If I train enough surely I can eat what I like?

There is a common myth that if you train hard and long and frequently enough, you can eat what you like and won’t gain any extra weight.

Wrong!

The idea that you can simply offset the amount of calories you eat by doing the equivalent amount of exercise is hugely attractive. Just because the likes of Olympic swimmers and tour de France cyclists can eat around 10,000 calories a day and pretty eat much eat anything doesn’t mean that you can.

Unless you’re a full time professional athlete it’s pretty unlikely that you can hope to do enough to burn off everything you eat and eating the wrong things will make it less likely

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