Will you lose weight

hotcocoa8

if you eat your exercise calories?

Contrarian

Yes, because MFP has already factored in a calorie deficit.

Kassielin13

I do!!!

Mynue_Jeens

Yes. As long as you are in a calorie deficit you will lose weight. In fact it's recommended that you eat them because your body will need the extra fuel.

jhardenbergh

people have different views on this, I have only eaten back mine two or three times since I started in January, but it definately depends on the person. I feel like it works for me better when I don't, but then you'll have people tell you it's totally unhealthy not to. My suggestion is try a week or two with eating them back then a week or two without eating them back, but don't starve yourself.

Angel1066

Well i eat my exercise calories back and it working for me.

sheisbrown

I think everyone is different. I only eat about half my exercise calories and I am still losing.

chubiD

yes, yes you will! I've been doing that for 2 months and I swear it worked

candicole007

I do

maidentl

You should, yes. MFP creates a deficit based on your non-exercise activity level. Then if you exercise, you only widen that deficit, so eating the calories back will still leave you burning more than you take in.

Thomasm198

This is up in the top 10 of most debated topics on MFP.

Some say yes, some say no, some say eat some of them.

I always eat my exercise calories. It didn't stop me from losing weight.

mallorybriann

I've lost 70 lbs eating them all (or a majority of them)...

chickenpoppa

Well i eat my exercise calories back and it working for me.

same

sweetie89207

just do it...dont ask questions just do it...its good for u and as long as the food u eat is protein and fiber and appropriate carbs and not a lot of sugars -EAT IT

peggyalex

I think it depends on the person. If I eat back my calories I gain every time! ;(

HMonsterX

The main thing is to make sure you actually know how many calories you burnt. Otherwise you may end up eating back far more than you actually burned.

healthyliving_girl

I would say that I work out in order to eat the exercise calories.

My calorie allotment is 1600/day....and I burn roughly 400-800 calories on my workout days; so I can eat between 2000-2300 on days I work out. Some days I don't eat them all, but most days I eat at least 1/2 of them (if not all). The days I don't work out, I have a hard time staying under the 1600...unless I eat tons of salad. haha

I've been doing that the entire time I've been doing MFP.

I've lost 24 lbs in a little over 3 months.

Works for me.

woo1324

My personal view is do whats right for you in the day your in not everybody is the same and not everyday is the same

listern to your body if you put in a big workout and burn 500 cals for example and after you start to feel hungry then eat till you are satisfied but not stuffed

if after your work out you dont feel hungry then dont eat just listern to your body clearly if you are feeling hungry if you are dizzy or feeling unwell and havent eaten much then feed yourself

MrsJackieH

Im glad someone else asked this, because i just started with this and was wondering the same thing!

kristelpoole

My opinion after doing this for a while: Yes, unless you're really not hungry, but never eating less than 1200 calories. That's just silly.

fastbelly

It works for me, do what works for you!

emergencytennis

I am maintaining now, and I don't exercise every day, probably 3 times a week. What I found was that on the days I played sport I didn't feel hungry enough to eat the full 1200, so I ended up eating 1000 or even as low as 700. The non-sports days, though, I would be much hungrier and so I would go over. When I realised what was happening I started looking at the little weekly summary graph which showed me my average daily net calories, and I aimed to keep that at 1200 by the end of the week rather than worrying about balancing every day. Ate them, just on a different day, lost 4kg in 2 months.

I can't find that little graph on the computer, btw, only on my android phone.

futiledevices

I'm confused about this, too. I'm not sure what to do. There have been times that I've eaten them and haven't lost weight. Now, I'm trying hard not to eat them. It's tough to stay at 1200 cals for me. I don't eat a ton of vegetables or healthy foods, but I don't eat totally horribly, either. I'm not really trying to cut things out of my diet, just trying to create a calorie deficit.

I don't do work out, either, but I work on my feet every day, which requires a lot of cleaning and walking around, so I log it. I'm going to try and not eat any of those calories back.