Eat more?

[Hoosier]

Simple question: Do you eat more after the dive?


Most common meal after the dive, especially for dinner is a steak for me. I have seen that it is more common to have a steak on tech diving community. Of course, tech diving requires more physical demands.

I used to swim three times per week, 1000 meter fin kicking and 400 meter swimming, ok sometimes two times per week. I lost about seven pound so far though. There is no more progress.

I have searched for some articles about a weight loss. Most studies argue that the swimmers used to eat more after the exercise so that there is no weight loss that much compared to the joggers and cyclists. The studies also show that the cold water swimming is also increasing a good appetite. It sounds like the diving or swimming doesn't help my weight loss that much....:huh:

So, what is your case? Do you eat more noticeably?

 

[NorCalDawg]

Of course. It's natural. Diving and swimming both dehydrate you, and dehydration also makes you hungry.

Now, if you are fitness swimming (and note I say fitness swimming, because you don't burn many calories diving) you are burning alot of calories, eating a little more afterwards won't kill you because you've still reduced your caloric intake (as long as you don't overeat).

 

[CrawfishDiver]

mmmnnn seafood

 

[Divin'Papaw]

Weight loss is really just math. More calories out than in. I've been both a competitive swimmer and runner. When training intensely, sure your appetite goes up. That's good. You certainly need more food the more you're training. However, you do have to be careful not to train just enough to increase your appetite but yet then begin to consume more extra calories than you burn. The math won't work!

There is also an element of body composition. It is possible as you get in shape to begin to change your body composition, loosing some fat and adding muscle, which can cause you to stabilize or even add weight. This is why weight is a poor gauge of actual progress in physical fitness. You need to add additional data like % body fat, % muscle, BMI or something like that.

Even though I consider myself to be in very good physical shape, especially cardiovascularly, I do find a day of diving to be strenuous. It's not really the diving itself. It's all of the work that goes into getting ready and then tearing down. This certainly applies mostly to cold water diving, but that's primarily what I do. I find that I don't eat much before diving nor during, but am quite hungry after.

 

[Diving Doc]

Me I get the munchies BIG TIME!!! Lots and lots of sweets! Haribo in particular ( I wonder if they will sponsor me?) "lb bag disappears in seconds!

 

[grazie42]

Diving makes me hungry craving all sorts of sweets and other stuff. I´m not convinced that it is because I NEED more after a dive (I´d like it to bee true) but I want it...It´s just one of those things I associate with diving and I "feed the beast" after dives whether there´s a real reason/excuse to do so or not...

 

[johnny_bravo]

Big time yes! Outback is my best friend after a day of diving...cold pint and a slab of meat.

-j-

 

[knotical]

We also lose heat energy diving; and need to replace those calories.

 

[Meng_Tze]

.. and dehydration also makes you hungry.

I did not know that.

On eating; I start off the day with coffee and two-three quaker bars. (I don't do b'fast too well). Lunch is another 2-3 bars or a sandwich purely since steak, burger and such come back during diving. After the diving is done for the day.... it's on! Steak or burger will carry me through the night.

So I eat light during the day and drink lots.

 

[erparamedic]

I don't get ravenously hungry after swimming laps (1hr ~ 45 laps+) or diving.

When diving, I eat a small breakfast. Between dives, I like a healthy snack... carrots and broccoli with fat free ranch is my favorite. After diving... I'll eat my lunch/dinner as usual. I don't find that I eat any more than usual. I do drink lots of water before and after.