Eating back calories??

tinagrant2739

Can someone explain why u should eat back calories?? If I burnt 500 cal why wud I eat them back does that not defeat the object?

tinkerbellang83

No it doesn't defeat the object because your deficit has already been deducted from your maintenance intake to give you your net calorie allowance:

jflongo

Burning 500 calories does not equal eating 500 calories.

tinkerbellang83

jflongo wrote: »

Burning 500 calories does not equal eating 500 calories.

If you have burned an additional 500 calories through exercise then using MFP as correctly intended does equal eating an additional 500 calories.

tinagrant2739

jflongo wrote: »

Burning 500 calories does not equal eating 500 calories.

So what does it equal?

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tinagrant2739

tinkerbellang83 wrote: »

No it doesn't defeat the object because your deficit has already been deducted from your maintenance intake to give you your net calorie allowance:

tinkerbellang83 wrote: »

No it doesn't defeat the object because your deficit has already been deducted from your maintenance intake to give you your net calorie allowance:

Thank you helpful

tinkerbellang83

moosmum1972 wrote: »

tinkerbellang83 wrote: »

jflongo wrote: »

Burning 500 calories does not equal eating 500 calories.

If you have burned an additional 500 calories through exercise then using MFP as correctly intended does equal eating an additional 500 calories.

Many eat 50-75% of any burn because counters can over estimate.

Yes many do start out with 50% but then adjust based on real world data but there are also many of us who eat them all back myself included and lose at the expected rate.

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tinkerbellang83

moosmum1972 wrote: »

tinkerbellang83 wrote: »

moosmum1972 wrote: »

tinkerbellang83 wrote: »

jflongo wrote: »

Burning 500 calories does not equal eating 500 calories.

If you have burned an additional 500 calories through exercise then using MFP as correctly intended does equal eating an additional 500 calories.

Many eat 50-75% of any burn because counters can over estimate.

Yes many do start out with 50% but then adjust based on real world data but there are also many of us who eat them all back myself included and lose at the expected rate.

Lucky you (non sarcastic) I get 75% before things stop

My Garmin is fairly accurate (ran a spreadsheet for 4 weeks to track it's accuracy, against my actual/trend weight loss and food intake and had it at 2% underestimating) at tracking my activity, but I am also much better at food logging now, before I was terrible and I think this is also where the 50% becomes helpful to some, because it means they can be less stringent with their food logging.