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Eating Back your excersize calories that were burnt?

dtoll87
dtoll87 Posts: 12 Member
edited November 2024 in Fitness and Exercise
Do you eat back what you burned during your excersize?

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  • NASAwife13
    NASAwife13 Posts: 130 Member
    Personally I do not. Currently I am trying to loose weight, so to ensure I dont have a calorie surplus I dont eat what I have burned. Until I get to where I am just trying to maintain my weight I try not to eat the calories that I have burned. I am not sure if this is the correct method but so far it has worked for me.
  • shannon_daly3
    shannon_daly3 Posts: 27 Member
    YES !! And I am losing at the exact rate my plan is set for !
  • mswilliams1975
    mswilliams1975 Posts: 19 Member
    I may get into them a little but I try to only consume my deficit. I only use the excersise cal as a bit of a padding if I go over.
  • SezxyStef
    SezxyStef Posts: 15,267 Member
    Yes I do.

    If you are following MFP then your calorie deficit set by the app will get you to the weight loss, exercise calories are an extra added bonus for you to eat specifically to fuel your next workout.

    Eating your at least some of your exercise calories is extra important esp if you are at a low calorie goal...ie 1200 in, burn 350 now down to 850...not healthy.
  • bibibubu1998
    bibibubu1998 Posts: 3 Member
    Not all of it. My goal is to eat 1200kcal/day but if I go running and burn 400kcal, then maybe I would eat 1400kcal/day (just 200 more) so I wouldn't be starving all day and still lose weight!
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