The normal mind set for most health conscious people is how much calories they burn while exercising without considering the food they consume.
According CBC, some experts say that people think when they exercise they are burning calories and will lose weight, without considering what kind of food they put in their mouth.
Exercise is important for health reasons like cardiovascular fitness; however, a study discovered that the amount of weight being shed from doing exercise is just on an average amount. Steven Bray, a health psychologist at McMaster University said that when calories are burned during exercise, the body feels empty and therefore pushing the body to fill in that emptiness and drives hunger.
He explained that the challenging part for most people is that it takes a little bit of time to burn the calories at a high intensity level. Calories are consumed quickly and it is very to over consume because of the hunger that was developed because of exercise.
A small study was set up for CBC news by McMaster kinesiology Prof. Martin Gibala. This is to test how much men and women choose to eat after doing stationary bicycles for some time. The researchers measured how much calories were burned and how intense the exercise was as well.
Jeninel Sayes, one of the participants in the high-intensity group said that she got hungry and started to crave for a "big" meal like pizza, fruits and vegetables. She thinks that the amount of food she is craving for depends on the amount of sweat she did while exercising.
Prof. Gibala said that and average person can only burn about 200 to 300 calories at a normal pace. He explained to his students that the body weight is controlled by what is consumed and fitness is controlled through exercise.