Why do you feel hungry a couple hours after eating Chinese food?

It could be the high glycemic load-- there's white rice, there's white noodles, there's sugar and white flour somewhere in the main dish, there's more white rice, and then there's a fortune cookie made of sugar and white flour. It spikes your insulin, you get full fast, and then you crash and need more food. An interesting expiriment would be to make a typical American Chinese restaurant type meal using wheat flour, brown rice, and an unprocessed sweetener such as rapadura or agave nectar, and to give it to people who didn't know what the expiriment was about and seeing if they got hungry again soon after eating it. Alternative viewBecause you are a growing boy! At 13, your body starts to undergo some major changes. You may notice accelerated growth and weight gain. This is normal. But to fuel these changes you need food. The hunger is your body's way of telling you that you need more Kung Pow Chicken!