Eating And Exercising
How To Get The Most From Your Exercise:
- Have A Healthy Breakfast: By the time you wake up in the morning, most of the dinner you ate has been digested and used up by the morning. So, wake up early and make time to have breakfast. If you do not eat, you will feel sluggish and lightheaded. if you plan to exercise within an hour of eating breakfast, then have a small light breakfast and have a juice to increase your blood sugar.
- Time Your Meals Based On Their Size: You can have small meals two to three hours before exercising. And if you want to have a large meal, have it three to fours hours before exercising. You can also have a snack in between your exercise or before it. It depends on how you feel.
- Never Skip Meals: If you are short of time and don’t want to have a full meal, then have a candy that will raise your blood level. Not eating and exercise makes one feel lightheaded and weak. Candy can improve your performance compared to eating nothing at all. Eat a snack like yogurt or some sweets. Find out what works best for you.
- After Your Workout, Do Eat: To replace glycogen in the body and help your muscles to recover, eat a meal full of protein and carbohydrates within two hours of your exercise session. Women in particular require more protein than men.
Tips:
- A banana is the ideal pre-exercise snack. It is full of energy-giving carbohydrates but is light enough not to leave you feeling bloated.
- Be prepared for after-exercise hunger as a strenuous exercise session can leave you feeling ravenous, but don’t use it as an excuse to binge. Get a good, healthy snack ready before you start exercising, so there’s no danger of heading for the cookie jar. Try a banana and a glass of skimmed milk, a bowl of hearty soup that just needs warming, a whole grain roll with hummus, a pot of low fat yogurt with chopped fruit stirred in.
- Measure your waist. If your waistline is more than 81cm/33 inches for women, 94cm/39 inches for men, then you’re in danger of getting diabetes and heart disease. Start an exercise plan now, and make moves to reduce the amount of unhealthy foods you eat.
