I need expert advise, calorie count. exercise. eating calories after exer

sarg88
sarg88 Posts: 5 Member
in Food and Nutrition
I'm 5'11 205 lbs (was 265). 2lbs a week weight loss set me at 1310 calories a day. i ate 5 times today and burned 400 cal. exercising. buy the time I had my work out completed and drank my after workout shake it was 8 pm and i still had 360 calories i could eat (because I added my workout calls). should I eat more of them before bed or not???? if i don't, i worry about being in "starvation mode" and storing instead of burning.

now i know i could have eaten more earlier in the day but I didn't know I was gonna burn 400 working out and that I would have that to eat..

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  • cw106
    cw106 Posts: 952 Member
    simply search. "eating back exercise calories".
    several well explained threads.
    "search" is blue word atop this thread.
  • Liftng4Lis
    Liftng4Lis Posts: 15,151 Member
    Most people eat back half their exercise calories, as MFP overestimates them.
  • Wheelhouse15
    Wheelhouse15 Posts: 5,575 Member
    edited October 2014
    Timing of meals is not an issue unless you have a medical condition. Eating after 8 won't be an issue but if you weigh in the morning you will have a little higher weight due to food and water.

    ETA and forget that starvation mode voodoo.

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