Can you eat the exercise calories?

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  • SLLRunner
    SLLRunner Posts: 12,942 Member
    alainna2012 wrote: »
    wow amazing story, im doing the same 1200 calorie, i tought i was being too low, i had a baby and gain 40 lbs its been super hard but i know i can do it. If you did it i will do it too.

    No, the way jdj is talking about weight loss is 100% unrealistic, and because of science I do not believe that her numbers are even close to accurate.
  • BWBTrish
    BWBTrish Posts: 2,817 Member
    rabbitjb wrote: »
    Orphia wrote: »
    rabbitjb wrote: »
    jdj595 wrote: »
    I will say this to motivate myself again and everyone else. In one year I went from a size 16 to a size 2-4. Felt great. Before I cut calories I worked out weight lifting for 12 weeks

    . The first 2 months I went from a size 16 to an 8-10 (I have a big butt and small waist), but only lost 2-3 lbs

    LOL


    . my trainer complained that I wasn't dieting so I took a month break from weight training and did 1200 cal.

    Dropped 12 lbs my first week and 10 lbs every week after.

    right, so you we're eating 35000 calories below your maintenance TDEE per week, so that's a defecit of 5000 calories a day...LOL


    Went back to the gym for a month, then did the 1200 cal for a month. This whole time I continued dropping weight.

    Every month I did a body cleanse for 3 days.

    LOL ...what do you think you're cleansing

    I would eat fruit for 3 days and water. Nothing else. Made a huge fruit salad and munched constantly for 3 days. Would drop 10 lbs in the 3 days.

    now I get it, you're manipulating water weight so every month you'd drop carbs and eat stupid and drop 10lbs water weight only to put it back on

    I had glowing skin and abs and looked so sexy. I finally plateaued at 135-140 lbs. solid muscle.

    LOL - hypertrophy in a massive defecit and a female ....yeah, no

    My goal was 125-130 lbs so I wasn't too happy about getting stuck. But I was a size 2-4. Low fat content and solid compact muscle. No bulk. But life happens and I wAs put on exercise restrictions. Had surgery. Meds and everything made me gain 70 lbs. and that's just after surgery.
    eating more calories makes you put on weight, not following a ridiculous regime makes you put on weight

    Activity restrictions made me gain 50 lbs before surgery. I've never been this overweight ever. It's awful. So hard to get motivated again. But we can do it!


    I don't believe a single word of this post and I can't let it stand because people reading, who don't know any better, might think there's some sense in it ...when it's just bunkum from start to finish

    Whether any of that is true or not, this person hasn't learned to eat at their calorie limit.

    Their profile says they have 100lbs to lose.

    All of that is a very, very bad example and should not be listened to. :/

    She's blaming that on surgery and medication and being unable to exercise, well 70lbs of it anyway

    i lolzzz big timee
    Ofcourse this is not true indeed

    But we will see
    she is 100 pounds overweight now...so in ten weeks she should have lost it all again with her magic woo diet rofl
    We will see! todays date is 8/30/2015 Lets check on this one rofl Love to follow this one.

    OP just CICO is needed that's all.

  • Sweep79
    Sweep79 Posts: 30 Member
    I'm eating mine back and it's working well so far... although I feel a bit like I'm cheating for some reason!
  • coco_bee
    coco_bee Posts: 173 Member
    edited August 2015
    If you really want to, yes you can eat your exercise calories :) Craving something special? Have it :)
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  • Sued0nim
    Sued0nim Posts: 17,456 Member
    My fitbit is accurate
  • senecarr
    senecarr Posts: 5,377 Member
    As was said, 10 lb a week requires 5000 calories a day in deficits. Fat oxidation is generally rate limited by mass, so the general research suggests you can only burn 31 calories per day per pound of body fat (not total mass, body fat).
    So just to be possible to do, you'd need 160 pounds of pure body fat.
    Now, huge amounts of aerobic work might push that 31 higher, but honestly, if you had the aerobic capacity to do so, you wouldn't have much to lose to start with.
  • PeachyCarol
    PeachyCarol Posts: 8,029 Member
    senecarr wrote: »
    As was said, 10 lb a week requires 5000 calories a day in deficits. Fat oxidation is generally rate limited by mass, so the general research suggests you can only burn 31 calories per day per pound of body fat (not total mass, body fat).
    So just to be possible to do, you'd need 160 pounds of pure body fat.
    Now, huge amounts of aerobic work might push that 31 higher, but honestly, if you had the aerobic capacity to do so, you wouldn't have much to lose to start with.

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  • daniwilford
    daniwilford Posts: 1,030 Member
    jdj595 wrote: »
    I went from a size 16 to a size 2-4. Felt great. Dropped 12 lbs my first week.

    I did this once, it is called giving birth. Not ever doing that again!
  • senecarr
    senecarr Posts: 5,377 Member
    daniwilford wrote: »
    jdj595 wrote: »
    I went from a size 16 to a size 2-4. Felt great. Dropped 12 lbs my first week.

    I did this once, it is called giving birth. Not ever doing that again!
    Ok, I'm desperate to get ready for swimsuit season, how do I do this giving birth diet / cleanse?
  • Liftng4Lis
    Liftng4Lis Posts: 15,151 Member
    jdj595 wrote: »
    I didn't. I would just drink lots of water when I felt hungry. Stayed at the1200 cal and lost 10-12 lbs a week and kept it off until I had to have surgery and couldn't exercise for 2.5 years. Now starting all over again.

    You don't gain weight from "having surgery", you gain it from eating too much. You obviously learned nothing about sustainability by starving yourself to lose that amount of weight a week.

    OP, Yes, eat a portion of the exercise burns. The winner gets to eat the most and still lose.

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