When should I eat my exercise calories?

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  • inthekitch
    inthekitch Posts: 26
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    This may seem like an odd question, but I dance at least 2 nights a week and I burn about 300-500 calories each night I do. Of course, the calories I burned aren't added to my calories for the day until after I log it when I get home and check how many calories I ended up burning. By that time it's usually close to midnight and a new day.

    I went dancing last night and after logging the calories I burned my net calories were only 990, I try to keep my net at 1200 minimum.

    Should I be eating those calories the next day? Should I be eating them before dancing in anticipation of burning them? After dancing even though I'm probably going to crawl into bed soon after?

    It might not be the right way, but if I know I'll be exercising, I'll estimate the calories burnt and add them right away so that I can add snacks if I need to throughout the rest of the day. It only becomes problematic if I don't end up exercising!
  • Corsetopia
    Corsetopia Posts: 307 Member
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    I thought you had to eat them whilst exercising.

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    Isn't this the correct way?!

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