Eating your exercise calories

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  • Edie30
    Edie30 Posts: 216
    Thanks guys for that input. Yes I'm lifting weights with my trainer. He's the big beefy bodybuilder type and reckons EAT! so yep I am eating the 1470 a day plus most of the excersise calories though I seem to often have around 200 left over but I reckon that works for any slight errors in calories. I'm already seeing the scale go down! Fancy that! And although I've always said ' gahhhh I could never be a calorie counter' it's been an education over the last few days as I was clearly underestimating a bit so I think it will work for a while. Thanks for all your advice :-)
  • PAtinCO
    PAtinCO Posts: 129 Member
    I only eat back partial calories when I'm trying to lose weight. Basically I put in all workouts as walking because I'm pretty sure MFP overestimates on pretty much all other forms of exercise. Then I eat back only that amount leaving any extra calories I didn't account for as a bonus. I lost 95 lbs doing that.
  • Edie30
    Edie30 Posts: 216
    PAtinCO wrote: »
    I only eat back partial calorieIs when I'm trying to lose weight. Basically I put in all workouts as walking because I'm pretty sure MFP overestimates on pretty much all other forms of exercise. Then I eat back only that amount leaving any extra calories I didn't account for as a bonus. I lost 95 lbs doing that.

    Yes it so overestimates eh! So yes I don't use mfp suggestions I just plug it in directly from what is on my hrm and don't count weight sessions. That seems to work well for me. Well done on that weight loss :-))
  • blonditz
    blonditz Posts: 83 Member
    EMTFreakGirl wrote: »
    I do eat my exercise calories back...kind of. I think that the estimated burn is way to high on MFP so I eat back 1/3-1/2. Sometimes a bit more if I am really famished. The thing that makes it difficult for me is that I tend to only be able to find time to work out after 8pm, if I'm lucky, most days my workout hour is usually 10-11pm. It's hard to eat back all those calories before bed. I don't want to eat them earlier in the day because I might get called out on a 911 call and not get my workout in...it's a catch 22, for sure.

    I think in your situation I would add those calories to the following day. Like if you workout at 10pm Thursday night, add those calories to Friday's goal. Wouldn't be much different than me working out first thing in the morning and eating those calories back at dinner. Might make it easier for you to plan though.

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