Quote Originally Posted by Torrilin View Post
Basic guideline is that a healthy, active adult will need between 2000 and 2200 calories a day to maintain their weight. Since you're eating at most 800-1000 calories a day, your body is panicking. The not being hungry you're experiencing is anorexia (loss of appetite). If you keep eating at the levels you are, you may qualify for an anorexia nervosa diagnosis. Don't do that! You can lose bone density from that disease, you'll get sick more easily, and all manner of other stuff will come and bite you in the *** later.

Please eat. You need food.
This made me smile. A 170 pound anorexic.

I think most everyone is missing some of what I'm saying. Currently I DO eat when I get home. So after my recovery drink of choc. milk I'm at 1200 cal. for the day SO FAR. Then I decided to eat something small. Some toast with peanut butter. The next thing I know I'm sitting down with a bag of chips...even though they are "light" it's still chips. Once I start eating it's like I can't stop. Plus with all the eating out, about 4 times a week, I'm afraid I'm never going to drop any of this weight. That's why I'm wondering if not eating at all when I get home would be better. But I don't want to have dead legs or no energy for my ride the next evening. So eat or don't eat?