Choose Your Calories Wisely

No matter how hard you try you can’t out train a crappy diet. Stop rewarding yourself every time you workout by splurging on some sort of high calorie treat because you had a good workout. I hear this one all the time, “That was a good workout, now I can go out to the buffet (I live in Vegas and they’re everywhere).

Let me simplify this for you. If you burn 300 calories in your workout and you reward yourself with a large blueberry muffin that’s 465 calories that you don’t need. Now you are 165 calories in the wrong direction and you WILL gain weight! That 300 calories you burned is fine and dandy, but if you want it to mean something you better not eat that muffin or you better run for and additional 50 minutes or bike for 66 minutes because that’s how long it will take to burn off the extra calories.

That’s just with one muffin, not a whole buffet. Choose your calories wisely and remember it’s okay to reward yourself once or twice a month but if you do it after every single workout you’re going to be disappointed with the results you get.

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