Hard eating back exercise calories

Druidor

I am finding it hard to get the calories intake after I have done a bit of road cycling

e.g Today 15.3 miles at a sedate average speed of 16.2MPH - 56 minutes

1272kcal added to my default 1530 which I will generally eat around 500 calories per meal and find it difficult eating to recover the exercise calories

http://www.endomondo.com/workouts/216949174/8064282

Live4theLift

Sooooo...... dont eat em or if it makes you feel bad just dont log your exercise then you wont.

KANGOOJUMPS

why do you?
I do not.

CyberEd312

I would suggest consuming more calorie dense foods then, I am maintaining at 4k a day and have no problems hitting that mark if you work in some milk and dairy, nuts, peanut butter, add olive oil when you are cooking to name a few.... If you know you are planning a long ride change your calorie intake at each meal to compensate for the added calories so you aren't left with 1000+ calories to eat at the end of the day... Best of Luck

KenosFeoh

I don't think you have to eat all exercise calories back as long as you make sure your net calories for the day don't drop too low.

Calorie counts for exercise as well as for food are often inaccurate anyway.

BeachIron

I'd say eat back your exercise calories if you're accurately recording them. MFP tends to overestimate calories burned though. it's not going to kill you if you don't for short periods of time, but under eating for long periods of time can do damage.

shadow2soul

Peanut Butter :flowerforyou:

I totally agree with EdDavenport.

Man I can think of loads of things I could eat with that many calories.

Steak + Mashed Sweet Potatoes (made with skim milk & butter) + steamed veggies
Peanut Butter + honey + bread (x3)
3 slices of my favorite pizza
Could go out for a few drinks with my husband :drinker:
Ice Cream Pop tart Sandwich
Could go out to my favorite restaurant for a meal
Smores (could have a bunch)
Could have some of my favorite cookies
Could go get a shake from Steak n' Shake (some of my favorites are 900 calories :embarassed: )

jwdieter

1272 calories for a leisurely bike ride seems unlikely to me.

heybales

So I can see you are talking calorie burned not from MFP but Endomondo.

But unless you are pretty heavy, that still sounds inflated too.
Normally though I've found the calorie estimates based on pace and weight (which I'm sure they use) can be really decent as long as wind didn't shift, and I didn't take route back with very different hill profile than that going out.
If out and back or square is semi-balanced, and the time of the ride is 60 min or longer, then the estimated calorie burn matches a calorie burn calculated from VO2max for me.

424 ft altitude gain is not that much, unless that was in total, but you actually did 2000 ft by going up and down constantly. Can't make out from their stats which it is, because 424 doesn't seem enough.

So unless you are pushing a lot of weight up those hills, 14.8 mph avg isn't adding that much wind resistance since there wasn't much wind according to the stats. (stats show 14.8 mph avg)

Then again, if you are heavy, that could be right on, and you are very physically fit being able to keep that avg with hills and such.

In which case, I'm surprised you don't feel like eating more. I can burn up 1000 on a ride of 60 min, and if I get in a chocolate low fat milk really quick, and I'm ready to eat more.
Only thing to interfere with that is badly dehydrated or heat exhaustion causing side effects of not being hungry.

But if neither of those issues applies, and you aren't hungry from the effort within the next 6 hrs - you probably didn't burn what it says you did.