Calorie Burn

So you hit the gym, sweat your ass off and burned a shit ton of calories.

Now what?

Well, I can tell you what you shouldn't do. You should not head home and feel like you have a free pass to eat what you want. No you can't have 'just a little treat' because you kicked butt at the gym.

You can't out train a bad diet.  Are you sick of hearing this?? haha.

Now, everyone is different when it comes to calories. I use a Polar FT4 to track my burn, I like it because it's reliable and easy to use. They have more expensive watches out there, but most with features I would not use.

On average I burn about a 100 calories every 10 minutes at the gym.

Some day's I kick more ass than others. I'm thinking I shouldn't have scrubbed the glitter out of my floors, I may have overexerted myself, my heart rate was sky high yesterday at the gym.
I'm sure it had nothing to do with my singing.....out loud.
'You can go hard or you can go home'

Usually I eat back half of what I sweat out at the gym, about 500 calories, I try to eat these in the form of protein and usually within 30 minutes of working out. This is important!
Eating before fuels your body to get through a workout, eating after helps to rebuild your muscles.
We all want some nice sexy muscles, right??

In fact, I'm teased because I'm ALWAYS the one eating during class :)

I love protein bars {little/no sugar!}, hard boiled eggs, greek yogurt, apple and PB.

I also really love Chia Seeds, I've seen them around and decided to give them a go.

They are high is fiber, protein, and Omega-3 and they expand in your tummy to help keep you full.

I sprinkle them on my oatmeal and my apple dip, looooooove. You can get them at most health food stores.

Dip= PB, Greek Yogurt, Honey, Cinnamon, Chia Seeds

What works for me may not for you, some people do better eating back ALL their burn.

It's like breastfeeding, some people get all skinny.

I didn't. I may have gotten fatter.

BUT, please don't starve yourself. Not fueling correctly will only hurt you in the long run.

I broke in some new running shoes last night with a few miles on the damn dreadmill.

I found my Saucony Guide 5's online super cheap at Walk to Run Shoes.

Free shipping and they I had them in 3 days, SOLD.

Happy Friday!
Just to leave you with a little blogger humor....