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I’ve got a crazy story for you today about exercise, athletes, and food cravings gone wild!
It’s a real-life illustration of one of the “cravings creators” that’s outlined in our latest ebook, Crush Your Cravings. (If you haven’t downloaded your copy yet, you can get it here: CLICK THIS LINK.)
If you follow American Basketball, you might of heard of Los Angeles Lakers player Dwight Howard.
Let’s roll the clock back to 2014 when he was having trouble coming back after a back injury.
On the outside, he looked lean, strong, and basically invincible.
But he had a BIG secret that everyone on his support crew was helping him keep: he was a major sugar freak who craved it all of the time.
Eventually, the team’s nutritionist figured out something was going terribly wrong and she confronted him, and Howard told her the truth…
… he was eating a LOT of sugar in the form of chocolate/confectionary bars – the equivalent of about 24 a day, or about 500 grams of sugar!!!
That’s about 2,000 calories a day just in sugar – not to mention all the unhealthy fats and other not-good-for-you ingredients in all those junky products. Some estimates put the daily calorie total at more than 5,000.
But here’s the thing. It wasn’t just that he was eating too much sugar. He also had tingling in his arms and legs, and he was having trouble catching passes.
The suspected reason: A nerve problem called dysesthesia, which can happen with people who have diabetes!
And yet on the outside, he still looked like a healthy, strong pro basketball player.
After the intervention, Howard worked with the team’s nutritionist to replace all that sugar with healthier choices that would fuel his workouts and help keep him satisfied.
It wasn’t long until the tingling started to go away and his health markers (i.e., blood sugar levels) improved.
Now obviously Howard’s workouts were long, intense, pro-level workouts, but it just shows:
Takeaway: pay attention to how you feel AFTER your workouts and observe how different kinds of workouts (strength, long-slow cardio, high-intensity, etc.) impact your cravings and how they make you feel later in the day.
Knowing your body is the KEY to success.
Plan ahead and fuel yourself with a light, healthy meal or snack before and afterward, to help keep those cravings at bay!
If you need healthy strategies, I can help!
Book in for a No-Sweat goal-setting session (BOOK HERE) or book a phone chat for our LEAN21 Program which is designed to get you in shape FAST! How would losing 3-5kg of pure FAT in 21 days sound? This program has the power to do just that!
Make it an amazing day!
Marty Skele
Reference:
www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/page/presents18931717/the-nba-secret-addiction
www.mensjournal.com/sports/dwight-howard-reveals-he-ate-around-24-candy-bars-day-almost-decade/