Can you excersise off the foods you eat

On weekends i go to the gym later in the day (cause they open later) but i eat a big breakfast. can you excersise off the foods you ate??

It simply adds to the equation weight loss = calories in - calories out.   You won't burn off the actual food you have just eaten for your big breakfast, but an hour of vigerous exercise may burn 500 calories or so which will offset at least part of your "calories in" at breakfast.

i would say yes...i don't remember who it is but someone on here eats whatever she wants and will only let herself watch TV if she's on the treadmill at the same time  and...she lost a lot of weight.

no, you excerise off your stored energy, not your recent food.  A few hours later, the food will stil lbe in your digestive system.

Even so, it's still calories in/calories out.

That said, make sure you don't exercise off ALL the calories you eat in a day :D

I believe that your body uses the energy that is most readily available, and that would be the food in your stomach. It takes more energy for your body to release its stored energy than to just use the energy in your stomach.

I believe I read this in Women's Health...

But if it's still in your stomach, it's not exactly readily available yet, is it?  I think it's still being broken down for travel to the small intestines, though fluid and nutrients can be drawn off.

Original Post by melika08:

I believe that your body uses the energy that is most readily available, and that would be the food in your stomach. It takes more energy for your body to release its stored energy than to just use the energy in your stomach.

I believe I read this in Women's Health...

The food in your stomach is just sitting there, its not digested, , not yet ready to be converted to energy.

exerecise on a empty stomach  and  drink water , then have a small meal after ,the fat will fall off, after a few days.

Personally, if I try to exercise on an empty stomach, I am loggy and my workout is draggy.  I burn more calories if I am properly fueled.

What matters is calories in vs calories out over a period of time.  If, during the day, you burn off enough to compensate for the big breakfast, then that's all that's needed.  But be careful, and check your calories eaten vs burned on the CC.  It would be hard to burn off, for example, a couple of egg mcmuffins by just bumping up the exercise.