Exercise and food intake

I find that when I don't work out, I can control my food intake just fine. However, when I start working out regularly, I totally lose control and I'm eating ALL the time. It's healthy stuff mostly, but I'm not losing any weight because of it. Any suggestions?

UGH!! So frusterating!! I understand completely.  I'm assuming it's because your body needs the extra calories due to the fact that you are working out more, but I have not found a good way to control this either.  Other than taking smaller bites and being careful to measure out my foods.  Any other suggestions would be appreciated! 

I have the same problem! I cant find a happy medium! Even when I eat more to compensate for working out I am still hungry! Its so frustrating.

I will eat dinner go workout then come back home hungrier than before I ate dinner! So, I'll drink milk. ~Got milk? Because I work out so late in the evening, I do not want to eat anything else cuz I'll get home around 930 from the gym, shower and wind down look at the clock and it'll be 11...it sucks cuz sometimes while I'm lying in bed, my stomach will growl and I'm talking to it saying..."NO! Your not hungry, You ate dinner!" Drinking the milk kind of holds me off til I fall asleep. lol.

But, my fellow shorties, what I'm noticing and not liken one bit is, I started upping my workout routine...I work out for an hr now. At least 20 minutes of it running at 5mph and the rest walking at an incline been doing this at least 3-4 times a week and I'm gaining weight. I've gained 4 lbs. I know my body feels this new routine, my thighs are tight and sore-ish, even my stomach has been sore from the running but, I feel more bloated. When I was doing my same ol, same ol' 30 min elliptical routine I didnt feel fatty like this. I decided to step up my workout so I could see if that'll help me lose, since my old work just let me maintain.  Any thoughts chicas?

I'm having the exact problem; my abs will be super sore and they just scream for food. I drink a toon of water while working out, it kind of helps. I've started eating more fruit, higher in fiber so I feel satisfied without totally ruining my workout.

Hey, I know what you are talking about.  I lost 4# one week and gained 5# the next, doing exactly the same thing as the first week.  FRUSTRATING! DISCOURAGING!  Yeah, but I keep hoping I will find the right formula for small women (workout vs calories).  

My regular workout doesn't make me extra hungry (although I work out in the morning after I eat, and I make sure to eat after it), but whenever I change my workout enough to make me a little sore (or just workout for a long time, even walking), I usually am hungrier, and I also expect to gain weight.  It's a given.  The sore muscles draw in more water so they can heal properly.  It's water weight, it's temporary, and it's a good thing.  Adding muscle is good.  It's the scale that's evil.  OK, it's an inanimate object, so it's not evil, but it really has very little bearing on week to week progress for me.  In the long term, it's important that my weight goes down, but if I can gain and lose 6 pounds in a day, it's really hard for me to take a 1 or 2 pound gain or loss from week to week seriously.