Not Hungry

I'm sometimes that way, as well. I think it varies from person to person, but I've read interviews with serious athletes--Olympians and the like--who claim they have the same problem. When they're in the midst of serious training, they have to force themselves to eat to get enough calories in because the hard work sometimes makes them not hungry.

In fact, I'm having a day like that today. It's already past 9:00 p.m. and I'm supposed to eat like 700 more calories today. I'll find a way to make it happen.

I definitely think it depends on the workout. If I start a new regimen and it kicks my butt so much I feel it the next day, I KNOW I will feel famished too! However, on days I do yoga or PIlates, I don't feel any change in appetite but I also don't crave as many junk foods - this may be from the mind-body connection you get with these meditative workouts that you "just don't want it."

If you are famished from a difficult workout, eat healthy but as usual, until you are full! Your body worked hard so it needs to replenish itself with nourishing foods to give you that fierce body!

WOW Olympians...that actually puts a smile on my face
I ate under my calories today as well, and i'm STUFFED!!!!!!!! Is it bad that i refuse to finish eating my calories? Im just so full, i cant imagine eating any more....

It's not bad. I usually feel the same way after a bout of hard exercise. I figure my body is too busy going "WTF?" to tell me I ought to put those calories back.

I think it's best if you stay close to your recommended daily calorie intake, but if you can't eat back your exercise calories, no worries. As long as you're eating an adequate number of calories a day (1,200 is the number most often bandied about here), you're good to go.