confused

staceyb_2003

I've seen a few people saying that they don't eat calories back or try and save some of the exercised calories and only eat half of themis that oki thought it was bad not to eat backcalories burnt ? very confused now

kentlass

it's all about finding out what works for you...some need to eat them, some don't...

i personally spent months not eating mine back while working out loads, and it did work...i lost about 20lbs...then my body stopped shedding the weight and i got stuck...i started eating SOME of my exercise cals and again...i started losing!!

so really if you think not eating them works for you, go with it, if you think that not eating them works against you then go for that too

personally as long as you have a NET calorie intake of 1200 you'll be ok if you choose not to eat them all

erickirb

MFP is set up for you to eat them back, that being said the calories burned according to MFP may not be accurate so many only eat half back in case the cals burned are over estimated. If you are using a HRM and back out the cals you would have burned at rest anyway, you should eat all of those calories to meet your weight loss goals.

ashlee954

It's definitely preference around these forums. Basically, you want to make sure that you do not go below 1200 NET calories per day (1500 for men). So eat back enough to make your NET cals 1200. So if your goal is 1200 and you burn 300 with exercise you should eat them. If your goal is 1600 cal per day and you burn 300 you don't HAVE to eat them because your NET cals are still over 1200(1600-300=1300). If your goal is 1400 and you burn 300 you should eat at least 100 back (1400-300=1100+100=1200). Consistently eating below 1200 NET cals can ultimately slow your metabolism and halt weight loss.

amandakay23

I have been eating back some...but I realized that this week, I have been excersising more, still eating the same amount and when I looked at my weekly calorie intake report I have been way below 1200, (800 something one day!) as far as net calories eaten. I will be guaging too by the ' never go below 1200 net' rule myself now that I realized that!

Shamrock40

I'm also of the mindset that MFP is pretty accurate on calories burned, but probably not exact. (I happened to notice yesterday that I walked 25 minutes at a 3.0/mph pace and so did someone I'm friends with. We burned different amounts of calories for the exact same activity/amount of time, clearly based on our weight, height, etc.) When I'm eating back my exercise calories, I usually leave about 100 at the end of the day so I'm not going over if MFP calculations are off a little.

staceyb_2003

MFP is set up for you to eat them back, that being said the calories burned according to MFP may not be accurate so many only eat half back in case the cals burned are over estimated. If you are using a HRM and back out the cals you would have burned at rest anyway, you should eat all of those calories to meet your weight loss goals.

i use a hrm :-) does that mean i an eat all mine back

staceyb_2003

It's definitely preference around these forums. Basically, you want to make sure that you do not go below 1200 NET calories per day (1500 for men). So eat back enough to make your NET cals 1200. So if your goal is 1200 and you burn 300 with exercise you should eat them. If your goal is 1600 cal per day and you burn 300 you don't HAVE to eat them because your NET cals are still over 1200(1600-300=1300). If your goal is 1400 and you burn 300 you should eat at least 100 back (1400-300=1100+100=1200). Consistently eating below 1200 NET cals can ultimately slow your metabolism and halt weight loss.

My net cals is 1200 and i burn roughly 480 a day in exercise where's that leave me x