As time passes, the body's demands that it be listened to become more vehement, making it increasingly difficult for the person to continue her behaviors. Thus continuation of the eating disorder requires heightened efforts and results in the intensification of the adversarial relationship with the body. But first let's look at a couple of reasons why hunger may be silenced. Many people have learned over the years to quell, or avert hunger pangs by turning to calorie-free beverages, such as diet sodas, coffee, and tea. The liquid in the stomach temporarily tricks the gastric mechanism into a sense of fullness.
Dieters get so used to denying their hunger that it becomes easy to tune it out.
Eventually, when hunger comes knocking on their inner door and there is no response, the knocking, or rather the stomach rumbling, stops. It's very easy to suppress hunger or ignore it, when you are busy putting out the fires in your life or job. If this is a chronic pattern, hunger may slowly fade. Skipping Breakfast . Some people skip breakfast in the morning, because they say it keeps them feeling hungrier the rest of the day or because they're in a hurry.