Signs of not eating enough

1. hungry

If you have to ask about it you probably aren't eating enough.

Bra-ket wrote:

If you have to ask about it you probably aren't eating enough.

I’m just really confused as to how many calories I really need in a day. If I’m constantly hungry, surely I shouldn’t be listening to my appetite and eating all the time.

Getting fast. Setting PRs. Running like a hungry wolf.

konrad1198 wrote:

Bra-ket wrote:

If you have to ask about it you probably aren't eating enough.

I’m just really confused as to how many calories I really need in a day. If I’m constantly hungry, surely I shouldn’t be listening to my appetite and eating all the time.

We've already told you many times, you have an eating disorder. Working on a construction site and running a lot is not going to go well for you.

The fact that you post endless threads obsessing about calories, when you should really be eating the right amount your body tells you by fatigue and hunger signals....

Be honest with yourself, do you run to lose weight? Did you take on this job to lose more weight?

The correct answer to both those questions is obviously yes.

" If I’m constantly hungry, surely I shouldn’t be listening to my appetite and eating all the time."

YES.

When you only do tiny meagre ploppies once per week.

You should get in a recovery meal right after your morning run (protein shake and breakfast). And see a sports nutritionist

Don’t save calories. Go get help with eating disorder.

Just eat as much as you want to to satisfy your hunger as you need energy to recover from your hard training and to make it through your day. Choose nutritious foods to put in your engine but don’t worry about quantities and don’t count calories

Why don't you eat after your morning run?

Kwuntie Latisha Plop wrote:

Why don't you eat after your morning run?

Usually no appetite/time/combination of both

running an hour at 5am, then spending all morning on a construction site and not eating anything at all until midday? That is MADNESS. Whether or not you have an eating disorder, as other are suggesting, I don't know, but you need to find a way to eat a proper breakfast. Not enough time is a poor excuse, just prepare something the night before. And if you really need to know why you're feeling "cold and tired" all morning, well the answer is so blindingly obvious you don't really need me to tell you. Eat more! Or at the very least, eat normally

If you really can't face anything, could you make some kind of protein drink (better than nothing). Prepare it the night before and leave it in the fridge so it's ready for you to have immediately afterwards.

Please eat enough. And eat after you’re run, it shouldn’t be too hard.

As soon as you check up on this thread, you should go to your nearest fast food place or favorite local unhealthy restraunt and get like a 2000 calorie meal. When you get full, tho k about how much better and energetic you’ll feel.

Just eat please.

I worked on a farm for a few seasons and ran doubles with that mileage. Here's what I ate

BF - oats, nuts, berries, eggs, protein shake

L - salad, fish, crackers, protein shake

D- pork cops, Oreos or Whoopie Pies, beer, vegetables, soup

Never had time for snacks. Sometimes I ate two dinners once the days got really long, one before PM run, one after.

I was on my feet moving 14 hours a day and become as skinny as my HS weight.

A sign of not eating enough is running about an hour from 5am till 6am then not eating until noon or 1pm.

THAT is a sign of not eating enough.

Ciro wrote:

A sign of not eating enough is running about an hour from 5am till 6am then not eating until noon or 1pm.

THAT is a sign of not eating enough.

Like I said I save the majority of my calories for later on in the day.

I’ve also gone through a period of meticulously weighing my food and tracking my calories to ensure I eat at least 3200-3500 calories a day. I admit doing that can be quite stressful and unnecessary, but it’s not as if I’m eating below my BMR or anything like that.

3200 doesn't sound very much, I eat 2500 most days and that's with no running, to maintain pretty much underweight... some people need more than you think. Why do you save calories for later in the day, doesn't make sense? Unless you're trying to restrict them. I wouldn't weigh anything, seems pointless, just eat healthy whole foods, lots of variety and nice things, try to enjoy yourself, relax a bit on it. You will need tonnes more food working on a farm!

konrad1198 wrote:

I run in the morning before work, from 5-6 am, and don’t eat till 12-1 pm.

Why would you not eat after you run before you go to work in a physical labor job?

You haven't eaten for 8 hours while you sleep, you run, then you don't eat again for another 6 hours? So you go 14 straight hours without food.

Where is the logic in that?

* sorry, meant construction. And in answer to why you feel hungry all of the time, it's because your body needs food and is probably crying out for it. I'd feel unwell if I ran for an hour and didn't eat for half a day, let alone with doing an active job during that time period.