Hungry after workouts

chedaze
chedaze Posts: 37 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
The past few months I’ve been trying to get it together. I’ve been doing about 700-900 calories of exercise (yoga, cardio, HIIT). I feel like I’m so hungry after workouts or before bed.
Any tips? Trying to loose weight, so I’d like to maintain the calorie deficit

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  • Mithridites
    Mithridites Posts: 600 Member
    Exercise raises my apetite too. It’s normal but annoying. I often find good ideas in the volume eaters thread.
  • ClimbingWolf
    ClimbingWolf Posts: 298 Member
    at what times do you normally eat the biggest proportions of calories? Like, before or after your workouts? and for cravings before going to bed you could try eating quark, if not doing that already. You could play around with the timings of your meals during the day, see if that helps.
  • NovusDies
    NovusDies Posts: 8,940 Member
    In addition to the above questions I will add:

    Are you trying to do burn that much while fasted? That makes me ravenous afterwards.
  • Onedaywriter
    Onedaywriter Posts: 326 Member
    I’m the same. Some people don’t want to eat after workouts but I’m the opposite- I’m starving. I rearranged my day so I workout right before dinner. On weekends I workout in the morning and have some protein (eggs or yogurt etc) immediately afterwards. Seems to be working.
  • Jazznit
    Jazznit Posts: 27 Member
    This is your bodies natural response to cardio heavy workouts. It wants to replace the calories it lost. There are a few solutions I have found that work. If I do cardio I do it in the morning & eat a high protein breakfast (400-500 cals).Make sure your daily calorie intake is reasonable and a range. My range is 1500-1700. My second bit of advice is to switch to more Strength training (weight lifting). You won’t get a specific 500 calorie burn. But lifting won’t make you hungry like this. Honestly, it has completely changed how I see weight loss. Your scale loss will be slower but you will have more visible weight loss (inches). I’ve stuck with weights for a while now and if you stay the course it’s mind blowing. No you don’t need to ride a bike for an hour at soul cycle. Now that I have been doing it a while I’m done in 30 minutes, honestly. Maybe two days a week I will do cardio but it’s activity based with people and that is so much more enjoyable! I workout 4-5 days a week. Usually in the mornings.
    -Warm up stretches and 10 minutes on the rower
    -Hiit workout (usually these takes anywhere from 5-20 min depends on the workout)
    Example:
    6 rounds of
    10 body rows
    20 squats with 25 lb weight
    15 sit ups
    -weight lifting 10-20minutes rotating daily
    core, arms, legs

    I have maintained a 53 lbs weight loss for four years. I just started weight training this year and I wish I would have found this workout style earlier. It’s been a learning curve. But take it slow and try taking one change on at a time.
  • chedaze
    chedaze Posts: 37 Member
    Okay, thank you all. These are good things to consider. I am replacing most of the calories I loose from exercise. The reason I’m doing such calorie depleting workout is because I need to do cardio for my sanity; I’m quarantined in Lagos, Nigeria, where we moved a year ago, so I can’t just go out freely to get exercise/walking in casually. I have an elliptical at my house so I use it daily. But I also need yoga to be fit, and I need a little HIIT to get the weight off. I think I do need more weights in my life, but I have limited access to them. Thanks for the support!
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 34,213 Member
    Jazznit wrote: »
    This is your bodies natural response to cardio heavy workouts. It wants to replace the calories it lost. There are a few solutions I have found that work. If I do cardio I do it in the morning & eat a high protein breakfast (400-500 cals).Make sure your daily calorie intake is reasonable and a range. My range is 1500-1700. My second bit of advice is to switch to more Strength training (weight lifting). You won’t get a specific 500 calorie burn. But lifting won’t make you hungry like this. Honestly, it has completely changed how I see weight loss. Your scale loss will be slower but you will have more visible weight loss (inches). I’ve stuck with weights for a while now and if you stay the course it’s mind blowing. No you don’t need to ride a bike for an hour at soul cycle. Now that I have been doing it a while I’m done in 30 minutes, honestly. Maybe two days a week I will do cardio but it’s activity based with people and that is so much more enjoyable! I workout 4-5 days a week. Usually in the mornings.
    -Warm up stretches and 10 minutes on the rower
    -Hiit workout (usually these takes anywhere from 5-20 min depends on the workout)
    Example:
    6 rounds of
    10 body rows
    20 squats with 25 lb weight
    15 sit ups
    -weight lifting 10-20minutes rotating daily
    core, arms, legs

    I have maintained a 53 lbs weight loss for four years. I just started weight training this year and I wish I would have found this workout style earlier. It’s been a learning curve. But take it slow and try taking one change on at a time.

    To the bolded: Boy, is that ever not universally true!

    Strength training makes me hungry. (Minor dietary changes make that manageable.) Cardio doesn't have that same effect, for a similar (and longer) duration or calorie expenditure. (I'm a rower, on water and machine; and go to spin classes when not under "stay at home" strictures. With on-water rowing, I can't imagine wanting to do it for only 30 minutes!).

    What makes people hungry tends to be very individual. Often, rearranging timing of eating will help (sometimes timing of particular macros, especially carbohydrates or protein).
  • Strudders67
    Strudders67 Posts: 989 Member
    Not perfect, but an idea for weights is to fill bottles with water and use those. If that's too easy, fill a couple of bottles and put them in a bag.

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