Survey NOT a Debate - Exercise Calories

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  • rybo
    rybo Posts: 5,424 Member
    Yes
    Yes

    I'm in maintenence and have jsut bumped up my daily calories because even tho I eat all or nearly all back, I'm still slightly loosing and I'd prefer to hold this weight.
  • Kimmer2011
    Kimmer2011 Posts: 569 Member
    No, I'm not eating my exercise calories and yes, I'm losing weight consistently as long as I don't have serious binges. I anticipate that I might need to start eating them back as I get closer to my goal weight, though. I'll cross that bridge when I come to it.
  • shellrae1973
    shellrae1973 Posts: 66 Member
    1. Sometimes I eat them and sometimes I don't
    2. Yes, I am loosing consistently
  • NuMe46
    NuMe46 Posts: 128
    1. No. When I did eat them the weight did not want to come off

    2. Yes. But I have also kicked up my exercise routines.
  • PJilly
    PJilly Posts: 22,165 Member
    Yes, I've always eaten them. Yes, I lost weight and reached my goal eating them. I'm a few above goal now. Maintenance is a tricky thing to master (at least for me), so I'm going back to a small deficit, but I definitely eat all my exercise calories on top of that.
  • tamarab3
    tamarab3 Posts: 64
    Yes, I eat them. And yes, I have been consistantly losing .5-1 pound a week.
  • anthony438
    anthony438 Posts: 578 Member
    1) Not always

    2) Not always
  • bizco
    bizco Posts: 1,949 Member
    1. yes
    2. yes and i reached my goal weight
    ^ Same for me.

    One note...I wear a HRM while exercising and I compare the number of calories burned shown on my HRM to a formula I found online and I log the lower of the two. I never use MFP's default exercise database.
  • BigBoneSista
    BigBoneSista Posts: 2,389 Member
    No, I don't 98% of the time (if I'm hungrier from strength training I will grab something extra)
    Yes, I am losing.
  • stefraab
    stefraab Posts: 402 Member
    Hiya,

    im sure we are all well aware that eating back your exercise calories can be a sore topic for some and usually ends in a debate.
    All im wanting to know is 1. Do you eat back your calories 2. Are you losing weight consistently. They only have to be yes and no answers, i don't people getting fired up or upset, just want to get some data on it :happy:

    1 - yes, within about 100 cals or so. The odd time I won't but only if I'm really really not hungry.
    2 - yes :-) it tends to come off in flushes though. LIke, 5 lbs really quickly, and then a week or two (or three) of nothing.
  • VeganGal84
    VeganGal84 Posts: 938 Member
    1) Yes - usually leave 50-200 just in case of miscalculation of calories earned. The amount that I leave behind depends on how hungry I am!

    2) n/a This is only my second week, but I lost 1 pound on my first week eating this way.
  • chellekoren
    chellekoren Posts: 273 Member
    No, I haven't been eating all of them. On the big days, I have trouble doing that.
    No, I haven't been losing in the last month.
  • lalalazzz
    lalalazzz Posts: 131 Member
    I stopped even recording "exercise" I found that I was recording every min of every walk and it was ridiculous b/c that is just a part of my everyday! I see people on here logging cleaning, cooking, etc. I am a stay at home mom. I walk, cook, clean and carry around a 15 lb load (baby) ALL DAY LONG!!! Any way I was losing both ways- when I was eating calories burned and when I stopped recording.
  • sewerchick93
    sewerchick93 Posts: 1,438 Member
    Kind of, maintain a calorie buffer balance of 100-150. I don't use a HRM to get my calories burned, I use the lesser of either what the equipment says I burned or MFP calories burned.

    When I maintain this buffer balance, yes, i am losing 1-2 pounds/week. When I was eating back all my calories, I was maintaining my weight
  • sjackson902
    sjackson902 Posts: 154 Member
    1. Some of them - wasn't before
    2. I do now - wasn't before :)
  • tolygal
    tolygal Posts: 602 Member
    1. Do you eat back your calories 2. Are you losing weight consistently.

    1. No - but I should mention that I set my own goals to 1400 calories a day (not MFP default of 1200).

    2. Yes - when I'm consistent and I don't eat a bunch of crap like a big dummy :-)
  • bcattoes
    bcattoes Posts: 17,299 Member
    1. Yes, most of the time.
    2. Yes, it's slower now that I'm down to the last 10 but I am still losing.

    I should probably mention that I lost of the 22 lbs before ever hearing of "eating back your exercise calories" or joining this site. It just turns out that I had been eating most of them back because I was that hungry.
  • jamie78
    jamie78 Posts: 514 Member
    BUMP
  • cheeksv
    cheeksv Posts: 521 Member
    no I do not bu it is nice to have that wiggle room when you need an extra bite :)
    Just started but I dieted before and never even heard of eating back calories and lost weight. hope it helps
  • totustuusmaria
    totustuusmaria Posts: 182 Member
    Sometimes I do. Sometimes I don't. I won't unless I am hungry (which happens). I usually never eat every single one of them back though. I am losing weight consistently... about 2 lbs a week.

    I've done both ways and I've lost weight both ways. Now I just don't worry about it. If I'm hungry I will if I'm not I won't. I don't stress about it.
  • godroxmysox
    godroxmysox Posts: 1,491 Member
    i only eat them back if i am hungry
    i have been consistantly losing
  • yanicka
    yanicka Posts: 1,004 Member
    Yes I do

    Yes I am. I am so close to goal that things move very slowly but since I bump my calories to 1350 instead of 1200 plus most of my exercice calories, the weight is going down again. And I am only 5' tall.
  • MsKeelah919
    MsKeelah919 Posts: 332 Member
    No.
    Yes.
  • Elle408
    Elle408 Posts: 500 Member
    1. Yes.... not usually all of them unless I feel like I need them.
    2. Yes. Reached goal and maintaining steady... still eating them back! (avg. about 1600 - 2100 cals a day)
  • laneybird
    laneybird Posts: 532 Member
    1. No (sometimes I do use some, but maybe a couple times a week)
    2. Yes (I've consistantly lost in the past 8 weeks since starting (27.6lbs and counting...))
  • ritzvin
    ritzvin Posts: 2,860 Member
    1. No-ish. When I get back from an evening hike, it's usually 9/10:00, so I generally don't eat more (or at least not much more) than if I was at home (especially since there's the temptation to boredom snack if I was home). Depends how hungry I am. I also don't like to eat a lot before going to bed. My setting for net calories assumes 400 cal. of exercise (set it to 900 instead of 1300) anyway, so I normally don't have a lot of extra calories to work with on the weekdays. On weekends I'm exposed to more junk food (at places away from home during meals), so I probably do eat a lot of them back (though I don't make a point to - I'd rather take the bonus calorie deficit if not hungry or tempted).
    2. I've lost a few pounds (was previously at 156 and very slowly climbing). Down to 152.
  • CARNAT22
    CARNAT22 Posts: 764 Member
    Yes I eat back and yes I lose weight pretty much consistently.
  • taso42_DELETED
    taso42_DELETED Posts: 3,394 Member
    Does anybody want to do an analysis and see if there's any correlation between how people answered and where their ticker is?
  • anthony438
    anthony438 Posts: 578 Member
    Does anybody want to do an analysis and see if there's any correlation between how people answered and where their ticker is?

    That sounds like work.

    I avoid work.
  • nikkit321
    nikkit321 Posts: 1,485 Member
    I was eating my exercise calories and lost nothing for over a month.

    This week I decided to try a slight zigzag to see what happens: eat straight calories M-F, and on the weekends eat exercise calories.
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