Exercise calories do you use them for food?
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tawnyamh1209 wrote: »I choose not to and the calorie burn for Zumba is pretty much accurate on mfp.
So if you feel it’s accurate then why wouldn’t you eat them back? How do you know it’s activate if you aren’t factoring those calories burned into your data points?3 -
I think it is odd that people who want to lose weight and therefore "move more" then eat more food to compensate for that extra movement.
Makes no sense to me at all.
Obviously a different conversation if you are exercising for health reasons but if you are eating a variety of foods to cover your nutritional needs while not moving then what is the point of moving if you then going to just eat back the calories???2 -
I think it is odd that people who want to lose weight and therefore "move more" then eat more food to compensate for that extra movement.
Makes no sense to me at all.
Obviously a different conversation if you are exercising for health reasons but if you are eating a variety of foods to cover your nutritional needs while not moving then what is the point of moving if you then going to just eat back the calories???
Because that’s how MFP is designed? The calorie deficit is built in with the presumption of no exercise. If you do exercise, you are creating an unnecessarily large deficit which can have adverse effects.
Also, calories fuel the exercise...
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I think it is odd that people who want to lose weight and therefore "move more" then eat more food to compensate for that extra movement.
Makes no sense to me at all.
Obviously a different conversation if you are exercising for health reasons but if you are eating a variety of foods to cover your nutritional needs while not moving then what is the point of moving if you then going to just eat back the calories???
Energy (calories/kilojoules) is the most basic nutrient. Too big a deficits means your not covering your most basic nutritional need.8 -
I think it is odd that people who want to lose weight and therefore "move more" then eat more food to compensate for that extra movement.
Makes no sense to me at all.
Obviously a different conversation if you are exercising for health reasons but if you are eating a variety of foods to cover your nutritional needs while not moving then what is the point of moving if you then going to just eat back the calories???
Because . . .
It's fun?
It's useful to be strong?
I want to delay my one-way move to the assisted living facility as long as possible, maybe permanently?
Older fit people I know typically have easier, happier, more-fun lives than the unfit ones?
I actually like a little snappy performance in my exercise, not miserable draggy exhaustion?
Eating more calories while losing weight is more enjoyable than eating fewer calories while losing the same weight?
It teaches the useful life lesson that people who move more can eat more while staying at a healthy weight, but it's necessary to eat less when one can't or doesn't want to move more but still wants a healthy weight?
Losing weight too fast is a fool's game?
. . . etc.
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I think it is odd that people who want to lose weight and therefore "move more" then eat more food to compensate for that extra movement.
Makes no sense to me at all.
Obviously a different conversation if you are exercising for health reasons but if you are eating a variety of foods to cover your nutritional needs while not moving then what is the point of moving if you then going to just eat back the calories???
Because they're already at an appropriate calorie deficit before the exercise and there's no reason to make it larger.9 -
janejellyroll wrote: »I think it is odd that people who want to lose weight and therefore "move more" then eat more food to compensate for that extra movement.
Makes no sense to me at all.
Obviously a different conversation if you are exercising for health reasons but if you are eating a variety of foods to cover your nutritional needs while not moving then what is the point of moving if you then going to just eat back the calories???
Because they're already at an appropriate calorie deficit before the exercise and there's no reason to make it larger.
not only that, it's potentially unhealthy by creating too great a deficit.
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I don't usually unless I think I need them (body is sending hunger cues or I had a big workout and I know my body is craving them)0
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I only eat my excercise calories back if im famished. Otherwise - no. YMMV. 😉0
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I think it is odd that people who want to lose weight and therefore "move more" then eat more food to compensate for that extra movement.
Makes no sense to me at all.
Obviously a different conversation if you are exercising for health reasons but if you are eating a variety of foods to cover your nutritional needs while not moving then what is the point of moving if you then going to just eat back the calories???
Because your calorie target on MFP assume ZERO exercise and is already often a substantial deficit. Crashing your diet to 1200 calories and then doing a bunch of exercise on top of that and not accounting for that is extremely unhealthy.
Lets say MFP gives me a calorie target of 1900 calories to lose about 1 Lb per week. I go on a 30 mile bike ride and burn around 1,000 calories. If I don't account for that activity, I would be netting around 900 calories. Does that sound remotely healthy to you?11 -
I think it is odd that people who want to lose weight and therefore "move more" then eat more food to compensate for that extra movement.
Makes no sense to me at all.
Obviously a different conversation if you are exercising for health reasons but if you are eating a variety of foods to cover your nutritional needs while not moving then what is the point of moving if you then going to just eat back the calories???
Some some people want fast "weight" loss no matter the cost. The cost is often a higher % of muscle loss. These people don't bother with exercise calories at all, because the purpose is to adjust the scale as fast as possible. These are people who exercise for weight loss.
Other people want to target FAT loss, as in lowering their body fat %. Healthy weight loss means maintaining an appropriate deficit. Maintaining an appropriate deficit is why MFP gives you calories back. These are people who exercise for health and/or fitness.6 -
I like food so I ate every last exercise point earned on weight watchers and every last exercise calorie earned while counting calories. And I lost (except for the year I didn't....damned over exercise estimating fitbit!).2
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It’s baffling to me how people think this is an opinion question.
If you are following the MFP calorie goal, you are intended to eat all exercise calories assuming they are calculated accurately.
If you are not following the MFP calorie goal, you should use your chosen method correctly.
This is how the program was designed, not a matter of opinion. You’re either using the program as designed, or you’re not.12 -
I'm still hoping to find where I can redeem them for stuffed animals, but alas, so far to balance food intake is about all I've been able to cash them in for.7
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I use a heart rate monitor when I exercise so mine is fairly accurate. And I used my apple watch to determine my activity level.
I eat most of mine back. But I won't eat if I'm over full. I might also go a little over if I'm hungry.1 -
No I use them for bragging rights!
I also eat them of course. When you select a tool to do a job is makes sense to use it as designed.9 -
When I started dieting, I used MFP's Goal number and ate 1/2 or so of my exercise calories back. However, I found myself starting to do excessive, multiple daily workouts to earn more food, and at some point decided the situation was becoming destructive. So I went to TDEEcalculator.net, got a calorie quota that included an hour of exercise, and went with that. Been happy with it ever since. In the end, the total calories are around the same regardless of which approach you use (MFP's NEAT vs TDEE), but I learned that I really need exercise to be completely separate from food consumption in order to avoid bad behaviors.1
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Eat them!!!! Alternatively, bank them for a couple of days and have a treat at the end of the week.0
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