Can you all tell me if you exercise makes u hungrier?
jenniferanderson3888
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Can some one tell me if exercising makes you hungrier throughout your day? How do you handle this. I’m going to be starting a routine when I move. 30 minutes of elliptical 4 times a week. I really do not want to eat my burned calories back. I have 60 to lose
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It depends on the day. Sometimes exercise makes me hungrier. Other days it actually makes me LESS hungry. Yesterday after my workout it was actually a struggle to get close to my calorie goal in because working out got rid of my hunger.
But as far as "eating" your burned calories back, if you are following MFP calculations for your goal, you should be eating your exercise calories back, or at least a portion of them. So if MFP says your goal is 1500 calories, that is before you include exercise. The system is designed for you to eat more when you exercise and still burn your target amount of weight.3 -
jenniferanderson3888 wrote: »Can some one tell me if exercising makes you hungrier throughout your day? How do you handle this. I’m going to be starting a routine when I move. 30 minutes of elliptical 4 times a week. I really do not want to eat my burned calories back. I have 60 to lose
i get rungry... particularly when my long runs get into double figures... its just one of those things!3 -
I guess I get swimgry............I get so hungry after my swims. Running and biking not so much.1
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Sometimes - I get fairly decent workouts, but if they aren't on a day that's had a lot of activity, then usually not.0
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No. But I don't do much cardio, mostly lifting.0
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jenniferanderson3888 wrote: »Can some one tell me if exercising makes you hungrier throughout your day? How do you handle this. I’m going to be starting a routine when I move. 30 minutes of elliptical 4 times a week. I really do not want to eat my burned calories back. I have 60 to lose
You're supposed to. That's how this site works.3 -
For me its usually the next day im famished.
I ran a ten K last night ... not killer pace or anything, but no walking either ... and i am predictably starving this morning.
For steady-state cardio stuff like elliptical, its a very predictable calorie burn... i recommend you DO allow yourself to eat the calories back. A lot of people eat half back.
A well-fueled body works out better, has more energy, elevated mood. It took me 6 months to realize this. Experiment with it some.
60 lbs to lose is basically a year of caloric restriction. But don't get so caught up in restricting calories that your workouts suffer. It is Better in the long run to lose more slowly but get in fantastic conditioning.3 -
you're starving because you are.
you are supposed to eat at least a portion of the exercise calories back. otherwise you are undereating.
some calorie burns are over estimated so you can try eating 50-75% of your exercise calories back1 -
jenniferanderson3888 wrote: »Can some one tell me if exercising makes you hungrier throughout your day? How do you handle this. I’m going to be starting a routine when I move. 30 minutes of elliptical 4 times a week. I really do not want to eat my burned calories back. I have 60 to lose
if you're not eating your exercise calories back then it is that which is making you hungry, not the exercise. you're not fuelling your workouts.2 -
I get hungrier then normal after I do strength training.0
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I become ravenous after runs of 10/12 miles or longer. Not so much after other workouts or shorter runs.
Some people get hungry after lifting, some don’t. Some get hungry after intense workouts, some after long workouts, some never. It’s all individual.
And eat your earned calories. That’s how it works. That’s why mfp says “calories remaining”. You’re far less likely to be hungry if you’re eating enough.1 -
Nope exercise doesn’t make me hungry it actually curbs my appetite. The longer the run the longer I’ll go without eating and have to force myself. After doing a marathon I had to practically force feed myself. Everyone is different. Eat your workout calories if you’re hungry, you earned them!2
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Exercise suppresses my appetite. You'd think that's good, right? Not always. I've made the mistake you are making by not eating back the calories. I mean, why eat if you're not hungry? When I do that I'm hungry the next day and it's hard to control the impulse to snack and eat *kitten* food. I have slowly learned that I need to eat back my exercise calories and then I can control my appetite overall.1
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Like others have mentioned - it destroys my appetite. I've taken to eating my dinner at around 8pm or later as it takes me a while after a gym session and lifting to get my appetite back. My wife however, is the exact opposite. She wants to eat as soon as we get home. Be careful about not eating your calories back from exercise - this app expects it and if you don't you might end up in too steep a deficit. I personally don't but I don't use MFP properly. I just use it to track calories and use other calculation to figure out either my surplus or my deficit depending on cycle.0
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moderate amounts of exercise don't make me any hungrier than usual. Training for cycling events for which I'm spending hours in the saddle do, but it's not usually the same day. 30 to 60 minutes of moderate exercise doesn't do anything hunger wise.0
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Nope exercise doesn’t make me hungry it actually curbs my appetite. The longer the run the longer I’ll go without eating and have to force myself. After doing a marathon I had to practically force feed myself. Everyone is different. Eat your workout calories if you’re hungry, you earned them!
Back when I was doing a lot of cycling endurance events and training, I'd never really be particularly hungry on the training day, but I knew I needed recovery. I started making these 1,000 calorie smoothies that went down a lot easier than trying to eat a bunch of food.1 -
hungry ?
after cardio, nope.
after weights, yes.....big time.0 -
Whenever I up my cardio I get hungrier. I average about 150 to 175 min per week. Anything over that and my stomach audibly growls.0
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Most exercises don’t affect my appetite. Running long distance actually suppresses my hunger. But some HIIT such as while running speed intervals could make me crave more food. Some weight sessions make me hungry too particularly leg days. I stay away from swimming because it makes me want to eat everything in sight for the little I burn in the pool 😂0
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Strength training seems to make me a little hungrier. For my routine rowing and spinning, I've figured out eating patterns that give me enough energy for the activity, and don't leave me famished after.
If you're just getting started, I don't think you should anticipate any particular reaction in yourself: You can see that people are quite varied. Get started, see how you feel, maybe switch up your eating patterns around your workouts, if you find the workouts are making you hungry (which you may not). Experimenting based on results is good. Speculating is kind of pointless.
As others have said, MFP intends you eat back exercise calories to keep a consistent deficit on exercise days vs. non-exercise days. If you find yourself to be among those who are hungrier the next day, just save the exercise calories until then, and balance weekly instead of daily.0 -
I personally don't get really hungry after most my workouts, but I do typically workout shortly before a meal, either breakfast or dinner. Even then, I'm not ravenous - my typical post Saturday rowing meal is either a pastry and coffee or roasted potatoes (regular and sweet potatoes), beans, and coffee.
The times when I am really hungry is if I'm on a multi hour bike ride, but that's predictable and a matter of fueling my ride adequately.
And yes, you do need to eat back at least a portion of your exercise calories. That's how MFP is designed to work. Not doing so will end with you being more hungry than you'd probably like (also more fatigued, among other things).0 -
I think others have covered the eating your calories back topic so I won't say that again.
As for my personal experience - hard cardio workouts tend to make me feel pretty famished the next day. Strength training I don't notice a big swing, but I do notice a general uptick in my overall hunger. Or more like my meals just don't have the same "lasting power."0 -
My workouts almost ALWAYS kill my appetite. Rest days I'm suddenly starving. It's weird.0
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If I do cardio I get hungry if I lift weights I dont get hungry until the next day and by then In ravenous and on the days I lift I definitely eat enough calories.0
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Cardio curbs my appetite and lifting increases it. I eat all my cardio calories on lifting days.0
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Sometimes, when I was working out regularly, I didn't see much either way, but I'm just starting up again and today I could not eat enough... I had 3 good snacks after my workout, then lunch, I am finally no longer hungry...0
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In my case it's sort of yes and no. Yes, in the sense that because I'm moving more, I need more energy and thus feel hunger. No, in the sense that I'm not hungry enough to eat back everything. I generally eat back about 50% of my exercise calories and keep the rest as a cushion against logging errors. And I'm almost always fine with that. Occasionally, I'll want up to 75%, but not the full 100 and very rarely more. (Exception for me is Passover time, but that's because I'm an ovo-lacto vegetarian who feels most satiated on more protein and fiber. For eight days in the year, my primary protein sources become eggs, dairy, nuts, and quinoa and my primary fiber sources are off-limits. So, after 4 days, I tend to go off-track, but hey, it's once a year. Not the end of the world.)0
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jenniferanderson3888 wrote: »Can some one tell me if exercising makes you hungrier throughout your day? How do you handle this. I’m going to be starting a routine when I move. 30 minutes of elliptical 4 times a week. I really do not want to eat my burned calories back. I have 60 to lose
30 minutes of exercise ... no. That's not enough to make me hungrier.
Getting up toward 2 hours of exercise ... yes. And I'll eat 1/2 to 3/4 of my exercise calories back.0 -
I used to get hungrier when I started lifting weights in the past. Since I've been on mfp and tracking calories it doesn't seem to happen as much, maybe it's age related for me?0
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