calories burned: to eat or not to ??

adalton6

I am confused on the calories that you burn with exercise..... do you eat them back or not? If I do no eat some of them back my calorie tracker tells me I am putting my body into starvatio mode because I am eating to few calories. I just dont understand. Can anyone give me some advice?

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Pandorian

MFP has a program that gives you calories that will give you your chosen rate of loss without doing ANY exercise. As part of this program when you exercise it is intended that you eat back your exercise calories to keep your deficit at the safe and sustainable rate of loss (0.5 1...1.5 or 2 lbs per week)

So eat 'em back.

cmriverside

smithda86

depends... if u r not hungry then why eat? long as u keep it reasonable ie not below 1000 cal per day

alexia_faith

If you search this topic there are like a million people who asked this same question

My personal veiw on it is eat a percentage of them back, MFP over eastimates the amount you've burned.

Starvation mode kicks in if your food in (before exercise) is under 1200

As long as your food in figure is above 1200 then it stops that issue

Ideally you ought to be eating back at least 1/2 of those exercise cal, as your body needs to eat back some of the energy it just burnt, otherwise your metabolism slows down and you stop losing


Thats what I found out from asking the same question, and it seems to be the general end result of most of the same topic threads on here


Every one is different tho ... you may find that eating back more/less than 1/2 those cals works for you

Best of luck with your weight loss journey

kimmerroze

bahahaha

erickirb

depends... if u r not hungry then why eat? long as u keep it reasonable ie not below 1000 cal per day

If you only eat 1000 but burn 600 in they gym will not cut it, that would be like eating 400 and not working out (1000-600). Hunger is not the best indication of nutritional requirements. You should eat 1200 Net at the very least (1200 plus what you burn from exercise)

So if your daily goal is 1400 and you burn 400, you should eat 1800 (1400+400) to meet your caloric deficit goal, but it would be fine if you only at 1600 (1200+400), and have a slightly larger deficit for the day. But the 1600 should be seen as a minimum, not a goal the goal would be 1800.

adalton6

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That was awesome! THANKS!!!