OK, Eating Exercise Calories Back (but I'm full!!)

letonia_

If you're full, you have eaten all the 6 meals of the day but you're still need to eat your exercise calories back; what's the best/healthiest option? Protein shakes or just pure dessert will do the trick? Any advice?

RachelSRoach1

I rarely eat my exercise calories back unless I'm still hungry. I have been losing just fine. Perhaps you should just tone it down a bit? It usually isn't good to eat when full.

Moonblood

You don't have to eat your exercise calories back...

grassette

Eating when you aren't hungry is not a good thing to be doing. Store up those calories for those time in the week when a social occasion will take you over your limit.

papastu

I rarely eat my exercise calories back unless I'm still hungry. I have been losing just fine. Perhaps you should just tone it down a bit? It usually isn't good to eat when full.

well said, and I listen to your opinion greatly seeing as you lost 50lbs,

great advice and well done on the loss

Nikki_is_Knotty

I almost always work out at the end of the day, so i dont eat my exercise calories back. But i agree, IF your hungry, eat.

got2Bdetermined

If you are full that is your body's way of telling you to stop eating. If you are hungry then you shuld eat healthy regardless. You don't have to eat all of you exercise calories back, you just need to make sure you eat enough so that your body does not start to shut down.

Elleinnz

Eat nuts, banana, a bit of cheese, olives, peanut butter - all good ways to get some "good calories" without having to eat lots of food....

RachelSRoach1

Eating when you aren't hungry is not a good thing to be doing. Store up those calories for those time in the week when a social occasion will take you over your limit.

I agree here!! I got to go on vacation last weekend and eat literally whatever I wanted... didn't feel great afterwards because I have been eating so much healthier so the sugar was a bit shocking for me lol... But I didn't gain anything which is a success to me.

Shell_7609

If you're full, then I wouldn't eat them back. If I'm hungry, then I eat mine back, if I'm not hungry then I dont. I just make sure my net calories are above 1200 for the day.

hbarney

I also only eat back my exercise calories if I am hungry. Part of my weight problem is (was) eating just to eat and changing that, for me, is eating when I am hungry. This works for me. Everyone is different!

engineman312

after a work out, i'm usually not hungry for solid foods, but i'm thirsty. two hours later i'll eat anything in sight. so what i do is make myself a post-workout fruit smoothie with some protein powder. its about 450 calories of goodness that helps ward of hunger for a little but and then i can make normal food decisions later.

koosdel

If you're full, you have eaten all the 6 meals of the day but you're still need to eat your exercise calories back; what's the best/healthiest option? Protein shakes or just pure dessert will do the trick? Any advice?
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Elleinnz

I rarely eat my exercise calories back unless I'm still hungry. I have been losing just fine. Perhaps you should just tone it down a bit? It usually isn't good to eat when full.

well said, and I listen to your opinion greatly seeing as you lost 50lbs,

great advice and well done on the loss

If a person has a lot of weight to lose it is not that important to eat back your exercise calories, as your body still has good "reserves" to live off......the closer you get to your goal weight it becomes more important to eat back most of your exercise calories - I have seen lots of people on her that get to a point where their weight loss stalls.....and one of the best ways to get going againis to start eating more!

Personally when I started I also did not eat my exercise calories - but now I eat about 80% of them back....

You have to look back before the 5th of november in my food diary to see what I mean (I am holiday at the moment and not logging)

PeaceLuvVeggies

I rarely eat my exercise calories back unless I'm still hungry. I have been losing just fine. Perhaps you should just tone it down a bit? It usually isn't good to eat when full.

This ^^ Even though I get highly criticized for not eating exercise cals back, I'm not going to eat if I'm hungry!! It's just going to make me

1) Sick
2) Throw up because I'm so full and because of the stomach ache
3) Gain for no reason.

withervein

I try to eat my calories back, but there are some days when I can't get any exercise in and I'm over because I feel a bit restricted and hungry with only 1600. On Saturdays I have a kickboxing class and always walk my dog or do yard work, so I end up with an extra 1300 to eat and can't manage it then. I tend to look at my weekly over/under and see where I average out.

It seems you are a bit more to-the-letter than I am (most people are), so my suggestion is to make whatever you eat when you feel the need to get those calories back, full or not, protein dense.

If you need a handful of calories, have a hard cooked egg. If you need a couple hundred, smear some peanut butter on a slice of hot toast and a glass of milk!

These aren't hugely filling and they are solid calories that give you a lot of good fats and proteins.

Or there's always cake. Everyone needs cake once in a while.

tigersword

Use high density foods like peanut butter or nuts.

You don't feel hungry because you are eating so many meals a day. Your body is constantly digesting food, and since the digestive system is constantly running, you don't get hunger signals. Not feeling hungry doesn't always mean you're eating enough, you have to train your body what "enough" is before it can properly respond.