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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote] think if you train for 2 marathons a year, you can eat whatever you want. I think she was being honest, not a troll.

I'm 40, 5'1" and 115 lbs. This summer, when I was training for a triathlon, I ate whatever I wanted. It was great! Now the flip side to that was that I either swam, ran, or biked 6 days a week and 2 of those days, I tried to do both, usually a 15 mi bike ride followed by a 5 K run. It was hard to fit all that exercise into my day and I'm glad to be done with it, but I miss being able to eat a bowl of chips and salsa at 10 PM with no repercussions  [/quote]

I run an average of 40 miles a week, and I cannot eat whatever I want.  Most active people eat a very healthy diet that sustains that level of activity, rather than downing beer, pasta, fast food, and brownies !
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Agreed. I workout hard every day of the week -- no days off at all -- for a minimum of an hour. 3-4 days I workout an extra hour. I do lots of Tabata/HIIT workouts, lots of heavy lifting, lots of kickboxing and higher intensity dance workouts. I cannot and never have been able to eat whatever I want, not even the year I trained for and ran 2 marathons and a handful of halfs and 10 milers. If I ate like the PP who was noshing on the brownie, I'd gain a ton of weight. I eat 1500 calories max on days I workout an hour as long as I get a lot of physical activity during the day as well. If I don't move around throughout the day as much I try to say closer to 1200. If it's a day where I workout for 2 hours (usually weekends), I will allow myself 1500-1800 calories. I am NOT skinny. I'm not overweight, but I'm exactly in the middle of the weight range for my height for a healthy BMI, albeit with pretty low body fat (about 13-15%). The PP who eats whatever she wants clearly works hard, but she's still blessed with a great metabolism. I know lots of people who eat like that and don't exercise too much at all, and they are still very thin. I also know people who seem to eat less than me but are larger than I am. I don't think there is necessarily a formula that works for everyone. You kind of have to figure out what works for you and go with it. [/quote]

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