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You’ve just logged a great weekend of running. You got the miles in. You fueled like a boss. Then, your rest day rolls around and you feel like you can’t fit the contents of your refrigerator into your stomach fast enough.
Your body knows what it’s doing.
If you underfuel on training days, you run the risk of sinking into an energy deficit. Do that for a couple of days in a row, and you could dig yourself into a pretty deep energy hole.
There a few reasons why you might be underfueling on your training days even though you think you are meeting your energy needs.
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Possibility #1: Your Hunger and Fullness Hormones are Altered
When you run a lot or at higher intensities, your body experiences a decrease in the hunger hormone ghrelin during exercise and an increase in peptide YY (the satiety hormone). Typically, ghrelin levels return to normal pretty quickly after…
