Do you lose more when you eat back exercise cals?

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  • heybales
    heybales Posts: 18,842 Member
    Guys im having this problem too, usually it says i have about 700 calories left that i can eat but im always full with around 1200. My goal is 1400, I usually eat around 1200, and burn off around 500 a day exercising.So im always left with like 700

    You've killed your metabolism. It's probably artificially low to deal with calories lower than the body needed if you were healthy.
    You've also probably been loosing muscle so your maintenance level could come down to deal with excessively low calories.

    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/238282-700-calories-a-day-and-not-losing-redux
  • heybales
    heybales Posts: 18,842 Member
    I struggle with this too. Many nights I am just not hungry. Sometimes very full. I don't want to eat when I am not hungry and twice recently I still had 600-800 calories to go. When I force myself to eat when I am full I then don't feel well and also feel like I am going backwards and not forwards. Yet we are supposed to eat all those calories?

    Sure, metabolism is out of wack at this point.

    Very interesting details around the concentration camp victims that were rescued and starving. When they first tried to feed them the amount the Dr's said they needed, their bodies rebelled and they got sick and could not eat. They just wanted to peck at food, but they did want to eat, just not much.

    It took several weeks of very careful feedings just barely above what they felt they wanted to eat, to get their bodies back to where they should be, healthy.

    People do it to themselves all the time.

    Info above still stands for many commenting in here, eating below BMR level.

    But I just looked at your diary. You are not making yourself hover at the BMR level and then exercising too.
    Your differences are probably related to the inaccuracies of exercise estimates, maintenance/goal calories, and BMR calories. If all off in the same direction, you may have more wiggle room then you think when not eating the calories back.
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