CAN I EAT MY CALORIES BACK THAT I SWEATED HARD AT GETTING???

cbaines74
cbaines74 Posts: 77
edited September 26 in Health and Weight Loss
Hey guys!! Hope everyone had a blessed Easter weekend. I was wondering if anyone knows if you burn off say 150 calories taking a walk is it ok to eat those cals back for the day. Is it ok as long as you are still at your cal intake for the day, or even better a little under?

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  • AdamATGATT
    AdamATGATT Posts: 573 Member
    www.shouldieatmyexercisecalories.com
  • ambivalence11
    ambivalence11 Posts: 93 Member
    YES!!! Eat them, enjoy them, use them to motivate you to keep working out! I call my workout calories my CHOCOLATE calories. My ICE CREAM calories. I don't always use them for that, but it helps me feel like I can treat myself a little even on a diet.
  • livlinde
    livlinde Posts: 39
    hahahahahaha- love that. I find myself wondering the same thing...

    "STILL YES!"
  • ashleyxnicole89
    ashleyxnicole89 Posts: 38 Member
    If you want a healthy steady weight loss, then yes it's good to eat back some/most of your calories, If you're hungry. If not then don't. I haven't really found that it changes my weight loss any. But you can hit a plateau from eating too little calories and burning too many.
  • Ginaontiveros
    Ginaontiveros Posts: 2
    I am wondering the same thing as I am new to the site please let me know what you find out..Thanks:wink:
  • woja9640
    woja9640 Posts: 450 Member
    I would eat some of them. Not all of them.
  • hllamaster
    hllamaster Posts: 137 Member
    Well they say you can and some do....once in a great while I'll dip a little into mine ...it will slow down your weight loss...you need to listen to your body
  • Newfiedan
    Newfiedan Posts: 1,517 Member
    if you log accurately and log workout cals burnt accurately then yes eat them back and enjoy, mfp already has a built in deficit needed for weight loss without working out so enjoy. I am living proof that it works when you are accurate and log everything all the while eating back all my exercise cals.
  • MeganH81
    MeganH81 Posts: 38
    www.shouldieatmyexercisecalories.com
  • tammyquinnlmt
    tammyquinnlmt Posts: 680 Member
    If I'm hungry, I eat them back...if I'm not I don't. I figure its a matter of checks and balances and in the long run it all balances out.
  • Mickers36
    Mickers36 Posts: 84 Member
    YES! Eat them if you are hungry because if you don't eat enough your body will go into starvation mode. I typically eat at least half of them, I still end up at the end of the day have a defecit, but yep I eat them!
  • amelia_atlantic
    amelia_atlantic Posts: 926 Member
    A good rule of thumb is that you should always NET at least 1200 calories a day.

    On your main page of mfp, it shows what calories you have consumed - what calories you lost exercising = your NET for the day.

    Just keep an eye on that. And yes, EAT some if not all of those!
  • cbaines74
    cbaines74 Posts: 77
    UUUHHH...THANKS! LOL
  • cbaines74
    cbaines74 Posts: 77
    OK, great!! That's what I thought, I just didn't want a month to go by and find out that I shouldn't have, now that makes me feel better ;-)
  • cbaines74
    cbaines74 Posts: 77
    Thanks Ashley!!! That makes me understand a lot better, I can use those little extra that I burn off from day to day.
  • cbaines74
    cbaines74 Posts: 77
    Thanks Newfiedan, I have been logging in EVERY little thing that I eat, and drink and when I exercise, I put the exact amount of time, I hope this works!!
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