2.6. Three-Day Food Diaries and Physical Activity
Three-day food diaries included the day of exercise and 2 days afterwards. Participants could track intake via an online resource (MyFitnessPal™) or by written food diaries. To ensure compliance, email and verbal reminders were implemented. Participants were given a digital food scale and instructions on completing a food diary to increase the accuracy of the diet records. Once finished participants brought their food diaries to the lab. Diaries were entered into FoodWorks 14 Software (The Nutritional Company, Long Valley, NJ, USA). EI from all three days for each condition was added together to examine the total energy intake (TEI). Weekly physical activity during the week of each experimental condition was evaluated using a modified GLTEQ.