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Msaip

So if my bmr is roughly 1800 calories a day. I am set to lose 1 pound a week at 1540 calories a day plus eating back all my exercise calories which comes to usually 400-500. Am I really supposed to eat all this? I dont see how I will lose any weight doing this. Should I go back to eating 1200 a day plus my exercise cals? Someone help!

sprinkies

i realize people preach about eating back exercise calories, but i often times dont (and almost never did when i was losing, i'm just maintaining now). i'd eat the 1540 and stop there to be honest. unless you're doing crazy difficult workouts with insane calories burned.

Heatherbelle_87

I only eat back about half of what MFP estimates If I eat it at all. There are some days (twice this week) I would eat nearly 3000 cals if I ate it all back, and I just cant eat that much anymore without eating crap. Given I did have icecream wo help fill that gap one day this week, but if I start that pattern its a slippery slope for me

elzettel

If I'm hungry I eat them back...if not I don't force it. I just try to make sure I'm making healthier choices and getting all the good stuff (well most of the good stuff) my body needs.

lizrangel76

I eat a lot of them back. Not all of them though. Like the post before mine stated, sometimes it gives you back like 3000 cal. for the day and that is really hard to eat back. If I have a big workout day, I try to eat at least half back, and I have been losing weight doing it this way.

Msaip

Ideally though Eating this or a little less will I still lose a pound a week? Believe me I can eat all of them back Im just worried im not gonna lose my projected amount

darling_nickie

imo what MFP gives you is an estimate. Try it for a week and see what happens. Didn't lose? Then try not eating back the cals or presetting your cals a little lower and eating back the exercise cals. Or just eating back part...just play with it until you find what works for you.

amandavictoria80

I personally don't like to eat the calories I gained with exercise. I actually pretend those extra calories don't exist. Waiting until you are done your daily food diary to enter your exercise is a good way to do this.

In the three weeks I have been eating right and exercising, there has been only one day that I ate my exercise calories.

khaines410

I also can't manage to eat all my calories back. I know how much is posted on MFP about eating back your calories but if I am not hungry, I don't eat, period.