exercise calories

CathyComics

hey, who here eats back their exercise calories? just wondering if there is greater success not doing so, or if youre supposed to eat them for greater success.

i know the theory is that youre supposed to eat them. but from actual experience, not theory, what has made you lose more weight and keep it off?

DancingMoosie

I try to eat most of mine back while at maintenance. I even ate most (or all) of them back while losing, I just had my calorie goal set lower.

cookiealbright

I eat mine back sometimes and sometimes I drink them back. :drinker:

DTreas

I am not losing since I am eating my exercise calories???

JessieNeutronGirlGenius

By reaching your calorie goal then exercising you are taking those calories and minusing from what you've eaten thereofre you should eat them back but obviously still eating healthy choices is essential. To maintain your weight you are supposed to eat 2000 calories so by having a limit lower than that you are already losing weight and by sweating and burning fat you are losing weight so yes, you should eat them back but make it healthy choices! Hope that helped.

blleadon

I eat mine back. The trick is for me to make sure all calorie counts are accurate and not guessed

goggyhigginson

I have very low excercise calories as both of my knees are shot from being a dancer years ago. Most of mine ( excercise calories)are light walking etc but I find if you take the excericse the weight drops much more quickly than just dieting alone, even when the total calories for the day /week are the same.

RobP1192

I don't eat mine back at all.

brc912

I only partially eat them back because I find that their estimates for calories burned from activities are high...

Anthonydaman

The weight comes off faster if you don't eat them back. I eat them back sometimes, but i always try to finish the day with at least a 200 cal surplus.

michellechawner

MFP already sets you at a deficit so if you don't eat them back you are in a double deficit and probably starving.

Eat your calories. You should be breaking even at zero.

bf43005

I eat some but not all back. Mostly I don't eat them all back because I don't want to. I work out at night and if I have a big burn I just can't stomach that much food in a few short hours before bed.

pugsleyjean

I eat mine back sometimes and sometimes I drink them back. :drinker:

Same here

jmadams111

If you don't eat them back, you are effectively going for a larger calorie deficit (or covering for inaccuracies in your input/output calorie counts). Obviously, if accurate a greater deficit will result in more weight loss, assuming you are not going below your BMR.

ksy1969

I am using the MFP calculator so I am eating most of them back. The key though is what are you using to calculate the calories burned. The most accurate way is with a HRM and even that isn't 100% so that is why I still don't eat/ or drink :drinker: them all back.

If you are using the MFP calculator for calories burned I would suggest only eating half back to play it safe. When I compare my HRM to the machines my HRM usually gives me 20 to 35% less than the machine.

chelstakencharge

I never eat my exercise calories back. Every BODY is different and responds different to weight loss. You just have to figure out what works best for you. My numbers speak for themselves

Mia_RagazzaTosta

Oh, this thread again.

The Search button is up to the right. :flowerforyou:

sarajeanelles

I usually burn about 700 calories during the weekdays at the gym based on my HRM doing spin class and weight lifting. I eat back only 100 of those calories and I have lost 15 pounds since mid April and I am 4 pounds from my goal weight, so that it what works for me!

thesupremeforce

I would imagine that the more calories you burn exercising the more important it becomes to eat at least some of them back. If you're burning a thousand calories exercising per day, you're probably going to run into trouble if you add that deficit to whatever your initial deficit had been. On the other hand, if you're burning two hundred calories exercising in a day, it's not as likely to be an issue (unless your calorie intake is already really low, I guess).

Achrya

MFP is set up for you to eat your calories back so if you are following the MFP method you should eat those back. People who claim that eating back their calories makes them gain/stall are A. Over estimating burns B. Underestimating calories or C. Both

Which basically results in: Eating Too Damn Much.

alasin1derland

I have been successful eating them all back. I use an hrm with a chest strap to calculate my calories burned during exercise.