Exercise and LC

genmon00

Question: Does excerise while lcing accerlate weight loss? or is it really about the diet? I like doing moderate exercising especially since I have a very sedentary job. But I don't like mfp adding additional calories to my plan because then I have trouble filling them. it's a mental thing for me. Thoughts?

tcunbeliever

I usually try not to eat the extra calories. At the bottom of your food diary, right under your totals it tells you how many calories it gave you from exercise, so I try to leave that many still in the green.

sammyliftsandeats

You can lose the weight by just eating low carb - exercise is for fitness.

If you add your exercise in, you can adjust the calorie burn to 1 to account for doing the exercise, but not having that many extra calories added in.

RowdysLady

I turn off that feature. I don't like it either - look in your settings. I think the weight loss is from the LCHF but the toning I'm seeing, when I walk is from walking.

CaliforniaAJ

My personal experience is that exercise accelerates my weight loss dramatically.

When exercising I have lost 30% more than my calculated 'due' loss through deficit (taking into account exercise calories also.) When I could not exercise due to injury, I barely lost what my deficit indicated.

When you exercise, you burn energy. When you are LC, that energy comes from your own fat i.e. you are burning your own body fat (assuming you do not eat back the calories) as you do not have glycogen stores for energy.

Sunny_Bunny_

CaliforniaAJ wrote: »

My personal experience is that exercise accelerates my weight loss dramatically.

When exercising I have lost 30% more than my calculated 'due' loss through deficit (taking into account exercise calories also.) When I could not exercise due to injury, I barely lost what my deficit indicated.

When you exercise, you burn energy. When you are LC, that energy comes from your own fat i.e. you are burning your own body fat (assuming you do not eat back the calories) as you do not have glycogen stores for energy.

Well, you do have stored glycogen still. It's just tapped into as needed as I understand it, our needs are low because of the preference for burning fat.