quick question

leomom72

i want yall's advice..i burned off about 1000 calories today raking leaves in the yard..i still managed to eat ( will later for dinner ) just over 1200 cals as suggested, but i still have about 1500 calories left over..question is, i don't think i will be able to eat much more after dinner, but is having that many left over ok, or do i need to find something else to take my cals down more ? thanks guys

DarkDiva2005

Have a glass of chocolate milk! that will take a couple hundred calories off

dlaplume2

You should be ok. You wouldn't want to make it a habit, but once in a blue moon doing something like that won't hurt. Not to mention that calorie count may be high, unless you wore a HRM.

jrich1

You should be ok. You wouldn't want to make it a habit, but once in a blue moon doing something like that won't hurt. Not to mention that calorie count may be high, unless you wore a HRM.

First thing that came to mind.. how do you burn 1000 cals raking leafs?

Walt75

Some people on here say eat the calories you burn along with the rest and some say don't eat the calories you burn. I think if you aren't hungry anymore ans you ate over 1200 you are fine.

strawintogold

Are you going by MFP's calorie counter? Because it horribly overestimates. I weigh 236 and do 40 minutes in Zone 2 on the Elliptical. Here I get over 600 calories. In real life it's 204 to 224 and I wear a Polar FT60 so it's super accurate. Ugh, I hate to think of folks going by this counter and eating exercise calories that never really were.

edited to add: Zone 2 is up to 140 BPM for me, so I'm cranking. There is something really wonky with the MFP system.

zeeeb

have a couple of boiled eggs and a big handful of nuts. not much to eat but chews through the calories while giving great nutrition.