I recently read a study article where researchers had a group of women work out as hard as they wanted to on a treadmill. Then the researchers had the women estimate how many calories they felt they had burned.
Guess what?
The women estimated that they had burned quite a bit more than the actual amount of calories that they did burn.
The researchers then took that same group of women and put them in a room with food and asked them to eat how many calories they thought they had just burned.
You guessed it…..
The women ate a lot more than they thought they burned.
So in reality, they burned less than they thought they did, and they ate more than they thought they burned.
What does this add up to?
A big fat “plateau” (I have a theory about most plateaus but that’s for another post)
You CANNOT out work a bad diet.
You just can’t. End of discussion.
One of my clients turned me on too a cool little widget from Kaiser that I think you will find very useful.
It called “The Burn It Off!” Fitness Calculator http://www.kpwidgets.org/widgets.html
You load this little gadget onto your desk top and whenever temptation strikes…you enter what you are contemplating eating and it will tell you exactly how hard you will have to workout to burn off that little cheat. http://www.kpwidgets.org/widgets.html
Now keep in mind, if you want to progress you’ll have to do your regular workouts PLUS that additional time to keep moving in the right direction.
How’s that for a reality check?
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Sarai Jones