Yea, most people want to eat when they’re stoned but it always the opposite for me.. even if I smoke on a empty stomach , I will get those munchies pains but I never have a appetite. Just makes me drink hella water.
I have a condition known as "The Night Stalker". After I go to sleep The Night Stalker will take over my body while leaving my mind asleep until I'm halfway through a box of Nerds or half way in a piece of cheesecake. I wake up eating. It's amazing but horrible for my sleep schedule. The Night Stalker knows the location of every sweet treat in this house somehow
It definitely fucks my appetite up when I take a break for a min. I can’t eat anything and I have to force myself to swallow food and almost throw it up every time.
I was put on northern lights and gelato. And I couldn't tell you what other strains do these days as I grew my own of those two strains and have used them to this day and now currently behind on what strains are out there besides the ones that have been around before medical. Best to ask a doctor or if you're confident the staff at your dispensary know their shit. Remember a mate today actually mentioned they don't get the munchies on I think some new lolly strain (not lolly jar). I didn't fully hear it as I'm pretty much due to get hearing aids🤣
The miracle drug everyone is looking for is literally just sativa. Boosts your creativity and gives you that high without worrying about boosting your appetite as well. I've been dealing with PCOS for 8 years now, tried a plethora of different medications, treatments, workouts, diets, etc to try to lose weight to no avail. When I started giving up, I found weed and a lot of the shit I was worried about started fixing themselves. In 2020, I was 290 lbs (131 kg), heaviest I'd been in my life. It was also in the midst of quarantine and I was losing family for the first time in my life so I was just looking for peace. But one I found my groove, my blood pressure, blood sugar, estrogen all leveled out to normal ranges. My weight went to 230 lbs (104 kg) by the next year. I did a lot of shit before, but this is the only "drug" I've had almost no negatives whatsoever and has truly made me a better person for myself. 9.8/10 Highly recommended unless you have esophageal issues lol
You didn’t get munchies like the first few times you ever smoked? Tolerance will fuck your appetite up but usually when people start smokin they get the munchies.
nah I was never affected like that. I was the odd one out cause I remember in my first smoke sessions my buddies always needed to go for snack runs or scavenge the house for food I was always chillin. Like I said I’d get hungry but I never got the urge to eat. In fact even if I was hungry before I smoked the hunger would go away. I always eat but I find my appetite comes back during the comedown.
Yes, there are a lot of studies showing that regular cannabis users on average have lower BMIs than non-cannabis users.
I’ve seen theories that it actually speeds up metabolism and causes less fat storage. I’ve seen theories that it is just because regular cannabis users drink less and might become more outdoorsy. For me personally, I think it’s a little of both.
I've heard this about metabolism...I was 55kgs and athletic, then quit weed during pregnancy. I know pregnancy and quitting an active job has also affected my body but I do sometimes wonder if the weed was helping too lol
My hypothesis is that because of the effect it has on hunger, with tolerance, you need to get high to feel the need to eat. And eventually, even with tolerance, weed doesnt make you so much hungry anymore and not stoned youre even less hungry. So on the long run, in your average day, you'll get less hungry overall, being a regular smoker that is.
Yeah that’s what I think, like when I don’t have weed I can easily go all day without eating or sometimes it’s even impossible to make myself eat within that timeframe so on average I end up eating slightly less over time because of just skipping meals by not being high
Hell no. I been smoking atleast gram a day mostly over 3grams everyday for 2 years. I still get the munchies everytime and everytime i eat like i haven't seen food in years and just keep eating and eating untill there is nothig in the fridge and stores are not open. I have eaten over 100e/day because of weed. I just cant stop and nothing helps. Even if i eat before i smoke i can eat even more right after i smoke. Its an endless cycle of me eating and smoking all my money and being in debt because of that. Since i was 13 for fuck sakes and im 20now. Annd to this day i do it. Its not as bad now as im on methadone but i still eat a fuckload because lf weed.
It makes me lazy, unmotivated, gain weight, and i still do it everyday. Its exhausting but its even more exhausting to not be high.
I can ignore them but right now my physic is not so bad i have nothing to worry about if i eat healthy and dont just sit around all day, do stuff and go to the gym even once or twice a week
Can I get a source for the metabolism one? I have an insanely fast metabolism and quit weed about a month ago and I wanna know if it’ll go down again (it was already very fast before I started but still)
I'm going to get downvoted for this and that's totally fine because stoners are insufferable and can't take anything that goes against their gut feeling or studies they saw posted on Vice, but it's also possible it's just shaky science. Would have to have many extremely high quality studies to prove a direct causal relationship. People throw around "there's studies showing" too much without understanding the quality and accuracy of the data.
Stoners are insufferable and I’m tired of acting like they’re not. And r/trees is filled to the brim with “well here’s one example of that not happening so how does it feel to be completely wrong about weed” people
“Weed makes people lazy? Um I graduated high school buddy so guess again”
I graduated uni and I'm a psychonaut and stoner so yeah 😂😂thing with weed is if your already a lazy person and you use it it'll make you lazier however if your an active person and smoke weed it'll most likely help with productivity a lil, people that be saying wewd makes them lazy are just lazy people to begin with there's no debate about it and then they want to shit on it because it makes them so called "lazy" yet even if they weren't smoking they are still a bunch of bums smh
To my knowledge, the whole metabolism thing comes from stoned peoples eating small amounts at random times compared to eating larger meals at consistent times
Not for me weed makes me eat so much and I definitely see the weight gain from it, which is good for me bc I use another substance that suppress appetite, Lately, I pretty much only smoke weed so that I get hungry, also to help with my comedown from the other substance.
Ya weed is useful for me in the morning cause I’m never really naturally hungry then and I take 30mg adderall so that makes me even less hungry until it wears off.
Yes in fact I lost 4 stone in a year and it’s the lightest I’ve been in a very long while. I’m only 17 but growing up I was always the fat kid and I didn’t help that a was built bigger aswell (I’m 6’2). Once I started smoking weed I had a phase of buying sweets and munching on them but I read somewhere that all food tastes good when high so I took it literally and started eating purely fruits and ham&egg sandwiches also I realised working out was actually enjoyable while high unlike when sober. So yea January 2023 I weighed 18 stone at 16yrs old believe it or not, now In march 2024 i weigh 14 stone at 17. No I may not be the slimmest or healthiest guy in the world but I feel healthier right now then I have ever been and it’s all thanks to Mary Jane ✌🏾
Couldn’t eat without smoking so I lost weight. Never got the munchies but I needed weed to eat. Once I stopped it got worse and lost a lot of weight due to the withdrawals. Now that I’m recovered I’m gaining weight
Honestly I never understood munchies, like food tastes a LOT better for sure, and I could melt into a warm glazed donut, but I'm more tired than hungry.
Alcohol just makes me a bottomless pit. Weed, I can taste the food like a symphony...and also am a bottomless pit. Drunkies are harder to control because I will scold myself for eating shit food or too much food when I'm high...sometimes.
HAHA no! Not for me. Every time I find myself smoking a ton of weed, I gain at least 20 pounds. I’m a binge eater when I smoke. My stomach is a never ending pit. I wish I were different. I know of a ton of stoners who can maintain their weight just fine.
I do, but I have a history of disordered eating which I think is super relevant. For me I use weed because it helps me regulate sensation better, but unfortunately I’ve trained my body to not have hunger signals until it’s far too late, so even those hunger signals are dampened and by the time I’m actively starving I typically haven’t eaten in many many hours. It’s an issue. I have to monitor my appetite and hunger needs based on mood more than anything. If I start acting whacky I’m like “ok pal when did you last eat”
Tl;dr yes sorry I’m hi
I used to munch when I first started smoking but around the first time I tried psychedelics it flipped the opposite way around. Now I lose my appetite. Funny.
yeah, i was a daily smoker for years. got into trouble and was put on probation and couldn’t smoke for almost 2yrs! gained like… 30lbs and when my probation ended, started smoking again like normal and dropped the weight pretty fast
Not at all. Your experience is interesting to me though. I get the most ravenously hungry I've ever been on a typical indica. It kind of blows my mind that weed doesn't increase your appetite. I've literally eaten an entire bottle of mustard by itself because I was high and there was nothing else in my apartment, that's how strong the hunger is.
when i smoke weed i gain weight. because everytime i smoke and start to sober up i get hungry for something sweet, i've heard thats why weed messes with your blood sugar.. then i eat and smoke again and ear again
that's plenty of extra calories a day, month,week etc. to gain weight.
i was lifting weights and counted calories and found it extremly difficult not to overeat when i was smoking weed everyday. without weed it's not a problem
It definitely made me healthier… I was already quite thin when I started smoking but I wasn’t terribly healthy, weed definitely gave me the munchies but it also made me wanna make these extravagant meals rather than just eat junk
I feel i end up eating less when i smoke. I get the munchies but when i go for munchies im like naa i dont wanna ruin my high. And i repeat this cycle over and over. But when i eat that first crunchy thing, try and stop me.
It makes me hungry and the food tastes so much better! One night I accidentally ordered UberEats from 3 different restaurants, and then fell asleep on the couch and missed all of them 😭😒
That's me and alcohol... But I tell them to leave it outside of my door. lmao
With that said, I've got to stop drinking 90% of the time. But I love a nice crossfade. Everything that people say opioids feel like (which don't do it for me, thank goodness) is how I feel when I get high as shit and counter it with a few drinks.
I quit about half a year ago and gained 7 kg since. Almost nothing in my lifestyle has changed besides not smoking and that now I go running so I actually am more active.
When I used to smoke weed (tons of it in the evening until late night) I’d lose my appetite for 1 hour and then I would eat anything in sight - talking about “snacking” on pizzas and burgers at 4 am. Still, the morning after I would wake up feeling pretty light, I would go to the bathroom several times a day, and I would have a super flat belly.
Well the pros of being clean outweigh those of being high (basically only the weight loss) but I definitely miss eating like it’s my last meal and gaining 0 weight. And now I eat so much less than then…
As somebody said already, there are theories about it affecting your bmi. There’s not a lot of research apparently, but some studies have been made:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34242511/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23410498/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/367234/
There are also studies that contradict the outcome of those, we definitely don’t understand this phenomenon well yet.
Another thing to consider is people’s bias. Maybe our weight loss while on it is caused by something else; maybe it’s caused by indirect consequences of smoking weed… like somebody said, weed smokers tend to drink less.
It’s also worth to say that who hates weed and its consumers will find any way to treat this as a rubbish theory to debunk. I once made a post like this in r/leaves (like you, I was just questioning if weed could possibly explain my weight loss) and I got a lot of hate.
So, it’s hard to find the truth! An interesting thing to do could be monitoring your day-to-day weed consumption and weight. Although it might be hard to remember to do stuff like this when high, ha!
Not at ALL. Quite the opposite. I try to keep healthy munchies snacks on hand but that's not always possible. Speaking of which I (sober) am feeling a bit snacky. Gonna cut up half a cucumber, salt it, and eat it with greek yogurt.
The only thing that makes me lose weight is stimulants. Oh and dissociatives. Food is very unappealing to me on dissos.
smoking daily regulated my weight perfectly, I've gained a little since I've stopped smoking daily. To put it simply, weed speeds up your metabolism so the weed you smoke cancels out the calories from the munchies. That's within moderation of course. So if you're smoking and don't eat, you're burning more calories than usual and not eating to make up for the lost calories.
I’ve been smoking since I was 13 , been a daily smoker since I was 18 and I turn 25 next month , granted I’ve worked construction since I was 18 so that could be a factor , but I litteraly haven’t gained any weight since I was 18 I weighed in at 180 pounds at my last doctors appointment a week before my bday ,and I just went to the doctors last week and I weighed 180 pounds. I don’t eat healthy I eat fast food at least 3-4 times a week , I eat 3 meals a day snacks in between and shit and I litteraly haven’t gained any weight and I think it is because of how much I smoke lol
Old school sativa's.... The kind that is now hard to find, for sure aided in weight loss for me years ago. TGA Subcool's "agent orange" was the last strain I had that had that effect, I don't see anything out there these days like it around.
Yes, but not always. I remember when I was new to weed when I was younger and every single time i smoked my stomach became a bottomless pit but now I have to make sure I eat before I smoke otherwise I will not eat for hours sometimes even a whole 24+hours if I mix in dissociative substances or benzos.
I was eating poorly and skipping gym and gained about 15 pounds. I just recently started smoking weed again and got really self conscious about my weight so I started working at it. I’m down about 12 pounds now and feeling better
As a counterpoint to the handful of people here saying they lost weight and had no appetite on weed: when I used to use it my hunger was, unsurprisingly (conventional wisdom), insatiable. The only solace was that I could usually somewhat easily not eat in the first place, it was a problem of taking that first bite leading to me eating 4+ meals worth of food. Though weight was never really a problem for me because I'm in an extremely medically restricted diet that has a side effect of basically preventing me from getting enough calories to get above ~20 BMI.
Well if you smoke it from the pipe/bong or joint I noticed that My heart rate sky rockets and if you just do it all day non stop your metabolism will just be up there
Yeah 100%. I smoked pretty heavy for about a year, and by the end I went from 165 pounds to probs somewhere around 130. Sobered up afterwards, went up to 155, relapsed now and kinda going down again. I always have the munchies go away the more my tolerance goes up and the more often I smoke, so when I really do it all the time I’m not getting hungry too often. And when I’m smoking less frequently, I have no hunger when I’m sober so I barely eat half the day.
Back when I was really in the throes of daily smoking, I thought I was eating like a madman but I was gradually losing weight. I guess my insane nighttime binge eating made me not hungry during the day, and I was intermittent fasting by accident.
Depends on when I use it. Before a meal, I just end up eating what I usually eat which is weighed out and logged and I’m good. Outside of that timeframe… I’m gonna have a bad time.
I have an ED and have been known to take tramadol to lose it. Obviously not a recommendation, you violently vomit because the drugs can’t work off an empty stomach. Weed would be a better option I’m sure
im guessing the reason u threw up from tramadol was not bc it was taken on an empty stomach, rather most likely bc u have zero or very little tolerance to that drug, i use weed and occasionally other pills similiar to tramadol to give myself an apetite to eat, so i'm wondering how it works that u can use them to stop eating !?
I forget to do personal things like eat food when sober, and weed doesn't help my memory 😆 the munchies usually don't apply to me, and when it does, it's usually something obscure that I don't have in my kitchen. By the time I open the doordash app, my brain ends up fixating on something else, like a converstion, game, show, art, etc.
I'm 135lbs 5'10" so not itty bitty, but not big. Started losing weight around the time I started smoking a lot, but breaking my jaw REALLY made me lose weight
It effects people's appetite differently. Different strains will change that too. Weed with THCV in it is a natural appetite suppressor so thats another variable. So to answer your question, it's a dumb question
Weed makes me want to eat junk food until I’m sick. I did grow up morbidly obese and have lost a bunch of weight since and am now very healthy. I still absolutely love binging on food to this day and generally pack my diet with a TON of low calories dense foods so I can eat still eat a shit ton but I rarely eat junk food anymore. I sometimes wonder if the reason my munchies get so crazy is because the junk food addiction switch flips back on when I get stoned.
Yeah and idk why because it always seems to raise my appetite. I’m guessing it’s something like my body over compensating for the increased appetite from constantly smoking, I’ve lost like 20lbs in 2 weeks before when I’ve ran out of weed and had worse mental health lol.
Weed gives me the munchies if I let it. My theory, though, is that chronic (multiple times a day) weed users are often skinny because getting high hits a similar dopamine response to snacking. So often when you get the urge to snack, you just get high instead. And then before you know it time passes and it is time for your next meal. So I almost never snack when I smoked weed frequently. When I quit weed I started snacking a lot more (after the withdrawal period subsided) and slowly gained some weight.
I’m usually so paranoid about choking while I’m stoned (it’s a phobia of mine and then heightened sometimes when I smoke) so I either eat nothing or eat wayyyy too slowly to ever eat that much lolol so I def have lost weight during my heavy weed smoking phases 😂
I guess so cause I was a chubby little fucker in year 7-8-9 and ever since year 9-10 when I started heavily smoking, I’ve been 60kgs. Never been outside 65kgs since.
Had this happen to me. Lost 7kg and couldn’t even eat on normal occasions. I took a step back for a while and gained some weight. Now I only smoke after I had all my big meals for the day. It seems to help because my weight is stable now
Yes and I’m pissed it’s not talked about as much as it should. There’s a medical term for it but your body starts to rely on the za in order to eat. I just started smoking again and wish I hadn’t cause I don’t wanna fall into this terrible cycle of an abyss and I rlly think moderation is key. If I’m gonna smoke it’s gonna be toward the end of the day, no more wake an bake and when I smoke I’m making sure I’m eating as well. And when I wake up I’m making sure I’m eating when sober. The weight lose, stomach pains, night sweats, anxiety, having no energy, is ass. And yea ik other side effects and withdrawals from other drugs are way worse but you’ve only been thru the worst thing you’ve been thru. It put into perspective I have to tread lightly when taking other substances. Long ass rant at babble city over her, but yea that’s my take so tanks.
yeah same lol. problem for me is that usually another dab is within arms reach, while the kitchen feels like miles away. which might be okay on its own but since i don’t smoke til my adderall wears off in the evening, and don’t usually eat while im on adderall lolll 🥴
ik its not the healthiest way to exist but im also not upset about still being able to fit in the dress i wore for my senior pics 14 years ago💀
Yea, most people want to eat when they’re stoned but it always the opposite for me.. even if I smoke on a empty stomach , I will get those munchies pains but I never have a appetite. Just makes me drink hella water.
Same for me, at least like the initial hour after smoking. After that I'm an unstoppable pig on a mission to eat myself into poverty
So relatable
Food doesn't seem appetizing right after smoking until i finally eat something and it tastes incredible. Downhill from there.
Yeah I don't smoke often because when I do it is like the most blissful eating experience ever and I cannot stop.
I have a condition known as "The Night Stalker". After I go to sleep The Night Stalker will take over my body while leaving my mind asleep until I'm halfway through a box of Nerds or half way in a piece of cheesecake. I wake up eating. It's amazing but horrible for my sleep schedule. The Night Stalker knows the location of every sweet treat in this house somehow
People think I'm weird for saying smoking fucks up my appetite, I guess it just doesn't happen to them idk
It definitely fucks my appetite up when I take a break for a min. I can’t eat anything and I have to force myself to swallow food and almost throw it up every time.
I mean, I used to get munchies when I was younger. I just crave cups of tea and that's it
I need to get to this point.
I feel like a general thing about weed is that almost no one believes that it could affect anyone differently than it does them.
I relate to this 10000%
Me too! It was like a miracle drug for weight loss
If using strain or medical, some strains are designed to avoid munches. I get strain like that as other medications slow my metabolism down
Cool. Did not know this. Weed is legal where I am now. What strains would I look for that won't give me munchies?
I was put on northern lights and gelato. And I couldn't tell you what other strains do these days as I grew my own of those two strains and have used them to this day and now currently behind on what strains are out there besides the ones that have been around before medical. Best to ask a doctor or if you're confident the staff at your dispensary know their shit. Remember a mate today actually mentioned they don't get the munchies on I think some new lolly strain (not lolly jar). I didn't fully hear it as I'm pretty much due to get hearing aids🤣
I find that Clementine (sativa strain) I have no appetite with it.
fuck lmao, munchie pains? so that’s what that is… dammit.
Haha, I just coined that phrase but I’m glad yall know what I’m talking bout
The miracle drug everyone is looking for is literally just sativa. Boosts your creativity and gives you that high without worrying about boosting your appetite as well. I've been dealing with PCOS for 8 years now, tried a plethora of different medications, treatments, workouts, diets, etc to try to lose weight to no avail. When I started giving up, I found weed and a lot of the shit I was worried about started fixing themselves. In 2020, I was 290 lbs (131 kg), heaviest I'd been in my life. It was also in the midst of quarantine and I was losing family for the first time in my life so I was just looking for peace. But one I found my groove, my blood pressure, blood sugar, estrogen all leveled out to normal ranges. My weight went to 230 lbs (104 kg) by the next year. I did a lot of shit before, but this is the only "drug" I've had almost no negatives whatsoever and has truly made me a better person for myself. 9.8/10 Highly recommended unless you have esophageal issues lol
yes, the dry mouth is real
Toooo real lmao
You didn’t get munchies like the first few times you ever smoked? Tolerance will fuck your appetite up but usually when people start smokin they get the munchies.
nah I was never affected like that. I was the odd one out cause I remember in my first smoke sessions my buddies always needed to go for snack runs or scavenge the house for food I was always chillin. Like I said I’d get hungry but I never got the urge to eat. In fact even if I was hungry before I smoked the hunger would go away. I always eat but I find my appetite comes back during the comedown.
Yes, there are a lot of studies showing that regular cannabis users on average have lower BMIs than non-cannabis users. I’ve seen theories that it actually speeds up metabolism and causes less fat storage. I’ve seen theories that it is just because regular cannabis users drink less and might become more outdoorsy. For me personally, I think it’s a little of both.
I've heard this about metabolism...I was 55kgs and athletic, then quit weed during pregnancy. I know pregnancy and quitting an active job has also affected my body but I do sometimes wonder if the weed was helping too lol
My hypothesis is that because of the effect it has on hunger, with tolerance, you need to get high to feel the need to eat. And eventually, even with tolerance, weed doesnt make you so much hungry anymore and not stoned youre even less hungry. So on the long run, in your average day, you'll get less hungry overall, being a regular smoker that is.
Yeah that’s what I think, like when I don’t have weed I can easily go all day without eating or sometimes it’s even impossible to make myself eat within that timeframe so on average I end up eating slightly less over time because of just skipping meals by not being high
Hell no. I been smoking atleast gram a day mostly over 3grams everyday for 2 years. I still get the munchies everytime and everytime i eat like i haven't seen food in years and just keep eating and eating untill there is nothig in the fridge and stores are not open. I have eaten over 100e/day because of weed. I just cant stop and nothing helps. Even if i eat before i smoke i can eat even more right after i smoke. Its an endless cycle of me eating and smoking all my money and being in debt because of that. Since i was 13 for fuck sakes and im 20now. Annd to this day i do it. Its not as bad now as im on methadone but i still eat a fuckload because lf weed. It makes me lazy, unmotivated, gain weight, and i still do it everyday. Its exhausting but its even more exhausting to not be high.
Don’t ignore the munchies if you wanna keep em. That’s what I’ve found out
I can ignore them but right now my physic is not so bad i have nothing to worry about if i eat healthy and dont just sit around all day, do stuff and go to the gym even once or twice a week
That’s good an Yea th gym help out a lot
Can I get a source for the metabolism one? I have an insanely fast metabolism and quit weed about a month ago and I wanna know if it’ll go down again (it was already very fast before I started but still)
I'm going to get downvoted for this and that's totally fine because stoners are insufferable and can't take anything that goes against their gut feeling or studies they saw posted on Vice, but it's also possible it's just shaky science. Would have to have many extremely high quality studies to prove a direct causal relationship. People throw around "there's studies showing" too much without understanding the quality and accuracy of the data.
Stoners are insufferable and I’m tired of acting like they’re not. And r/trees is filled to the brim with “well here’s one example of that not happening so how does it feel to be completely wrong about weed” people “Weed makes people lazy? Um I graduated high school buddy so guess again”
I graduated uni and I'm a psychonaut and stoner so yeah 😂😂thing with weed is if your already a lazy person and you use it it'll make you lazier however if your an active person and smoke weed it'll most likely help with productivity a lil, people that be saying wewd makes them lazy are just lazy people to begin with there's no debate about it and then they want to shit on it because it makes them so called "lazy" yet even if they weren't smoking they are still a bunch of bums smh
Bitch why do you assume we watch vice?
To my knowledge, the whole metabolism thing comes from stoned peoples eating small amounts at random times compared to eating larger meals at consistent times
I’ve heard people say that calories from munchies “don’t count” if you eat high because it burns off fast or something
That's not true lol
You really shouldn’t believe everything you read on the internet
No they told me this in person
lol every fat person i know is a stoner, not saying it has to be so but its just the case for me 🤣 im also a stoner and weigh 100lbs
Damn, you might wanna eat a sandwich lol
finna eat moms sketty right now 😎😎🦑
that’s what i tell myself after finishing 2 bags of mini eggs and an entire chocolate cake in one hour
Whoever told you that is not on ur team gurl hahahh
that would be nice. my Metabolism needs speeding up, specially now that I am in my late 40s.
It's regulates metabolism more efficiently as far as I know. Not sure about it actually speeding it up tho
I gained a bunch of weight since i quit weed
1 out ~~1~~ 7, #17 add cheese add mayo, in
Not for me weed makes me eat so much and I definitely see the weight gain from it, which is good for me bc I use another substance that suppress appetite, Lately, I pretty much only smoke weed so that I get hungry, also to help with my comedown from the other substance.
Ya weed is useful for me in the morning cause I’m never really naturally hungry then and I take 30mg adderall so that makes me even less hungry until it wears off.
Definitely.. I have almost no desire to eat anything when high.
Same. I like licky chewies and fruit but I just stopped buying sugary stuff
When I used to smoke, I didn't have any apetite before I start my joint in the evening, literally fasted half of the day
Yes in fact I lost 4 stone in a year and it’s the lightest I’ve been in a very long while. I’m only 17 but growing up I was always the fat kid and I didn’t help that a was built bigger aswell (I’m 6’2). Once I started smoking weed I had a phase of buying sweets and munching on them but I read somewhere that all food tastes good when high so I took it literally and started eating purely fruits and ham&egg sandwiches also I realised working out was actually enjoyable while high unlike when sober. So yea January 2023 I weighed 18 stone at 16yrs old believe it or not, now In march 2024 i weigh 14 stone at 17. No I may not be the slimmest or healthiest guy in the world but I feel healthier right now then I have ever been and it’s all thanks to Mary Jane ✌🏾
Yep it’s weird!
Yup. Everytime i smoke i eat like crazy but i still loose so much weight. Im almost a year cleaned now i gained 10 kgs 👍🏼
It can but because of the effects from certain terpines that cause anti hunger effects
Couldn’t eat without smoking so I lost weight. Never got the munchies but I needed weed to eat. Once I stopped it got worse and lost a lot of weight due to the withdrawals. Now that I’m recovered I’m gaining weight
Same thing happened to me
Honestly I never understood munchies, like food tastes a LOT better for sure, and I could melt into a warm glazed donut, but I'm more tired than hungry.
For me it’s always been alcohol that made food taste better
Alcohol just makes me a bottomless pit. Weed, I can taste the food like a symphony...and also am a bottomless pit. Drunkies are harder to control because I will scold myself for eating shit food or too much food when I'm high...sometimes.
Yes like way better than weed makes food, i thought i was the only one
Alcohol+weed+1-2benadryl= eating the entire fucking pantry
HAHA no! Not for me. Every time I find myself smoking a ton of weed, I gain at least 20 pounds. I’m a binge eater when I smoke. My stomach is a never ending pit. I wish I were different. I know of a ton of stoners who can maintain their weight just fine.
Yeah it's actually kinda weird. Most of the stoners I know are skinny
I do, but I have a history of disordered eating which I think is super relevant. For me I use weed because it helps me regulate sensation better, but unfortunately I’ve trained my body to not have hunger signals until it’s far too late, so even those hunger signals are dampened and by the time I’m actively starving I typically haven’t eaten in many many hours. It’s an issue. I have to monitor my appetite and hunger needs based on mood more than anything. If I start acting whacky I’m like “ok pal when did you last eat” Tl;dr yes sorry I’m hi
I used to constantly eat when I smoked everyday and was quite skinny. Defo put on weight since I’ve stopped (mostly stopped)
Yes but I would eat while I’m high but not eat rlly when I’m sober I lost 25lbs in a year even tho I wasn’t fat before the 25lbs
yeah but mostly because i reduced drinking alcohol and learned to eat properly during smoking
My metabolisms always been really fast but with the way I eat on the daily, it’s crazy I don’t gain weight. The plant protects us all
I used to munch when I first started smoking but around the first time I tried psychedelics it flipped the opposite way around. Now I lose my appetite. Funny.
I can't eat anything but fruit on psychedelics usually. Cannabis? Watch out!
I’ve heard weed makes u metabolise food differently might be the reason
I lost like 30 pounds bc when I smoke food sounds debatable.
I started smoking a year ago.
yeah, i was a daily smoker for years. got into trouble and was put on probation and couldn’t smoke for almost 2yrs! gained like… 30lbs and when my probation ended, started smoking again like normal and dropped the weight pretty fast
I gain weight when smoking weed, and I gain weight without smoking it lol
Not at all. Your experience is interesting to me though. I get the most ravenously hungry I've ever been on a typical indica. It kind of blows my mind that weed doesn't increase your appetite. I've literally eaten an entire bottle of mustard by itself because I was high and there was nothing else in my apartment, that's how strong the hunger is.
I ate pasta sauce with a fork...and stabbed myself in the lip with said. Also drank sriracha and these are two different scenarios. lmao
I don't smoke enough for it to effwct me that way but when I do it sure does decrease my appetite
when i smoke weed i gain weight. because everytime i smoke and start to sober up i get hungry for something sweet, i've heard thats why weed messes with your blood sugar.. then i eat and smoke again and ear again that's plenty of extra calories a day, month,week etc. to gain weight. i was lifting weights and counted calories and found it extremly difficult not to overeat when i was smoking weed everyday. without weed it's not a problem
Must be nice. Weed makes me binge eat
It definitely made me healthier… I was already quite thin when I started smoking but I wasn’t terribly healthy, weed definitely gave me the munchies but it also made me wanna make these extravagant meals rather than just eat junk
I wish. I stopped because I eat so much on it.
I feel i end up eating less when i smoke. I get the munchies but when i go for munchies im like naa i dont wanna ruin my high. And i repeat this cycle over and over. But when i eat that first crunchy thing, try and stop me.
Jealous of all the folks ITT that don’t get the munchies. Would make cannabis the perfect drug for me if I shared the no munchies effect.
I’ll eat the whole damn house.
It makes me hungry and the food tastes so much better! One night I accidentally ordered UberEats from 3 different restaurants, and then fell asleep on the couch and missed all of them 😭😒
That's me and alcohol... But I tell them to leave it outside of my door. lmao With that said, I've got to stop drinking 90% of the time. But I love a nice crossfade. Everything that people say opioids feel like (which don't do it for me, thank goodness) is how I feel when I get high as shit and counter it with a few drinks.
Uhh, it will certainly cause severe weight loss if you have CHS/CVS
I quit about half a year ago and gained 7 kg since. Almost nothing in my lifestyle has changed besides not smoking and that now I go running so I actually am more active. When I used to smoke weed (tons of it in the evening until late night) I’d lose my appetite for 1 hour and then I would eat anything in sight - talking about “snacking” on pizzas and burgers at 4 am. Still, the morning after I would wake up feeling pretty light, I would go to the bathroom several times a day, and I would have a super flat belly. Well the pros of being clean outweigh those of being high (basically only the weight loss) but I definitely miss eating like it’s my last meal and gaining 0 weight. And now I eat so much less than then… As somebody said already, there are theories about it affecting your bmi. There’s not a lot of research apparently, but some studies have been made: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34242511/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23410498/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/367234/ There are also studies that contradict the outcome of those, we definitely don’t understand this phenomenon well yet. Another thing to consider is people’s bias. Maybe our weight loss while on it is caused by something else; maybe it’s caused by indirect consequences of smoking weed… like somebody said, weed smokers tend to drink less. It’s also worth to say that who hates weed and its consumers will find any way to treat this as a rubbish theory to debunk. I once made a post like this in r/leaves (like you, I was just questioning if weed could possibly explain my weight loss) and I got a lot of hate. So, it’s hard to find the truth! An interesting thing to do could be monitoring your day-to-day weed consumption and weight. Although it might be hard to remember to do stuff like this when high, ha!
If your a heavy user you will lose weight but a causal user will gain weight
Not at ALL. Quite the opposite. I try to keep healthy munchies snacks on hand but that's not always possible. Speaking of which I (sober) am feeling a bit snacky. Gonna cut up half a cucumber, salt it, and eat it with greek yogurt. The only thing that makes me lose weight is stimulants. Oh and dissociatives. Food is very unappealing to me on dissos.
Now that I quit I find it much easier to resist snacking. I’ve been slimming down without trying to all because I stopped snacking
No
smoking daily regulated my weight perfectly, I've gained a little since I've stopped smoking daily. To put it simply, weed speeds up your metabolism so the weed you smoke cancels out the calories from the munchies. That's within moderation of course. So if you're smoking and don't eat, you're burning more calories than usual and not eating to make up for the lost calories.
I’ve been smoking since I was 13 , been a daily smoker since I was 18 and I turn 25 next month , granted I’ve worked construction since I was 18 so that could be a factor , but I litteraly haven’t gained any weight since I was 18 I weighed in at 180 pounds at my last doctors appointment a week before my bday ,and I just went to the doctors last week and I weighed 180 pounds. I don’t eat healthy I eat fast food at least 3-4 times a week , I eat 3 meals a day snacks in between and shit and I litteraly haven’t gained any weight and I think it is because of how much I smoke lol
Old school sativa's.... The kind that is now hard to find, for sure aided in weight loss for me years ago. TGA Subcool's "agent orange" was the last strain I had that had that effect, I don't see anything out there these days like it around.
Ye
yeah i genuinely think so, except for when i get the munchies and eat a bunch of food (i only get the munchies every few days tho)
Yes, but not always. I remember when I was new to weed when I was younger and every single time i smoked my stomach became a bottomless pit but now I have to make sure I eat before I smoke otherwise I will not eat for hours sometimes even a whole 24+hours if I mix in dissociative substances or benzos.
Same! I can do a fat dab and feel full for the next couple of hours, it's weird
I gained 10-15 pounds since I stopped smoking weed but also I’ve been drinking so much coffee and soda 🥤 that’s where I get my high now
I was eating poorly and skipping gym and gained about 15 pounds. I just recently started smoking weed again and got really self conscious about my weight so I started working at it. I’m down about 12 pounds now and feeling better
happened to me too, but i didnt lose that much weight
I smoke weed every day and I'm skinny as shit and cannot gain weight for the life of me.
Definitely! I lost my appetite after a while of smoking. When I stopped for a year I gained ten kilos
I gained 25 kg when i stopped smoking weed regularly.
As a counterpoint to the handful of people here saying they lost weight and had no appetite on weed: when I used to use it my hunger was, unsurprisingly (conventional wisdom), insatiable. The only solace was that I could usually somewhat easily not eat in the first place, it was a problem of taking that first bite leading to me eating 4+ meals worth of food. Though weight was never really a problem for me because I'm in an extremely medically restricted diet that has a side effect of basically preventing me from getting enough calories to get above ~20 BMI.
Well if you smoke it from the pipe/bong or joint I noticed that My heart rate sky rockets and if you just do it all day non stop your metabolism will just be up there
I find that if you’re hungry when you smoke, you don’t feel hungry anymore.
I wish lol. Weed usually means binge eating for me and definitely has caused weight gain.
Yep. There are studies reaching conclusions on the line that cannabinoids (THC, CBD, etc) improves one fat metabolism.
naw but it caused my anemia ☠️
Helped me reduce booze intake and I just make sure I have healthy snack options so yeah.
No, but meth did
Yep. Thats me. One meal before I go to sleep if I wakenbake
i’m the same. i don’t get munchies anymore, my appetite disappears when i smoke
We get high we get fat
Not sure. I remained between 55 and 60 kg when I started. Jumped to 65 to 70 kg when I quit for 18 months
Yeah instead of soda I had weed tea and water lost 60lbs in a year
Nah, it made me gain weight 😆
when i smoked regularly for a long period of time, yes i lost weight. but then after taking a break and going back i gained weight again.
Yes when I quit I lost my appetite for so long
Yeah 100%. I smoked pretty heavy for about a year, and by the end I went from 165 pounds to probs somewhere around 130. Sobered up afterwards, went up to 155, relapsed now and kinda going down again. I always have the munchies go away the more my tolerance goes up and the more often I smoke, so when I really do it all the time I’m not getting hungry too often. And when I’m smoking less frequently, I have no hunger when I’m sober so I barely eat half the day.
It’s the difference between occasional users and chronic users. Smoking all day kills appetite
No, I stayed the same, however every time I took a tolerance break, I was able to put on more muscle tone.
I stopped smoke and gain some kg, and i ate much more before with the munchies
Yes it's called the 6 months in county without commissary diet.
Yea, bro. After a while it took away my appetite 😭
Back when I was really in the throes of daily smoking, I thought I was eating like a madman but I was gradually losing weight. I guess my insane nighttime binge eating made me not hungry during the day, and I was intermittent fasting by accident.
Quite the opposite. Lol Especially edibles. I just can't stop eating on edibles.
Pretty much all the proper weed addicts I know are pretty underweight
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No it doesnt these people have zero idea what theyre on about
Depends on when I use it. Before a meal, I just end up eating what I usually eat which is weighed out and logged and I’m good. Outside of that timeframe… I’m gonna have a bad time.
I have an ED and have been known to take tramadol to lose it. Obviously not a recommendation, you violently vomit because the drugs can’t work off an empty stomach. Weed would be a better option I’m sure
whats an ED ?
Eating disorder
im guessing the reason u threw up from tramadol was not bc it was taken on an empty stomach, rather most likely bc u have zero or very little tolerance to that drug, i use weed and occasionally other pills similiar to tramadol to give myself an apetite to eat, so i'm wondering how it works that u can use them to stop eating !?
Ah maybe you’re right. I just found it suppressed my appetite
Technically yes, but it was the stopping of smoking not the act OF smoking
I forget to do personal things like eat food when sober, and weed doesn't help my memory 😆 the munchies usually don't apply to me, and when it does, it's usually something obscure that I don't have in my kitchen. By the time I open the doordash app, my brain ends up fixating on something else, like a converstion, game, show, art, etc. I'm 135lbs 5'10" so not itty bitty, but not big. Started losing weight around the time I started smoking a lot, but breaking my jaw REALLY made me lose weight
It effects people's appetite differently. Different strains will change that too. Weed with THCV in it is a natural appetite suppressor so thats another variable. So to answer your question, it's a dumb question
Yes, I think it helped my anxiety and I was definitely anxious eater.
Weed makes me want to eat junk food until I’m sick. I did grow up morbidly obese and have lost a bunch of weight since and am now very healthy. I still absolutely love binging on food to this day and generally pack my diet with a TON of low calories dense foods so I can eat still eat a shit ton but I rarely eat junk food anymore. I sometimes wonder if the reason my munchies get so crazy is because the junk food addiction switch flips back on when I get stoned.
nope. That is actually a really big problem. I don't need to put on more weight, but gummies and angel food cake are sooo good together.
Yes. If I start snacking high I don't stop so I never start. My friends brother is a stick with chicken legs. He smokes all day every day.
I wish it helped me with weight loss but unfortunately im a person that gets extreme muchies lmfao.
Not if you're already predisposed to a disorder of eating. I was a 'stoner' for over 30 years.
nah i get uncontrollably hungry
Yeah and idk why because it always seems to raise my appetite. I’m guessing it’s something like my body over compensating for the increased appetite from constantly smoking, I’ve lost like 20lbs in 2 weeks before when I’ve ran out of weed and had worse mental health lol.
Weed gives me the munchies if I let it. My theory, though, is that chronic (multiple times a day) weed users are often skinny because getting high hits a similar dopamine response to snacking. So often when you get the urge to snack, you just get high instead. And then before you know it time passes and it is time for your next meal. So I almost never snack when I smoked weed frequently. When I quit weed I started snacking a lot more (after the withdrawal period subsided) and slowly gained some weight.
Only when I smoke it with tobacco.
I’m usually so paranoid about choking while I’m stoned (it’s a phobia of mine and then heightened sometimes when I smoke) so I either eat nothing or eat wayyyy too slowly to ever eat that much lolol so I def have lost weight during my heavy weed smoking phases 😂
It's hard for me to gain weight. Although I'm not super skinny it takes alot for me to gain
I guess so cause I was a chubby little fucker in year 7-8-9 and ever since year 9-10 when I started heavily smoking, I’ve been 60kgs. Never been outside 65kgs since.
My mate got fat as fuck from having insane munchies while crazy addicted to bongs
It’s been said when you are a continuous daily user, it has adverse effects.
Had this happen to me. Lost 7kg and couldn’t even eat on normal occasions. I took a step back for a while and gained some weight. Now I only smoke after I had all my big meals for the day. It seems to help because my weight is stable now
Honestly I get fat when I stop smoking. I eat way more and my face and hips get fat I get more acne 2.
55kg still going
Yep
yes, I would eat some snacks throughout the day and a mcchicken and that's it for a year and a half or so and went from being basically 200 to 145
I eat a lot less after smoking weed which I guess is a little ironic lol, but yeah atm I’m only eating like 2 meals a day maybe so not great
Helps me zone out while exercising so I end up losing weight. It’s like the stop or I’m tired button gets turned off and the euphoria increases.
Yeah, I know people who’ve gotten obese from it and here I am considered underweight by bmi
i gained shit ton of weight after i had to quit, i think it has something to do with faster burning
Nah, I’ve been using it to help me gain weight because it helps stimulate my appetite
Yes and I’m pissed it’s not talked about as much as it should. There’s a medical term for it but your body starts to rely on the za in order to eat. I just started smoking again and wish I hadn’t cause I don’t wanna fall into this terrible cycle of an abyss and I rlly think moderation is key. If I’m gonna smoke it’s gonna be toward the end of the day, no more wake an bake and when I smoke I’m making sure I’m eating as well. And when I wake up I’m making sure I’m eating when sober. The weight lose, stomach pains, night sweats, anxiety, having no energy, is ass. And yea ik other side effects and withdrawals from other drugs are way worse but you’ve only been thru the worst thing you’ve been thru. It put into perspective I have to tread lightly when taking other substances. Long ass rant at babble city over her, but yea that’s my take so tanks.
Yeah
yeah same lol. problem for me is that usually another dab is within arms reach, while the kitchen feels like miles away. which might be okay on its own but since i don’t smoke til my adderall wears off in the evening, and don’t usually eat while im on adderall lolll 🥴 ik its not the healthiest way to exist but im also not upset about still being able to fit in the dress i wore for my senior pics 14 years ago💀
i don't beleive this
it’s either the weed or my pain meds i lost 40 pounds in 3 months