More exercise=more food

Today I discovered, not the for the first time, so I guess I rediscovered that when I exercise more I need to eat A LOT MORE. First let me tell you what I ate today:

-egg
-lentil soup and bread
-Korean ramen
-bowl of cereal (honey bunches of oats) with banana slices
-half a bagel with cream cheese
-slice of raisin toast
-chicken enchilada with peas and carrots
-medium strawberry and banana smoothie with protein boost from Jamba juice

WOW! That is a lot more food than I have been eating recently! I ate Korean ramen for lunch today and thought I would be satisfied until dinner time, but three hours later I was extremely hungry. So hungry that my stomach was growling and my body was shaking! I could barely stand and walk around because I needed food so badly! That's when I downed a bowl of cereal, a bagel slice, and raisin toast.

Ten minutes later I found myself speed walking with Sydney and Katelyn. We ended up speed walking for half a mile and then jogging for half a mile. It was an easy work-out with them today. I practiced my handstands and finally got over my fear of being upside down and having all my weight on my hands and arms. I tried doing a handstand push-up, but I'm not quite there yet!

After dinner I decided to go to the gym with my mother, which is where I got most of my exercise in! I was on the elliptical for a total of 25 minutes, which consisted of: 8 minute warm-up, 15 minutes of intervals (where I was sprinting 1 minute, then walking the next), and 2 minute cool-down. After that I did about 130 crunches on the exercise ball, some weights to work out my arms and back, and some floor ab exercises.

What I'm really excited about is that my body is requiring more energy, which means MORE FOOD!!! Now I remember why I used to enjoy exercising.