I try running, stair climbing and stretching every day and I try not to eat to feel full up. I don’t know if this is a stupid idea, but I’m sure dieting involves feeling moderately hungry, which is what I do now.
Sometimes, after a long hard workday I feel so hungry I eat a lot for dinner, meaning I don’t have to have breakfast before I start working out. I don’t know if this is also a stupid idea. Do you have a small breakfast before starting your work out in the morning before going to work?
A variation of this involves eating only whole grains at night before going to sleep because sometimes that’s the only thing at hand.
Should I change anything?
What are your goals?
Some athletes will carb load before an event, so that there’s more glucose available for their muscles to perform during the event. This has to be done just before the event, because glucose is not stored in the body, so it’s taken out of the blood pretty rapidly. So if you need this extra performance enhancement it has to be just before the event. This is also a reason many pre-workouts will have lots of glucose/carbohydrates ingredients
Other athletes will do ketosis training, and do the event with no glucose. This is usually more endurance events. That benefit from long sustained energy consumption for multiple hours, rather than the short bursty glucose-based energy consumption. (Marathon versus Sprint for example)
You mentioned dieting, and needing to feel hungry, if one of your goals is weight loss: it’s better just to have a healthy diet, don’t lose weight to get healthy, get healthy to lose weight. There are many diets people use to achieve their metabolic health goals, the diet I’ve seen to be most effective for myself and those around me, is a low carbohydrate high-fat diet. But again it’s about your goals.
Following a diet where you feel hungry, is fighting an uphill battle, it’s doing it on hard mode. Hungry diets are also usually not sustainable long-term. So you might want to investigate a different option
I like this!!
Great. I stole it. It was from one of the lectures on the low carb down under channel, I think it was one of the videos talking about the hormonal model of weight control.