Alcohol and weight loss

heybales

I'm 5'2. Surely I shouldn't be eating back all of my exercise calories though?

Why not - you probably picked a weight loss goal amount that was unreasonable for amount to lose, eating back ALL those exercise calories would at least allow workout days to balance out that too big of a deficit your eating level already has in it on non-exercise days.

Your eating level is based on a deficit from NON-exercise maintenance.

Eat at maintenance, no weight change. Eat less, lose weight.

You add exercise, maintenance just went up. Eat less than that bigger amount, lose weight.

To keep the same loss amount, your eating of course would go up too.

That being said, most aren't noticing their true time for the workout. 600 is reasonable with a bit of weight to move.

But if on the machine for 60 min, was it really at the intensity of the exercise you picked in the database?

Pick running 6 mph. But did you start walking for 5 min first, slowly build up to speed to 6 mph, and then slowed down, and walked at the end? Average speed over the 60 min was NOT 6 mph then.

Or was last 10 min of 45 min spin class actually going slow and stretching, first 5 min going slow to warmup?