eating your exercise calories back ?

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  • malissagatliff
    malissagatliff Posts: 1
    To lose weight, energy in must be less than energy out! Always tweak nutrition when weight loss plateaus. Hopefully, you are also doing strength training as part of your fitness regimen! Wishing you more success.
  • lmarschinke
    lmarschinke Posts: 1
    I would also add in weight training to your routine. As a woman it is very important to do weight bearing exercises, plus it will help you burn fat at a higher rate. The HIIT (high intensity interval training) is great for cardio, but you shouldnt forget weight training as well:)
  • Articeluvsmemphis
    Articeluvsmemphis Posts: 1,987 Member
    If I'm hungry I eat, so last night (gasp, eating at night) I was hungry so I ate some peanuts (double gasp, fat) and I was fine scale wise. . . so when it comes to exercise calories it's good to eat some of them, or your will be hungrier later in the week, at least in my experience
  • kristatmcbride
    kristatmcbride Posts: 7 Member
    Mmmm, if only I had that much time to workout. I have a 2 and 6 year old and work 8am to 6pm Monday through Friday with an hour commute to and from work.

    Good for you! Keep it up!
  • Stacyanne324
    Stacyanne324 Posts: 780 Member
    I have my goal set to a pound a week which gives me 1580 calories a day. Most days I try to eat around 1200-1300. If I only do a little exercise and I'm still at or over 1200 net I won't eat them back (unless I'm splurging that day and want them to cover it). If I didn't eat that much that day and exercised a lot and it brought me under 1200 net I'll eat some of them to get at or close most of the time. If I've recently had a bad day and gone over I might not but usually I do.

    Part of my problem when I was eating back every single one was that I was eating them in an unhealthy way. I'd look and see I had whatever left and hit the candy or wine. Still staying within calories but not in the best way. I wasn't really losing that much and since I've made this change I've started to do a lot better with my loss.
  • natalie4grace
    natalie4grace Posts: 8
    For an hour bike ride you can burn like 780 calories!!! Try taking a bike ride for an hour :) When I did weight watchers a few years ago I started bike riding and the weight melted off of me :)
  • hungryPHATbunny
    hungryPHATbunny Posts: 84 Member
    I guess everyone is different- I don't eat my calories back- seems to work ok for me. Good luck
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