Tell me your honest opinion of this post-exercise food pls

I have mine in the car and loiter in the car park until I'm satisfied that my body is comfortable and safe to drive home. I've also been known to drink a hot drink while changing in the coldest weather.

More people take their own than use the cafe facilities at the place I go to.

Packing mouldy buddleia branches into a bag (for the woodburner) set me off coughing today. The actual burning will be fine (useful to warm the house for cheap), but the leaves half decayed waved around, shedding moulds, weren't too good.

My vision was all screwed (blurry) yesterday until I spent 4 hours sawing up wood (for the burner). Something about the exercise & being outside did my eyes good. Or maybe I can just give all credit to the burner.

I’ve often wondered why wine triggers my asthma but cats don’t, but apparently it’s the sulphur in wine 🍷

“how far did I run” will track your distance, in both km and miles. Free to use and no signing up. I use it for plotting routes but used to use it for measuring distance before I had a garmin

Oh man, If i was trying to be rude...

Here I thought maybe I misunderstood OP because ordinary people round the distances up or roughly and that might explain why OP is saying such surprising things. Like OP is surprised that she was hungry after doing hours of activity but eating few calories.

As opposed to me saying OP is incapable or dishonest But you know, if you want to only think of the worst interpretation, knock yourself out.

fwiw, I don't know how far I cycle or walk or run. I lose count in pool pretty fast, too. I only track time accurately and then guestimate distances. Firing up Strava is just a faff & my phone battery runs flat quickly.

I wonder why cold-water swimming & cold temperature air don't trigger OP's asthma but woodburner does. Asthma is a funny beast.

True.

All that tells you is that they didn’t buy food there. I'm willing to bet they had a flask in the car and/or went straight home to a heated house. People don't typically lower their body temperature without a plan to get warm after.

(Assuming it was November and not a hot summer's day!)

The OP implies she is not a regular exerciser though, so maybe less likely to use strava?

doesnt mean they don’t have strava or know how to measure distance

• I don't know any open water swimmers who wouldn't have something hot afterwards to warm themselves up.

I used to work at an open water swimming venue and many people just left and went home, there was hot drinks and cakes for sale but not everyone had a hot drink

Most people who can't afford heating aren't typically jumping into cold open water in their spare time though! Most people have more sense than to deliberately lower their body temperature in that scenario.

@lljkk is right - I don't know any open water swimmers who wouldn't have something hot afterwards to warm themselves up. If you don't want to spend money heating food or heating your home, then I don't think openwater swimming is for you!

The OP implies she is not a regular exerciser though, so maybe less likely to use strava?

I thought that. Perhaps 10 years ago…. Now, very accurate

People mis-estimate distances. Sometimes "5 mile cycle" turns out to be < 5km.

its not difficult to download strava & measure how far you’ve cycled, or jogged etc. ir use a website, I’d which there are many to plot your path snd it’ll tell you how far you went

op doesn’t say how she measured the distance

You sound hangry OP

Firstly you didn’t have breakfast
you had two coffees

you also didn’t have dinner you had an unhealthy snack

I’ve not rtft but you’re starving yourself and exercising then binge eating rubbish and then berating yourself about it.
of course you were hungry after your dinner, you’d eaten high calorie, low volume, nutritionally poor food and then exercised.

eat actual healthy meals, learn about nutrition and im sure you won’t need to eat a bag of kettle chips after ‘dinner’ and you can be kinder to yourself rather than this torture

Aside from the rest of the energy in/ out (and sources of) open water swimming is very depleting of your body heat and your core temperature needs raising. That's going to stimulate appetite and you need to put heat back into your body.
I take a flask with a tin of something like soup/ stews to eat promptly afterwards. That makes a massive difference. A warm shower later also warms the skin up.

You're not eating enough.
I had a bowl of porridge (sugar, yoghurt, organic milk, fruit) before parkrun. I don't think you should be exercising that hard on black coffee.

People mis-estimate distances. Sometimes "5 mile cycle" turns out to be < 5km.
People mis-estimate time. Sometimes 45 minutes turns out to be only 20 in the water.
One of the open-water swimmers (local) says she really just bobbles in the open water, but I don't think for more than 10-15 minutes. She does a perfect front crawl in the pool for 50 minutes, btw.

The local surfers have full wetsuits so they might be in sea for 45 minutes.

But no heating on at home when it's 10 degrees outside, esp. on top of OW swim, neah, that's where my belief got suspended. DH would do this voluntarily, I suppose. He's not moaning that I put the heating on today & the fire is burning (4 degrees outside & ~16 inside). He sure as heck would not do OW swimming at all in winter.

They aren't a myth - visible on many threads. But clearly even they have their limits!

It goes both ways though - there are also lots of here who normalise what I would see as extreme binge-eating. It can be very eye opening.

Anyway, OP - if what you posted is true, this is definitely disordered eating, and I'd suggest counselling to look at your relationship with food. Your use of the word "good" to describe eating only a banana and a few nuts to last until dinner is very troubling. Moral judgements should not have any place in determining what you eat - it should be about nourishment and fuel.

And yet it hasn’t.

PP have been advising the OP to eat more.

So many MN myths. Including, maybe, ‘anyone who eats less than me is a competitive under eater and must be ridiculed’.

Eat proper meals

You're going to starve and then binge

It's not healthy to eat too little food to compensate for the level of physical activity you're doing. You need to be eating more as has been said.