Eat back calories ?

saramatthews919

Hi All
I'm curious as to wether your supposed to eat back calories you burn through exercise ?

Ni_kki

If you're using MFP, then yes you should because your deficit has already been calculated into your daily caloric allotment. I typically only eat back about 1/2 because I figure there is room for error on how much I've actually burned for the day.

CKS1969

My endocrinologist said absolutely not. He said it is the one bad thing about MFP. That is why i was not losing weight. I stopped eating my exercise and am now on a strait path to skinny.

saramatthews919

I currently in take less than 1200 a day & I don't eat back any calories from exercise as I wasn't sure actually how accurate mfp is

Sued0nim

CKS1969 wrote: »

My endocrinologist said absolutely not. He said it is the one bad thing about MFP. That is why i was not losing weight. I stopped eating my exercise and am now on a strait path to skinny.

Your endocrinologist assumes that MFP is a TDEE method and it's not - it's NEAT, so eating back exercise calories is part of the game

The bad thing about MFP is there's no warning that the exercise calories in the database overestimate for many people and that you should only eat back 50-75%

the user error often comes in with accurate logging - weigh and carefully select foods from the database, don't ever use homemade entries, double-check entries that are starred etc

Sued0nim

saramatthews919 wrote: »

I currently in take less than 1200 a day & I don't eat back any calories from exercise as I wasn't sure actually how accurate mfp is

that is not good!

saramatthews919

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that is not good![/quote]

Can I ask why that's not good ?

apple173

I eat well and some times i eat a quarter or half of what i burn.