Eating Exercise Cals Slowing Your Weight loss? Read This.
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I am by no means a math person, so thank you for breaking this down in a way that I can understand.
I was trying to eat back evey single one of the 600+ calories my cheap HRM told me I burned. I also fall into the very petite range. My weight loss completely stalled. I've revamped this a bit and for the past couple weeks have been eating 250 of my exercise calories back, max. I've started losing weight again.0 -
One other thing some folks might not take into acoount - you may be building muscle, so your scale number will hardly budge. Be sure to get a bodyfat measurement, then you'll know if this is the case.
When I started lifting religiously, my weight loss practically stopped (2 lbs. in one month!?). BUT, my bodyfat % went down nearly 2% in one month, so I built muscle. I can certainly see it, and my measurements reflected it somewhat too (3 inches off waist, 1 inch off chest).
Since my goal is to get my bodyfat % down first, and lose lbs. second, I'm just fine with small numbers on the scale...Slow and steady wins the race in my case!0 -
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Great post. I've never even thought about subtracting my 'regularly burned' cals from my exercise burns. Since I eat back exercise cals, this could very well explain my extremely slow/almost non-existant weight loss - I'm eating back even more calories than I'm ACTUALLY burning through exercise!
I've now taken my normal daily caloric use and divided it up so that I know how many I typically burn per minute and can subtract these from whatever exercise I do, no matter how long the exercise is!0 -
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I remember when you first posted this! It's so good that people are STILL bumping it more than a year later. lol Awesome!0
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Great post, thank you!0
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Bump :glasses:0
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Great info. Saving so I can read later.0
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