I would like to see who eats all of their calories back

sarahbear1981

I almost always eat mine back and haven't had a problem losing weight. I recommend taking into account your BMR, which your HRM doesn't do. For example, I burn about 49 calories an hour by simply existing. For the sake of simplicity, I rounded that to a calorie a minute, which I subtract from the number of calories my HRM says I burned. It said 111 for 22 minutes of playing soccer with my kids yesterday, so I logged it as 89. That way, you can still enjoy some extra food without eating back more than you should.

You make a good point!

timtamslam

I usually try to eat back all the calories that I expend through exercise, and if for any reason I can't, I'll make sure I eat back half.

sweebum

I eat half of mine back to err on the side of caution

LilLolo22

I was at a standstill for almost three weeks, then I started eating back mine and have dropped again. Not to mention that I feel MUCH better and I have the energy I need in order to do my workouts. Before I was always feeling tired. I did recently purchase a HRM so that I could better calculate what I'm burning. It seems like I have to eat a lot of calories when I work out, but I just make sure that after I subtract out the calories I've burned I'm staying above 1200. (I work a desk job). Good luck! :flowerforyou: