Horrid case of Runger!

mabearof6
mabearof6 Posts: 684 Member
edited November 21 in Health and Weight Loss
Usually I run before eating, and don't usually eat till after 1 pm and I am fine, but today I feel like I could eat anything and everything! Do you ever just get hit by hunger that feels like it consumes you?

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  • Old_Cat_Lady
    Old_Cat_Lady Posts: 1,193 Member
    If I don't eat enough the day before I wake up starving.
  • JenObRN
    JenObRN Posts: 102 Member
    Yes! Actually, I've already eaten about 1000 kcal today and it's only 8:30 am. But I've been up since 1am and I'm about to go to bed in the next hr as I work 12 hr nights 3 nights a week.
  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,458 Member
    Assuming you aren't cutting your calories too low in general...go run. Exercise usually takes that hunger down a notch for me.
  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
    mabearof6 wrote: »
    Usually I run before eating, and don't usually eat till after 1 pm and I am fine, but today I feel like I could eat anything and everything! Do you ever just get hit by hunger that feels like it consumes you?

    i am half marathon training and always rungry once my runs get into double figures.... so no deficit for me at the moment!!
  • mabearof6
    mabearof6 Posts: 684 Member
    cmriverside wrote: »
    Assuming you aren't cutting your calories too low in general...go run. Exercise usually takes that hunger down a notch for me.

    I already did :smile: Now I'm just staring at my desk wishing it was edible! It wasn't even a long run day....just 5 miles today.
  • collectingblues
    collectingblues Posts: 2,541 Member
    When and what are you eating around your runs?

    I'm usually fine the day of long runs, but the next day kills me. My dietitian is working with me on meal/food timing on this one. I've found that I am much less likely to gnaw my arm off -- or, in turn, be angry with myself for being hungry -- if I make sure that I grab some combination of carb + protein within 30 minutes after a run. It takes 100 calories out of the day's budget, but it makes the next day go much easier.
  • BoxerBrawler
    BoxerBrawler Posts: 2,032 Member
    I am ok after running... but lifting heavy is another story. I could eat the world after a good lifting session!
  • womanisadevil
    womanisadevil Posts: 52 Member
    I get ravenous on days I don't run. (If I take a rest day)
    I could take bites out of my walls.

    Also I find if I eat a heavy meal late at night the next morning I wake up starving and can't get enough to eat.
    When I cut off my eating earlier in the evening, the next day I won't eat/feel hungry until 1 or 2pm.
  • deannalfisher
    deannalfisher Posts: 5,600 Member
    how was your fueling before and after your run? I find that if I don't get something carb-ish in right after, then I spend the day wanting to eat anything and everything around me
  • Morgaen73
    Morgaen73 Posts: 2,817 Member
    Yup that is me today. we just had a staff function and i stuffed my face. Seems as if I cant eat enough today. Could possibly be because I did 2 workout sessions yesterday.

    Anyway, one day wont kill you.
  • __TMac__
    __TMac__ Posts: 1,669 Member
    womanisadevil wrote: »
    I get ravenous on days I don't run. (If I take a rest day). I could take bites out of my walls.

    Also I find if I eat a heavy meal late at night the next morning I wake up starving and can't get enough to eat.

    Both true for me. The second one gets especially bad if the big meal the night before is carb heavy.
  • SezxyStef
    SezxyStef Posts: 15,267 Member
    Yes...it was a run day yesterday with Bench Press so I was hungry this morning...but same thing happens after dead lift day and a walk which was Tuesday...

    My schedule pretty much guarantees I am hungry most mornings...I run 3x a week...lift heavy 4x a week and my deads are the day after and before a run day..
  • DX2JX2
    DX2JX2 Posts: 1,921 Member
    edited August 2017
    Runger does that especially when you're already targeting a calorie deficit. Most days are fine and then BAM, insatiable hunger. Gotta fuel to perform. On the plus side, if you're running enough to get runger then you probably have the room in your calorie totals.
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