I have a few unnamed friends who are pretty fired up about the all you can eat breakfast buffet at the Paris hotel in Vegas. For a few days this month (during the NSCA conference) the Paris won’t be making much money on that buffet as the big (former) Baylor U boys will be eating them out of house and home. These guys can get away with 3 days of French toast, pancakes, greasy eggs, biscuits, bacon etc. because they are loaded with muscle (the tissue that revs up a person’s metabolism even when they are at rest), very physically active and eat very healthy foods a good 80 – 90% of the time.
But for most people I wouldn’t recommend training to eat and yet I hear stuff like this all the time “well, I did 20 minutes on the treadmill today so I figure I can eat some cheesecake (insert food of choice here)”. I’ve also known a number of people who sign up for Team in Training, half marathons etc. in hopes that the training alone will facilitate weight loss. The problem is they train so they can eat instead of fueling their body so they can train better. And, months later they wonder why they haven’t lost weight.
It just doesn’t work that way. You really need to burn through some serious calories if you want to fairly regularly include breakfast buffets, late nights at Waffle House, and Hagen Dazs into your diet and still have ab muscles you can see. I know what you are saying “oh but what happened to moderation and portion sizes?” If you can stick to the 1/2 cup ice cream servings and small slivers of cake or eat that stuff every once in a while, go for it. For everyone else looking to lose weight, keep track of what you are eating and you may find the real reason you are having trouble losing weight – you are eating way more food than you need. Eat to fuel your body for your training program instead of training simply so you can eat more, because the later approach won’t work unless you are Michael Phelps.
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