do people use the excerise calories

chantell7

Hi I'm new , just wondering if people use there bonus calories they earned from excerise. ? Thanks

juliapurpletoes

http://shouldieatmyexercisecalories.com/

read ALL the links and you will have the secret to success !

chevy88grl

You'll get many different responses to this question (and sometimes it is a loaded question around these parts...). MFP is designed with a deficit already created in your daily calories. They figure you aren't going to work out, so they make sure you'll have a deficit to begin with....

If MFP tells you to eat 1200 calories a day - 400 calories burned during exercise = 800 NET calories (this is how many calories you're actually eating) + 400 calories eaten back after exercise = 1200 which is your original calorie goal. 800 calories is too few calories and too big of a deficit.

I've found that I HAVE to eat my calories back or my body is grumpy and gains weight.

SheilaSisco

yes yes yes!!! It's the only way I lose... when I don't eat them back the loss hits a brick wall...

haeden

some people do and some people do not. I sometime do, but then i sometimes dont.I like to think about it as they give me 1200 calories a day but thats like what i would need to eat without exercise and still lose weight! so burning calories by exercising would put you below those calories and i think would put you in starvation mode(some people will argue that) so i would some days eat the exercise calories and some days dont.

27strange

Some do and some don't. Lots of opinions and threads about this topic if you search for "eating exercise calories."

I eat some of my exercise calories back, but not all. I have found that the calories burned during various exercises I do is over inflated in MFP's database of exercises. Sometimes by a couple hundred calories. Therefore I don't eat back all the exercise calories I have logged and burned because I don't want to overeat them. My concern is that MFP is giving too large of credit for my workouts, circuit training, running, etc. I'd rather have a deficit (but not too too large of one).

Do what works for you. Try different ways for 2-3 weeks at a time and see with which methods you get the best results.

haeden

You'll get many different responses to this question (and sometimes it is a loaded question around these parts...). MFP is designed with a deficit already created in your daily calories. They figure you aren't going to work out, so they make sure you'll have a deficit to begin with....

If MFP tells you to eat 1200 calories a day - 400 calories burned during exercise = 800 NET calories (this is how many calories you're actually eating) + 400 calories eaten back after exercise = 1200 which is your original calorie goal. 800 calories is too few calories and too big of a deficit.

I've found that I HAVE to eat my calories back or my body is grumpy and gains weight.

Couldnt of said it better myself.i definatly agree!

chantell7

Hi does anyone know why it says if I follow my 1200 cal a day I'll put on .3 a week. ? I put that I wanted to loose 2 lb a week not gain ???? I'm confused , could it b a Mistake