Am I eating too much?

[Eden]

For the workouts you're doing- it seems to me like you're not eating nearly enough to keep your body properly fueled. (I'm not a doctor, tho, I only play one on TV). My basal metabolic rate is 1200 calories a day. That's just what I need to function. If I workout and burn 1000, I need to eat some of that to be able to function. I guess it depends on how tiny you are to begin with, and how many calories you need just to function each day. Just seems like not enough with all the exercise you are doing. Of course, I could be wrong (I *am* currently 15 lbs overweight, so I'm probably not one to give nutrition advice).

I thought similar... but then it depends on portions too - dinner could be big portions? I do know that on workout days that I do something like what she does I have to eat a lot..... much more than I ever expected. It's so hard to say just from a brief description though.

I'm similar to you, I start from base of 1200 and add from there. On days that I do a training workout (usually 2-2.5+ hrs of pretty intense cycling) and walk to and from work I can also burn 1500-2000 *more*. Eating to fuel that actually seems a bit difficult at times, but it's been very helpful. By keeping track I've now evened out my eating to match my output. On my light/no workout days I no longer feel starving all of the time. Before I'm pretty sure I was eating way, way too much on those days (I've cut out an afternoon snack and about 1/2 my dinner portions on those days!) and not nearly enough on the hard days. It wasn't good for me in a lot of ways. I feel like I'm recovering better now, I'm not as tired and I'm dropping a little excess at the same time. I think I still need to really push myself to eat more on the bike, but hey - baby steps!