eating and exercise

Question
I'm trying to back to my old weight.  I use to be a fairly good runner and thats how I would stay in shape.  I got off my routine and gained quite a bit of weight.  I exercise usually at minimum an hour a day.  I run about everyother day with eliptical machines in between.  I've noticed that i haven't really been hungry after working out, even after not eating for about five hours.  But I eat anyways because i feel that I need the nutrients and I also don't want my metabolism to slow down.  So my question is: even if I'm not hungry after exercise and i haven't eaten much throught out the day should i eat? And if i don't eat b.c. im not hungry will that slow my metabolism down even thought im not hungry? Thank you for your time, sorry this is complicated!

Answer
It's not that complicated and you're not alone!
 By getting off your routine, you lost muscle mass/tone and this did slow your metabolism. The higher the muscle mass/tone, the more efficiently you burn calories and the more calories you can intake without adding fat.
An eating routine that includes the right foods is absolutely necessary, otherwise all the exercise you do won't mean a thing. Try to focus on getting the right stuff IN at regular times. If you don't, then the body, which is still just a biological organism, will perceive famine (on top of environmental stress which the exercise implies) and the automatic response is to burn muscle first and do whatever it must to store FAT. Even if it means converting burned muscle TO fat. So, all that work and it turns into FAT??? Well, that's the simple explaination anyway.

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