Hungry all the time!
MessyLittlePanda
Posts: 213 Member
OK...I need some sensible advice here. This seems to be the most sensible area to be on MFP, so hopefully someone can help.
I am stepping up my training for a mountain bike race in September. I have been riding 1 30 mile round trip on my road bike a week along a pretty hilly route (I live in Yorkshire UK, not many flat bits!) along with 1 BodyPump class lasting 60 minutes and a mountain bike ride between 8 and 20 miles at the weekend. My rest days I do Wii Fit stuff, mostly balance exercises, to help my balance and co-ordination on the bike, and I walk my dog for 30 mins to an hour at a moderate pace. It's rare I will do absolutely nothing, unless I am really knackered or the weather is just too awful.
I currently weigh 146lbs. I do want to lose some weight, I do have a bit of "jelly belly" to lose but not at the expense of muscle/strength on the bike as mountain biking is an intense sport and you need strength for it - not many female mountain bikers are thin. Athletic yes, thin no.
I'm on 1800 calories at the moment. I try and eat the exercise calories, but then I find that the next day I am if anything more hungry than the day I do the exercise. Macros are set to 40% carbs, 30% protein and 30% fat. I rarely go over protein and fat, sometimes I go over carbs though (usually at weekends when I'm less strict).
This week I upped my BodyPump weights and was much quicker on the bike. But I just seem to be wanting to eat all the time! The scale isn't moving really but my fitness is improving and my clothes are getting looser. I do try to eat low GI carbs, I am celiac though so that rules some things out.
I don't know if I am eating too much, too little, the wrong things, am I fuelling my body enough for what I am doing and what I want to do. The race I am training for is a 30 mile time trial style race in the Pennines so it's tough. My training still needs to ramp up more from where it is as well.
Any advice gratefully received!
I am stepping up my training for a mountain bike race in September. I have been riding 1 30 mile round trip on my road bike a week along a pretty hilly route (I live in Yorkshire UK, not many flat bits!) along with 1 BodyPump class lasting 60 minutes and a mountain bike ride between 8 and 20 miles at the weekend. My rest days I do Wii Fit stuff, mostly balance exercises, to help my balance and co-ordination on the bike, and I walk my dog for 30 mins to an hour at a moderate pace. It's rare I will do absolutely nothing, unless I am really knackered or the weather is just too awful.
I currently weigh 146lbs. I do want to lose some weight, I do have a bit of "jelly belly" to lose but not at the expense of muscle/strength on the bike as mountain biking is an intense sport and you need strength for it - not many female mountain bikers are thin. Athletic yes, thin no.
I'm on 1800 calories at the moment. I try and eat the exercise calories, but then I find that the next day I am if anything more hungry than the day I do the exercise. Macros are set to 40% carbs, 30% protein and 30% fat. I rarely go over protein and fat, sometimes I go over carbs though (usually at weekends when I'm less strict).
This week I upped my BodyPump weights and was much quicker on the bike. But I just seem to be wanting to eat all the time! The scale isn't moving really but my fitness is improving and my clothes are getting looser. I do try to eat low GI carbs, I am celiac though so that rules some things out.
I don't know if I am eating too much, too little, the wrong things, am I fuelling my body enough for what I am doing and what I want to do. The race I am training for is a 30 mile time trial style race in the Pennines so it's tough. My training still needs to ramp up more from where it is as well.
Any advice gratefully received!
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Well more protein would stave off the hunger somewhat. You need your carbs doing such an intense activity though, so my suggestion is either;
a. Up your overall food intake slightly.
b. Up protein to 35% and take fat down to 25%.0 -
Thanks. I do up my overall intake whenever training ramps up, I do plan on adding an extra ride next week so I'll probably up it then or I'll be even worse!0
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If you increase your activity then you should increase calorie intake to go along with that.0
