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Weight Loss Forum / Low Carb / January 2004Please Read: Relationship between heavy calorie burn and hunger?
This is a beginner style question, but I do not know where to find my answer. Today I burned somewhere around 600-700 calories in the gym. I ran alot, and did leg weight work as well. I am trying to lose fat, so the calorie burn is a positive thing. The same thing always seems to happen when I work alot like this though. It seems that no matter what I do eat after the gym, I am really very hungry around 9pm or so. My day ends when I get home around 12am, and I am asleep by 2am. I do eat at work, I take in about 1800 calories for someone weighing 172lbs, so I am not starving myself exactly. I try and eat at approximately the same times each day, and eat low fat, high protein and carb based stuff low on the GI. Today I am up to roughly 1000 calories, perhaps even 1200 depending on if I count the muffin I had lol. Is there a relationship between doing a hard day at the gym, burning alot of calories, and wanting to eat MORE as you go throughout your day? Thanks for reading, and shedding some insight. You need to lose the fat first (probably through a strict low carb diet) and then worry about gaining muscle mass. Right now you are perhaps getting in better condition, but it's unlikely that you're going to reduce your fat levels very much. If you really want to lose the fat, concentrate more on lifting weights and doing low carb. Unless, of course, you're going to seriously train for a triathlon and are going to get down to 130 pounds through attrition.  SignatureJC Eat less, exercise more. -- > This is a beginner style question, but I do not know where to find my > answer. [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > > Thanks for reading, and shedding some insight. > You need to lose the fat first (probably through a strict low carb diet) and > then worry about gaining muscle mass. Right now you are perhaps getting in [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > seriously train for a triathlon and are going to get down to 130 pounds > through attrition. Thanks for the advice. I am running (quite alot), and am being very strict with what i eat, sticking now to a low fat and low calorie diet, creating as much as a deficit as i can through exercise and whatnot. What i was really wondering was if there was a direct corelation between the exercise (days that it is heavier and there is more of it), and being hungrier on those days. Steve "Steven C. (Doktersteve)" <real_doktersteve@REMOVEhotmail.com> wrote in message news:Zk3Rb.271733$JQ1.19613@pd7tw1no... > > You need to lose the fat first (probably through a strict low carb diet) > and [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > > Steve Yes, there is a direct correlation. And what I'm trying to tell you is that many people have gone down the same road and didn't lose fat the way they thought they would. > Yes, there is a direct correlation. And what I'm trying to tell you is that > many people have gone down the same road and didn't lose fat the way they > thought they would. So are you suggesting to stick primarily with strength training and not concentrate on cardio? I'm interested because I only have about 10 - 15 pounds to lose, and am looking for the most effective way to do it. (I'm 5', 1"; Tanita scale hovers between 29 and 30% fat, weight currently 125.) Currently I'm strength training two days a week and doing 40 minutes of cardio four days a week. And eating low carb, of course! ~ Peri ~ Peri > > Yes, there is a direct correlation. And what I'm trying to tell you is that > > many people have gone down the same road and didn't lose fat the way they [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > ~ Peri I used to run about 7 miles a day, 5 or 6 days a week. I ate a low fat type of diet, and was never able to lose that last 10 pounds of bodyfat. I'm not saying that cardio in and of itself is a bad thing, but I would limit it to where I could still follow a strict lowcarb diet. I would definitely give weight training top priority. In the end, one needs to eat less to lose that last bit of fat, and low carb combined with weight training gives you the best shot at success without going completely insane with hunger. If you find yourself getting too hungry to follow the diet, the first thing I would do is cut back on the cardio. ::: JC Der Koenig wrote: ::: [quoted text clipped - 22 lines] :: yourself getting too hungry to follow the diet, the first thing I :: would do is cut back on the cardio. I agree with this.....but that's just me. Steven, When you burn a high number of calories at the gym, you are probably causing low blood sugar. Low blood sugar will, in turn, set up a cycle of blood sugar swings up and down for the rest of the day which will indeed make you hungry. To check this out, buy yourself a blood sugar meter at Wal-Mart ($8) and a bottle of strips ($20) and test your blood sugar right after your workout. If it is in the 70s or lower, you will need to experiment with using small amounts of glucose (2 -8 grams) to balance out your blood sugar while you exercise and prevent the low that will lead to hunger. -- Jenny - Low Carbing for 4 years. At goal for weight. Type 2 diabetes, hba1c 5.2. Cut the carbs to respond to my email address! Low carb facts and figures, my weight-loss photos, tips, recipes, strategies for dealing with diabetes and more at http://www.geocities.com/jenny_the_bean/ Looking for help controlling your blood sugar? Visit http://www.alt-support-diabetes.org/Newly%20Diagnosed.htm > This is a beginner style question, but I do not know where to find my > answer. [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > > Thanks for reading, and shedding some insight. |
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