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

[tulips27]

I've exercised all morning today and for some reason I've got really ravenous and I think I've undone all my work (although I'm not exercising for weight loss in particular).

Breakfast: two black coffees
Cycle 5 miles
Swim 45 minutes

Post swim snack: banana from my bag, a few nuts (so far so good)

Now at this point I would normally go home and eat nothing till my evening meal, but because the weather was so nice I treated myself to a Tesco meal deal which I never do because I can't afford it! I just got carried away.

Meal deal: Brie and cranberry sandwich, hot chocolate

Cycle 5 miles

Evening meal: two samosas and a side salad (no dressing)

Then (!) I was still hungry and this is where things got out of control, I've just demolished another samosa and a small bag of kettle chips from the meal deal that I was saving.

So if you look at it, I've ended up putting away a lot of unhealthy food and probably lost my gains from exercising at all. But I was soooo hungry, I still am. I could eat another dinner right now if I'm totally honest. 😩

Regular exercisers, where am I going wrong? I'm starving. Any advice welcome.

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

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

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

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!

• 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

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

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!)

True.

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.

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

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 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.