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How many calories can you "burn" if you exercise for 5 days in a row while binge eating?
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Let's be honest.

During one workout (strength or mixed), you burn, on average:

About 250-400 kcal if it's a gentle strength workout
400-600 kcal if it's an intense workout
Up to 700 kcal if you add cardio or a very high intensity workout

Now let's do the math.

If you do 5 workouts in a row:
👉 On average, that's 1500-3000 kcal across all days.

Sounds good, but there's a catch.

One day of serious overeating easily results in:
👉 +1000 - 2000 kcal above the norm

If there are 3 - 5 such days:
👉 that's +3000 - 8000 kcal

And here it becomes clear:
exercise only covers part of the overeating, but not all.

Why exercise doesn't "save" completely:

First, the body is not a furnace
You can't simply "burn off all the excess" with exercise. There is a limit to energy expenditure.

Second, fatty foods are high in calories
A small amount of food can provide a huge amount of calories, which is difficult to cover even with intense exercise.

Third, overestimating expenditure
People almost always think they've burned more than they actually have.

But there's good news:

Exercise still helps a lot:

it reduces some of the surplus
improves calorie distribution (less is converted to fat)
preserves muscle
speeds up getting back into shape after a binge

Real conclusion:

Even with 5 workouts in a row:
👉 you don't "reset" overeating
👉 but you greatly reduce its consequences

What to do correctly:

don't try to "work off" the food with exercise
return to a normal diet
continue to exercise without fanaticism

Key point:

One week of binge eating + exercise = not a disaster.

A disaster is when binge eating becomes a habit.

Stay the course, get back into the routine, and you'll get back into shape faster than you think.

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