Eat Exercise Calorie? Loose Weight?

Kochupurayil

I need Some help here...Can you eat all your exercise calories and still loose weight?

morganadk2_deleted

http://shouldieatmyexercisecalories.com/

SergeantSunshine_reused

yes. mfp sets in a calorie deficit already

*lose

taso42

Loose pants....

momma3sweetgirls

yup.

MaterMama

Can someone explain the whys to eating back your exercise calories. How does it help lose weight.

Thanks

taso42

Can someone explain the whys to eating back your exercise calories. How does it help lose weight.

Thanks

http://shouldieatmyexercisecalories.com/

SergeantSunshine_reused

Can someone explain the whys to eating back your exercise calories. How does it help lose weight.

Thanks

best thing to do is to use the search function honestly. You will find detail descriptions there.

It gets asked so many times a day that rarely will anyone give a complete answer anymore

shovav91

Can someone explain the whys to eating back your exercise calories. How does it help lose weight.

Thanks

Your MFP is set to lose a certain amount of weight. It takes the calories your body needs and depending on how much weight you want to lose subtracts a certain amount per day. That is the amount it tells you to eat every day. When you exercise, you burn calories. Eating them back is a good thing because you are already operating on less than you should (you are operating under deficit calories) which causes you to lose weight. Eating less than MFP is telling you to eat can be unhealthy, which is why you need to eat back the calories you burn.

hottottie11

Can someone explain the whys to eating back your exercise calories. How does it help lose weight.

Thanks

I eat my exercise calories and I still lose. I eat anywhere between 1800 to 2000 cal total and I net an average of 1490 calories a week. Here is what helped me understand "eating my exercise cals":

My activity level (excluding exercise; this is important) is sedentary because I work a desk job. MFP calculated my Total Daily Energy Expenditure to be 1760 calories. This means to maintain my current weight I must stay at 1760 calories.

Now I have set myself to lose 0.5lb per week because I'm getting pretty lean and I want to focus on reduce body fat while maintaining muscle. MFP assigned me 1490 calories per day. A deficit of 250 calories per day. Now I work out ALOT. 6 days a week for 1 to 2 hours. I can burn an additional 500 to 1000 calories on those days.

I use a Polar FT4 HRM and it has been a godsend because I can know for sure what I burn.

For example, I went to zumba today and burned 554 calories. My total calorie burn is no longer 1760...it is now 2311 (1760+551). It is very important to me to maintain my deficit. I don't want to lose more than 0.5 lb per week. So my calorie goal for a 0.5 lb loss per week is now 2061 (2311-250). So in essence, I must eat back my "exercise calories". I really don't like how it sounds because it seems like you are eating away all your hard work but if you don't fuel your body properly you run the risk of stalling your weight loss. Now I always leave a little room for error. So I always leave about 100 to 150 calories for cushion.

I've been losing about 0.5 to 0.75 lbs per week. The key to making this work is making sure your activity level reflects your normal life not including exercise. Then you can add in exercise.

You can, as an alternative, set your activity level to include exercise. For example, active or very active with exercise. MFP will give more calories to eat. In this case you don't log your exercise and you wouldnt have to eat them back.

It is really your choice. No diet is worth being miserable and hungry. I eat clean 80% of the time and I truly enjoy what I eat. Don't deprive yourself. Moderation and balance in the key. Look through my diary if you like.

rodeomc

Can someone explain the whys to eating back your exercise calories. How does it help lose weight.

Thanks

I eat my exercise calories and I still lose. I eat anywhere between 1800 to 2000 cal total and I net an average of 1490 calories a week. Here is what helped me understand "eating my exercise cals":

My activity level (excluding exercise; this is important) is sedentary because I work a desk job. MFP calculated my Total Daily Energy Expenditure to be 1760 calories. This means to maintain my current weight I must stay at 1760 calories.

Now I have set myself to lose 0.5lb per week because I'm getting pretty lean and I want to focus on reduce body fat while maintaining muscle. MFP assigned me 1490 calories per day. A deficit of 250 calories per day. Now I work out ALOT. 6 days a week for 1 to 2 hours. I can burn an additional 500 to 1000 calories on those days.

I use a Polar FT4 HRM and it has been a godsend because I can know for sure what I burn.

For example, I went to zumba today and burned 554 calories. My total calorie burn is no longer 1760...it is now 2311 (1760+551). It is very important to me to maintain my deficit. I don't want to lose more than 0.5 lb per week. So my calorie goal for a 0.5 lb loss per week is now 2061 (2311-250). So in essence, I must eat back my "exercise calories". I really don't like how it sounds because it seems like you are eating away all your hard work but if you don't fuel your body properly you run the risk of stalling your weight loss. Now I always leave a little room for error. So I always leave about 100 to 150 calories for cushion.

I've been losing about 0.5 to 0.75 lbs per week. The key to making this work is making sure your activity level reflects your normal life not including exercise. Then you can add in exercise.

You can, as an alternative, set your activity level to include exercise. For example, active or very active with exercise. MFP will give more calories to eat. In this case you don't log your exercise and you wouldnt have to eat them back.

It is really your choice. No diet is worth being miserable and hungry. I eat clean 80% of the time and I truly enjoy what I eat. Don't deprive yourself. Moderation and balance in the key. Look through my diary if you like.

What did you put in your settings for working out?

hottottie11

Can someone explain the whys to eating back your exercise calories. How does it help lose weight.

Thanks

I eat my exercise calories and I still lose. I eat anywhere between 1800 to 2000 cal total and I net an average of 1490 calories a week. Here is what helped me understand "eating my exercise cals":

My activity level (excluding exercise; this is important) is sedentary because I work a desk job. MFP calculated my Total Daily Energy Expenditure to be 1760 calories. This means to maintain my current weight I must stay at 1760 calories.

Now I have set myself to lose 0.5lb per week because I'm getting pretty lean and I want to focus on reduce body fat while maintaining muscle. MFP assigned me 1490 calories per day. A deficit of 250 calories per day. Now I work out ALOT. 6 days a week for 1 to 2 hours. I can burn an additional 500 to 1000 calories on those days.

I use a Polar FT4 HRM and it has been a godsend because I can know for sure what I burn.

For example, I went to zumba today and burned 554 calories. My total calorie burn is no longer 1760...it is now 2311 (1760+551). It is very important to me to maintain my deficit. I don't want to lose more than 0.5 lb per week. So my calorie goal for a 0.5 lb loss per week is now 2061 (2311-250). So in essence, I must eat back my "exercise calories". I really don't like how it sounds because it seems like you are eating away all your hard work but if you don't fuel your body properly you run the risk of stalling your weight loss. Now I always leave a little room for error. So I always leave about 100 to 150 calories for cushion.

I've been losing about 0.5 to 0.75 lbs per week. The key to making this work is making sure your activity level reflects your normal life not including exercise. Then you can add in exercise.

You can, as an alternative, set your activity level to include exercise. For example, active or very active with exercise. MFP will give more calories to eat. In this case you don't log your exercise and you wouldnt have to eat them back.

It is really your choice. No diet is worth being miserable and hungry. I eat clean 80% of the time and I truly enjoy what I eat. Don't deprive yourself. Moderation and balance in the key. Look through my diary if you like.

What did you put in your settings for working out?

My settings are sedentary and I add in my exercise cals. I eat a average of 1800 to 1900 cals per day and burn an average of 400 calories per day through exercise (2800 cal per week). I net between 1400 to 1500.

BUT If I change my activity level settings to very active to include my exercise....MFP will give me 2152 as my TDEE and a calorie goal of 1902 to lose 1/2 per week. IN this case I wont "eat back my exercise cals". The math turns out to be the same.

taritchie

Thank for that explanation hottottie - very helpful!

hottottie11

Thank for that explanation hottottie - very helpful!

Your welcome

Kochupurayil

Very helpful info....

ElizabethRoad

Take in fewer calories than you burn and you will lose weight.

1700 calories eaten - 1200 (breathing, heart pumping, etc.) - 500 (walking around doing stuff) - 500 exercise = negative 500.

mexy04

Can someone explain the whys to eating back your exercise calories. How does it help lose weight.

Thanks

http://shouldieatmyexercisecalories.com/

That is too funny

MaterMama

Thanks Hottottie.