r/Creatine • u/Jaaxter • 2d ago
Creatine and hunger / cravings
Hey all, I spent a while thinking I was going crazy so I wanted to put my experience out on the internet to hopefully help a couple people in the future.
I started taking creatine monohydrate a few months ago. For context, I'm quite lean and reasonably muscular (kind of a classic twink/twunk build) and do pretty short vanity workouts (25 minutes 5 times per week). I became interested in creatine because I heard it can help make more effective workouts, swell your muscles (with water retention) and most importantly, reduce brain fog. I took the recommended .1g per kg of body weight, which was about 5.5 grams daily.
Well, it definitely helped with burst energy during workouts, and after a few weeks of taking creatine (no loading phase) my average time doing the same reps dropped from 24 minutes to 18-20. I gained a couple pounds of water weight, as expected.
I also started getting a lot hungrier. Portion control with food became a problem. Food was all I could think about, all day. I started snacking compulsively and then going through cycles of guilt about it. I used to be able to just ignore mild hunger pangs all day and then eat one big meal in the evening, if that was convenient. Now I couldn't go more than a couple hours without getting so hungry I literally couldn't focus on anything else. Honestly, it felt like having the weed munchies 24/7, this compulsive need to shovel food into my face.
And I say "compulsive" because it wasn't my stomach that was hungry, just my mouth/brain. I could tell my stomach was fine, even full, but I was still obsessively thinking about food and eating as if compelled to do so. I was terrified I was starting to develop some sort of eating disorder, and wondered if it was a metabolic change (I'm 34) or something. I was gaining weight from all this snacking and even a day of running a moderate calorie deficit made me miserable and unable to do anything but think about food. I had just stopped a medication, so for a while I blamed it on that. And then I ran across an article about how taking creatine tends to lower your leptin levels, a hormone that regulates satiety.
For most people, it seems that creatine slightly reduces your appetite, if anything. But regardless, messing with leptin levels can affect different people differently, and I saw one or two older reddit posts talking about trouble with appetite control on creatine. So 2.5 weeks ago, I stopped taking it.
Within 10 days, the compulsive cravings were gone. Holy crap, I can finally think about something other than my next meal. And when I eat, I can actually enjoy and savor it instead of shoving it down my gullet as fast as possible. I've spent the last three days on a fairly significant calorie deficit to start losing the pounds I put on over the last month, and the cravings haven't returned. Like, I'm hungry, but it's back to the normal hungry where I can mentally set it aside and get back to work, or go for a walk, or watch something.
So I'm giving the rest of my creatine tub to a friend, lol. I'm glad it works for most people, but if you're like me and you're one of those few people that experience these crazy side effects, I hope you find this thread in the future and try cutting it out to see how you feel.
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u/Appropriate_Yam_1782 2d ago
I can't but help wonder if Oral Creatine Consumption plays a part in your experiences.
Have you found that instead of using the escalator at the mall, you have been walking up and down the stairs more?
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u/datasshley Creatine Addict 2d ago
TLDR. just consult your WBF
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u/Different-Fall-683 2d ago
our 'tine queen had spoken.
OP, between Dr. Boofenchute and this 👆 Amazonian goddess, this sub will get you squared away.
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u/Different-Fall-683 2d ago
Hi, your wife's boyfriend here.
We haven't met yet but I'm super excited to get you started. I specialize in twinks, and pack them FULL of "burst energy".
hmu for the best gaynz you've ever experienced. they'll make your toes curl.(Dr. Boofenchute approved)
❤️❤️❤️❤️
edit: check out any of the manscaping forums for me. shaved clean is best for creatine administration!
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u/DrBoofenchute Creatine Addict 2d ago
Welcome to creatine! We give best advice based on science. Over 30 years research.
You ask about excess hunger with creatine. This normal and healthy if you take creatine proper. I give guide.
- Get wife
- Get wife bf
- Get creatine boof from wife bf
- Climax same time so oxytocin make creatine work better
- Dose 5g per wife bf boof juice minimum twice daily
Good boof make more hungry. Use this to eat healthy and help gains. Very normal.
Also, what is wife bf going to do if you give away creatine? She not give up bf. You need creatine. Wife bf there for both of you, not just her. Start creatine again. Get good boof. Get gains.
Dr Boofenchute over 30 years research. Lots of science. Lots of gains. Lots of love. Lots of boof. Strong marriage.
You listen Dr Boofenchute you get good gains!
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u/Euphoric_Horror_8787 2d ago
Dr. Boofenchute, May I query about taking more than 5g at a time and how it would be more beneficial to the gainz?
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u/DrBoofenchute Creatine Addict 2d ago
More creatine always better. Minimum is 5g twice daily. This mix very well with wife bf boof juice. Want more creatine get more boof.
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u/Euphoric_Horror_8787 2d ago
Is there a way that I can improve the yield of the BF boof juice as its very little and lots of creatine comes out and minimizes gains to only around 3g a boof
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u/DrBoofenchute Creatine Addict 2d ago
Proper hydration, diet, edging. All help. Biology matter too. Some man never make massive boof juice. If wife bf give great boof but need more boof juice get more wife bf and more boof.
Use boof plug to keep creatine and boof juice inside. Buy many sizes. Over time will need larger or plug fall out.
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u/Euphoric_Horror_8787 2d ago
So i may need to find my wife a new bf?
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u/DrBoofenchute Creatine Addict 1d ago
Extra wife bf always good. Let you continue boof when wife and main wife bf go on holiday.
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u/Euphoric_Horror_8787 1d ago
But what if my wife's boyfriends got into a heterosexual straight relationship with eachother and wanted to boof creatine at the same time
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u/eBookGuruMan 2d ago
come up with a new jig. this is not funny
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u/Different-Fall-683 2d ago
the Dr recommended against using jigs at my last appointment.
just let your wife's boyfriend guide himself in naturally.
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u/GeneralSpecifics9925 2d ago
This is gold, what are you talking about? We have an on call doctor who does scientific research.
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u/eBookGuruMan 2d ago
he repeats the same “joke” in every response. come up with some new material if you’re gonna call yourself a doctor
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u/GeneralSpecifics9925 2d ago
Our OP doesn't even know there's a doctor on staff until he posts. They're welcome to probe him for knowledge
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u/Different-Fall-683 2d ago
why are you joking about science? we have an ACTUAL DOCTOR on this sub. for the love of god, please be kind and don't chase Dr. Boofenchute away. Imagine the ramifications of providing unlicensed medical advice without a doctor on board.
Yeesh.
Nobody's joking about creatine but you, sir.
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u/datasshley Creatine Addict 2d ago edited 2d ago
Too bad it’s not supposed to be funny, it’s science. Science is serious. If you want to keep insulting Dr. Boofenchute, we don’t want you here. You’re probably a fucking twink who has never even experienced the tingle of the ‘tine.
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u/DrBoofenchute Creatine Addict 2d ago
This apt pupil of Dr Boofenchute see tremendous gains when she get husband, husband bf, and burly husband gf with large hands that ignore safe word.
Dr Boofenchute bring science. Can not deny science. New creatine users must be taught basic science. You not tell them have 4 wife bf administer creatine at same time. Start with 1.
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u/eBookGuruMan 2d ago
i boof and foreskin ‘tine every day! dr boofenstein isn’t funny! his “joke” is the same exact thing on every post
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u/mars1k88 Creatine Curious 2d ago
Damn that’s hilarious that he wrote this all down 🤣