People w/ TONS of calories "remaining"??!?!?
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I hardly ever have any calories left over (as a matter of fact I've been going over a lot lately). I don't understand how you could regularly have hundreds left over?! Eat some chocolate or a food you enjoy!
No can do. Chocolate puts me over on fat.0 -
I regularly leave 300-400 calories; not because I want to leave them - I could eat up to my limit - but if I do , then I am over the top on fat [and sometimes protein] so I just leave the calories. I've now exceeded my goal of 120 lbs and remain somewhere between 112 and 114 lbs.0
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Many would contend MFP sets protein far too low.0
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I hardly ever have any calories left over (as a matter of fact I've been going over a lot lately). I don't understand how you could regularly have hundreds left over?! Eat some chocolate or a food you enjoy!
No can do. Chocolate puts me over on fat.
And the problem is?0 -
Haha, caloric donations would be awesome!0
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Every once in awhile I'll have extra calories remaining. Not often though.0
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Many would contend MFP sets protein far too low.
You are right, it's pretty low on all of them, IMO. It's generally fine to go over your protein and fat macros.0 -
Haha, caloric donations would be awesome!
:laugh:
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I operate on a 3 day system with a goal deficit of 250 calories. By day 3, if I'm under, I eat enough so I'm at a 750 calorie deficit and on track.0
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1. i'm just not hungry
1. i don't trust the exercise calories
1. i'm just not hungry
1. i can't eat as many calories as this site tells me too
1. i don't trust the food calorie estimates
1. (today) I estimated a lot.. but usually I weight and measure everything.0 -
I actually have my limit set at the maintenance level for my goal weight, so I am not too worried if I am a bit below that as long as I am above 12500
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There are days when I have 9, or 18 calories left, and I try so hard to figure out wtf I can eat with 9 or 18 calories. Or if I have 53 calories and I want something for 60, then I think about what I have to do to burn those extra 7 calories off... like run, instead of walk, to the kitchen.
Uneaten calories should be illegal. Unless the person is sick, of course.0 -
I just don't get it! Sometimes I see like 400+ cals remaining.
When I have even 50 cals left, I debate b/w a piece of chocolate or a fruit or an egg...Do you guys (that have that many cals left) really not feel hungry, so leave the cals uneaten like that?
Ughh I wish I could get some caloric donations. It just doesn't work that way though
My food and exercise dairy is inaccurate.
I don't own a food scale, a fitbit, heart rate monitor, or any other device.
I'm not sure how fast I walk or if I really burn all the calories the MFP database says.
If I rake the leaves in my yard, that's not in the database at all, so I Google it and then pick something close, like gardening. MFP friends with HRMs said they were surprised to find they burned far fewer calories than they'd thought they were burning.
I don't worry about it. I'm living in a healthy way. I'm eating food I can easily eat for the rest of my life. If I have a lot of calories left, I eat if i'm hungry, and if I'm not hungry I don't eat. I figure the dairy is not accurate anyway. The big picture is that I'm living in an overall very healthy way.0 -
I don't eat them all because I don't completely trust that my logging is accurate, I feel kind of guilty about it since I have not been doing a lot of exercise lately, and I figure I'll use them when I go away for the weekends or vacation and eat like a pig or when I give in to waffles, crepes, gelato or an amazing French pastry.0
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I don't get it either. I see people in my friend list with 2000 calorie goals who eat 1100 calories, everyone is telling them 'good job' and I just shake my head.
If I have calories left, I'm the same way, I try to fill them! Often I'm adding veggies 1g at a time to reach my goal in the evening...0 -
I have my goal set to 1 Lb per week so being under is not a bad thing. I try to be under by at least 100 or so - it doesn't always happen though.0
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There are days when I have 9, or 18 calories left, and I try so hard to figure out wtf I can eat with 9 or 18 calories. Or if I have 53 calories and I want something for 60, then I think about what I have to do to burn those extra 7 calories off... like run, instead of walk, to the kitchen.
Uneaten calories should be illegal. Unless the person is sick, of course.
worrying about 9-18 and how to burn it off should be illegal0 -
if iI have not been working out then I typically leave about 500 under maintenance so I can have a lot left on certain days...
FYI - people may be on a different plan then you are...0 -
I usually have about 200-350 left over for the day. I eat a lot of protein with a lot of it being low calorie it fills me up without all the calories and fillers involved I don't usually eat past 8 and am in bed by 9/9:30. If I eat all my calories its usually on a splurge day.0
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Somedays I get huge burns in so I'm left over with hundreds (occasionally over 1k) but I usually make up for it somewhere.0
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