I know the commonly accepted wisdom is that you shouldn’t exercise in the morning on an empty stomach, but I’m trying to lose weight and previously I’ve never had a problem exercising on an empty stomach in the morning.
@GrittyLipids I think it all depends on the person; I never eat before exercise first thing in the morning - #running or #cycling. In a few cases, if I've had a large breakfast before going out on the bike, I’ve … regretted it. 🤷🏻
If it works for you, great. if not, some fuel may be in order.
@WTL@GrittyLipids
It depends on the goal, and objective. Current scientific thinking about performance, is that fasted exercise isn't beneficial, the old school thinking was that if you trained fasted, and raced fueled, you'd have trained yourself to maximize effiency, but the current thought is that you recover better, and can perform better so you get better results.
For weight loss, I think generally just a calorie deficit, matters, but timing matters. I do better with fuel, even dieting.
@WTL@GrittyLipids but... if you can't comfortably exercise when eating, then you gotta do what functionally works.
I'm a professional eater, I can eat at all the times, hungry, full, sleeping, awake, give me food, I'm eating it.
I do need a little time to settle, and am selective about foods, but coffee / oatmeal / bagel / banana pre run, I'm g2g. I do try to move post coffee, but it's not a requirement. YMMV, everyone's patterns are different.
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