eating exercise cals?

melianne125
melianne125 Posts: 90 Member
edited October 3 in Health and Weight Loss
So am I supposed to be eating exercise cals?? I'm allowed 1200 per day - and I can do that but I've been eating back my exercise cals. Sometimes it's only 200 but sometimes it's more depending on how long I work out. What do you think?

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  • ivikatasha
    ivikatasha Posts: 192 Member
    It is totally up to you. If it is working, what you are doing now, then stick with it. If it doesn't, try not eating them back or try eating more back.

    I generally don't eat much of mine back and I still lose at a steady rate of 2lbs a week. Other people will eat theirs back and also have steady weight loss. Whatever works!
  • Raf702
    Raf702 Posts: 196 Member
    Eating exercise calories replenishes your body with nutrients that were lost from an exercise. I honestly don't eat my exercise calories, even though I'm on a calorie deficit. I just monitor my macro-nutrients, and make sure that I'm consuming the proper amount for the day. And it's protein I focus mainly on.
  • Monica_has_a_goal
    Monica_has_a_goal Posts: 694 Member
    I eat half my exercises cals and its working.. but i did read a post that this lady was eating all her exercise calories and lost a lot faster than I'm losing..

    Give it a try and tweak it whenever you need to. :wink:
  • Lauren5280
    Lauren5280 Posts: 67 Member
    I don't often eat them back. I just am finding that I'm not hungry and it's so much food. If you're losing weight then I would just keep up what you're doing.
  • Larius
    Larius Posts: 507 Member
    I eat them all. Works great for me.
  • allijoy13
    allijoy13 Posts: 66 Member
    I'm going to say what everyone else is saying - play it by ear! You may need them and you may not. You may lose more by eating them or you may lose more by skipping it. I'm losing very slowly and I've tried all sorts of combinations. What works best for me is not eating them back, but if I burn more than 200 calories, I add some of them back in, but I try never to eat all of them back.
  • exacerbe
    exacerbe Posts: 447 Member
    I exercise to eat more. Well, and be healthy too.
  • Kelly_Wilson1990
    Kelly_Wilson1990 Posts: 3,245 Member
    There is such a controversy on here that I talked with both my doctor and nutritionist and they told me not to eat them so I don't.
  • nicole866
    nicole866 Posts: 1 Member
    I eat mine back and it hasnt affected my loss. Sometimes I exercise more just so I can eat a particular thing.
  • charlotte3176
    charlotte3176 Posts: 115 Member
    If I am hungry, I eat them. I try to make sure that if I have a big meal or a meal out planned that I exercise enough to have those calories available.
  • Gigi_licious
    Gigi_licious Posts: 1,185 Member
    Isn't the whole purpose of exercise to have a reason to eat more? Hello.
  • albinogorilla
    albinogorilla Posts: 1,056 Member
    yes
  • melianne125
    melianne125 Posts: 90 Member
    Well it's been a little over 2 weeks and I still have not lost at allllll... actually I've gained. I am exercising, I am staying under my cal goal (mostly) but I have been eating back my exercise cals. Last night I wasnt hungry but I dont want to backslide into starvation mode so I ate those cals to put me right over my allotment for the day after exercise. I'm going to try it the other way and not eat back those cals - lets see if that helps.
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