You’ve probably missed a meal a time or two throughout your life, whether on purpose or by accident. If that’s not a usual practice for you, then you already know that it only takes a couple of hours for your stomach to start begging for something to fill it.
That twinge of an empty stomach hits every few hours. But the longer you go without food, the more that initial “twinge” grows into a deep, persistent pain. And it eventually never leaves, serving as a constant reminder of your starvation.
