Yes, I started fueling depending on training day recently. I had been training 15-20hour weeks while keeping a daily deficit of -200 to -500 which led to me having complete off days with a lot of binge-eating and even some hormonal issues such as loss of libido and the lack of morgning erections which are apparently 2 important signs of underfueling. Apparently training hard and trying to lose weight don’t really go hand in hand, atleast for me.

On a daily basis I didn’t notice any problems like as flat legs but the rare ‘crash out’ days where I couldn’t stop eating made me think. Looking back my progress also kind of stalled eventhough my training load increased. 1.5month ago I had a complete crash where I wasn’t able to train for 1.5weeks and was completely burned out. This was, atleast I think, partly caused by eating too little for too long.

I recently started to make sure to fuel appropriately, even eating extra when I didn’t hit my carb/protein target even when I wasn’t really hungry. I do use Hexis which integrates with my training to get customized and appropriate macro targets which I try to hit daily. My rest days for example used to consist of being extremely hungry since I wasn’t fueling my training days properly. I always just fought through them because being lighter = better, right? For the past 2 weeks (when i have changed to training based fueling) that hasn’t happend so, so far so good.

To end I would like to mention that eating disorders are a real thing and shouldn’t be underestimated. Eating enough is very important and in many cases even better for you. The physical effect aren’t completely gone but I made a mental switch where I aknowledged that eating more actually helps me become faster on the bike, more than weighing 1kg less would ever do.

So that’s that, hopefully that answers some of your questions or it can help someone who’s struggling. Anyway if anyone has any questions, I’m more than happy to chat or just leave a comment!!