Who doesn’t feel a little hungry after participating in sport? Ah that’s right, no one. Everyone could do with a little snack after busting their body with exercise. But what kind of food is best for us straight after exercise? Maybe you’ve just finished playing sport after getting some soccer kit using Eurosport coupon codes  or maybe you’ve been to the gym. Some of us make the mistakes of filling ourselves with sugary drinks, snacks, and general crap. Here’s what you should be consuming after sport:

Carbohydrates:

Pasta is brilliant for eating before and after taking part in a sport. Carbohydrates give our bodies lots of energy, energy that needs restoring after exercise. It’s slow release energy too so it keeps us going for longer after exercise until our next meal or snack. Carbohydrate foods include potatoes and pasta, which are extremely common. The best, healthiest, option is to return home from your wherever you’ve completed your sport and making yourself a carbohydrate based meal. Aside from the fact that this restores your body with proper, sustainable, energy this option keeps you healthier as it isn’t simply adding on all that fat you just burnt off whilst exercising.

Sugary foods:

Sugar provides us with an instant source of energy, which is exactly what some people want when they just finished working out. Since the energy releases straight away you should only rely on sugary foods when you know it won’t be too long until your next meal or snack. Otherwise you’ll fine for a short while, but then just crash. It’s important for the food you eat to give you sustainable energy levels and a balanced, controlled budget using guidance from the likes of a Weight watchers promo code to help you lose or maintain your weight when temptations are so high after physical exercise!

Crisps:

First of all no, crisps aren’t good for you. They definitely shouldn’t be your first choice of post exercise food but to many they are. They contain a lot of fat as well as a lot of energy, which again is rather fast release. Crisps won’t keep you going as long as pasta, or other carbohydrates, but they’ll certainly maintain your energy levels longer than any sweets, or other sugar based foods, will.

Those are some of the main foods people tend to eat after participating in sport or exercise. Although we highly recommend the carbohydrates option there other options available. Something we definitely don’t recommend is considering fizzy, or energy, drinks as a proper energy. They contain an extremely unhealthy amount of sugar and don’t actually give you much energy at all. Just be wary, these “energy” drinks are simply fizzed, sugary, flavored water. They are not a valid option.

We are off to there!

Not up there actually, but at the foot.  But going up the foot was already a good 3 km uphill climb.

Sweat out much, better than the 30 minutes walk in the treadmill.

I wish we could often do this -

Our last meal was Sunday evening but had free fruit meal Monday morning.  Result?  3 pounds lost.  I have 32 weeks to attain my ideal body weight on 1000 calorie intake per day.  So that is roughly 350 calories per meal.    I hope this lost pounds will be lost forever.  hahahahaa .  There will be another session that will begin on Saturday just to avoid eating a lot during the long holiday.  But I am not going to join for I have many payables at the end of the month.

Here are some of my photos during the Monday morning.

–complimentary breakfast–

–Yay! Me with big smile ^^ –

–The some of us with our Clinical Dietitian!
5 of our DAREmates are not in this photo –

Can you guess who lost the most?  It’s Nonoy, the guy in this group.  The one and only guy.  He lost 10 pounds as he combined the diet with exercise.  Monday was still their 6th day and he has already lost that much.

Join us next time!

There will be another batch that will begin on Saturday, October 29 and then another one in November.  You may call 221-3029 and have it connected with the Nutrition and Dietetics Department.  Look for Ma’am Lai. 

DARE is an acronym for Dietary Approach to Reduce Excess Weight and a program of the Nutrition and Dietetics of Mindanao Sanitarium and Hospital.  I am obese grade 2.  I have 32 weeks to gain my ideal body weight as long as i coupled my diet with exercise.  This is a caloric diet.  I am allowed to eat 1000 calories per day and that is barely 350 calories per meal.  So those who have enrolled have to familiarize how much calories we are going to store if we eat food.  It is not really dieting to become skinny but it is more on becoming responsible and conscious on anything that we put into our mouth.

All foods served throughout the week is either raw or cooked water-based.  The juices are all fresh fruit juices: beetroots, watermelon, tomato, carrots, and a combination of two or three of these fruits.

I missed Sunday breakfast because I slept morning already and I was not able to wake up on time for breakfast. ^^

Shown are our foods during the last three days:

FRIDAY -

SATURDAY -

SUNDAY -

Your stomach shouldn’t be a waist basket.  ~Author Unknown

 A diet is the penalty we pay for exceeding the feed limit.  ~Author Unknown

This post also serves as my entry for:

Monday and Tuesday Food in the previous post.

Wednesday, the third day, was fruits and vegetables day -

Breakfast:  Garden salad, slice of papaya, watermelon, cucumber soup, and tea.
Did not drink much of tea at the end of the meal as I was in a hurry.

LUNCH:

Raw Pechay
Blanched camote tops
half slices of 3 fruits
carrot juice
Mixed vegetable soup

DINNER:

blanched string beans with ground peanuts
fruit mixed
squash soup with celery leaves (so yummy)

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