Follow up to Exercise Calories

Fitzgeraldguy

Hi,

Last week I posted that since I was hearing different things regarding consuming calories burned during exercise I would try an experiment, so my conclusion from this week is;

A) I ate half the calories I burned during exercise.
I exercised 6 out of 7 days and made healthy choices with my food.

So,

Subjectively:
- I felt I had more energy.
- I was able to push myself harder at the gym.
- I was not thinking of food any time during the day.

Objectively:
- I lost 2.8 pounds this week eating half my exercise calories burned as opposed to last week when I only lost 2 pounds not eating any of my exercise calories burned.
- I had the energy to burn an average of 900 calories per day of exercise

In conclusion I like eating and calories provide me with the fuel to burn more calories so if it's going to give me more energy and help me loose weight faster then I will stick with eating half my cals from exercise, healthy choices of course.

Anyways, those are my results. Best.

JMYGA

Thank you for sharing that experiment. It's helpful.

balowry1

Thanks for the update.

unluckyIrish

Thanks!!

jesienia

Thanks for sharing!

Atlantique

Glad it worked so well for you!

kirsty0911

Thank you for sharing this. I am nearing my goal now and have been thinking of upping my calorie intake. At the moment, I rarely even reach the 1200 mark let alone eating back my exercise calories! This has given me some hope...