Eat excercise calories?

lov2spin
lov2spin Posts: 3 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
so are you supposed to eat the calorie gain you receive from excercise?

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  • SezxyStef
    SezxyStef Posts: 15,267 Member
    Yes you are if you are following MFP calorie goals. At least 50-75% of them.

    I always ate them all back and lost appropriate amounts of weight.
  • CassidyScaglione
    CassidyScaglione Posts: 673 Member
    Yes. But most people believe the calorie burn given is too generous and only eat half.
  • MamaFunky
    MamaFunky Posts: 735 Member
    yes! agree with the posters above. This is one of my top reasons for exercising. I can eat more! :smile:
  • Cindy01Louisiana
    Cindy01Louisiana Posts: 302 Member
    MamaFunky wrote: »
    yes! agree with the posters above. This is one of my top reasons for exercising. I can eat more! :smile:

    Me too!!!!!!! Well, maybe not my top, but it's up there for sure!!!!
  • JeromeBarry1
    JeromeBarry1 Posts: 10,179 Member
    lov2spin wrote: »
    so are you supposed to eat the calorie gain you receive from excercise?

    How many calories per week do you burn in your exercising?
  • DoneWorking
    DoneWorking Posts: 247 Member
    CassidyScaglione wrote: »
    Yes. But most people believe the calorie burn given is too generous and only eat half.

    ^This^. When I first started losing weight the first time, I ate all my exercise calories and actually gained. When I cut it to half, I started losing again.
  • sijomial
    sijomial Posts: 19,809 Member
    lov2spin wrote: »
    so are you supposed to eat the calorie gain you receive from excercise?
    They wouldn't be added to your goal otherwise!

    Accuracy is an issue (which also applies to food logging of course...) - some exercise is far easier to estimate than others.
    If you tell the forum what exercise in particular you can get more targeted/useful advice.

  • kgirlhart
    kgirlhart Posts: 5,154 Member
    edited March 2016
    Mfp does does not take exercise into account when figuring your deficit, so if you are using the goal that mfp set for you then you are supposed to eat back the exercise calories that they give you. If you are using a TDEE method to get your calorie goal then you shouldn't be eating back exercise calories because you have already figured them in. If using mfp start by eating about half of the exercise calories. If you lose faster than expected then you know you can eat back more, if you aren't losing as fast as you should then eat back less. My main exercise is walking 3-4 miles a day and I find that I can eat back about 80% of those exercise calorie. I recently got a fitbit and am eating about 80% of the adjustment and losing a little faster than expected.
  • TxTiffani
    TxTiffani Posts: 799 Member
    You can manually change the calories given for exercise. So if you only want to eat back 50% of exercise calories and it says you burned 300 then u can manually chg to 150 & it will only add the 150 to your available calories:)

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