I don't add my exercise on my diary on purpose.

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  • ericatoday
    ericatoday Posts: 454 Member
    @Hearts_2015
    I dont see it working that way. Even the articles in this app tell you that you dont have to eat back your calories and if you do to try to stick to 25-50% which would still leave me at under 1000 cals a day but i dont exercise everyday. Yes if youre burning a lot everyday like if i was burning 900 calories a day i would need to eat more but i dont. I work out 3 maybe 4 times a week and im only burning maybe 400 calories each time. Plus calories burned are not the exact same as calories eaten.
  • Annahbananas
    Annahbananas Posts: 284 Member
    I don't eat back the calories I lost from exercising. What I lose from exercising is what I lose as a calories deficit
  • TonyB0588
    TonyB0588 Posts: 9,520 Member
    blackaheep4288 wrote: »
    I started at 418lbs. Under my Dietitian and drs guidelines I started at 2k calories a day as my max. I see both monthly. It's been 4 months. I'm now eating 1800 calories daily, regardless of my calories burned. I average around 600-800 calories burned 3-4 times a week that I don't eat back. This is time spent a the gym, not my total throughout the day. I usually have some sort of a snack when I get back from the gym around 100-150 calories. My diary is open to the public to view if you'd like to take a look. I'm down 68.8lbs as of yesterday(day 120). I feel like it's not for everyone doing it this way. It's someth

    Took a look at your diary. Congrats on your progress so far.

    Do you eat all your food at once, or do you just not bother to separate your entries into Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, and Snacks? I've heard there's some benefit to eating smaller meals more often.
  • kimny72
    kimny72 Posts: 16,011 Member
    If you tell MFP you want to lose 1 pound per week, it gives you a calorie goal with a 500 calorie deficit built in. So if you exercise and DON'T eat back those calories, you will lose faster than you said you wanted to. So if you are using MFP calorie goal, you are supposed to eat those calories back (or a portion of them to allow for inaccurate numbers).

    If you are seeing a doctor to lose weight, they have hopefully included your exercise calories in whatever goal they gave you.

    If you are using a TDEE calculator, your exercise calories have been averaged into your goal, so you don't need to add in your exercise calories.

    Losing weight too fast can increase the likelihood of losing more muscle as you lose weight, as well as fatigue and deficiencies due to not properly fueling your body for that exercise. There is no good reason to do this to yourself if you are accurately and consistently logging.

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