This may sound totally whacky but I think it is the candida's hunger you are actually feeling. On the weekdays you wake up early and get a MASSIVE blood Sugar rush with the popcorn, and greatly multiplied by the fats which keep the sugars floating around your bloodstream. Candida feeds off the glucose in your bloodstream via intestinal rhizomes, remember this.
Also we have to distinguish between real hunger and addictive hunger. Real hunger feels like 'readiness'- empty stomach full of ready digestive juices, gurgling and churning, a feeling of lightness. That hollow, empty carnal desire is addictive hunger and could be from psychoemotional eating and dopamine addiction, or the candida sending powerful messages to your body to "feed me early morning popcorn".
Try eating a massive green salad in the morning. Make it delicious, of course, and you will feel satiated in a deeper way. Mmmm just writing this makes me hungry for a SALAD!