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Why am I feeling hungry all the time?
Hi,
I am currently doing a 40 min run everyday and 60 min weights every other day, plus an hour walking my dog everyday, and just general running around during the day. I weigh 9.12lbs and want to lose 12lbs by the end of July. I'm finding it really hard to keep to the 1,400 cal a day, which has been worked out for me to lose the weight. I feel constantly hungry.
I am eating a portion of protein 100g and 125g wholegrain for lunch and dinner with salad as well. Breakfast is porridge 30g with 100ml of Soya milk. I really struggle after 8pm not to eat and feel so hunger. I eat fruit and sometimes a handful of nuts as a snack for in between meals.
Any advice?
Tracy
Our expert says...
Hi Tracy,
There may be some simple solutions to help ease the hunger you are experiencing so the first thing I would suggest is to consider the following:
- Drink more water - dehydration leaves us feeling hunger even though it is water we need (the body interprets dehydration as hunger!). You need to be looking to consume two litres a day plus more to account for fluid losses during exercise.
- Consider when you are eating around your training. Ensure you are achieving ideal pre and post training nutrition. See the article titled "Can you explain about the timings for food and exercise?", (dated Tuesday 18th September 2007), in the forum, you can find this by entering "Post exercise nutrition" into the 'search forums' tab on the forums page of the website.
- Make sure you are getting adequate amounts of sleep as this affects energy levels and can leave us craving food as a way of offsetting the tiredness. Power naps during the day (just 10-30minutes!) are a fantastic habit to establish and are often easier then people realise to achieve.
- Consider your caffeine and sugar consumption - these can create energy highs and lows as our blood sugar levels rise and fall in response to these stimulants. The lows can leave us vulnerable to experiencing self-inflicted cravings for more sugar. Try to cut down or reduce such potential causes if you note these may be relevant to your personal situation.
If you were to try all of the above and did not notice any significant improvement in your ability to overt hunger then I would possibly suggest you re-check all your inputs for your exercise and food to make sure there are no slight miscalculations that could be leaving you with a daily calorie calculation that is actually slightly too low for your requirements. The likelihood of this is quite low and normally the above factors have more influence then we give them credit for but just in case it is always good to thoroughly re-assess all elements of your plan.
Hope this helps
Kelly
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