I smoke I normally get a little hungry at least, sometimes it gives me the munchies. I also get the appetite suppressant effect but mostly in situations involving some kind of stress while I'm stoned, it's been quite some time since the last time that happened.

 

[bluespeed]

Weed always made me extremely hungry. In fact it was one of main reasons why I wanted to cut down my usage drastically because I was overeating with junk food before going to bed, waking up with full stomach and improper sleep from stomach working. ROA was always smoking.

I used to know many people whose appetite didn't change after weed but never heard of anyone have their appetite suppressed by weed tbh!

 

[Lowend]

For me it makes me insensitive to how hungry I am or not. I could go ahead and eat till my stomach feels like it's gonna burst, or I could just not eat at all and feel fine. But if I eat one thing, I gotta eat more. I also kinda hate the way I felt from eating a shit load. It would kill the high and just make me really tired. When I don't eat, the comedown is much cleaner and I stay more motivated than less.

 

[omnipresenthuman]

When I'm trying to be healthy, I'll actually throw away any candy I have when I smoke. I know I'm going to eat at least a few pieces once I get stoned...

I get what the OP's saying though, sometimes weed can suppress my appetite as well, but this is the exception, not the rule.

And when I'm already hungry, when I smoke, I feel like I'm starving, even though it's not nearly the same thing...but when I do that, I can't last more than around an hour without eating. It starts to feel like torture.

 

[Egzoset]

Salutations Foreigner,

...it seems like most people get the munchies and want to eat MORE from smoking. With me its the opposite. So what creates the difference between these two groups?

That's not the first post i read about it so i'd suggest you try a Google search using key-words like "Carbohydrate Metabolism", Insulin, "Type 2 diabetes", "Murray Mittleman"...

 

[Foreigner]

^ That's a great idea. There might be a link between cannabis, appetite, and type 2 diabetes I hadn't considered. Maybe the cannabis is enhancing some kind of insulin imbalance.

 

[Egzoset]

Salutations Foreigner,

Considering the real threat which obesity and other eating disorders represent for children today maybe it's about time research is done which isn't just aimed at supporting the anti-cannabic war. The recent events related to Earl Blumenauer and Steven Cohen confronting Michael Botticelli during a hearing at the U.S. House Subcommittee on Government Relations shows how much change remains to be accomplished before genuinely serious talk can even begin, for example.

The way i understand it it seems there are persons who inefectively benefit from the food they ingest until they start using cannabis, that alone is reason enough to want this ridiculous war to end so true work can begin. Imagine the situation if it could be proven that a group of society will stop gaining weight once they're given molecules found in cannabis! This would repesent a small revolution as important as Viagra and Cialis, etc...

 

[Keith_Bandit]

It's not so much that it makes me hungry, it just makes me enjoy the taste of food exponentially more. If I smoke weed and then go do something to keep myself occupied, I don't really think about munching out. The only problem is, I'm usually smoking weed because I don't have anything else to keep myself occupied.

I usually just turn into this guy