Are those holiday cookies with their delicious frosting and colorful sprinkles looking extra special good to anyone else? While most of us aren't dieting, I did find this article interesting. I don't know about anyone else, but when I'm hungry, I don't have visions of steak and potatoes dancing through my head. Rather, I have actually tried to figure out on long runs how many different forms of funfetti I could incorporate into one desert (in case you're wondering, I settled on a funfetti cookie icecream sandwich with funfetti icing on the top... mmmmmm). And, after reading the first page of that article (the second page is rather obvious... math never lies), I think I might have figured out why:
"But cookie monster problems arise when time-deprived or dieting athletes consume inadequate fuel..."
Ok, while I (and I'm presuming everyone else) does eat something before doing a long run, 2+ hrs of steady exercise is definitely going to throw you into a temporary calorie deficit. And, while energy gels help, you would have to be eating 1 approximately every mile after a while to break even (going off of the old rule of thumb that you burn ~100 calories/mile... this obviously must be adjusted based on weight and pace, but it's good enough to make my point). So, in addition to craving salt (which is a sign that you're electrolytes might be out of whack), it makes sense that endurance athletes crave sweets.
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