When I get hungry I go to hulu - find something interesting and hop on my exercise bike. It freaks my husband out! Stop that your going to get hungrier!! But I don't. Most of the time I do that once and I am fine till I can eat. There have been a couple high stress days though - and on those days instead of binging like I have in the past - I ended up on the bike for a couple hours (spread out over the entire day.) For me 30 minutes or so - at a "lower" pace - enough to get my heartrate around 120 - will release enough in the way of endorphins to help me through the day. *That* is the purpose - in fact I have quit working out to "burn calories" - now I do it "to feel the high." This may sound "junkielike" (it actually is - once upon a time I had a nasty little problem - quitting that nasty habit is what lead to my weight gain) Regardless of how it sounds I have gone from exercising twice a week (begrudgingly - and grumpily) to five or six times a week easily (happily - excitedly)! And all it took was a bit of an attitude adjustment!
I took my minds old habit of trying to get high and made it work for me instead of against me!
(Yes - I realize you can go crazy and obsessively exercise. So - let's not go batty with the warnings eh?)
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