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Working Out and Eating Back Calories

LoseItJourney
LoseItJourney Posts: 122 Member
edited October 2024 in Fitness and Exercise
I know a lot of people eat back their workout calories.
But I don't always do it, I feel theres no point because then your just eating the calories you burned, making the work out pointless.

What are your veiws on this ? Do you eat them back? why or why not?



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  • gsager
    gsager Posts: 977 Member
    Of course I eat them back, been losing weight faster since I started making sure I eat all my exercise calories. Why would I intentionally go hungry when I can eat? It's a no brainer for me.
  • 3dogsrunning
    3dogsrunning Posts: 27,167 Member
    MPF is designed to give you a healthy deficit of calories without working out. When you work out, you create a larger deficit, which is why MPF suggests you eat them back. So it is not pointless to eat them back.

    I eat most of mine back. I tend to over estimate my food calories and under estimate my workout calories, and I dont' necessarily eat them all back. I am more concerned with fueling my body properly than I am with losing weight fast.

    Also there is a lot more benefit to working out than just burning calories.
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