Back when I was running with the triathloning crowd, I had buddies who thought that all the training (running, cycling and swimming) they did gave them a free pass to the local buffet. They believed that they could, after their workouts, eat with immunity and with total disregard for their caloric intake. At the same time, they never could figure out why they weren’t losing those last few pounds they needed to shed to improve their performance.
I’ve said it before, “You can’t out exercise your mouth!” You can take in calories much quicker than you can burn them off. As a rough example: one medium chocolate chip cookie contains over 100 calories. It takes about 3 – 5 seconds to eat. Running at an average pace, one burns approximately 100 calories per mile. For a respectable weekend runner, that takes 6 – 8 minutes.
Do you get the picture? If you go out and run 6 miles, you’ve burned roughly 600 calories. A large hamburger (dressed), large fries and large coke weigh in at over 1,300 calories.
The take-away message is that you can never outrun your mouth. Given free reign, it will eat more calories than you can burn every time.
Hey I Dig Fitness, Good to find you……just decided to do ‘a’ session of yoga, and now am feeling all those muscles I never knew I had! Like your attitude, made me feel like I had stumbled back on the path of digging it again and had found yours trully ‘I Dig Fitness’!
James