Im not myself when I am Hungry

Most days its great being an adult, but ever so often I wish I was a child and someone stood behind me mouthing "she's just hungry" when I am not in a fantastic mood. 

There is this strange phenomena that seems to occur when I am overdue for a meal.. its called getting HANGRY which is an amalgam of hungry and angry. I seem to get short tempered, moody and just outright grumpy. 
There are several other moods that my boyfriend has so eloquently named HANKY and HOODY.  
Let me explain..... 

So HANGRY is when anything and everything is irritating. It really doesn't matter who or what it is I am just irritated about it.. I would say this is the worst mood out of all three. This one pretty much is code red for -Get this girl fed STAT- 
HANKY is hungry and cranky. This particular mood is not so bad, well its not good, but its not Code Red. This one is when I stop caring and walk around with a look on my face that says don't talk to me. If you ask me a question I will most likely answer with "I don't care" and nothing anyone does will be pleasing me. 
HOODY, if you've caught on, is hungry and moody. If want to put these in order, this is the least threatening of the 3. I just am listless and quiet and don't have much to say which according to Pat this is a welcoming mood every once in a while.  Its still not a pleasant mood because I am pretty much useless when it comes to decision making and have this cloud of sadness following me around. If you imagine a sad lonely puppy sitting in the rain looking at you with those big sad eyes- yeah thats me when I am HOODY. 

Us HANGRY people never mean what we say or do, but it still doesn't count as a valid excuse to be a raging cranky pants.  You can accessorize and advertise your hunger issues with shirts, pillows and even necklaces which can serve as a fair warning to those poor schmucks caught in our cross hairs. 

If you're not sure wether or not you fall into any of these aforementioned categories there are some telltale signs that you are one of us. 
Have you ever felt perfectly fine one moment and then instantly been catapulted to the hunger pit of doom??  At that point its on and you need a meal.

Ever sat down on the floor next to the fridge and eaten cold mashed potatoes out of the container with your hands? Locate all the snack food in your house, eat it all, have a 20 minute sugar high and regret it for the rest of the day?? You're so hungry the only thing that can possibly satisfy you is potatoes topped with pasta topped with rice smothered in butter?? Once you finally get food, there’s never enough time to eat it. You’ve got to get it in your face and people wonder if you've either been in prison or starved your entire life??  You are definitely a HANGRY person.

So why does this happen?? How come we get in strange moods from lack of food? 
Well it has to do with carbohydrates, proteins and fats in everything you eat. The nutrients mainly glucose(sugars) from these foods pass into your bloodstream and are used for energy.  
You might be asking yourself (like I did) I don't feel tired when I am HANGRY.... Let me explain further.
So pretty much when you start to run out of these nutrients circulating in your blood stream your brain goes into "life-threatening" panic mode. Your brain needs glucose to do its job and if you don't have any its not happy.  Your brain might be a small part of your body but it used up to 30% of your energy to work. 

When you're hungry and do not have enough sugar hanging around to make your brain happy it becomes more difficult to focus, concentrate and pretty much be nice to people. Once that panic mode sets in your body is also going to be releasing adrenaline into your bloodstream which could cause some of those "unexplainable" outbursts of anger. 
HMMMM makes more sense now doesn't it?  

There you have it folks... You're not yourself when you're hungry because your brain needs energy and turns you into a psychopath until you feed it.