Hello and

a a nutrition diva podcast I'm your host Monica Reinagel

and a listener recently wrote in with what I think is a very familiar dilemma.

She and her husband were training for an endurance event, but as she increased the duration

of her workouts, she noticed that her appetite was also increasing sharply.

Even though I was eating more, I was still hungry all the time, she wrote.

And so she experimented with the timing and the composition of her meals,

but nothing seemed to help.

And she started to get worried that despite all the extra exercise she was doing,

she might end up gaining weight just because she was eating so much more. Well joining me on today's

podcast to talk about how exercise and endurance exercise in particular affects our appetite is Brock Armstrong.

Brock as you probably know is host of the Get Fit Guide

podcast that's another podcast along with the nutrition diva that's part of the

quick and dirty tips network.

And Brock is also the co-host with me of a brand new podcast called Change Academy.

But more to the point, Brock is himself an endurance athlete, which I most certainly am not and he's coached

hundreds of others through endurance sports and training so I think he's the perfect

person to help me answer this question. Welcome to the podcast Brock.

Thanks, Monica, it's great to be here. All right, first, maybe we should just start by

defining some terms. So what do we mean when we say endurance exercise? Is there a

definition for that? Well there is, but the definition that actually goes

along with endurance doesn't really fit what people's sort of

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