I'm hungry!

[roguedog]

Ok.. I dunno if it's that colder weather is coming in or if it's the cycling or both but I seem to be hungry all the time! I'm not even cycling as much as some of you.

So.. should I just listen to my body and gnosh away or what? I used to be the type that didn't have to eat all day.. maybe only one meal a day (I know it's bad but I've always been too busy or just not hungry). Now seems that I wanna eat every 3-4 hours.

What is up with that?


P.s. Eating apple and gnoshing on raisins right now.. munch, munch. Grazing for more food after this post....

[Bikingmomof3]

Listen to your body, and eat healty foods. I eat 6 small meals a day. So I am eating about every 2 1/2-3 hours. I am rarely hungry and my blood sugar levels are nice and happy.

[kelownagirl]

Me too, since I've been "dieting" I make sure to eat a small snack mid-morning, after school, and sometimes in the evening. Plus 3 light meals a day. I feel much better, never too full, nevern starving so I can east less...

[roguedog]

Awwww... thanks mom

Now if only V would stop posting cookie threads.. ack!

[Veronica]

I can't help it. They're really good.

V.

[Geonz]

I found that my appetite increased more than my need for food... so I gained weight. Happens when it's cold and happens the day after a hard ride.

I keep the hunger at bay by drinking water (and think that may be the 'hunger' is as much needing liquids anyway) ... and I *do* eat, just not EVERYTHING ALL DAY like I want to after a hard ride

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

I feel it is a natural seasonal thing. Just like the bears loading up on fatty salmon just before winter so they'll have enough fat layer to survive winter.

I just am not very hungry during the summer and I crave fruit instead of fatty things. In autumn and winter I crave high calorie high fat stuff.
It is frustrating. I too am now feeling like I'm always hungry, always craving baked potatoes, bread, chocolate, sour cream, cheese, fried stuff....ugh.
I try to have more tea and oatmeal and soup to fill me up in different ways than high fat or grease. But I don't alwyas succeed.

UNfortunately the weather and relentless rain here is keeping me off my bike, which is making it all worse! I've GOT to try to get in a ride tomorrow between the rain showers.

[tygab]

I feel it is a natural seasonal thing. Just like the bears loading up on fatty salmon just before winter so they'll have enough fat layer to survive winter.

I just am not very hungry during the summer and I crave fruit instead of fatty things. In autumn and winter I crave high calorie high fat stuff.
It is frustrating. I too am now feeling like I'm always hungry, always craving baked potatoes, bread, chocolate, sour cream, cheese, fried stuff....ugh.
I try to have more tea and oatmeal and soup to fill me up in different ways than high fat or grease. But I don't alwyas succeed.

Me too! I am like, where're the cheese and crackers & I'll see you in the spring! Stuff like cookies, chips, doughnuts look especially appealing now. I am mostly successfully resisting.

While I do enjoy an occaisional item of the above in the summer, it's not like I want to live on the stuff. And like you, generally in summer months my appetite is more geared toward cold & fresh food - on a real hot & humid day, I eat very lightly - salad, chilled soups etc.

sigh. I really have been very hungry the last week or two.

[Oh, On a different note we got a slowcooker, hooray, can't wait to try it out after the chaos of Thxgiving is over.]

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

sigh. I really have been very hungry the last week or two.

[Oh, On a different note we got a slowcooker, hooray, can't wait to try it out after the chaos of Thxgiving is over.]

Yes, I understand< i seem to be always hungry these days!

As I mentioned in the other thread, I just got my slow cooker recipe book. We hope to make a rare trip to the malls (ugh) this week to get a slowcooker and a new microwave. DH is crazy about soups and I can't wait to start trying some out on him. Also, a pulled pork recipe! I always hated leaving a pot of soup cooking on the stove and going out for a while- too dangerous! Now I will feel safe with the crockpot. Been a LONG time since I've had one! (what, maybe 30 years?? )

[guanajagirl]

good grief! Since fall has come I've been hungry hungry hungry! Ive read a couple articles that with the temp drops your appitite kicks it up. Add the holidays... My problem is keeping the munching healthy...

[emily_in_nc]

I have been really hungry lately too!

I managed to resist a glazed donut a few days ago when a gal brought a box around at work to share, but only because I'd just gotten there at 9 am so had had breakfast not too long before. If she'd caught me an hour later, I might not have been so strong.

Funny too, a couple of nights later, I actually dreamt I ate a glazed donut.

Better to dream it than to do it, no?

Emily