Pop tarts as fuel?!

short shorts and shorties wrote:

Who cares, man. I ate whatever I wanted in high school because I knew I was working the calories off anyway. And you owe it to yourself to eat junk food every now and then before your metabolism slows down in ten years.

I really think people overemphasize the importance of diet in running. I’ve had great races/workouts after carb loading the night before and I’ve had terrible runs after eating cheeseburgers and bs.

And why does your metabolism slow down after just 10 years and not 30? Because of junk oils in pop tarts that lower testosterone.

Funny people claim they eat junk food and say it's ok. Do the Kenyans eat pop tarts? If you are OK with being slow. Eat pop tarts. Or op can eat more natural food

Put two Pop Tarts in a blender.

Add a few big tablespoons of peanut butter. Add whole milk. Blend until smooth. Drink that, two or three times a day.

I used to eat pop tarts before workouts all the time. I don't run well on an empty stomach and they always sat well and felt more substantial than a granola bar or something. Actually, now that I think about it, I don't know why I ever stopped eating them. I'm going to go grab a couple boxes later today. Thanks, OP!

Toast 'Ems are better than Pop Tarts.

There is a dude named Sean O’Roarke who has a bunch of FKTs in the mountains. Not a runner per se but someone who does things faster than others and he often uses pop tarts as fuel. They are calories dense and affordable. If you have a balanced diet and exercise have a pop tart now and then.

....You're body doesn't know or care if that food source is poptarts, GU, or an orange. But when it needs it, it needs to be a good sugar spike, period. Eating well can come later. During huge efforts, don't worry about added sugar. Add more.

Hi Durianrider!

My pop farts, too. Smell is awful.

Eating some chocolate eggs from Easter before my run. Steve Jones ate mars bars. So I'm in good company.

I had a physical earlier today and my doctor expressed his concern about my weight, he said it would actually be okay for me to eat a pop tart everyday as long as I balanced my day with mostly healthy food. Thoughts?

lame.

jojorunner wrote:

I had a physical earlier today and my doctor expressed his concern about my weight, he said it would actually be okay for me to eat a pop tart everyday as long as I balanced my day with mostly healthy food. Thoughts?

You need to eat meat.

I eat 2 large servings of meat everyday. This includes grilled chicken, salmon, and steak once a week.

How is this lame?

jojorunner wrote:

I eat 2 large servings of meat everyday. This includes grilled chicken, salmon, and steak once a week.

You need to eat steak 2-3 times a day, dozen eggs a day and GOMAD till you are at a healthy weight.

Please, just enjoy the pop tarts. You are way too paranoid about what you are eating. You are young and have an extremely fast metabolism. Eating a pop tart a day, as long as you eat a lot of other nutritious foods, is perfectly fine. JUST EAT! You are not a middle aged, sedentary woman, like your mom, who has to be careful about what she eats. You need to be eating a lot. There is NOTHING wrong with it, and like others have said, you are a runner, who is too skinny.

If I was 5'8" 110 LBs, I'd just go to town every meal I could. Heck when I was 5'10, 145 Lbs in college, I'd have a 1/3 a box of cereal for breakfast, a lunch special of some sort for lunch, a bagel after leaving internship at 5 (I went every day to the same place and they gave for free), would run 6-7 miles, and then eat as much as I could for dinner (admittedly my parents cooked mostly vegetarian/healthy) and then have ice cream or chocolate.

I have a meet today, I’m running the 1600 and I start warming up at 5pm. Think I’ll try eating a pop tart maybe 2 hours before I warmup at like 3pm

tarckstar wrote:

Put two Pop Tarts in a blender.

Add a few big tablespoons of peanut butter. Add whole milk. Blend until smooth. Drink that, two or three times a day.

99% sure you were trolling here, but fact is that Pop Tarts (or any pie or pie-like thing) in a shake is actually a delicious thing. No peanut butter, though. (Well not for me at least; I can't stand the stuff.)

Strawberry Pop Tarts would be my choice here. Combine with unflavored whey and some whole milk. Do *not* blend until completely smooth. The little chunks are what makes it awesome.

Not something I'd do even remotely every day. But after a long run or hard workout, it's a wonderful recovery treat.

Enjoy.