How do you fuel workouts on low appetite?

Fourteen pounds down and feeling stronger than ever, but my appetite has shrunk so much that I'm struggling to eat enough before and after workouts. I usually manage a protein shake and maybe some eggs, but I finish sessions feeling shaky and wonder if I'm just not taking in enough. Those of you who train regularly while on semaglutide, what does a typical pre-workout meal or snack look like for you when nothing sounds appealing?

Liquid calories were the trick for me when solid food felt impossible. A shake with some blended banana and a spoon of oats about an hour before training sits easy and stopped that drained, shaky feeling I used to get on the treadmill. Still barely have an appetite, so I just treat it like part of the workout routine instead of waiting to feel hungry.

I lift early mornings on Zep and had the same shaky feeling until I started treating pre-workout food as non-negotiable even when nothing appeals. A banana with a scoop of protein powder stirred into oatmeal goes down easy for me, and I eat it whether I want it or not. Seven weeks in, the shakiness is gone and my lifts have actually gone up.

I'm on Victoza and had the same issue until I started timing a small snack like Greek yogurt with berries about 45 minutes before lifting, no matter what. Solid food barely registers appetite-wise for me either, but that combo sits light and my sessions stopped feeling wobbly. Down 30-some pounds myself, so I get not wanting to eat back progress, but fueling before workouts made a real difference for me.

Congrats on the 14 lbs. I'm on Saxenda and had the same problem until I started snacking on small things throughout the day instead of forcing big pre-workout meals - a cheese stick, a few crackers, half a protein bar an hour or two before. It's less about feeling hungry and more about keeping something in the tank, and the shaky post-lift feeling mostly went away for me once I did that.

I train fasted-adjacent on Victoza too and the shaky thing stuck around until I stopped waiting to feel hungry at all. Small handful of dates and a scoop of protein in water 30 minutes out is my go-to now, barely any volume but it keeps my lifts from going sideways. Down 39 lbs and honestly my sessions feel better than they did pre-med once I quit trying to eat a real meal first.

Only 9 lbs in myself so this is fresh for me too, but the pattern I'm seeing in these replies is that nobody waits for hunger anymore - they just schedule small stuff. I've had luck with a rice cake and peanut butter about an hour out; it's the only thing I can stomach on shot days and the shakiness after my runs mostly stopped once I started. Agree the trick is volume as little as possible but calories anyway.

81 lbs down here and the scheduled-snack thing is exactly what saved my training too. I do half a banana with a little protein in water maybe 30 minutes out, even with zero appetite, and the post-lift shakiness went away completely once I stopped waiting to feel hungry first. Drinking your fuel helps when food sounds awful - liquids go down easy no matter what.

Same experience here - the shakiness was my body telling me scheduled fuel beats hunger cues on this med. I'm only a couple months in but a small smoothie with protein and half a banana before sessions fixed it, and liquids really are the answer when solid food feels like a chore.

Down 66 lbs and my bench never really budged, so the short sessions work fine in my experience -- 3 days a week, 30ish minutes, compounds only. I also front-load protein early and just accept evenings are a write-off, which took the pressure off. The fragile feeling early on faded for me once I stopped trying to eat like I did pre-shot.

Down 53 myself and the early weak feeling definitely passed once I quit forcing big dinners. I run 3 short compound sessions a week and keep my one solid meal plus a shake in the first half of the day, evenings never happen on the pill either.

Only 8 lbs in for me but the gym session forced me to figure this out early too. Small handful of trail mix felt doable when a full snack didn't, and I started keeping a juice box in my gym bag for the walk home -- the shaky feeling was gone the first week I did that.

Short full-body sessions were the only thing that stuck for me too. I stopped caring that my lifts stalled around the 40 lb mark -- holding what I had felt like a win, and protein at breakfast made a bigger difference than anything I tried at night.

The shakiness on the way out of the gym was my sign too -- I started treating a shake plus a rice cake or half a banana as non-negotiable even when I felt zero hunger, and it cleared up within a couple weeks. Liquids and small carb-heavy snacks are honestly the only thing that works when appetite is gone.

Down 21 lbs myself and the suppression hits even harder on my med, so I feel this. What saved my sessions was a banana and a few sips of chocolate milk about an hour before -- tiny, but the shakiness stopped. Small stuff still counts, dont feel like you need a real meal.

Down 28 and the sipping trick saved me too -- I nurse half a shake on the drive to the gym instead of trying to drink it all at once. Liquid calories are the only thing my stomach seems to tolerate when my appetite is gone.

Down 66 here and the shakiness went away for me once I stopped treating pre-workout food as a meal and just sipped a shake slowly over the 30 minutes before leaving. Something about grazing instead of eating made it go down easier when nothing sounded good. Greek yogurt with a few crackers after worked better than trying to force real food too.

Down 12 and the appetite thing is real. I started splitting my shake in half -- some before, some right after -- and that alone fixed the shaky finish for me. Small and frequent beats trying to force a full meal my stomach won't take.

Down about 15 myself and I stopped thinking of it as meals at all. A few crackers with peanut butter or a string cheese an hour out is usually all I can manage, but it's enough that my legs don't turn to jelly by the last set. Training fasted just wasn't worth it for me no matter how unappealing food sounded.

Down 29 and same story -- mornings before the gym I can barely face food, but half a protein bar or a couple spoonfuls of Greek yogurt an hour out keeps the shaky thing away for me. Eating tiny and treating it as fuel, not a meal, was the mental shift that helped.