remaining calories..deceiving?

LVNF04
LVNF04 Posts: 2,607 Member
edited November 2024 in Food and Nutrition
I worked out for 3 hours straight and I look at calories remaining almost 4,ooo. I say to myself potentially I could drink a 5th, or eat a whole box of chicken. Personally I don't need to know what I'm allowed to have because nothing good can come from it. What do you think?

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  • Francl27
    Francl27 Posts: 26,371 Member
    I don't think most people would be able to burn more than 1500 calories from a pretty intense 3 hour session. Calorie estimates are way inflated on this website.
  • Faithful_Chosen
    Faithful_Chosen Posts: 401 Member
    Personally I think you might be overestimating your exercise burn, but I don't know your measurements or work-out. Would you care to share that information? Thank you!
  • LVNF04
    LVNF04 Posts: 2,607 Member
    I ran for a hour, did elliptical for a hour, and kettle bell/sledgehammer/heavy bag boxing for a hour
  • SusanMTSB
    SusanMTSB Posts: 1 Member
    I don't work out as hard as you do, but I purposely do not enter my exercise on this website simply because I do not want to "eat" the calories I burn. I feel not doing so will help me with weight loss. I do keep track of my exercise on a spreadsheet that I created. That is how I stay accountable to myself.
  • shadow2soul
    shadow2soul Posts: 7,692 Member
    Calories burned sounds extremely inflated.

    4000 calories in 3 hours breaks down to 1333.33 per hour. That is insane and highly unlikely.
  • LVNF04
    LVNF04 Posts: 2,607 Member
    I'm saying my remaining is 4000 I don't make it up
  • kami3006
    kami3006 Posts: 4,979 Member
    If you really burned that much then it would make sense to eat a good chunk of them back. That way you come close to your goal. But it's unlikely you burned that much. If you workout like this regularly and don't eat any back, I would think you would start to feel like crap pretty quickly.

    Find a more reliable method of measuring like a hear rate monitor for the cardio. I hit my goal weight eating 75%+ of mine back. If I didn't then my lifts suffered.
  • RodaRose
    RodaRose Posts: 9,562 Member
    That is quite a work out! :)
    One rule of thumb is to eat back 30-50%.
  • TheVirgoddess
    TheVirgoddess Posts: 4,535 Member
    livingfree04 wrote: »
    I'm saying my remaining is 4000 I don't make it up

    No one is saying you are. We are saying that often times, MFP's calorie burns are on the high side.

    When I did use MFP's estimations, I only ate back half of what it gave me.
  • kami3006
    kami3006 Posts: 4,979 Member
    HappyCampr1 wrote: »
    I think his point was that his workout along with the rest of his remaining calories adds up to 4,000 calories. I don't think he ever claimed to have exercised for the full 4,000.

    OP - MFP does overestimate caloric burns for exercises for most people. I'd try just claiming half of your calculated burn, or just log half the time you spent working out. Then see what you have left and eat that. Do that for several weeks and reassess how quickly you're losing. If you're losing faster than expected, you can safely increase the percentage of exercise calories you eat back. If you lose more slowly than expected, then try eating back a bit less of your exercise. :smile:

    Yeah, I figured that out after I posted, I just had nothing else to add. Either way, that's a big deficit and I agree with your advice.
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