Hungry like the Wolf.

[AnneDroid]

As well as my journey from couch to here, I've simultaneously been on a weight loss journey.

I've still got 11 pounds to lose until my target weight but, now that I'm into the B210k thing and running longer distances, I'm SO needing to be done with dieting as on running days I'm totally starving!

I think I'm going to have to do a version of the 5:2 diet whereby I eat small amounts on non-running days but eat a fair bit more than I have been on running days.

Anyone else had this issue?

[Realfoodieclub Graduate10]

While training for my HM I had to leave my diet behind as I found I was crashing. I would start a run and the just literally run out of energy half way through. If you were to fast on non running days you would have to be careful that you had enough fuel stored to support the next day's run, as well as refuelling afterwards. In the end I ended up eating back 1/2 of the calories from the exercise which seemed to be better than trying to keep within budget. They suggest that you aim for only 1lb a week weight loss when exercising rather than going for the 2lb.

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I balance it all by doing things like running before eating a good meal, e.g. a really nice breakfast with protein, so I apply food directly at the point when it's needed. Although as RFC says you need to make sure you have energy stored in the first place. I also don't count calories since losing the bulk of the weight that I needed to lose. It's all got a bit more intuitive now. But when I did I found I needed about 2-300 more cals on a run/cycling day. I think there's an element of trial and error...

[Bazza1234 Graduate10]

I have started a new "style of eating" - not a diet as such to lose weight. I am eating much more vegetables and have replaced all refined white carbohydrates (anything made with white flour and white rice) with low GI carbs ( mainly oats and barley) . To eat the barley in replacement of rice (we like Indian food) , I boil the barley in more water than necessary and in the process finish up with thick "barley water" which I drink at the end of a meal instead of "sweeties" -- I now have a constant feeling of satiation , and on those odd occasion when I get an attack of the munchies , I eat an apple or a banana.