Should you eat back your excercise calories?

ssbmacdaddy
ssbmacdaddy Posts: 124 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
I listed mussel as sedentary and just add excercise as I do it. I do insanity workouts and calisthenics 5 -6 days a week and on the other days I walk. Sometimes I burn over a thousand calories on excercise yet to loose 2 lb per week I need to eat 1410 calories. On most days due to excercise I have over 2000 calories. I found that on the days that I eat back most of the calories from excercise I loose more weight then when I under eat. I always leave 100-500 calories under eaten. What is the opinion of others should you eat your goal and excercise calories?

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  • GertrudeHorse
    GertrudeHorse Posts: 646 Member
    What are your stats? What workouts are you doing? Burning 1000 calories from exercise is very difficult unless you are a) extremely heavy or b) doing sustained and vigorous cardio for over an hour and a half each day. If what you are doing is working then you should keep doing it. I personally eat back my exercise calories in full, but I conservatively estimate them in the first place so I guess it's much of a muchness.
  • dcresider
    dcresider Posts: 1,272 Member
    Eat your activity calories. Your body needs the energy to rebuild, If you lose weight from the exercise calories, then don't question it and enjoy the weight loss.
  • editorgrrl
    editorgrrl Posts: 7,060 Member
    With only 40 lb. to go, 2 lb. per week is an unhealthy goal. Change it to 1 lb. per week.

    Your MFP calorie goal has your deficit built in, so you must eat back at least some of your exercise calories. The calorie counts & burns are only estimates, so some people reduce the margin of error by eating back half their exercise calories.

    Read this: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1080242-a-guide-to-get-you-started-on-your-path-to-sexypants
  • ssbmacdaddy
    ssbmacdaddy Posts: 124 Member
    What are your stats? What workouts are you doing? Burning 1000 calories from exercise is very difficult unless you a) extremely heavy or b) doing sustained and vigorous cardio for over an hour and a half each day. If what you are doing is working then you should keep doing it. I personally eat back my exercise calories in full, but I conservatively estimate them in the first place so I guess it's much of a muchness.
  • ssbmacdaddy
    ssbmacdaddy Posts: 124 Member
    What are your stats? What workouts are you doing? Burning 1000 calories from exercise is very difficult unless you a) extremely heavy or b) doing sustained and vigorous cardio for over an hour and a half each day. If what you are doing is working then you should keep doing it. I personally eat back my exercise calories in full, but I conservatively estimate them in the first place so I guess it's much of a muchness.
    Well today I did 33 minutes of insanity workout- ( usually do more - it was recovery) I listed it as yoga so low calorie burn , I did 22 minutes of pullups and squats circuits and back rows and flys and bicep curls and reverse curls and low back extensions, then I took a leisure walk yet doing a lot of steep hills for 55 minutes. So all together I did 110 minutes of some excercise. I left 400 calories of the excercise calories not eaten.

    Weight loss has soled down to slightly more than a pound peer week so I thought maybe should not eat back excercise calories. But good point that have to rebuild the muscle after workouts. Still have 40 lb to go. Trying to loose 5 lb at least a month. Think it's reasonable. Lost 30 lb so far. I know that as I loose the weight loss will slow down yet trying to be smart about it and consistent. Any opinions, experience and knowledge is appreciated.
  • beckytcy
    beckytcy Posts: 135 Member
    Sounds like what you are doing is working so I'd say keep it up! Sounds like you are doing awesome! I enter in the exercise that I do but then subtract 150 calories or so because I think mfp overestimates. For example I ran for an hour today and it gave me 650 so I changed it to 500. This seems to be working so far...
  • ssbmacdaddy
    ssbmacdaddy Posts: 124 Member
    Sounds like what you are doing is working so I'd say keep it up! Sounds like you are doing awesome! I enter in the exercise that I do but then subtract 150 calories or so because I think mfp overestimates. For example I ran for an hour today and it gave me 650 so I changed it to 500. This seems to be working so far...
    Yeh thanks yet I also dec calories by listing high impact aerobics as low impact. I leave some calories not eaten as I want a fudge zone. I under represent excercise and over represent food. Trying also to eat real unprocessed food vs junk.

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