Is it bad to eat back exorcise calories?

jardane1

I saw an article saying that your BMR calculates in your activity and exercise so you should not eat back your calories from exercising. I am 29 years old, standing at 6'4 and i am 452 lb. My current calorie limit is 2500 and i walk between three and five miles a day burning between 500 to 1000 calories. 2500 is lower than what they say my BMR should be because i thought the calorie Limit was too high around 3400.

So what should i do? i have not seen any weight loss in the past three weeks of staying under my limit, walking three to five miles a day and drinking between 32 oz and 96 oz of water a day. Am i just not giving my body enough time to kick start my weight loss?

I need some advice

callsitlikeiseeit

ive lost 50 pounds in 6 months eating back exercise calories.....

callsitlikeiseeit

and if youve not seen any weight loss, you may need to evaluate how accurately you are logging your food.

lishie_rebooted

BMR is what your body burns at rest, it's what a hospital would feed you if you were in a coma to maintain your weight
TDEE (total daily energy expenditure) is what you burn in a day based off of your activity level.
If you were to set your calorie goal to your appropriate TDEE, you would not eat exercise calories then.

terbusha

Personally I don't eat back my calorie. I'm a practical guy. I set my calorie goal according to the progress I am making towards my fitness goal. If you are trying to lose weight, eat so you drop ~2-3 lbs/week. This assumes an average calorie burn from you getting in all of your workouts. This will be different for everyone, so you'll have to do some trial and error to figure it out. I'd start ~2500 cal/day. Hit this goal, along with your macros and getting in your workouts, for 2 weeks. If you lose 1-2 lbs/week, you're good to go. If you lose too much, increase your intake and repeat. If you don't lose enough, reduce your intake a bit and repeat. After a few cycles, you'll figure out what works for you in your situation.

It's important to be honest with your logging. Get a food scale to weigh your proteins. Measure out cups of other foods. Also, walking may not be enough exercise to get the ball rolling. You might check into not-so-intense workouts that you can do.