And although there are plenty of great motivations people use to workout — like, you know, just wanting to feel strong, and healthy, and happy — this survey asked people only about food motivators. At Refinery29, we're totally against the idea that food is a reward for exercising, or that someone has to work off whatever calories they put into their body (in fact, we'd rather not talk about calories at all). But food is what this study asked about, and the sad reality is that people do still use it as a motivator, specifically, most of the people polled for this survey said they sometimes worked out for the promise of beer or pizza or ice cream later.