Need to know.:)

love4shihtzu
love4shihtzu Posts: 7 Member
edited November 2024 in Food and Nutrition
My daughter and I were talking last night and she was saying to me that she never eats "calories burned" (I.e. She is allowed to have 1400 calories a day. She works out and works all day. She most of the times burns 1200 calories. She never eats the 1200 burned.) I'm not sure if this is right.

Any advice?
Thanks! :)

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  • georgina1970
    georgina1970 Posts: 333 Member
    She should be eating back her exercise calories. Her 1400 allowance + the number of calories she burnt with exercise that day. Cheers
  • kiki41
    kiki41 Posts: 80 Member
    from what I have learned, you must eat back the calories, at least if you are hungry. You only deprive your body of what it needs to do what you ask of it. I did not know this until recently, and I struggle to find foods that won't make me go over my carbs, etc. and fill the calories burned.
    I would say she is already eating on a low cal diet, the deficit built in. She should be eating more.
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