Yes. Some of us have to tell ourselves to eat, which can be it’s own problem.
Being constantly hungry on such a low training load seems worth talking to a doctor imho, but assuming no useful dx, I also lean toward that hunger (or lack thereof) may just be misleading.
This is pretty much me too. I’m good in the morning with just coffee, but if I make it until 11,12 or if I start eating, it’s game on pretty much for the day. I can put on weight on 15-20 hours of weekly volume if I don’t try and behave a little bit.
I’m much better off and not as bad when I’m not doing all this volume where I need the extra carbs.
I try and eat a lot of apples and will drink a full 1L of water / sugar free drink mix to try and keep full.
I wasn’t before starting to cycle. Also I used to be really good at ignoring minor hunger cues, since I don’t particularly enjoy eating that much, which is why I was super skinny before.
Is just that on recovery days it feels really bad.
This week I have been trying to eat less, because I noticed a specific type of hunger would get worse when eating more. So far it feel like is better but I think I under-fuelled for the Vo2Max workout, because it was quite hard and I usually don’t struggle.
And yesterday during recovery day my legs were tired after any kinda of longer walk / commute. Also this morning I felt dead even tho I had 8hrs of sleep (it passed as soon as I had breakfast).
Today I have 1.5h threshold I’m going to fuel a bit more before the workout, and try to not go crazy on the recovery meals after.
I’m using 2 indicators, one is my legs getting tired easily has a sign of needing a little bit more carbs and this very specific “top of the throat” hunger queue as I have had too much carbs, let’s see if it holds up.
3 or 4 years ago, when I was in the Keto rabbit hole, I watched/read a little on how people’s internal hunger signaling can get out of whack. It interested me, because I feel that I have an issue with that… I can always eat, and I tend to binge eat due to feelings of hunger (especially if I eat sweets, and even moreso after burning a bunch of calories on the bike). Anyway, searching for (or talking with your nutritionist about) resetting your hunger signaling might be something to look into.
I’m doing fairly better with recognizing that I’ve eaten enough, now, but a big part of that is having made the effort to really dial in my calorie counting and burn rates (regular daily and on the bike), enough so that I trust what the app says over the ravenous hunger.
I also have zero problems with that.
I think if I would like to seriousely diet down on weight I’d need to pause cycling. Which feels like a non-starter.
Same here. I got from 95kg powerlifter to 68kg when I was doing no where near as much training due to an injury. Then I started lifting and cycling again & eating to fuel this now even with minimal lifting it seems I get the minimum effective dose to hold on to muscle. And I don’t want to feel crap when training so it’s a fine balance for sure.
I’d be curious to know what your hunger signals are. You’ve described being hungry after you eat a meal, and being hungry on rest days.
For me, I get “go eat something” signals that I know are sometimes hunger signals, and that I know are sometimes brain signals I’m getting anyway when I’m full. (There are also “go eat something” signals when I’m not sure if I’m hungry or not, or just thirsty, or missing some nutrient.)