I’ve been trying to lose the 10-15 pounds I’ve been carrying my whole life that tip me into overweight territory (F22, 5’4.5”, SW: 160 CW: 152 GW: 140). Peaked at 160 about a year ago and then started cutting cals (1200-1500 with moderate to heavy exercise everyday) and have been maintaining within a couple pounds of 150 since covid hit. Only within the last month or so have I been getting back into the groove of actively trying to lose weight or focusing in on calories and activity.
I work out every day for one hour or more; sometimes I am outside all day for my job and sometimes I am sedentary all day. My workouts consist of 30 minutes of vinyasa yoga and 30-45 minutes of some low impact HIIT/weight training depending on what muscles I want to target (upper body, core, or lower body) or if I’m craving some cardio. I track my macros and am eating very well (I.e. I’ve managed to transition my diet to actually being balanced as opposed to all carbs :)) - rarely processed stuff and I hit my macros most days on myfitnesspal.
Now onto what I have observed. I have been set at 1500 calories a day for the past month or so and with my exercise regime I have become absolutely ravenous all day!! If I workout and burn 200 extra calories I do eat those extra 200 calories because I know I need to fuel myself extra if I’m going to be working out and want to build muscle, but even on top of that I find myself basically starving at many points throughout the day and am constantly craving any type of food :( it’s very strange. I simply refuse to let myself go really hungry because it affects my mood and brain so much so I just kind of limp along eating small portions of food to abate the hunger for maybe a half hour, but still being pretty hungry, until I go to bed!
The simple solution seems to be that I am not eating enough. However I don’t want to gain back any weight! I am confused about how to manage this and would love to see if anyone else has experienced similar effects with exercise.
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from loseit - Lose the Fat https://www.reddit.com/r/loseit/comments/j2byep/exercise_making_me_really_hungry/
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