may as well just sit on my bum

I want to make a disclaimer. Never would i tell someone what is the best thing to do for all situations. You know your body best. I will answer your question for what I have found works best based on what I have learned and experienced. If you are building muscle mass, your body needs protein. If you are feeling weak or dizzy after a weight lifting session, then eat an orange after a workout keeping well hydrated. Follow up with a good protein. Try taking a gentle walk around the track to encourage your body to use the fat stored to replace the used energy in your muscles. You might be surprised how good a couple of laps between sets feels.

That's fair, I'm still not sure I agree with you about recovery foods (for me at least) but I respect your position. I will try light cardio between sets to see if that helps with muscle soreness though. Worth a shot. Thanks!

Of course if you are training for specific athletic goals like running a marathon, or are in good physical condition then replacing your energy with carbs is important. thus the reason runners carbo load for a run. I am addressing the average overweight sedentary person.

For someone engaged in a heavy lifting routine (like myself) do you think that taking in some carbs post workout is a 'good' idea to aid in recovery, even if they are overweight (as I am, working on cutting now)? I guess that was the part that surprised me about your comment, and I would appreciate your opinion in that regard. Definitely understandable if your statement wasn't targeted at someone engaged in the sorts of activities that I am.

You'd want carbs before you lift and protein after you lift imo. A baseline of carbs is good period to have but they aren't going to aid your recovery as well as protein will after your workout.

You'd want carbs before you lift and protein after you lift imo. A baseline of carbs is good period to have but they aren't going to aid your recovery as well as protein will after your workout.

I thought that the time frame to get protein in following a workout was also a myth. I have a protein shake in the am on my way to the gym (my breakfast), and get more than adequate protein throughout the day, just not right after working out. I appreciate the advice, it's just opposed to some of the things I recall reading.

Between here:

fed up of repeating myself as no-one reads it anyway but I DO EXERCISE JUST WANTED TO KNOW THE IMPORTANCE OF EATING THOSE CALS BACK

And here:

ok once more for those who think I dont exercise........ read my posts I do

Those who want to call me names because they think I dont exercise then carry on as I exercise every day

To those who rather than answer my point want to pull me apart for my spelling punctuation etc , IM TYPING WITH ONE HAND AND WHEN i try to type faster I miss things out however I am highly educated and until illness took its toll held a responsible job

To those who want to post stupid childish images grow up

To those who obviously enjoy all this get a life


BUT to those who have answered me with respect I thank you and will take things on board to those who are just wanting to have a go your points are worthless because of the way you put them over


Finally how the heck do delete the whole topic because im fed up of the bullying

No one has said anything about you not exercising, and I really don't believe ANYONE in that span was bullying you in any way.

Exercise has plenty of purposes, though fat loss is not one of them.

fed up of repeating myself as no-one reads it anyway but I DO EXERCISE JUST WANTED TO KNOW THE IMPORTANCE OF EATING THOSE CALS BACK

It is pretty normal, in a long internet thread, for people to reply repeatedly to only the original post; they do not read the entire conversation. Trying to change this behaviour (which is widespread on forums, not just on MFP) really WOULD be beating your head against a wall.

If you really want people to stop talking to you/responding to your OP, quit responding to them. In a few days it will be buried far down the list, so it won't catch people's eyes. As it is, every time you respond you bring the post back to the top of the list, so more people see it and respond again.

This. I had more to say, but what a waste of time post this is. Wow.

ok once more for those who think I dont exercise........ read my posts I do

Those who want to call me names because they think I dont exercise then carry on as I exercise every day

To those who rather than answer my point want to pull me apart for my spelling punctuation etc , IM TYPING WITH ONE HAND AND WHEN i try to type faster I miss things out however I am highly educated and until illness took its toll held a responsible job

To those who want to post stupid childish images grow up

To those who obviously enjoy all this get a life


BUT to those who have answered me with respect I thank you and will take things on board to those who are just wanting to have a go your points are worthless because of the way you put them over


Finally how the heck do delete the whole topic because im fed up of the bullying

Nobody's bullying you. You approached the topic in your OP with a poor attitude and people are responding to that.

The reason some people are being a little less than nice is;

1. Whether you meant to or not, your OP had a lot of attitude in it. If we could picture you saying it you'd have your hand on your hip and rolling your eyes.

2. You don't want to listen to any helpful information we are trying to give you. You've decided that eating E calories back is stupid and that's that.

3. You're helping to spread bad information. When I first started here, I also asked (asked, not made a post just to let all of MFP know what I was going to do) if we should eat back the calories we burn. Many people gave me excellent explanations as to why we should eat them back which I was grateful for. It then made sense to me, I just had to clarify to make sure I was doing it right. However if I were a newbie today asking this question, I would be so confused because every other person argues to the death that you shouldn't eat them back. What you choose to do is your life and no there is no law that says you have to do it.....but people who come here that genuinly want to follow the program the correct way, the way the program was designed need to get the correct information. Eating E calories back will NOT make you gain weight, it will NOT make you maintaine weight. If you want to following the program the way it was meant to be followed, you SHOULD eat your E calories back.

Amazing! GREAT JOB!

I don't eat my exercise calories back. I would never lose weight that way.

Yes you would as long as you have calores set to lose weight and don't eat back more than you burn!!