Just thinking about exercise makes me serve more food. Physical activity and calorie compensation

Like ripples on a pond: Behavioral spillovers and their implications for research and policy

“…The different overall costs of behavior 1 can also explain why in some situations encountering and resisting a temptation can automatically activate the weight attached to a motive and thus lead to promoting spillovers, as postulated by counteractive control theory (Fishbach et al, 2003;Kroese, Evers, & De Ridder, 2009, while in other occasions it can trigger permitting spillovers through the activation of justification and entitlement feelings (De Witt Huberts et al, 2014;Hsee, 1995;Kivetz & Simonson, 2002;Merritt et al, 2010;Mukhopadhyay & Johar, 2009). The literatures on justification and entitlement, in fact, show that what matters for self-regulatory dynamics are perceived costs and efforts, rather than their actual levels (Clarkson, Hirt, Jia, & Alexander, 2010;De Witt Huberts, Evers, & De Ridder, 2012;Werle, Wansink, & Payne, 2011).…”

“…Most of the evidence at date, in fact, considers spillovers occurring within the same domain, such as environmental behavior (Evans et al, 2013;Jacobsen et al, 2012;Lanzini & Thøgersen, 2014;Poortinga, Whitmarsh, & Suffolk, 2013;Thøgersen, 1999aThøgersen, , 1999bThøgersen & Crompton, 2009;Thøgersen & Olander, 2003;Tiefenbeck et al, 2013); prosocial behavior (Brañas-Garza, Bucheli, Espinosa, & Garcia-Muñoz, 2013;Cornelissen et al, 2013;Effron, Miller, & Monin, 2012;Gneezy, Imas et al, 2012;Gneezy et al, in press;Jordan, Mullen, & Murnighan, 2011;Merritt et al, 2010Merritt et al, , 2012Norton, 2012;Ploner & Regner, 2013;Zhong & Liljenquist, 2006); or health behavior (Chiou, Wan, Wu, & Lee, 2011;Chiou, Yang, & Wan, 2011;De Witt Huberts et al, 2012;Dolan & Galizzi, in press;Effron, Monin, & Miller, 2013;Epstein, Dearing, Roba, & Finkelstein, 2010;Kroese et al, 2009Kroese et al, , 2011Van Kleef, Shimizu, & Wansink, 2011;Werle, Wansink, & Payne, 2010;Wilcox, Vallen, Block, & Fitzsimons, 2009;Wisdom, Downs, & Loewenstein, 2010).…”

Is it fun or exercise? The framing of physical activity biases subsequent snacking

“…Previous research on compensation between exercising and food consumption suggests that physical activity can have a similar licensing effect allowing individuals to increase subsequent energy intake (e.g., Martins et al 2007). Indeed, mental effort (Chaput et al 2008) and even imagined exercising may lead to increases in food consumption (Werle et al 2011). In the same vein, exposure to messages promoting exercise also leads to increased food intake (Albarracin et al 2009).…”

Exercise and the microbiota

“…18 Appetite response to exercise is complex and appears to be highly variable between individuals. 19 It is dependent on multiple factors including mental attitude toward exercise, 20 the intensity of the activity involved 21 and prior reliance on substrate availability for energy expenditure. 22 Moderately intense physical activity is followed by a transient surge in serum ghrelin levels in the post-exercise period.…”