What Do You Eat Whilst Playing

I'm a bit like Hawkeye, I'm fit enough that golf is not exercise, and as such, eating mid round is just gratuitous. If you're fit enough, ambling around the course uses barely more calories than just normal activity.

If your energy levels fluctuate that much during a round, either you are not fit, your diet is garbage, you have a medical condition, or, you are kidding yourself.
 
HawkeyeMS said:
Go on then, enlighten me?
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Okay, when blood sugar levels dip, cortisol (the body's stress hormone) rises. This can lead to cravings, increased body fat, hormonal imbalance and decreased immunity. This increase and decrease can also affect your relationship with food. After a large meal, your brain releases chemicals that increase feelings of euphoria and sometimes sleepiness. Over time, your body sees food as a reward, making it more likely that you'll reach for food (even if you're not hungry) when you feel stressed.

Eating small, frequent meals/snacks throughout the day can improve your concentration and mood. Food provides glucose, which your body needs to stay focused and calm. If you wait too long to eat and then gorge yourself later, it can wreak havoc on brain function. When you wait too long to eat, your blood sugar levels fall, which causes irritability and agitation. When you eat a big meal later to make up for a missed meal, blood is diverted from your brain to the stomach for digestion. This can leave you feeling sleepy, foggy and unfocused.
When you don't eat often enough, your metabolism slows and works to conserve energy instead of burning it. Frequent eating is like constantly throwing wood on a fire. When you eat, your body has to burn fuel to convert it to usable energy. This is known as the thermic effect - boosting your metabolism and calorie burn.
If you don't eat often, the most readily available substance for the body is to consume muscle. When the human body needs fuel, it turns to lean muscle before fat. This process is known as catabolism. By eating frequent meals and snacks you'll conserve muscle mass.

I hope this enlightens you. If not - enjoy reduced concentration, a chubby belly and being weak.
 
Sats said:
Okay, when blood sugar levels dip, cortisol (the body's stress hormone) rises. This can lead to cravings, increased body fat, hormonal imbalance and decreased immunity. This increase and decrease can also affect your relationship with food. After a large meal, your brain releases chemicals that increase feelings of euphoria and sometimes sleepiness. Over time, your body sees food as a reward, making it more likely that you'll reach for food (even if you're not hungry) when you feel stressed.

Eating small, frequent meals/snacks throughout the day can improve your concentration and mood. Food provides glucose, which your body needs to stay focused and calm. If you wait too long to eat and then gorge yourself later, it can wreak havoc on brain function. When you wait too long to eat, your blood sugar levels fall, which causes irritability and agitation. When you eat a big meal later to make up for a missed meal, blood is diverted from your brain to the stomach for digestion. This can leave you feeling sleepy, foggy and unfocused.
When you don't eat often enough, your metabolism slows and works to conserve energy instead of burning it. Frequent eating is like constantly throwing wood on a fire. When you eat, your body has to burn fuel to convert it to usable energy. This is known as the thermic effect - boosting your metabolism and calorie burn.
If you don't eat often, the most readily available substance for the body is to consume muscle. When the human body needs fuel, it turns to lean muscle before fat. This process is known as catabolism. By eating frequent meals and snacks you'll conserve muscle mass.

I hope this enlightens you. If not - enjoy reduced concentration, a chubby belly and being weak.
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My concentration is fine, I eat regular healthy meals and I'm fit enough that playing a round of golf doesn't tire me in the slightest (no chubby belly on me) I still don't need to eat during a round of golf and doing so doesn't improve your performance, nothing you have written there changes my opinion on that
 
HawkeyeMS said:
My concentration is fine, I eat regular healthy meals and I'm fit enough that playing a round of golf doesn't tire me in the slightest (no chubby belly on me) I still don't need to eat during a round of golf and doing so doesn't improve your performance, nothing you have written there changes my opinion on that
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Hold on didn't you ask if eating made a difference on performance?! You've not come back at me to retort on those points really.
 
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HawkeyeMS said:
My concentration is fine, I eat regular healthy meals and I'm fit enough that playing a round of golf doesn't tire me in the slightest (no chubby belly on me) I still don't need to eat during a round of golf and doing so doesn't improve your performance, nothing you have written there changes my opinion on that
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You should try it perhaps....might make you better than you are?
 
HawkeyeMS said:
My concentration is fine, I eat regular healthy meals and I'm fit enough that playing a round of golf doesn't tire me in the slightest (no chubby belly on me) I still don't need to eat during a round of golf and doing so doesn't improve your performance, nothing you have written there changes my opinion on that
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Explain how eating correctly doesn't improve performance please?
 
Soft hands said:
Explain how eating correctly doesn't improve performance please?
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I already have, it's a round of golf, it isn't that strenuous. Decent diet helps your general welbeing, if part of that diet means eating healthy snacks on a day to day basis then by all means eat them playing golf, but if you don't then don't kid yourself that eating them while playing golf is going to help.

If you eat well and have a decent level of fitness then you should be able to cope with a round of golf no problem.

If you don't eat well or don't have a decent level of fitness then a granola bar simply won't make any difference.
 
Everyone has different physiologies and will benefit at differing levels. To say it absolutely wont help everyone is nonsense in the same way that saying it will help everyone is.
When I get hungry, as I often do playing golf, my focus and concentration wane. That affects my game. I eat something and I feel better and start to focus and play better.
So it helps me, simply drinkjng water doesnt on its own.

A person's MBR plays a big part of the effect a 6 mile walk carrying a good few kilos will have on hunger or fatigue levels relative to intake.
 
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