What are the food charts for?
Grant Geralds asked:
Sorry, actually, the question is completly different, and I wasn’t sure how to state it without it being boring.
Well for the New Year’s I am trying to just write down all of the foods I eat, and if it’s not healthy, I’d go like run a lap, or something!
I am trying to make a food chart with a little 2 year planner with a calender in it, and maybe writing down all I eat for the day on a little square? And that determines how much I work out the next day to burn the foods off.
Am I doing this all right??
Sorry, actually, the question is completly different, and I wasn’t sure how to state it without it being boring.
Well for the New Year’s I am trying to just write down all of the foods I eat, and if it’s not healthy, I’d go like run a lap, or something!
I am trying to make a food chart with a little 2 year planner with a calender in it, and maybe writing down all I eat for the day on a little square? And that determines how much I work out the next day to burn the foods off.
Am I doing this all right??
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Yep, apology accepted, your question is not about the food chart.
Without being boring, you could have asked “Does the junk food you eat influences the more exercising you do?” or “Will you work out more today because you pigged out yesterday?”.
How can you write all you eat on a little square?
If you’re serious about this, I think you should buy a little $1.30, 5×3, 80 sheets memo book. Each page is bigger than a little square. You get 16 lines to list everything and enough space to add all the calories.
I personally like the 200 sheets (400 pages) 5.5×3.5 Fat Lil’ Notebook (Mead), which lasts the whole year.
I think you have good intentions but if you eat junk food and then run a lap to pay for it, three things will or will NOT happen:
1. If you eat saturated fat, running will NOT unclog your arteries, just use the calorie intake. Some basketball 21 years old athlete died on the basketball court, just because his diet mostly consisted of unhealthy fried food (Southern African Americans diet).
2. You could feel okay with eating junk food, since you’re going to pay for it with exercising.
3. Exercising will be associated with a form of punishment, instead of an enjoyable experience (endorphins kicks in after about 30 minutes) and a positive feeling about doing something good for your body.
You should first aim to eat healthy and exercise.
Like, for example, if my goal is to bike for 10 miles today (about 45 minutes) and burn 320 calories doing so, I could eat that 65 calories chocolate piece and just bike for 2 more miles (like 10 more minutes).
But I would not eat hundreds of calories of junk food, like a 340 calories plain Dunkin’ Donuts and completely annihilate my 10 miles biking. I don’t think I would have the energy to do ANOTHER 10 miles of biking!
If you’re like me, you won’t look at unhealthy food like something you can eat and then pay for it later with exercising. You’ll look at a cookie and only see how much MORE effort you’ll have to do to justify it…I love those little bite-size Cocoa Crispy wafers with cocoa cream. A serving is 8 of them and is 150 calories but I could only eat 2 and bike only an extra mile instead of eating the 8 (totaling 29g about 1oz) and have to bike 5 more miles or 20 extra minutes which will look very long after doing 45 minutes.
At the end…do I want to eat 29g (about an ounce) of something that I will enjoy for a few seconds and then have to exercise for 20 minutes more, on top on my 45 minutes? Very often, I will pass, because I’m lazy and don’t want to exercise more than 45 minutes.
My kitchen is full with high calorie food I will not eat because I’m too lazy to exercise more. Once they rot, I throw them away and I’m glad they end up in the garbage and not on my hips or in my arteries.
I wish you the best. Betty B