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here’s my take.
If you eat before, you’ll have calories in your blood sugar ready to work. You work off your meal basically. You also risk cramps if you workout too soon. Cramps can kill a workout.
If you eat after, you’ll use more stored calories (body fat), and the proteins you eat after have much better chance of being absorbed by your sore muscles. The downside being that you need to push yourself harder because you don’t have that “ready energy” already in your blood stream.
Personally – I eat a little before. You need SOME energy at the ready. You cant do it all with body fat. I like a low-fat yogurt and a banana. That’s plenty carbs and protein for me pre-workout, and it doesn’t cause cramping. After, I drink whey protein drinks as they metabolize the nutrients almost immediately where food takes a few hours.
I’m not eating fast food or greasy crap like that but i do it foods like homemade hamburgers, spaghetti, and tv dinners sometimes. Usually less expensive food. I try to eat healthy when i can but alot of the times i just cant get around to it.
So is it pointless to keep exercising if im eating like this?
with mental exercise i mean, eg writing down whatever comes into your mind for 30mins as opposed to going for a jog
I try to walk 3 miles a day if I can–is that enough to really get great health benefits or do people walk even more? Do you use a pedometer?
Yeah you need to work out…hit the weights and you will boost your metabolism…