Eating back calories?

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  • CaffeinatedRats
    CaffeinatedRats Posts: 20 Member
    If I am hungry (or it is a day where I want a treat) I eat back half of my exercise calories. If I'm not, I don't.
  • Tacklewasher
    Tacklewasher Posts: 7,122 Member
    Think about it this way.

    I've got my deficit at 1000 cals to lose 2 lb per week. I'm big so that's an okay rate for me, but if I asked if I should lose 2.5 lbs per week, most would argue I'm being too aggressive on my weight loss and would caution me against it. And rightly so.

    But if I burn 500 calories a day, that amounts to the same thing if I don't eat them back. So what's the difference? By eating them back, I'm fueling my activities and exercises, as well as my normal body functions. If I don't eat them back, it's the body functions that will not get properly fueled.

    Eat them back. Maybe not all, but eat them back.
  • annacole94
    annacole94 Posts: 994 Member
    I have it set to sedentary, track my exercise with Google Fit, and eat back nearly all my calories. I've lost my target, on average, every week since I started at New Year's.

    I could tighten up both my food and exercise tracking, but my results are what I want, so I will continue as is.
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