how much of your workout calories are you suppose to eat

karenMcMillan0712

So Some days I do great workouts. Today was a great Hike! 800 extra calories worth. But do not want to gain weight . I keep hearing calories in calories out. But unclear about calories from a work out

MindyG150

NOTE: I am still losing not maintaining.

I try to not eat my exercise calories, I kinda figure that's what I'm trying to lose.

hermann341

Eat most of them, like 75%. Your goal calories already have a built in deficit, so you need to eat some of your exercise calories to refuel.

MeanderingMammal

Assuming that you're using the MFP model as designed there is a deficit already determined for you. Any calories that youbexpend training should be recovered to maintain your planned loss rate. Eat that 800 calories back.

Some people account for measurement error by only eating back a portion; 70-80%

SomeNights246

I usually eat about half of them back at least. Some days, all of them (but I underestimate how much I exercise on MFP since the calories burned seems to be wrong sometimes - I usually figure half.. so if I did 30 minutes of cardio, I'll log about 15-20). It really depends on how hungry I feel. On days where I do a lot of walking and cardio, I become a bottomless pit and will eat back all of them. On days where I just do yoga and light cardio, I eat back about half at least.

I have been maintaining well doing this.

tycho_mx

100%, if exercise expenditure was assessed with full accuracy. It rarely is, so some build a margin of error. 75% is common.

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