Success Eating Exercise Calories:

mmnichol

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bambee2013

I'm am kind of confused. What are exercise calories? Are those what you burn off when you exercise? For example, my calorie allowance is 1240 calories. If I burn 100 cal from exercise, that takes me down to 1140 calories. Is everyone saying to eat up
those 100 calories? A little tired today and don't understand.

megan_mp

I'm in a total slump right now - exercising more and watching the scale sit at a stand-still. I'm going to try to eat my exercise calories and yes, it seems counterproductive, but if I try it for a month...what's a month when I've got plenty of months left in my life?

I've book-marked this post and will update when I've reached March 3rd!

Thanks for posting that - I think the exercise calories thing is SO unclear to many people, even with the amount of posts on it! I read some of the posts and see all the numbers and my brain just draws a blank - haha...

Here's to 30 days!

lhague

Glad to see someone post their success with eating back their exercise calories, wish I had done the same.

There are people who consider themselves "fitness experts" and bash people for eating their calories back. Here's what they don't understand

1. when you exercise you become more hungry

2. this plan already has a deficit in your daily calorie count with your goal in the calculation

3. if we don't replace what we train with, you become weak

4. I cycle, and they always encourage you to do replacement ( yes these "gurus" complain about replacement but then say they train harder the next day if they overeat one day....seems like the same thing.


Keep up the good work and thanks for posting you results.

lesleyk26

wow well done to you....
HMMMmm now ive always been scared to eat my exercise cals as i eat 1200 cals a day but most the time i dont get near to 1200 but then i exercise three times a week sometims more with gym and zumba i can burn off like 900 cals in one day but would of only eaten like 800 of my MFP calories...... and my scales aint moved.......
now this week ive tryed staying within my 1200 cals but trying to eat as much as i can and ive lost 2lb this week with 9 inches off too
what would you suggest i do i get so confused lol
:bigsmile:

Glos_Bloke

Well done you!

I'm struggling to eat back my exercise cals as I'm trying to consistently burn over 1k per day. I'm finding that it's too much food to eat! Never thought I'd say that lol :laugh:

Best wishes

Warren

jadesign19

You are so on top of this weight loss trip I too am inspired. Thanks for the info...and I hope in July to be with you saying goodbye to the "chubby" decade I had. It's a new decade:drinker:

jittythekitty

Thank you. I was wondering I should only eat 1200 or 1500 --- I'm going to aim for 1500 today, plus my exercise calories XD

ShrinkinMel

wow well done to you....
HMMMmm now ive always been scared to eat my exercise cals as i eat 1200 cals a day but most the time i dont get near to 1200 but then i exercise three times a week sometims more with gym and zumba i can burn off like 900 cals in one day but would of only eaten like 800 of my MFP calories...... and my scales aint moved.......
now this week ive tryed staying within my 1200 cals but trying to eat as much as i can and ive lost 2lb this week with 9 inches off too
what would you suggest i do i get so confused lol
:bigsmile:

This is the way I understand it from reading a thread on here when I first joined. If your calorie goal is set to 1200 based on the info you put in the profile(height, weight, female, your activitiy level that does NOT include your exercise) you will get your target for what you want to lose each week. If you eat 800-900 calories then exercise and burn say 300 your body is only getting 500-600 calories and thinks its starving and you won't burn fat at least not as efficiently.

Mine is set to 1660. I aim for 1660 and am trying to eat half of the calories I burn off as well. Since I workout out 5-6 days a week. Last week I didn't eat them every day but went over small amounts over my 1660 the weekend without exercise. But I'm still showing my weight down. Friday I tend to not eat my exercise calories.

jittythekitty,
You should aim for what the calculations give you. there is not set amount its based on your weight, height age and what you do activity wise for the majority of the day. The site I started this journey with on Jan 1st had a range. it was difficult to really determine where I should aim my intake but this site is so clear and after 2 weeks of "guessing" and having small gains(.4 and .8) I've been here and the weight is coming off nice and smoothly.