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Bonus calories!

MsDeterMINEd3
MsDeterMINEd3 Posts: 53 Member
edited November 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
Do you eat back the calories you burn from working out?

You know... The free/bonus calories?

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  • malibu927
    malibu927 Posts: 17,562 Member
    When I followed MFP's calories, yes, but not all
  • Camo_xxx
    Camo_xxx Posts: 1,082 Member
    I have found that if I show the checker at the grocery store my awesome calorie burn from my workout they do indeed give you the calories for free !!! Can't go wrong with free food.
  • healthygreek
    healthygreek Posts: 2,137 Member
    Oh yes, but first I try to calculate my exercise calories as accurately as possible. And then, since I can't calculate them completely accurately, I only eat 1/2-2/3 of them back.
  • arditarose
    arditarose Posts: 15,573 Member
    When I first started, yes. Now I'm a hot mess and do 10 minutes of cardio to pad my deficit, so no. But like others have said, eat some of them back.
  • Alatariel75
    Alatariel75 Posts: 18,656 Member
    Some of them. I'm still quite big and unfit and when I do a good hour of something like Taekwondo, I burn a decent amount of calories and get HUNGRY. So I'll eat back maybe half of them? I don't eat the ones I earn just going for my lunchtime walk or walking an extra station home generally.
  • Liftng4Lis
    Liftng4Lis Posts: 15,151 Member
    Partial
  • taeliesyn
    taeliesyn Posts: 1,116 Member
    I definitely try to eat most of them back, otherwise I end up in super scary deficit land!
  • loulamb7
    loulamb7 Posts: 801 Member
    You should eat back some to all of the earned calories to maintain the proper deficit. I usually eat back 50-100% depending on my goals.
  • Codilee87
    Codilee87 Posts: 509 Member
    I won't eat back more than 50% because MFP overestimates calorie burn.
  • loulamb7
    loulamb7 Posts: 801 Member
    Codilee87 wrote: »
    I won't eat back more than 50% because MFP overestimates calorie burn.

    You can modify MFP's calculation to something more realistic based on your experience.

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