Your first response might be to say “yes” just because one would think that if you’ve been burning up calories through exercise, your body’s reaction is to demand food to replace what was burned off. I challenge you to test the premise. Try some intense exercise and see just how tempted you are to eat something right after you finish exercising. If you’re not, then see when you actually start to experience hunger pangs.
Take me up on the challenge and let me know (email me at dtlinfo@advantagediets.com) just how hungry you truly are right after you’ve finished exercising.
You might want to try “Drawing the Line on Calories, Carbs, and Fat” (visit www.advantagediets.com) to keep track of how many calories you’re burning up with exercise. Then see if, when you do eat, you eat as many calories as you burned. Do keep in mind that your body is still burning calories long after your exercise session is over. So if you burned 200 calories with exercise, over the next two hours, you might have burned another 50-100 calories while your body returns to its relaxed state.