Driving Through Mud Puddles Will Sabotage Your Efforts
The gym where I used to work out was located directly beside The-Fast-Food- Establishment-That-Shall-Not-Be-Named. I'd be a wealthy woman if I had a dollar for every time I saw someone walk out of the gym, get in their car and drive straight to the drive through. Maybe they were asking for a big cup of ice water to replenish after all the exertion? I wouldn't bet on it. To use an analogy, eating junk after working out is like washing your car and immediately driving through the biggest mud puddle you can find.
Ask anyone in the fitness industry to analyze diet versus exercise and you will probably hear a statistic stating that fitness is 20% of the equation but that diet makes up the other 80%. You may have heard the quote that great bodies are made in the kitchen, not just the gym. Sad, but true, you can cancel out that 30 minutes of hardcore work on the elliptical with a single bag of fast food. What a waste.
As a very smart man once told me, there's no such thing as junk food, there's only food and junk. What do you want to put in your body after a workout?
This is SO true and the reason why almost five years of training..not to mention a LOT of money spent, and no weight loss!
ReplyDeleteI would work SO hard in the gym and say to myself "why would I EVER want to mess this up by eating crap"..and later in the evening, a switch in my brain would go off and bam!
The studio I was at was right next to Dunkin Donuts..we'd work out in the parking lot, right next to the drive thru.
One time I saw that there was a doughnut shop that shares it's building space with a Curves. When I first saw that, I thought, "How cruel!"
ReplyDeleteThere have been MANY times where I've also had the thought that I wouldn't have to kill myself in the gym working out, if I could eat sensibly. I still haven't gotten the knack of 80-20 yet.
When I started to exercise, it actually helped me to avoid food. Not that I was eating junk anyway.. but once I started recording everything and counting calories, everything becomes a number. To burn 300 calories and then eat a 500 calories big mac is stupid beyond words if you are trying to lose weight. I was never able to use exercise to have a treat. You spend an hour exercising and then 2 minutes eating.
ReplyDeleteSending you another thank you for another gentle nudge, well, more like another smack to reality. I say this every weekend... Now to find the stamina to make the change, especially since I eat well Mon-Fri (with the occasional dinner out).
ReplyDeleteThanks for stopping my my blog and adding your thoughts!
ReplyDeleteAnother saboteur is sports drinks. Unless you have sweated out buckets, water is better.
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ReplyDeleteso glad you r back
so true
thatd be me right there i workout so hard then some days eat crap
i think its a stress thing
i think thats y lots of people eat fast food
and junk
i never knew about that m&m thing
thats just crazy
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ReplyDeleteYes, very true ma'am, and it just reminds me to keep myself more focused :-)
Bhargavi
I love this, sad but true. I think some of the things people eat they think are healthy are as junky as the fast food choices. Fun post. Thanks for stopping by Foodtrainers.
ReplyDeleteVERY TRUE Karen. You just can't out train a bad diet of food. Plus people more often than not underestimate how much they eat AND exercise as well as how much that exercise works off.
ReplyDeleteYa got to have all parts of the equation. Yes, we can have a treat here & there but not every day & multiple times a day...