Eating all your calories

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  • liloldDee
    liloldDee Posts: 92 Member
    I'm female with another 70/80 pounds to lose. I have a fitbit, I have the fitbit and mfp both set as sedentary. I don't log any exercise on the fitbit app, I mainly walk but never add cleaning ect. In a normal day, I do between 12/14k steps. For this fitbit gives me between 500/750 exercise calories. I don't normally eat more than half these calories, sometimes it's less sometimes it's more. I have my goal set to lose 1 pound per week, which on a sedentary lifestyle allows me 1640 calories. Due to the exercise and the fact I'm not sedentary I am currently losing more than 1 pound a week, it's around the 2 pound mark.
    Generally I eat between 1600 and 1900 calories 6 days a week and upto 2200 calories once a week/ fortnight. Because of my higher calories I'm not hungry, this doesn't feel like a diet, it's a lifestyle change. I've stopped excluding any food group from my meals. If I want some thing I eat it, not just a tiny amount a proper serving that satisfys my desire and doesn't leave me yearning for more like a teeny portion does!
  • mccindy72
    mccindy72 Posts: 7,001 Member
    As a fit female, when I was working out 1-1/2 to 2 hours per day (high intensity cardio) I was able to burn 1000-1200 calories per day. I don't think walking, cleaning and other daily acitivities would get you to that kind of calorie burn even if you are heavy. You have to get your heart rate up close to maximum for a sustained amount of time to have that rate of burn. I don't even log activities like walking and cleaning because they are a part of daily living. I only log exercise if it gets my heart rate up and makes me sweat.
  • lindsayforlife
    lindsayforlife Posts: 93 Member
    I have never understood the eating back of calories that you burn. Yes, I've read all the posts touting it, and the explanations of MFP already creating a deficit. But, in my opinion, if you eat a decent amount of calories (for me it's about 1800) and you exercise and burn say 200 calories, its counterproductive to eat them back. My body's not going to go into starvation mode, I'm not going to hang on to my fat because I'm not consuming enough calories. I've never got it, and maybe I never will, but I never eat back my calories.

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