strange and drastic hunger increase

[corndogggy]

After dieting over the winter, I found that I didn't feel as explosive as I thought I'd feel afterwards during athletic endeavors, which is probably an obvious issue. I felt I was skinny enough, and wanted to start actual training, so I bumped up the workouts over the past week and also started purposely eating more, especially more protein. Thursday night I rode 30 miles hard with my buddies. I forget what I did Friday but it wasn't easy. Saturday I did about 1,600 reps of jump rope, a whole bunch of core exercises, and also did 3 sets of 12 squats with 205 pounds, along with my normal 20 minute circuit session full of pushups and bodyweight rows and other stuff. Got up Sunday and rode 13 hard miles in a bad wind then ran 4 miles with my wife.

So anyway, ever since Thursday, I am hungry all the time. I'm eating significantly more in the mornings for breakfast and getting hungry an hour earlier than I used to. My 10 AM snack (a banana) barely lets me make it to 12 noon. Actually it doesn't let me make it, I'm hungry for an hour before lunch. At night I'm eating all kinds of stuff. Sunday night I ate half of a homemade bbq chicken pizza. Last night I ate two platefuls of lasagna. I don't know what the hell is going on, and don't know if this is good or bad. It's just a drastic increase of hunger, I was nowhere near this hungry while dieting.

 

[theleip]

In short it is because your metabolism is super charged and craving fuel. The more you eat, the more your burn, the more hungry you are. You are less hungry in a deficit if you have restricted your calories to much. If you wake up hungry you are doing it right. That being said you should still be making sound food choices and eating for what you need. Eating all that starchy carb at night isn't always the best idea has your body is not going to use up the fuel. Eat more often and more, thats great, but still eat wisely and within the caloric needs for whatever your goal is.