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Originally Posted by dillytl
CONGRATS on your PR's yesterday! That's AWESOME
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Thank you! You wouldn't BELIEVE how exhausted I was last night - a day after lifting. The BF and I went to Barnes and Nobles after a dinner out and my whole body was just shutting down. I think I slept in the car on the way back home. At 9:30. Haha.
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Originally Posted by Ciao
Rixa,
Why is it that eating more makes you hungrier? You and others have told me the same and I'm pretty sure that it's true but I wonder why.... I always read that being hungrier was a response of the starvation mode kicking in. So, what gives?
I have been eating at maintenance all this week and taking a break from Fat Loss I.
I already stopped shivering and I'm in a really good mood all the time. I'm so looking forward to continue my Fat Loss series with the higher calories.
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Well, a lot of us here are Dr. John Berardi fans.
And he has this principle called G-Flux. The basic principle of G-Flux is that eating less and less will slow your metabolism down (you'll be less energetic, and then burn fewer calories just moving around because you're tired), while eating more calories and moving more will raise your metabolism.
So it's not necessarily that EATING more will make you hungrier. It's that eating more (which for women, is usually maintenance, because I think most of us would be inclined to eat fewer calories than we really need) and exercising more will make you hungrier. Take Alwyn's NROL4W workouts, which create a huge energy demand, not only during the workout, but afterwards, when your muscles are healing. I think a lot of us saw our hunger go through the ROOF when we started. Which was basically a sign that our metabolism was revved and our bodies needed more calories.
The standard dieting advice to slash calories and exercise more doesn't always necessarily apply. When you're doing a demanding weight lifting workout, you need to fuel your body to heal your muscles.
That being said, I went up to maintenance and evaluated the effects for a while, and then decided to cut my calories since fat loss is a priority. However, I am making sure to zig-zag calories so that my body doesn't adapt to this newer calorie level quickly, and I'm doing re-feed days at maintenance every few weeks.
I'm glad you're eating more and feeling better. Shivering is probably not a great sign. I also noticed an improved mood when I was eating at maintenance - almost a GIDDINESS I was so happy.
I guess the thing we all have to remember is that our bodies are functional, not just decorative. If you were starving on a deserted island, hunger would get old pretty fast. You'd eat less, and your body would slow down in an effort to keep you alive. And you would want your body to slow down and keep you alive.
But when you're trying to lose fat and fit into a smaller pair of jeans, you don't want your body to slow down. If your metabolism slows down, it's the classic yo-yo diet scenario - hormones will kick in eventually and tell you to eat! Your body is hungry! Suddenly you're eating everything in sight because your body doesn't know you're not really starving, and then you're right back where you started. So you kind of have to trick your metabolism into burning fat.
So you shouldn't be afraid to eat more. It serves a good purpose. Your hunger has evolved over thousands of years as a human. At some point you have to trust it, and feed your body what it needs.