Losing weight even though not eating exercise calories

dengarrett

My reasons for eating my exercise calories have nothing to do with the actual weight loss - it's that I need to fuel my body. If I didn't eat them I would get tired and would not have the energy to keep exercising and strengthening my heart and building muscles.

Bingo! A lot of folks get caught up in weight loss only and never really understand calories also = energy, or their goals are weight loss alone.. Take Michael Phelps. When he is hard core training he probably eats 10,000 calories a day, has no fat on him, and is one baddass.

Yeah, when I train for the olympics I do that too

Seriously this does make perfect sense to me. My goal with exercise is to lose weight and get fit and my profession (computer related) does not carry that high of a demand load. But I agree the principals are all the same. I just think that with 130 pounds of excess energy hanging on my body I am ok to let it burn. I think that when I get lower and lower is when I think I have to watch the balance much closer.

You will be fine not eating all back for quite awhile. Once you build your strength up to burn 500 to 700 calories in an hour your body will tell you it is starving anyways. You will know when to eat them back.

Good luck by the way!

Yes, that is what I think too.

Thank you so much!