The less I exercise, the more I eat?

nomorearmflab

For the last few days I have been working out more intensely than I have in a long while. However, today I only did a little bike ride -from home to school- and I was STARVING all day. My whole body felt depressed and headachey, and i just wanted to sleep and eat all day.
Now, is this from not getting enough exercise, or is this from working out more than usual? every other day I found it hard to eat enough calories, now I am finding it hard to STOP eating.

MrsCon40

You don't appear to be eating any of your exercise calories. You had a 750 calorie deficiency a few days ago, and over 600 the next day. Remember that MFP calculates sufficient *safe* caloric deficiency for you to lose weight without exercising.

It's catching up with you. When you work out hard you need to nourish your body.

:flowerforyou:

nomorearmflab

You don't appear to be eating any of your exercise calories. You had a 750 calorie deficiency a few days ago, and over 600 the next day. Remember that MFP calculates sufficient *safe* caloric deficiency for you to lose weight without exercising.

It's catching up with you. When you work out hard you need to nourish your body.

:flowerforyou:

Actually, that always happened by accident. I usually ate immediately after I worked out ( that one day was a job, and I felt SO TIRED after that day) But I would just find it hard to even eat up to 1200 cals. Like, I was always full, or I never felt hungry.
Should I be eating what I exercise? I am a little confused by that.
Am I starving my body?

MrsCon40

MFP is set up for you to eat your exercise calories (because the deficit is already built in) but people will tell you that they don't eat them, or only eat some, or whatever.

The problem is that when you create too large of a caloric deficit you are likely to quit losing weight at all.

If your body knows it is going to receive proper nourishment it is more likely to burn of it's reserves.

Peanut butter is your best friend if you need to up your calories! Always try to hit your protein and fat goals because your body needs both to preserve muscle mass while you're losing, and for proper brain and hormone function!

You also have to keep in mind that your body may not be very good at telling you what it needs - so until you learn to fuel it properly you may have to eat when you don't feel like you're hungry. Most of us have no problem overeating when we're not really hungry but want to seek comfort from food We also need to learn to eat when we need fuel but don't feel hungry.

MrsCon40

Check this out...

http://shouldieatmyexercisecalories.com/

Click through and read the links - it explains everything

nomorearmflab

Check this out...

http://shouldieatmyexercisecalories.com/

Click through and read the links - it explains everything

This link made me laugh really hard. I think I get the point though. XD

And the peanut butter is a great suggestion. I Will definitely do that. I guess I just worry a lot about if I am missing calories or if I am putting in the right amount, or if I am exercising more or less than I actually input onto this computer program.

I love the peanut butter idea. I think I will try to keep it to a 300 cal or under deficit. I don't want my body to start holding onto fat cause I was stupid for a few days.

MrsCon40

Excellent!