Eat exercise cals back

Kimgreen27

Been out the game for a while and just returning to MFP but, never been consistent and now I’m committing. Want to know if u exercise do u eat those cals back or u just stick to daily cals allowed?

nighthawk584

Personally, I just stick to my daily calorie goal without eating back calories from exercise. Works for me. Once I reach my weight loss goal, I will then reevaluate.

cmriverside

I always ate them. All of them. Lost my 70+ pounds that way over ten years ago and continue to work it that way.
If you use Myfitnesspal the way it is intended to be used, then you set your Daily Activity and add in purposeful exercise and eat more on exercise days.

Here, from the Sticky Posts at the top of the "Getting Started" subforum:
https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10503681/exercise-calories-do-i-eat-these-a-video-explanation/p1


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67USKg3w_E4

Kimgreen27

So let me make sure I understand: I attached my apple watch and for example I walk 2 miles and MFP gives me 250 cals for that walk I should eat the 250 cals plus the 1260 cals it allows me daily?

cmriverside

Kimgreen27 wrote: »

So let me make sure I understand: I attached my apple watch and for example I walk 2 miles and MFP gives me 250 cals for that walk I should eat the 250 cals plus the 1260 cals it allows me daily?

I think Apple will confuse you since it doesn't play well with MFP. But yes, eat that additional 250 calories "earned" by that walk - over an above your 1260 cals. So eat around 1500, total.

Here's a post about the Apple synch problem:

https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10756395/exercise-calories#latest

Jackie9003

Many people on here think the calories earned are over stated so recommend eating back about half of them.
I don't eat mine back as a rule but am flexible so will sometimes have an extra treat on the back of them if I fancy it.

netitheyeti

I eat about 2/3 of mine back. I'm a short female so to lose weight I'm already in the 1200-1300kcal a day target range as it is (I maintain at 1600something when not working out), if I don't eat at least some of them back I feel really tired after a while - I can't imagine doing my daily walk/yoga and then a 40ish min long afternoon workout 5-6 days a week on 1200-1300 total... Mind you, going by my actual weight my logging and estimates seem to be pretty on point so far, if I don't eat all of it back I lose a tiny bit faster than expected

I only have 20ish lbs left to lose and I'm 5'2, so I can't really do large deficits tho - plus, not worth it if it means I'm constantly tired and hungry