Lost appetite in the evening

[kelthevet]

I finished my W30 with great success last week. My main goal was to increase energy levels and this morning I made it to the gym at 6am which is unheard of for me. I haven't started my proper reintroduction schedule yet, and am just carrying on eating in the W30 style for the next month, then I plan to challenge myself properly.

 

This evening is the 3rd night in a row where I have absolutely no appetite for meal 3. Just wondering if anyone has any thoughts on this?

 

Saturday my eating was a little out of whack as I had a big cooked brunch (bacon, eggs, spinach, mushroom, tomato) and didn't have a distinct Meal 1 + 2.

 

Sunday I ate normally - meal 1 = country captain chicken from Well Fed and extra veg, a kiwi fruit and black coffee

- meal 2 was 3 egg omelette with spinach and tomato and some mango. I also napped in the afternoon which isn't normal for me (but I have been making myself get up an hour earlier than usual each day).

 

Today I cut back a little on amounts/per meal, meal 1 was 1 fried egg, one rasher bacon, some sauté veg and 1/4 avocado and a protein shake post work out, and meal 2 was a smaller than normal country captain chicken and veg, and a few cherries. I haven't snacked. Its dinner time and I have no interest in eating yet again. I need to lose about 15 kg, so this lack of appetite is not like me! Saturday and sunday night I forced myself to have a protein shake for meal 3. 

 

I feel good otherwise, energetic, enjoying working out, happy to eat meals 1 and 2, getting through the work day with ease. I am like a new person when compared to my life pre-W30.

Any ideas? 

[LadyM]

I'd say that after completing a W30 you're pretty safe in listening to your body. Eating fewer than three meals a day is not a crime. Eating only when genuinely hungry--once hormones are balanced--seems like a good way to live. I find that my hunger changes from day to day and more often than not a light day of eating is followed by a day of heavier eating, when I'm paying attention.

[kirkor]

Weather changes can affect my appetite -- it got way cold here last week and that tends to make me feel less like eating. (at first --- I adjust and am back to lots of eating soon enough  )

[MeadowLily]

Weather changes can affect my appetite -- it got way cold here last week and that tends to make me feel less like eating. (at first --- I adjust and am back to lots of eating soon enough  )

You ain't just a woofin' there, Kirkor.  -26 below zero and wind chill factors will boost the old metabolism.

 

[kelthevet]

Thanks for your comments. I'm still feeling the same way in the evenings but not too worried about it at this stage. One of the things I learnt during my Whole30 was about listening to my body - previously I don't think I knew what hunger was, if it was dinnertime, I ate. Now I am more attuned to what I need and what I don't. MeadowLily that photograph is incredible! The cold is definitely not my problem, it is heading towards summer here in Australia and was 35 deg C here today (not sure what that is in your terms). Never in my life have I seen snow like that! The only time I've ever seen it in my 33 years was when there was a light snowfall when I was on holidays in Toronto in 1992!

[MeadowLily]

Thanks for your comments. I'm still feeling the same way in the evenings but not too worried about it at this stage. One of the things I learnt during my Whole30 was about listening to my body - previously I don't think I knew what hunger was, if it was dinnertime, I ate. Now I am more attuned to what I need and what I don't. MeadowLily that photograph is incredible! The cold is definitely not my problem, it is heading towards summer here in Australia and was 35 deg C here today (not sure what that is in your terms). Never in my life have I seen snow like that! The only time I've ever seen it in my 33 years was when there was a light snowfall when I was on holidays in Toronto in 1992!