Calories burned from exercising

pelenaisekt

Good evening,

I've been working out, and as a result, my daily caloric intake has been increasing, respectively. I feel guilty when I use the calories I burnt during exercising for food intake. Will I still lose weight if I continue to consume those extra calories?

sarafil

Yes, as long as you still have a deficit when it is all said and done. You need to fuel your body if you are exercising, so it's important to eat some of those calories back.

MaximalLife

Good evening,

I've been working out, and as a result, my daily caloric intake has been increasing, respectively. I feel guilty when I use the calories I burnt during exercising for food intake. Will I still lose weight if I continue to consume those extra calories?

Yes, you will lose weight eating back exercise calories.
MFP calculates our total daily calorie intake WITHOUT exercise to lose 1 pound or so per week.
And after we log exercises, our daily calorie limit increases.
Why?
Because MFP telling us to eat our exercise calories.
Large deficits are unhealthy, because while you will lose weight, what's the quality of the weight loss?
In many cases you'll lose lean body mass - MUSCLE - which LOWERS your metabolic rate, making weight loss harder.
Then you have to lower calories even more to compensate, and the cycle continues.
Be smart.
Exercise well both cardio and resistance, and eat back the calories.
The exercise will RAISE your metabolism and burn more fat at rest.

cieralea7

I have been losing weight and try to make it a rule of thumb to eat back approximately 30% of my "exercise calories earned"! These calories, in theory, are thought to help replace the glycogen used while exercising. You should eat them back post workout to refuel and replenish your body! Different stroke for different folks, but this seems to be working well for me! Good luck!!

Kassieisproud

I sometime feel guilty to! I eat most of my calories back but not all i i try to leave 100 as a margin for error

Pebble321

Don't feel guily, it's just that MFP uses a different approach to calculating daily calories than other sites. MFP doesn't ask how much exercise you do before calculating your calories, because it's too easy to say "oh, I'm going to do 1 hour exercise 5 days a week" but really only work out 3 times.
MFP doesn't put those exercise cals in until you actually do the work, so you can't eat them before you earn them!
Eat, enjoy and lose weight - its a winning formula!