Eating back burnt calories,defeating the object?

felonebeats
felonebeats Posts: 433
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Who eats back their burned calories?
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  • Branstin
    Branstin Posts: 2,320 Member
    Do you mean eating back exercise calories defeat the purpose of losing weight?

    I eat back at least half of my exercise calories and continue to lose weight.
  • SezxyStef
    SezxyStef Posts: 15,267 Member
    When I did NEAT method I did...I understood MFP had already given me a deficet so it was great to be able to exercise for treats etc.
  • Isakizza
    Isakizza Posts: 754 Member
    I do!
    I eat back about half of them or more if I'm really hungry.

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  • onefortyone
    onefortyone Posts: 531 Member
    I eat them all back and lick my plate.
  • felonebeats
    felonebeats Posts: 433
    Do you mean eating back exercise calories defeat the purpose of losing weight?

    I eat back at least half of my exercise calories and continue to lose weight.

    yeah,I don't understand burning off all them calories then eating them back.Makes no sense to me
  • ValGogo
    ValGogo Posts: 2,168 Member
    I try not to eat them all back. Maybe only half, if I have a good day.
  • howardheilweil
    howardheilweil Posts: 604 Member
    Do you mean eating back exercise calories defeat the purpose of losing weight?

    I eat back at least half of my exercise calories and continue to lose weight.

    yeah,I don't understand burning off all them calories then eating them back.Makes no sense to me
    It makes sense if you consider that you are already starting out at a deficit. Not eating back at least some of the calories you burn COULD potentially leave you with insufficient nutrition.
  • amwoidyla
    amwoidyla Posts: 257 Member
    Do you mean eating back exercise calories defeat the purpose of losing weight?

    I eat back at least half of my exercise calories and continue to lose weight.

    yeah,I don't understand burning off all them calories then eating them back.Makes no sense to me

    Working out isn't exclusively about losing weight. Lots of people enjoy exercise and it makes them feel good. Getting to eat more is a tasty, tasty, side effect.
  • __freckles__
    __freckles__ Posts: 1,238 Member
    Do you mean eating back exercise calories defeat the purpose of losing weight?

    I eat back at least half of my exercise calories and continue to lose weight.

    yeah,I don't understand burning off all them calories then eating them back.Makes no sense to me
    It makes sense if you consider that you are already starting out at a deficit. Not eating back at least some of the calories you burn COULD potentially leave you with insufficient nutrition.

    ^^^This. And that's all folks.
  • felonebeats
    felonebeats Posts: 433
    I'm in a 700 calorie deficit a day.My maintenance is 2700.I do 5 days a week of high volume intense weightlifting and never eat back my calories
  • redskiednight
    redskiednight Posts: 32 Member
    Exercise for fitness,
    Deficit for weight.
    MFP has me on a net deficit, ergo I eat my exercise calories. See ticker for results :)
  • tworthen79
    tworthen79 Posts: 1,173 Member
    MFP already puts you at a deficit. So by not eating back some/all of those calories lost, you put yourself at a bigger deficit. And depending on your set goal for the day, you could fall below 1200.

    If you set goal is 1700 and you burn 600, well then you only ate 1100 that day.
  • felonebeats
    felonebeats Posts: 433
    Do you mean eating back exercise calories defeat the purpose of losing weight?

    I eat back at least half of my exercise calories and continue to lose weight.

    yeah,I don't understand burning off all them calories then eating them back.Makes no sense to me
    It makes sense if you consider that you are already starting out at a deficit. Not eating back at least some of the calories you burn COULD potentially leave you with insufficient nutrition.

    ^^^This. And that's all folks.

    ^^^rubbish,depends if your hitting your macros etc
  • GBrady43068
    GBrady43068 Posts: 1,256 Member
    I eat back 2/3 of my burnt calories to try and account for overstated burns on exercise equipment and MFP.

    Even so, I have only had 2 weeks where I gained since joining MFP in October and the last two weeks I've seen my biggest drops (most likely the combination of the three run/training days a week for a 5K at the end of May and dogsitting which means I'm doing 1-2 20-30 minute walks a day on top of my other activity).

    I don't think eating back your calories will stall your results.
  • __freckles__
    __freckles__ Posts: 1,238 Member
    Do you mean eating back exercise calories defeat the purpose of losing weight?

    I eat back at least half of my exercise calories and continue to lose weight.

    yeah,I don't understand burning off all them calories then eating them back.Makes no sense to me
    It makes sense if you consider that you are already starting out at a deficit. Not eating back at least some of the calories you burn COULD potentially leave you with insufficient nutrition.

    ^^^This. And that's all folks.

    ^^^rubbish,depends if your hitting your macros etc

    Says the guy with a closed diary.
  • howardheilweil
    howardheilweil Posts: 604 Member
    I'm in a 700 calorie deficit a day.My maintenance is 2700.I do 5 days a week of high volume intense weightlifting and never eat back my calories
    So, 2700 is a 700 calorie deficit? I think you are fine not eating back calories.
  • Branstin
    Branstin Posts: 2,320 Member
    MFP already calculates a calorie deficiency into the initial number it generates for you (goal calories). When you exercise, you create a larger deficient. For some people this may not give them enough calories to fuel the body to burn fat. With others, it allows for more food like treats while still achieving weight loss. Not everyone eats back their calories. It all depends on the individual. If you could maintain a healthy weight loss rate without eating back the calories then by all means do what works for you.
  • felonebeats
    felonebeats Posts: 433
    Different strokes for different folks I guess.Just never understood it myself
  • JojoEffeckt164
    JojoEffeckt164 Posts: 146 Member
    When I started dieting and my limit was 1450kcal I almost never ate them back
    Now my limit is 1240kcal. I almost cannot do this without sport. I get hungry!
    So now I usually eat about half of them back (about 200kcal), assuming that those burned calories are overestimated anyways.

    I used a lot of exercise for increasing my weight loss progress and I was pretty successfull with that. Now my goal is closer than ever and I now that progress has to slow down at some point....
  • felonebeats
    felonebeats Posts: 433
    I'm in a 700 calorie deficit a day.My maintenance is 2700.I do 5 days a week of high volume intense weightlifting and never eat back my calories
    So, 2700 is a 700 calorie deficit? I think you are fine not eating back calories.

    No,2700 is my maintenance calories,I'm eating 2000,hence a 700 deficit
  • GBrady43068
    GBrady43068 Posts: 1,256 Member
    Do you mean eating back exercise calories defeat the purpose of losing weight?

    I eat back at least half of my exercise calories and continue to lose weight.

    yeah,I don't understand burning off all them calories then eating them back.Makes no sense to me
    It makes sense if you consider that you are already starting out at a deficit. Not eating back at least some of the calories you burn COULD potentially leave you with insufficient nutrition.

    ^^^This. And that's all folks.
    I agree. I will likely be missing out on some portion of my dietary needs if I continually have an extra big deficit. MFP is already building in a 600 calorie one...I don't need an extra 300-400 more.
  • gulfcoastnik
    gulfcoastnik Posts: 19 Member
    I do not really understand it all. If I excercise it says more calories, but I am also supposed to have a loss of -3500 calories to lose 1 lb?

    It just confuses me more and more..... and then when macro's and all that come into the conversation I just don't get it. sometimes it feels so confusing. I don't intentionally do anything. IF I am hungry I eat my calories, last night I had over 600 left and did not eat them. This weekend I went over one day by at least 600. I have lost so...I don't know.
  • csverdin
    csverdin Posts: 12 Member
    My wife had weight loss surgery and she had hit a wall with losing weight. The doctor and nutritionist increased her calorie intake from 1200 to 1500 on days when she doesn't work out and told her to have at least 1000 net calories per day when she works out. The weight has started coming off again. Keep in mind that everybody is different. You have to get to know your body and what it needs. If you run into a wall, try increasing your calorie intake to keep up with the exercise you are doing to keep your body from going into conservation mode.
  • DblChinz
    DblChinz Posts: 31 Member
    I do not eat mine right now because I would like a bigger deficit to lose weight a bit faster. i have a lot more weight to lose close to 100 lbs so it won't hurt me now but as I get smaller I will have to eat them back. the reason most do eat them back is b/c your mfp goal already includes a deficit so when you exercise that's a deficit upon a deficit so you can eat the exercise calories back if that makes any sense.
  • parkscs
    parkscs Posts: 1,639 Member
    I'm in a 700 calorie deficit a day.My maintenance is 2700.I do 5 days a week of high volume intense weightlifting and never eat back my calories
    So, 2700 is a 700 calorie deficit? I think you are fine not eating back calories.

    No,2700 is my maintenance calories,I'm eating 2000,hence a 700 deficit

    If you aren't eating back your lifting calories, you're more likely at a 1000 calorie deficit, assuming your maintenance calories aren't calculated to include exercise. If your sedentary TDEE is 2700, you're roughly running a 1000 calorie deficit (700 + 300) which puts you at 2000 net calories/day. If you calculate your TDEE with exercise and it's 3000, the same 1000 calorie deficit puts you again at 2000 net calories/day. At the end of the day, it works out the same.
  • tworthen79
    tworthen79 Posts: 1,173 Member
    If you are in maintenance, why eat at a deficit? That will make you LOSE weight, not maintain. This isn't rocket science.
  • felonebeats
    felonebeats Posts: 433
    But if my maintenance is 2700 now and I eat back my burnt calories I'll be back at maintenance
  • AlyssamR6712
    AlyssamR6712 Posts: 114 Member
    Do you mean eating back exercise calories defeat the purpose of losing weight?

    I eat back at least half of my exercise calories and continue to lose weight.

    yeah,I don't understand burning off all them calories then eating them back.Makes no sense to me

    The reason to eat them back is because in order to burn fat your body needs fuel, so the more you work out the more fuel your body will need. that doesn't mean because you ran and burned 1200 cals you earned some pizza or cake... lols... your body needs FUEL not junk, nutrient dense foods. maybe add an extra meal in there somewhere.

    I go by the rule of if im hungry, i eat... if im not, i won't eat them back.

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  • felonebeats
    felonebeats Posts: 433
    If you are in maintenance, why eat at a deficit? That will make you LOSE weight, not maintain. This isn't rocket science.

    I'm cutting not maintaining,losing 1lb a week
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    I'm in a 700 calorie deficit a day.My maintenance is 2700.I do 5 days a week of high volume intense weightlifting and never eat back my calories

    That is because you are using the TDEE method. MFP used as designed does not include exercise in the activity level...it uses your NEAT and takes a cut from that and then you account for exercise after the fact.

    Example...my TDEE is around 2,700 calories as well and I lost steadily at 2100 - 2200 calories gross. My NEAT maintenance (non exercise maintenance per MFP) is 2,350..so my cut to lose about 1 Lb per week was 1,850...but with exercise I was eating right around 2100 - 2200 gross eating my exercise calories back. 6 of 1, half dozen of the other.

    You just have to know and understand the method you are using. In the TDEE method, some estimate of that exercise is included in your total from which the cut is taken thus it would be "double dipping" to eat them back...not so with the NEAT method.

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