Do you have to eat all the burned calories back?

Wilhellmina

I personally can not eat all my exercise calories let alone all my daily calories so I eat until I am comfortable and not feel like a bloated goldfish

If that's really the case how did you get overweight to start with? Nuts are calorie dense or you could up your oil intake in cooking to subtly raise your calories without the bulk.

I think that is the main problem for many of us. We eat too much, move too little and our system doesn't give us the right signals anymore when we really had enough. But with that being said: after weeks of dieting and eat the right amount of calories, I also got a hard time getting the food diary to 1800 now, the stomach shrinks, my solution: a spoon of coconut oil!

trudijoy

I personally can not eat all my exercise calories let alone all my daily calories so I eat until I am comfortable and not feel like a bloated goldfish

If that's really the case how did you get overweight to start with? Nuts are calorie dense or you could up your oil intake in cooking to subtly raise your calories without the bulk.

I'm so sick of seeing this 'logic' splashed over the boards. I ate less when I was big than I do now. I just ate different, more calorific food. When people say they are struggling to get to calories it's often because they are genuine about doing this and they have restricted themselves to lean meat, veges, and not much else, all really low fat and low cal, because that is what they heard for years and they don't know that there is another, more effective way.

People being sanctimonious and throwing about the 'you must know how to eat because you're fat' line is ridiculous. Everyones scenario is a little bit different and while the same solution (in variations) will work for everyone, NOT everyone is fat because they ate too much bulk of food, their balance was simply off. Or, like me, they had an accident and that, coupled with a thyroid problem and (at the time) ignorance of BMR led me to put on weight.

Sheesh.

VpinkLotus

It all depends. I know a lot of people don't. I personally do eat them back because MFP has me set at 1,240 to start. That is usually not enough for me especially after working out. If I burn 400 cals, then I figure my body needs that much more fuel.

samcat2000

If you're not overestimating your burns then I'd say definitely eat them all back. You are training your body to respond to extra need rather than want that way. I can't see the point messing about with TDEE when MFP calcs already work everything out for you. All it's doing is spreading your exercise calories across the week - something you can do anyway with the MFP method if you don't mind showing in the red on non-exercise days.

I think they are more like very underastimated. After all we don't count the house hold, shopping, walking up and down the stairs etc. So the burn will be higher, since I only add real exercise to it. MFP tells me to eat only 1300 calories, that is way too low to my opinion, besides I don't get it either + they keep on changing my settings. Filled in manually and hands off now!.

MFP had me first at 1,370 then at 1270 cal/day. It was WAY TOO LOW. I am not the kind of person that can go hungry. I eat when I'm hungry because if I don't then I won't have a good workout. I upped my cal intake to 1,600 day and manually entered that into MFP. I probably need to up it to about 1,800 because I find that I consistently go over 1,600 by 100-400 cals on non-workout days. On days I exercise, I probably eat anywhere between 2,100- 3,300 cals depending on how much I think I burned (I use a HRM but I know it's not 100% accurate). I'm sort of in maintenance mode right now but have lost .5 lb here and there. Once I hit my goal of 135 I will be in true maintenance mode. I'm no expert on any of this and I know my #s aren't exactly accurate...as long as I'm not gaining any or losing too much, I'm happy.