How am I supposed to eat enough?

Well...I have the opposite problem. I eat way too much and don't gain weight when I run, but when injured or stopping running it becomes a cosmetic/performance issue.

How do you think of food? Do you think of it in a begrudging, utilitarian way, i.e. I HAVE to eat food to survive/maintain everything? If you enjoyed food, I don't think eating more would be an issue. 2,000 calories is three moderately sized meals from my perspective. Just snack in between meals and you'll be fine. If you just need calories, they're pretty unhealthy but buy one of those tubs of peanut butter-filled pretzel nuggets and those will add calories frighteningly easily. Crazy amounts of sodium, but if you're running enough maybe it's okay.

Alternatively, just eat a lot more healthy food.

raTTar wrote:

Especially since you really only have 11-12 hours a day to eat, considering you sleep 12-13 hours a night.

Umm, wut?

raTTar wrote:

considering you sleep 12-13 hours a night.

Must be nice not having to work.

0/10

The sleep bit was 2 steps too far.

umwut wrote:

raTTar wrote:

Especially since you really only have 11-12 hours a day to eat, considering you sleep 12-13 hours a night.

Umm, wut?

I agree...Wut?

Hi everyone. Sorry. The OP is actually a greyhound, thus the difficulty consuming 2000+ calories and the need to sleep all day.

Max, I keep telling you that Letsrun is a website for people who race. They won't be able to help you. If I see you posting this stuff again, I'm taking the iPad out of your crate.

Peanut butter

I hate you.

Libertarian vegan wrote:

Peanut butter

this is the correct answer.

also, put olive oil on everything (including peanut butter).

not only have you increased your caloric intake by 50% but you are now eating a "Mediterranean Diet" as recommended by every dietician with a blog or facebook account.

I work 40 hours a week and sleep ~12 a night. With running taking up 60-90 minutes a day I really don't have a lot of extra time to eat. I have time to eat twice during work. But it's not like I can wake up in the middle of the night to eat. That would ruin my sleep

Pshh 2,000 calories is nothing. That's probably 1 large cheese pizza for an entire day. You wimp.

Amazingly some people just don’t like eating food that much. They never have to struggle with calorie counting or self restraint. With this remarkable ability they ought to join religious orders where fasting is part of the trade, except many with this ability aren’t interested in religion.

It could also be that some of them are small town folk who have never had good cooking, complex dishes, fresh ingredients, fragrant spices.

There are a couple methods to induce appetite and perhaps turn people like you on to a love of food: cannabis, alcohol, sex, heavy weight lifting, watching disappointing team sports games, striking out after a night out, moving to a much colder climate. You don’t have to do these long term as they can, long term, distract from training for distance. Just as the initial catalyst.

If that still doesn’t work for you, this may be in born and you might want to see a Sports Nutritionist. Or you might have worms.

I'm just never hungry when I wake up in the mornings. So I usually eat a banana or a bowl of cereal, then run, then I eat a small to average size lunch because I'm never super hungry after running, then I go to work where I eat a decent bit, but it's maybe only 1,000-1,200 calories while I'm at work, then I come home hungry and eat a few hundred more in the form of pasta or some thing similar. Ends up being 2,000 calories a day give or take a few hundred. I'm burning ~1,000 a day running, possibly more, and my basal metabolic rate is pretty high as it is.