Early morning exercise

miratps

So in the past month or so I have taken up something I never thought I would - running. I technically completed the C25K (did it every day, no breaks) but don't fully enjoy running, I like the feeling after of having completed one. The reason I say technically is because if you runners saw me do a run I think you'd be in hysterics for days and ask me to never attempt it again.

But nevertheless, my question is regarding food for those of us who do very early/first thing in the morning exercise. Since hitting my goal weight and attempting poorly to switch to maintance, I realised I eat a lot (like 80%) of my calories at night but fall within limit that's been set. This includes a dinner -around 300-400 calories and then a lot of small snacks after. The reason I do this is because I fear I won't have the energy in the morning/not match or 'beat' what I'd done earlier in the day the following day. So I end up being hungry at night and even the rare times I do get full, if I am below my limit I will eat some yogurt and/or other things including mini chocolates etc. I am well aware that because I save most my food for the evening I will eat more then but I save them because of the early morning run so its kind of a stupid circle.

Is anyone else like this? If you do early morning exercise, do you eat a lot the night before? Or am I just being insane?

RoxieDawn

I run 5:30 a.m. I end my last days meal (dinner) around 5:30-6:00 p.m. every night.. I eat normal lunches, snacks and dinners..

What, how and when you eat to train is trial and error.. its down to personal preference and your actual fitness goals. I am also trained to run fasted in the morning.

miratps

RoxieDawn wrote: »

I run 5:30 a.m. I end my last days meal (dinner) around 5:30-6:00 p.m. every night.. I eat normal lunches, snacks and dinners..

What, how and when you eat to train is trial and error.. its down to personal preference and your actual fitness goals. I am also trained to run fasted in the morning.

I run fasted in the mornings too purely on the basis I rarely ever ate breakfast anyway and the idea of eating that early wouldn't feel natural.

But you eating/finishing so early is interesting to me. I don't get home from work till then at best so could never that early but have (since running/waking up stupidly early) been eating pretty much till 30 mins before I go to bed. So it almost does become my breakfast and I theoretically have enough stuff in body to 'burn'/keep me going. But again, I am pretty certain that as I am new to all this, my logic is so wrong it is frightening so thought I'd ask what works for others and doesn't.

As for fitness goal, now that I've hit my weight goal its just trying to keep it there and the reason I did running was to vary up my exercise. I hate early mornings but like doing the run then as its satisfying to see how many calories I supposedly burned before people have even gotten up. It makes me think, I could do nothing for the rest of the day now and know I'd still hit my TDEE figure or surpass it. But I am not training for anything, nor do I want to.

KANGOOJUMPS

everyone is different, I start at 4am and eat little night before