Day after exercise cravings

michbaden
michbaden Posts: 31
edited September 29 in Food and Nutrition
On my exercise days where I really push myself and earn 500 - 900 calories I just don't feel hungry at all.
Mondays, Tuesday and Thursdays I cycle 12 miles and on the weekends I jog and on these days I am fine with food

However on Wednesdays and Fridays - my days off. I am CONSTANTLY hungry!
I'm really struggling to deal with it now and I've ended up snacking all through the day despite me trying to plan the day carefully.
I drink lots of water throughout the day and have around 6 cups of green tea, but nothing seems to help. I just can't stop thinking about food

Does anyone else have a similar problem and does anyone have any tips?

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  • beckystephens
    beckystephens Posts: 117 Member
    I have the same issue. I just struggle on and try to at least make all of the food that i am compelled to eat nutritious.
  • avaloneternal
    avaloneternal Posts: 216
    Sooooo with you. Believe it or not I actually gained 5 pounds in the 6 months I trained for my marathon. Huge appetite issues. Hopefully someone has some words of wisdom.
  • change_happens
    change_happens Posts: 491
    Hi! I am not sure what the deal is with those, what I call, rest-day-cravings, but they are there from the time I wake up until the time I go to sleep. Sometimes I fight them, but most often times I eat. Sometimes I just take a brisk 4.0 walk and that helps them to subside.
  • TheMrsBee
    TheMrsBee Posts: 226 Member
    omg i'm ravenous today!! i put it down to TOM starting but i burnt about 500 odd cals last night running for 60mins! and last night i was WAY below on my calorie intake as i wasn't that hungry. Hope someone has some words of wisdom out there!? please?! :sad: :noway:
  • michbaden
    michbaden Posts: 31
    That's a good point actually, on my exercise days I do usually eat back most of my calories, but sometimes I am just not hungry enough to eat after exercise

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  • bstamps12
    bstamps12 Posts: 1,184
    I really try to eat back a lot of my exercise calories but sometimes I just can't. Like yesterday, I burned 800 cals on a bike ride which put me over 2200 calories to eat for the day. I tried to eat everything nutritious that I could and I even have a Gu or Clif Bar on those days during my workout, but I just can't eat that many calories unless I eat crap, which to me defeats the point of working out. My solution to the day after cravings has been to exercise a little bit, even on rest days, so that I am free to eat more. Instead of my usual hard workouts, I will go on a walk or do Zumba on the PS3 (at a lower intensity level), then I burn the extra calories so I can eat and satisfy my cravings.
  • knittnponder
    knittnponder Posts: 1,953 Member
    Yesterday I had a BIG exercise day but didn't even make it to 1200 calories. Got scolded by MFP and everything. It's a rare occurrence for me to be that low but sometimes happens that I just don't feel like eating. Because I had such a big exercise day yesterday I knew that today would be a "hungry" day and so far it's holding true. When we work our bodies hard the next day we tend to be ravenous because the body is repairing itself and needs the building blocks to do so. Today I will eat more and it will be plenty of protein so my body has what it needs to work with. One thing I've found that helps mitigate this a little bit is to have a good protein before bed (casein shake, whey if it's all I have or even just a little chunk of chicken.) Gives my body some protein to work with while I'm sleeping.
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