Eating excessive calories burned

pinkgurl456

Should I be eating the calories I burn at the gym ? Or should I just stick to set calories . I burn 310 to 400 usually at the gym if that helps.

apullum

This is the maintenance board. If your goal is to maintain your weight, then your calories burned and calories eaten must equal each other on average. That means you need to make sure that you eat all exercise calories assuming they are calculated correctly.

If your goal is to lose weight and you are following MFP's calorie goal, then you should still be eating back all exercise calories assuming they are calculated correctly. Your MFP calorie goal for weight loss has a deficit built in and you are not intended to create a larger deficit using exercise.

The key here is "assuming they are calculated correctly." Estimates of calorie burn are often inflated, depending on how they were calculated. If you don't have a clear reason to think your exercise calories are calculated accurately, then start with half your estimated exercise calories and adjust based on what your weight does.

sijomial

Ask yourself why they would get added to your daily goal if you weren't supposed to eat them!
Then look ahead to when you have got to goal weight and realise you will have to take them into account if you wish to maintain at your goal weight. Might as well learn that skill now.

If you want help or advice on better/best/reasonable ways to improve the accuracy of your exercise expenditure then describe yourself and your actual exercise as often the database on here isn't the best tool for certain exercises.

pjwrt

pinkgurl456 wrote: »

Should I be eating the calories I burn at the gym ? Or should I just stick to set calories . I burn 310 to 400 usually at the gym if that helps.

Slippery slope, right there. Stick to your plan. The burned calories are a bonus and not permission to eat tasties.

apullum

pjwrt wrote: »

pinkgurl456 wrote: »

Should I be eating the calories I burn at the gym ? Or should I just stick to set calories . I burn 310 to 400 usually at the gym if that helps.

Slippery slope, right there. Stick to your plan. The burned calories are a bonus and not permission to eat tasties.

If you are following MFP’s calorie goal, then you eat back exercise calories. This is how the program is designed to work. That is the plan that almost everyone here is sticking to. You can eat anything you want as long as you’re within your calorie and/or macro goals.

sijomial

pjwrt wrote: »

pinkgurl456 wrote: »

Should I be eating the calories I burn at the gym ? Or should I just stick to set calories . I burn 310 to 400 usually at the gym if that helps.

Slippery slope, right there. Stick to your plan. The burned calories are a bonus and not permission to eat tasties.

Is eating the calories needed for your BMR, your day to day activity also a "slippery slope"?
Exercise is just one of the many energy needs for a healthy body. Do you think those calories are somehow different to make them a "bonus"?

And why shouldn't people eat tasty food? Does good tasting food not have nutrition for some peculiar reason?

WinoGelato

pjwrt wrote: »

pinkgurl456 wrote: »

Should I be eating the calories I burn at the gym ? Or should I just stick to set calories . I burn 310 to 400 usually at the gym if that helps.

Slippery slope, right there. Stick to your plan. The burned calories are a bonus and not permission to eat tasties.

Someone doesn’t know how the site works....

Omar0102

You can eat tasty nutritious food!