{"id":213,"date":"2012-01-09T10:30:47","date_gmt":"2012-01-09T18:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gahealthguide.wordpress.com\/?p=213"},"modified":"2012-01-09T10:30:47","modified_gmt":"2012-01-09T18:30:47","slug":"the-reward-that-hurts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devinephysiques.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/09\/the-reward-that-hurts\/","title":{"rendered":"The “Reward” That Hurts"},"content":{"rendered":"

How are your New Year’s resolutions coming?\u00a0 Hopefully well, especially considering we’re not two weeks in.\u00a0 We’re going to take a moment to talk about a common problem amongst those who set a New Year Resolution to get into shape.<\/p>\n

It was only last year that I read about an interesting study regarding a phenomenon that occurs amongst people who group together to help motivate each other toward health and fitness goals.\u00a0 In the study, one group they talked to was a group of ladies that started off the New Year by speed walking to help get themselves into shape.\u00a0 These four ladies, after dropping their children off at school, would go speed walking through the neighborhood.\u00a0 It was on day two that they decided they deserved a reward for their exertion.\u00a0 They began their walk as normal the next day. . .<\/p>\n

. . .\u00a0 And then they would end up at their local Starbucks, where they would indulge in high calorie drinks and pastries.\u00a0 They would then speed walk home, and started doing this daily.<\/p>\n

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\nThe Perfect Post-Workout Meal.<\/em><\/p>\n

Now, what does this have to do with the study?<\/p>\n

Well, these ladies ended up gaining weight through their New Year Resolution.\u00a0 The amount of calories burned speed walking did not offset the calories from their “Reward” for speed walking in the first place–\u00a0 In the period of time prior to the New Year, they never went to Starbucks, either.\u00a0 Now, they were consuming an additional 500+ calories a day while only burning around 200 – 300 calories.\u00a0 This translated to 1\/2 pound a week of weight gain just from their new morning routine that was meant to lose weight.<\/p>\n

So what’s the moral of the story?\u00a0 Don’t “Reward” yourself in an indulgent fashion.\u00a0 If you’re going to give yourself a reward for getting in shape, limit it to something small, and once a week.\u00a0 If every morning you reward your workout with a pastry, that’s not a reward–\u00a0 It’s a new routine.\u00a0 I’m not against rewards;\u00a0 Trust me, I have plenty. . .\u00a0 But remember:\u00a0 Everything in moderation.\u00a0 Let us know how your resolutions are going in the comments!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How are your New Year’s resolutions coming?\u00a0 Hopefully well, especially considering we’re not two weeks in.\u00a0 We’re going to take a moment to talk about a common problem amongst those who set a New Year Resolution to get into shape. It was only last year that I read about an interesting study regarding a phenomenon […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-nutrition"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3DfsS-3r","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devinephysiques.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devinephysiques.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devinephysiques.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devinephysiques.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devinephysiques.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devinephysiques.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devinephysiques.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devinephysiques.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devinephysiques.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}