To ask how much you exercise and how often you eat naughty foods?

[suzannajane80]

I try to exercise 4x week, with a session consisting of 45 minute gym or 5k run or equivalent.

I am really naughty and eat chocolate every day :o I try to eat healthy meals (jacket potato for lunch, something with salad for dinner, eat fruit etc) but I probably have one naughty meal (takeaway etc) per week

Is this normal / average?

NOT in massive portions that should say!

I don't believe in Naughty Food, and eat what I like. I average at least 2 hours exercise a day, and it's generally either intense exercise due to limited time, or commuting miles, which is probably still more intense than average.

Your exercise is likely above average, you should also look at how active you are outside of the exercise - as that can make a large difference to overall fitness - which makes much more difference to health than what you eat anyway.

Erm, my legs are allergic to going faster than about 1 mile and hour and I eat dessert every day....

It depends if I'm having a "good" week or a "nuaghty" week. I'm either totally 100% focused on a diet or 100% off the wagon, there is no half way with me.

So on a good week I do 6-7 hours of exercise a week and eat a low calorie diet so that means no cake, chocolate, sweets, booze, takeaways etc

On a naughty week I probably manage 4 hours exercise a week have pastrys for breakfast, sandwich and crisps for lunch a cake in the afternoon and something lovely and fattening with tea all washed down with a few glass of wine.

'Let's change the word "naughty" for "not particularly healthy" then'

There's no such thing as that, either. It's just food.

Eat right. Exercise. Die anyway.

How will knowing whether or not you're 'average' help with your worries about diabetes and cholesterol? .

Do you have any reason to think you're especially at risk of those things, family history etc? Otherwise if you're slim, active and eat a balanced diet, you're surely not likely to be high risk?

To answer for me - I honestly don't do much exercise at the moment, other than walking, though I want to get back in the habit of doing a swim/gym session a couple of times a week. I don't really worry about diet, and just eat what I feel like, and it seems to balance out OK.

Also, I am never 'naughty', because I am an adult woman and not a toddler...

I also hate the phrase "naughty" food

My exercise and food varies. I aim to swim 3 x a week (45 min to 1 hour per time) which is what I've been doing for the last year, but haven't been at all this week yet and it is already weds! So I guess say 2 hours on average at the moment. Don't do that much apart from swimming, or at least not regularly. I want to start a new tennis class though.

As far as food goes, I don't eat chocolate that often (maybe once a week) but im not too fussy about what I eat. I do look at calories sometimes and I eat plenty of veg, but I also have lots of coffee, cheese, pasta or pizza a couple of times a week... I guess I am fairly normal/average in my food?! Dunno really.

I think viewing food as naughty is part of an unhealthy relationship with food
If I eat takeaways or cakes or treats, hot damn they are great wonderful foods and I enjoy them immensely. Just weekly rather than daily ( personal choice I don't have a sweet tooth)
Exercise, I have 3 dogs that's 1 -2 hrs a day of walking or biking.
We walk/cycle the school run another 2 miles daily.
I dog walk other people's dogs...
I'm low carbing as I got fat drinking many cans of beer for years on end.
I've stopped. Was beer naughty? No it was foolhardy of me but t saw me through some stuff for a decade...

My lunch was very naughty today. It kept jumping up and running around the room, blowing raspberries at me.

Does anyone else find they put on lots of weight when they exercise loads? I don't mean in an elite athlete way, just in a getting fat way - because you get hungrier?

When I want to lose weight I stop exercising because I don't have much of an appetite when I'm not very active.

To be fair, OP, over-controlling your diet has it's own health implications (low red and white blood cell count, reduced immune-system function, fatigue,etc).

You sound like you would be at the lower end of a healthy weight for your height on the BMI chart ... try not to overthink and just enjoy 'naughty' food in moderation.

Exercise makes me hungry too. Especially swimming for some reason. I am always starving after swimming. I don't exercise to try to lose weight though (just as well really!), more for overall health and fitness.

I agree with piffle that seeing food as 'naughty' implies an unhealthy attitude towards food. I had an eating disorder for 6 years and I held the same kind of food in the same regard.

Well my sandwich has just been arrested for running a chain of sweatshops in northern Thailand, employing children as young as 6 in awful, awful conditions. There's some evidence of involvement in the drugs trade as well, investigations are ongoing...

Not so much naughty as EVIL, really.

No food is naughty that IMO is why some women have issues with food because they describe them as naughty

Good god, swimming makes me ravenous too, always has.

I like to exercise, but not too much otherwise I get very hungry and want to eat everything.

Ahem @ "naughty food".

Also what's defined as "healthy/unhealthy" depends on what you eat. I eat a high-protein high-saturated-fat diet, but keep my starches low (I still eat carbohydrates in the form of fruit & some sugar, though)

I lift weights 3 x week for 60-90 minutes, and I have a personal training session once a week (usually mobility work, or sprints).

I am fat (as in heavy), size 14/16, quite well-built and very strong.

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Rather a lot.

He's not the son of Cod, he's a very naughty sandwich!

I fell out with a friend who is slim and healthy and maybe a little under weight because she posted a bag of chips on her facebook saying SHHH dont tell anybody but im craving, she then posted her piddley bit of fruit for breakfast , I didnt hold back

Addendum to the above: when I say I eat a diet high in sat. fat, I mean things like: I have fried eggs cooked in butter or coconut oil every day. And bacon a couple of times a week. Yum!

Naughty? How old are you, 6?

I ate a package of cheese and onion crisps, but I spanked the bag first. I probably won't see morning for my cholesterol being so high.

In OP's defence, I work with loads of women and they all talk about being 'naughty' in relation to food. It's a bonding thing for some women and they think you're weird if you don't see food the same way. Agree it's not a helpful way to see food and drink though.