i think 90% of huger is conditioning. you can train yourself to eat less. you can train yourself to stop being hungry. and it doesn’t take long, maybe a month or so
Weight resistance training, mostly. Also occasional Tabata squats for some endurance.
I found that I recover from quite intensive sets faster when training fasted. The decline in performance I experience can be explained by my age and, frankly, that I do not exercise regularly enough.
When I'd do distance running training, anywhere from 30-50 miles a week, my appetite didn't necessarily increase/ decrease.
When I switched over to cycling, anywhere from 150-250 miles a week, my appetite went through the roof, and I just inhale food constantly.
As an aside, I found my tastebuds get extremely, extremely sensitive right after a spirited bike ride. Sometimes things I thought that tasted pretty good suddenly had certain flavor profiles ultra amplified and overpowering. Other times, food & drink that tasted weird would become absolutely delicious. But even an hour later, after satiating the post-bike-ride appetite, that very same food or drink could taste significantly different. Like Sierra Nevada's Hazy Little Thing IPA, man, it can taste like 2 vastly different beers. Doesn't make me wanna become a foodie per se but it does make me think that my body craves and rewards me for eating after a spirited ride.
More anecdata, but I find it depends on the type of exercise. An hour of cardio equals several hours of appetite suppression. An hour of heavy weight training equals several hours of unstoppable hunger. What I eat in that state (high carb, low carb, whey protein, etc) doesn't seem to affect satiety much.
I believe this could be the main reason why its almost impossible to eat at a caloric defecit (with surplus protein) and train anabolically at the same time. Some people are able to do that, it's just very rare.
I experience the same effect. Cardio doesn’t make me hungry afterwards, in fact I tend to be less hungrier than I was before I started the workout.
Heavy weights induces a deep visceral hunger that I can only describe as the hunger that you feel when your body is depleted and is starting to burn fat stores. It’s different to the usual hunger pangs. Anyone else felt it? It makes me double over sometimes and I completely lose track of what I was doing whenever I get those pangs. I almost always follow up with a heavy meal.
Yes, same here. It's not just "I'm hungry". It's more "I cannot think about anything other than food".
I'm not sure it has anything to do with burning fat stores though, because I don't get the same feeling after say, a 3-day water fast. At that point I'm definitely hungry, but don't have the same insatiable food craving.
In fact, when I was experimenting with extended fasting, the only reason I stopped at 3 days is because I was lifting lighter weights every day and hit a point where my strength was physically depleted. I could only do about 3 reps instead of finding 15+ easy. Hunger wasn't really a problem after the first day of getting used to it.
Especially cardio I will actually get faint if I don't keep up with food. On long bike rides I will eat two al pastor tacos every 20 miles from a stand or truck. A lot of those 10/25/50/100 mile charity bike rides have regular stops with peanut butter packets or beer too so riders can get liquid calories and carbs (and a buzz of course).
After a few hours of intense activity, I'm usually very hungry.
But when I walk in the mountains for full days (8-12 hours per day), I don't have much of an appetite, especially after two days. I almost have to force myself to eat a real lunch and dinner, though I tend to frequently eat small quantities of dried fruits.
I find I’m surprisingly unhungry after a long slow run of 1.5 to 2.5 hours which (according to my run watch) has consumed 1500+ calories. I too usually have to force myself to eat after, but it helps me to eat something fairly healthy rather than eat quickly
