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Effects of not eating enough?

  • 29-08-2010 5:06pm
    #1
    Seifer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,265 ✭✭✭


    I recently started trying to get myself fit. I've gotten a programme from a fitness instructor that involves doing a weights programme 3 times a week in the gym and 2 days of interval running a week.
    I'm currently 5'10'' and weigh 69kg. Since starting out I've noticed my appetite increasing but I still wouldn't say I eat a lot.
    Today's interval training didn't go great, I felt really energy sapped by the 2nd sprint but I pushed ahead with all the rounds anyway.
    I was just wondering if this could be as a result of not eating enough? Or how would not eating enough manifest itself?


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  • #2
    Zamboni
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,306 ✭✭✭Zamboni


    Have a read here.

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=67563426&postcount=38


  • #3
    EileenG
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,775 ✭✭✭EileenG


    Interval training is tough. It doesn't really matter what you eat, it's not going to be fun and games, and you will have to push yourself.

    The main effect of not eating enough is that you will be extremely hungry. I get really tired of hearing people insisting they must be in starvation mode because some calculator said they needed 3000 cals a day, and they are only able to eat 2500, so are they going to shrivel up like a pricked balloon?

    For the majority of healthy people, if you eat according to your hunger, you will eat the number of calories you need. Of course, modern life intrudes, so we eat because it's meal time, or because we're meeting friends for lunch, or because you just love jaffa cakes or because it's your night out for a couple of pints with the lads.

    However, it's pretty safe to say that if you are not on major medication, and you are not hungry, you are not under-eating.


  • #4
    Compak
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 428 ✭✭Compak


    Seifer wrote: »
    I recently started trying to get myself fit. I've gotten a programme from a fitness instructor that involves doing a weights programme 3 times a week in the gym and 2 days of interval running a week.
    I'm currently 5'10'' and weigh 69kg. Since starting out I've noticed my appetite increasing but I still wouldn't say I eat a lot.
    Today's interval training didn't go great, I felt really energy sapped by the 2nd sprint but I pushed ahead with all the rounds anyway.
    I was just wondering if this could be as a result of not eating enough? Or how would not eating enough manifest itself?

    For the weights ensure you are eating sufficiently, running is a different story with a strong emerging evidence that you will get a lot more benefit training in a low energy (nutrient/glycogen) state.


  • #5
    Seifer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,265 ✭✭✭Seifer


    Thanks for all the replies, taking it all on board :)


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