Obliterate overeating… by upping exercise extent and intensity
March 15, 2016 Ashley 0 Comments
It’s strange.
I can spend a half hour jog fantasizing about McDougall’s noodles. And indulging in it right after.
But after an intense run? Or sixty minutes of kickboxing? Nothing’s yummy.
Even, for the ramainder of the day, I won’t get my usual cravings.
While I’ll eat (obvi, because it’s life fuel to help spur more badazzery later), that usual “because it tastes good” munching I sometimes do? Gone. So, what gives? Why is it that anything less intense than a moderate jog won’t necessarily suppress my snacktivity proclivities? Because, says science, the more intense workouts take the blood flow focus away from the belly. Why? ’cause it’s too busy addressing your extremities and whatever it is you’re doing to ’em ATM. And why’s that matter? Well, because of Grehlin, the hormone that makes you hungry. (Think “growl” and “grehlin” sound a like – and your tummy does the former when you’re hungry.) Grehlin’s built in your belly. And if you’ve got less belly blood flowing out to the rest of your bod, then that means less of the hunger hormone is evacuating the gastric factory from whence it came. Also, the hunger suppressing hormone rises. Boom. Reduced urge to splurge.
But it has to happen hard and long before you’ll feel those effects.
And now for a few important yes-and’s to that:
A.) That’s what she said. B.) That specifically means at minimum, moderate intensity exercise’s needed (a good sweat for 30 to 90 minutes). And C.) Intens-ercise is actually proven to be more effective at hewing joules from your diet than simply foregoing your fave foods or eating abstemiously. How do I figure? ’cause when you simply restrict your ingestion of energy increments, the opposite hormonal response happens and you end up ravenous and a half.
In fact, in a study in the UK, they tested exactly that.
A bunch’ve laborator-ians lassoed up some guinea pig people and split the group in half. The first half sat around, aimlessly wasting oxygen, while the second half was sucking it down on a treadmill for 90 minutes. At the end, they were both offered an all you can eat buffet. And, if you’re good at reading comprehension and context, you might be able to guess the results: “Surprisingly, the group who had just worked out consumed about one-third fewer calories than the group who had been dieting all day (663 vs. 947 calories).”
Honestly, I wasn’t that surprised about that bit. As an avid runner, I’ve noticed that a good, full body blood flow is always gonna lower your bacon pancake hankerings. Much like I stated at the start of this article. Well… at least straight away. By the end of my drive home from wherever I worked out? Sure, I’m starving.
But, even then, I won’t overdo it once I get some grub in my grill.
It’s like my body’s got a better fullness gauge going. (Unlike how it is after a day of floating into a coma on my sofa.) What did give me a slight exercise epiphany, however, was this next bit: “The longer you exercise, the longer you’ll experience this side effect. So far, the researchers have only looked at these effects for the first two days following exercise, so they can’t say for sure whether the hunger suppression lasts longer than that.” See, I typically mix up my half azzed cardio with my til-my-mug-turns-purple workouts. If I’m being honest, I only pull out the big, adrenalized, shin-splitting run guns when I’m Hulk level angry. But, in retrospect, I realize this has applied every time I’ve done vexation motivated exercise. Afterward, I’m significantly less food focused for the next 48 hours or so. Days when I go about 50 or 60%, though, I gotta consciously put my jaw on lockdown as I wander through Wegman’s. So what’s that all mean for me?
Well, the key’s to go HAM each workout or risk eating like one.
And I need inspo to sprint like I’m pizzed at the world.
So, I s’pose it’s time to trade out Katy Perry from my pre-workout playlist and reinstate some gangster rap…