right or wrong

merceah

For those of you eating three 400 calorie meals is this due to no exercise? I guess by the end of my day I am having to eat almost 2700 total calories a day just to hit the 1280 net. Am I doing this wrong? should i be eating 1280 and if i exercise it just takes away what i have ate for the day??? I thought I keep seeing to eat back all the calories you burn, but I might be lacking understanding??? HELP!!!

elliecolorado

There is a lot of debate about that around here. I understand why they suggest that you eat back the calories that you burn, but I didn't lose any weight when I was eating them back. I usually eat more on days I exercise, but rarely ever eat back more than 1/2 of the calories that I burn. It took me a little bit of experimenting to see what worked for me. You may need to experiment to see what works for you.

quietlywinning

You are doing fine. They are doing fine. We each need to figure out how our own body works, and then do it that way.

AdGalicia

I normally just eat what my body needs which is 1500-1800 a day!! Even though my recommended cal intake is 1280 I feel like I wouldnt be able to survive with such little food. I do exercise a lot though...I normally do eat some of my workout cals but not all, that would be too much food haha

merceah

I think I am going to try lowering the amount of exercise calories I eat. After all if I am eating the required amount of food each day, exercise, and then eat a little more I should still be healthy. I would like to see what works best, I just do not want to hit starvation mode. I have experianced this in my past, and I gained weight very rapidly once returning to a normal (and healthy I might add) amount of calories each day. Thanks for all of the responses and helpful tips, greatly appreciated.

mamagooskie

You should eat some of your exercize calories if not most of them (50-75%)......If you are set to 1200 calories a day you are burning like over 1000 a day is there any reason why you are working out so much? why not cut back on working out and just concentrate on eating. Last year I took a month long break from working out and upped my calories 200 per day (I had been in a bit of a plateau) and that month I lost 14lbs so sometimes less is more (exercize) and more is better (calories)