Calorie question??

trishpsl

I have been reading a few posts regarding weight loss and calorie counting. I am new to coutning calories and I am a bit confused as to eating back calories burned. I am on 1200 calories a day and most of the time only hit about 1000-1100, then when I add in exercise of course i get added calories. Am I supposed to just keep eating to meet those calories even though I am not hungry throughout the day?? Any advice would be helpful.

TeresaC79

If you aren't eating enough to reach your BMR, you are depriving your body of the basic calories it needs to function.

If you go to tools at the top of this page, there is a BMR calculator.

Personally, I try to eat back at least some of my calories from exercise, even with a snack or two at night. I usually find that even if I didn't feel starved, once I started eating a small snack I was hungier then I thought

Kazimira

Your body is a machine. Food is fuel. Fuel your body well so that it can go where you want it to.
The most important factor in that is using the best tools available to calculate your BMR, as TeresaC79 posted. That number gives you what your body needs to survive, not thrive. I wouldn't necessarily eat all of my exercise calories back, but you are asking more of your body than just surviving. Fuel it. The setting of 1200 calories is already figuring in a calorie deficit, a supposedly healty deficit. If you are eating less than that...you've got your machine chugging on air while asking it to race.