I recently pondered why I seemed to eat more on days I did less. I considered that maybe it was on days *after* I'd been active that I got more hungry.
Well I tried an experiment which suggests I was correct in this surmise.
Mainly due to the weather and other factors I'd been alternating active days with less active ones. This week being mostly fine, I went for a prolonged walk on wednesday, and another one on thursday, both times going about 9 - 10 hours between meals.
So I went for a hat trick, had my usual breakfast of a buttered oatcake with smoked salmon around 11 today, followed later by a handful of nuts. Went shopping around 2 and then on to the estuary where I walked for a while, then stopped and chatted to some people while another Osprey was flying around.
On to the hide and sat for a long while watching the Osprey and chatting to some other people who came and went, and lending some of them my binoculars and scope.
However I only lasted until around 5 before I started getting quite hungry, and drove home and ate around 6.
The hunger was still qualitatively different from the carb cravings I used to get after 2 - 3 hours on a low fat diet, it was *genuine* hunger.
So after two days of prolonged not-eating it does seem to catch up with me eventually.
Well I tried an experiment which suggests I was correct in this surmise.
Mainly due to the weather and other factors I'd been alternating active days with less active ones. This week being mostly fine, I went for a prolonged walk on wednesday, and another one on thursday, both times going about 9 - 10 hours between meals.
So I went for a hat trick, had my usual breakfast of a buttered oatcake with smoked salmon around 11 today, followed later by a handful of nuts. Went shopping around 2 and then on to the estuary where I walked for a while, then stopped and chatted to some people while another Osprey was flying around.
On to the hide and sat for a long while watching the Osprey and chatting to some other people who came and went, and lending some of them my binoculars and scope.
However I only lasted until around 5 before I started getting quite hungry, and drove home and ate around 6.
The hunger was still qualitatively different from the carb cravings I used to get after 2 - 3 hours on a low fat diet, it was *genuine* hunger.
So after two days of prolonged not-eating it does seem to catch up with me eventually.