Ever wonder why some people can exercise religiously for months and not lose any weight?
Every now and again I run into this type of woman at the gym. She is on the elliptical everyday at 5:30 AM, and when I’m leaving the gym at 6:30 AM, she’s still on the elliptical.
When I’m back in the gym around 7 PM, she’s there again too, running through all the weight machines.
The problem is, no matter how hard she pushes herself she’s still not losing weight. The answer to her weight loss goals is in her nutrition plan.
To get the best results out of any program you must not only have a great exercise plan, but a great nutrition plan as well.
And a new study has shown us just how important nutrition is for fat loss.
In this study, women exercised on a treadmill until they burned a set number of calories. The women were then asked to guess how many calories they burned during the workout.
The subjects were also told to eat at a buffet and try to eat the same amount of calories that they had just burned during the workout. Think you could do that?
Shockingly, the researchers found that the women over-guessed how many calories they burned by 300 to 400%! And, they ate double to triple the amount of calories that they had actually burned during the exercise!
Are you undoing all the benefits of your workout by eating too much?
Are you giving yourself “free reign” nutritionally just because you worked out?
It’s a common myth in the fitness industry that you can eat anything you want after your workout and it won’t become fat. It is also a myth that you need large amounts of calories in order to “recover” from your workout (a very small amount will do).
When left to eat as you please, your mind and body will try and convince you to overcompensate and eat more than you normally would.
So don’t shoot yourself in the foot and waste all that hard exercise by eating too many calories, especially in your “post workout meal”.
Always remember that the best approach to getting the body you want and the performance you desire is by combining a solid exercise program with a sound nutrition plan.
