Help!
I'm training for my race / charity ride season, which means I'm stepping up the number of hours that I workout per week. I race a single speed mountain bike, and ride endurance charity (road) rides, so I burn an extraordinary amount of calories on the days that I ride (5x/wk). Quite often I have days where I'm suppose to eat DOUBLE to TRIPLE the calories that I would eat on a day off. I find eating so much to be almost impossible, and I'm losing weight because of it. I'm really good about having 3 squares a day,snacks, and eating while on the bike, but it's not enough. Even though I feel like I'm stuffing myself on workout days, I'm still dropping. If I eat more on days off, I go through a yo-yo syndrome, where I hold or gain for one day, then drop the weight as soon as I workout. In the next few weeks I'm suppose to add hours onto my workout, and I'm nervous that I just won't be able the eat any more than I already am.
Is anyone else going through this? What do you do to keep your weight on, so you'll be effective during race season?