Increased Exercise Doesn’t Have to Mean Increased Hunger

It seems like every year around this time I am starting a new fitness program. Usually it’s because I want to drop those extra pounds that the holidays have left on my middle and sometimes it’s because I have a specific fitness goal in mind. Last year, one of my New Year’s resolutions was to run a 5k, so off to the gym I went, trained several times a week and eventually ran the entire 5k. And yes, I dropped a few pounds in the process. But along with the increase in energy that I felt, I also noticed that I was really hungry. More so than normal for sure, and that was making it really hard for me to drop the amount of weigh that I wanted to.

This is not the first time that I have noticed this particular side effect of increased exercise and I have talked to others who say the same thing. So, is there hope of keeping up a good exercise regime and not eating myself out of weight loss at the same time?

It appears so. According to a new study conducted by a team of researchers from Australia, Great Britain and Sweden, if you stick with your exercise program long enough, you might be able to keep your appetite from growing, making it easier to control how much you are eating.

Sounds like a great reason to stick with that new exercise plan through the dreaded plateau to me!

To read more about this study, click here.

http://www.doublex.com/section/health-science/exercise-will-eventually-stop-making-you-hungry