5 Signs On How To Tell If You’re Not Eating Enough For Your Training

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Are you eating enough?

Fuelling your training is so important - whether that's for recreational athletes just enjoying their training or people training for events like an ironman triathlon or a marathon.

If you need advice on triathlon nutrition for training to help make sure you eat enough during your training then this video will help you out.

By understanding how much you need to eat for your training, or how much food to eat a day when exercising, you can make sure you cover all your body's energy needs.

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00:00 Introduction
02:44 Heaviness
03:19 Sleep
04:09 Pace targets
05:09 Mood
05:53 Sexual dysfunction
06:31 Weight

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Hi! I'm James. I'm a Sport and Exercise Nutritionist and I make videos on nutrition to give people simple, clear and easy to use information on a range of subjects. I focus on triathlon and how triathletes can use nutrition to help properly fuel their training and racing.

In my day job I work as an Advanced Clinical Practitioner in General Practice, or Family Medicine for those of you not in the UK, and work in a busy NHS GP practice. I'm a Specialist Paramedic by background and have full independent medicine prescribing rights.

Advanced Clinical Practitioner in Family Medicine, BSc, PGCert
Registered sport and exercise Nutritionist (SENr)
Advanced Diploma of Nutrition, MSc Sport and Exercise Nutrition
Nutrition Consultant for Hurry The Food Up
Great Britain Age Group Triathlete
Qualified L2 British Triathlon Coach

I am not affiliated or sponsored by any brands, companies or products that I mentioned or show in my videos. My aim is to make these videos free from any sort of bias!

These videos shouldn't be taken as direct, personal advice on medicine or nutrition but more for information purposes based on the latest research and evidence. Unless otherwise clearly stated, this information is more suited to adults as under 18s have different requirements and considerations. I'm happy to answer any questions you might have as an individual though!

[karvn]

The fucked up thing is that these symptoms once led me to believe that I was either eating too much or the wrong things, leading me to restrict even further, which lead to injury. It was only after increasing my overall intake and adding more palatable food that my performance, recovery, and consistency improved.

[MansellSenna]

I think this is me right now.... thanks for the reminder

[jamaicaigot]

Awesome vid! Could you get the audio version of it on audea? I listen to most of my audio there would love to hear this on there!

[naomisewell]

Did not realise the importance of fuel, I usually calorie count and limit the amount of complex/simple carbs. So when I used your plan (may have gone a tad overboard and overfuelled) I consumed over 650g of carbs and I’m 58kg, it was a lot of effort. Lol I couldn’t bring myself to go on the scales.

So odd though because I didn’t feel uncomfortably full/GI discomfort (I was having a gel every 20 mins) or ache at all after the half marathon and just went about my day after.

But I had no appetite or urge to eat a pizza or anything like that as I’ve seen people do to celebrate. I just wasn’t hungry and felt satiated.

2 days after and I’m still fine but I have no appetite what so ever and still feel satiated 🫤 maybe I over did it?

[IvanKoch]

Hey man! thanks for all your videos! qq: should I try to match my breakfast + intra training nutrition + post workout calories with my calorie output??? For long rides/runs I try to do that with carbs (pre) and carbs + protein (post). That way I try to end "even" after finishing my post workout meal. What do you think on this strategy?

[StevenHaggis]

Hi I'm using a calorie calculator and equaling cal in / cal out but still feeling incredibly hungry a lot of the time and mood swings / low libido. Weight is generally stable, but not wishing to lower the calories just yet due to under-eating. Any advice please?

[Firldnehdldmdbd]

I’m only eating 1200 calories and someone calculated my macros. I’m supposed to be taking in

[richardmiddleton]

Not eating enough or training too hard too often?! 80/20 people! Even 90/10 works well, especially post 40! You cannot simply train hard all the time and eat more to compensate, it will backfire, you'll burn out and you'll be too reliant on carbs and maybe even insulin resistant!