Okay, here's the question of the day. Why is it that my body seems to want more food when my training volume decreases than during some of the heaviest training/racing periods of the year?
Is it simply the timing? The times when training volume drops just happen to correspond to things like Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas? Is the sudden urge to eat everything in site related to the holidays?
Is there a scientific explanation? Is my brain directing me toward every morsel of food in an attempt to pack on weight before I go haywire and start training like a maniac, again? Is the change in seasons or daylight somehow responsible?
Is it perspective? Am I actually eating less, but FEEL like I'm eating more simply because my training volume is down? Is the "everything in sight" that I eat during the heaviest training periods actually considerably more than I eat now?
Just to keep things straight, I eat like a horse when I'm logging a lot of training hours. I maintain a very good diet of things I should be eating, and throw in a lot of whatever else I can find to fuel the body. Since I'm not putting on a great many pounds, my intake is fairly even with my training volume.
But it FEELS like I've always got something in my hand. Breakfast, mid-morning snack, lunch, afternoon snack, etc.
Is it just me?
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