Should i exercise after i eat so that it wont store any fat or whatever from what i ate?

Answer 1

If you exercise right after you eat, you will do more harm than good. When one part of your body is doing extra work, extra blood goes to those muscles to aid in the work. This includes digesting and moving the food along.

This is why you have always been told not to go swimming for and hour or more after you eat. The extra blood that your arms and legs need to keep you swimming is in your torso. The lack of sufficient blood in your arms and legs is what can cause you to get cramps and possibly drown.

Likewise, if you are trying to do physical exercise right after you eat you will not have enough extra blood in your extremeties and you are likely to pull and strain muscles. (This will prevent you from being able to exercise at all while the muscles heal.)

Also at that time the food you just ate is still being broken down and processed by your body. It is not ready to be burned up right away.

The optimum time for maximum calorie burn is 90 minutes after you finish eating. For those 90 minutes you should be resting and relaxing and letting your body do it's work.

Also make sure that you are drinking enough water during the day and getting all the nutritional supplements that you need so that your body will function properly. If you don't do those things it is harder to lose weight.

The number one way to lose weight is through weight lifting. When you lift weights you build muscle tissue which burns fat tissue for fuel. Each pound of heavy muscle, (chest, back, legs) burns 60 extra calories a day (at rest.) Each pound of light muscle will burn an extra 35 calories a day (at rest.)

So if you swap ten pounds of fat for ten pounds of heavy muscle that is 600 extra calories a day that you are burning before you even start exercising.

You can safely do this without worrying about getting big and bulky. The women who look like guys have to work extremely hard at it for many years. They do not get that way by accident. It couldn't sneak up on you.

Answer 2

Actually, you should exercise BEFORE you eat. When you exercise, it kicks up your metabolic system so that when you eat anything afterwards it will usually burn up most of the harmful stuff - like fats!! Haven't you noticed that after eating a "large" meal, you feel really sleepy & tired? This is because your metabolism is slowing down, along with the rest of your body functions, so most of what you ate will be stored as fat. It doesn't take any energy to sleep now does it? You should also try to eat somewhat "healthy" foods after exercising so it "wasn't for naught". Try to eat at least a nice size salad each day. Salads can have whatever you like in them, even meat, like the Julienne salad, which has turkey & ham. Design your own salad!!

Answer 3

The amount of fat that you store is not going to be affected by whether you exercise after you eat as much as it will be affected by WHAT you eat.
However, that being said, there are ways that you can increase the amount of calories you burn, so that you don't store fat (or as much fat) after eating a high calorie meal. Now all that BS about exercising within the fat burning zone is just that - BS. There IS such a thing as a fat burning zone. It is 55-65% of your Max Heart Rate. This is the heart rate at which your body is more likely to burn fat while you are exercising (after it has burned off the short term energy stored within other areas of your body). However, the total amount of calories that you burn will not be as great as if you exercise at a high intensity (65-85% of your Max Heart Rate). When you exercise in this zone, it taxes your muscles, as well as your cardiovascular system. After you are done exercising, your body will expend many more calories recovering from the (good) damage you did. That recovery period is also what increases your metabolism after exercise. This does not happen as much with low intensity exercise (within the fat burning zone). My recommendation - join a high intensity sport - like Ultimate Frisbee, or soccer. If you are going to work on a treadmill, use one with a Heart Rate Monitor. Your Max Heart Rate can be determined by subtracting your age from 220. Be sure to consult a physician before participating in a high intensity exercise program.
Enjoy!

Answer 4

It would depend on what you are trying to achieve. If you want to gain muscle and loose fat then you work out at least an hour after you have eaten your biggest meal. If you're trying to gain a few extra pounds then you want to eat a good meal at least an hour after you have worked out. Either way working out is always a good thing when done for the right reasons.

Answer 5

No. After you exercise it makes your metabolism faster all day. If you don't overeat, your food will be burned off as energy no matter what. The only time it stores as fat is if you dont need it.

Answer 6

Why not exercise before you eat, I find that it cuts my appetite. Just thinking about what I had to go through to burn a few calories makes me careful about what I eat. What is it they say "nothing tastes as good as you look and feel after you shed a few pounds".

Answer 7

No. After you eat, your insulin levels are high so your body thinks STORE STORE STORE. You should actually exercise when you are hungry. That's when your glucagon levels are high - glucagon starts to mobilize fats and other energy sources from storage for you to burn when you exercise.

Answer 8

No, that won't solve anything. And by the way, don't exercise right after you eat! That's bad for you!

Answer 9

wait two hrs after you eat to exercise. after your body has begun to break that food down it will be used as energy and burned off plus you won't get a tummy ache

Answer 10

u shld eat less instead of trying 2 shed the calories after tat..