hungry??

[Mia]

Anybody else hungry all the time? Seems like every time I do an exceptionally hard ride, or like this week--try a big hill for the first time, I'm starving for two days! I eat and two hours later-starving again! I'm trying to fill up on healthy food because I would actually like to lose a few more pounds, not gain!

[Veronica]

Yep, we're often quite ravenous for a few days after a longer than usual ride.

V.

[Grog]

I just saw the title of the thread: "Hungry??" and I said: "YES!!!"

I cycle, therefore I eat.

Often.

I have a small stomach so there is only so much I can put in there in a given meal. So I end up eating 5 meals a day or so. It's supposed to be better to have five smaller meals than three huge ones anyway, so I don't think it's a problem.

Take advantage of the situation to discover new types of food and eat as healthily as you can, it will make you feel even better! Enjoy!!

[trigurl]

YES! When I ride a lot it seems like I can never eat enough, and we eat quite a bit of veggies & fruit which don't stick with me long, so I seem to always be eating!

Yesterday morning after my century Sat, we ate at a restaurant for breakfast, I ate a WHOLE stuffed full of meat, cheeze and peppers omelet

I wasn't stuffed either! but I only ate a few pretzels near lunch and nothing again until around 6:00pm, all that protein and fat filled me up and really stuck with me. That is why I did well on Atkins I am going to go back on Atkins for a few days since the century is over and get off the carb craving, I know now that I can do it the low fat way, veggie burgers for me.

[Trek420]

Ride to eat, eat to ride, repeat as needed

shhh, it's happy birthday to Bike Goddess

[SadieKate]

My alarm clock today was a growling stomach at 4:30 am.

[ACG]

I am ALWAYS hungry when I finish a ride, I get lightheaded/headachey when I don't each soon enough after a ride. Just make sure you eat proteins.

What about the other problem? When you know you've eaten bad stuff all day? Do you just ride more? after the fact?

[yellow]

If Corsair weren't on vacation, she'd point out that about 80% of the posts here involve some talk of food.

I eat lots, though I've had to consciously cut back as I haven't been as active for the last few months. When I was running a whole lot I probably consumed between 3000-4000 calories per day!

I don't know what real science says, but I think that my fairly *intense* level of activity when I was running a whole lot amped up my metabolism...and it never really got un-amped when I cut back (but still remained fairly active).

As Trek said, ride to eat and eat to ride.

[bouncybouncy]

HAHA!!! I thought it was ironic the headline on about.com in the cycling section was "eat to ride"

http://bicycling.about.com/od/nutrition/a/eattoride.htm

I am struggling with those last couple of pounds, not to mention not finding enough time to ride anymore...i used to eat like a pig and i dropped weight like crazy...now i am still eating the same but riding less not a good combo will ride more again soon so i can eat LOTS again soon...meanwhile... "resist temptation!"


HA!!!

[Pedal Wench]

After a long ride, if I don't eat a protein pretty quickly, I eat all day. If I only eat carbs, I'm hungry that day and still ravenous the next day. I just did a tough century yesterday, and I didn't eat enough during the ride, or get a protein soon enough afterwards, so I'm still paying for it now.

[DirtDiva]

So, y'all are saying that finishing off the curry (Mmmmm... Thai green curry...) at dinner rather than leaving that last bit for lunch tomorrow wasn't being greedy? I was just making up for the twenty-odd km I rode today?

If y'all aren't, SHUT UP!

[Dogmama]

After a long ride, if I don't eat a protein pretty quickly, I eat all day. If I only eat carbs, I'm hungry that day and still ravenous the next day. I just did a tough century yesterday, and I didn't eat enough during the ride, or get a protein soon enough afterwards, so I'm still paying for it now.

My favorite post-ride fuel is either soymilk & protein powder (chocolate of course!) or fruit juice (e.g., orange/mango) and vanilla protein powder. It is important to add some protein with carbs as they work together - carbs help muscles uptake protein and protein will rebuild muscles. I always try to get something like this about 30 minutes or less after riding.

[roughingit]

Mmmmmm.....food....

I'm *always* hungry, whether I've done anything or not, so riding tends to simply stoke the fires a little hotter!

[Trekhawk]

HAHA!!! I thought it was ironic the headline on about.com in the cycling section was "eat to ride"
http://bicycling.about.com/od/nutrition/a/eattoride.htm
I am struggling with those last couple of pounds, not to mention not finding enough time to ride anymore...i used to eat like a pig and i dropped weight like crazy...now i am still eating the same but riding less not a good combo will ride more again soon so i can eat LOTS again soon...meanwhile... "resist temptation!
HA!!!

Thanks for posting this article not only did I learn a little but it gave me a laugh.