India, April 27 -- Fitness coach Dan Go highlighted the importance of choosing healthy rewards that align with long-term fitness goals in an Instagram post he shared on April 20. He said, "Rewarding weight loss with food is like rewarding sobriety with alcohol," and added, "It takes 60 seconds to eat 400 calories of ice cream. It takes 60 minutes to burn 400 calories through running." Also read | Fitness coach says 'hunger is fat leaving body', shares 5 weight loss cheat codes

According to him, rewarding weight loss with food can undo progress and reinforce unhealthy habits as associating food with rewards can lead to emotional eating and unhealthy relationships with food. Dan believes by choosing non-food rewards or healthy food options...