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randa79
randa79 Posts: 14
edited September 19 in Health and Weight Loss
When you exercise and "earn" more calories, do you have to eat all or any of the calories you "earned"?? Can you just stick with your daily amount?

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  • randa79
    randa79 Posts: 14
    When you exercise and "earn" more calories, do you have to eat all or any of the calories you "earned"?? Can you just stick with your daily amount?
  • alf1163
    alf1163 Posts: 3,143 Member
    Hi!!! Yes, you should. If you don't then the deficit will be greater and you might go into starvation mode. I don't think not eating all of your calories will hurt if you do it from time to time but try not to do every day. I hope this helps. There are other threads that explain this better. I don't know how to add the link to a message... :flowerforyou:
  • ChubbyBunny
    ChubbyBunny Posts: 3,523 Member
    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/10589-for-those-confused-or-questioning-eating-your-exercise-calo
  • randa79
    randa79 Posts: 14
    That is alot of help, thanks to both of you!
  • Anna_Banana
    Anna_Banana Posts: 2,939 Member
    Try not to think of it as eating extra or earned calories. Instead think of it as refueling your body. You burn off those calories, and for your body to do what it needs to do it needs fuel to keep going. If you don't provide it with enough energy to do the basics, it will slow down and conserve energy and you will end up not losing as much bc your body doesn't want to run out of fuel.
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