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Eatting your exercise Calories

Tweety1983
Tweety1983 Posts: 100 Member
edited November 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
I am on a 1200 calorie diet and exercise and burn atleast 150-300 calories a day. I usually still only eat my 1200 calories... Anybody have any thaughts on this.. Also my protein is always over, is that a bad thing???

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  • BigDaddy822
    BigDaddy822 Posts: 99
    No its not bad to have your protein over. It is almost impossible to eat too much protein. 1200 Calories seems really low. But as long as you have energy and don't feel bad then go for it. Good luck to you on your journey.
  • AntWrig
    AntWrig Posts: 2,273 Member
    No its not bad to have your protein over. It is almost impossible to eat too much protein. 1200 Calories seems really low. But as long as you have energy and don't feel bad then go for it. Good luck to you on your journey.
    it's not impossible to eat to much protein. Protein has calories just like the other macros.
  • rpantusa
    rpantusa Posts: 267 Member
    extra protien is fine. I only eat back exercise calories if i am hungry. If I am hungry I only eat some back, not all of them. If i am not hungry, I don't. Just listen to your body. :happy:
  • Articeluvsmemphis
    Articeluvsmemphis Posts: 1,987 Member
    eat the exercise calories if you're hungry, over on protein is just fine, MFP levels are set low. been really hungry lately so been averaging 1500-2000calories and still losing weight if that's any help to you
  • ashtonalayna
    ashtonalayna Posts: 89 Member
    I'm also doing 1200 calories a day but I try to eat at least half my exercise calories back. Since I have started doing that I seem to be losing the weight a little faster. I don't get it done every day though since sometimes I'm just not hungry and I have a hard time forcing myself to eat.
  • atjays
    atjays Posts: 797 Member
    I generally don't eat my exercise calories back, if I've done a decent job with my meals during the day I'm not hungry. But it is nice to grab a tiny cheat snack here and there and know it's not killing your day :D
  • Tweety1983
    Tweety1983 Posts: 100 Member
    Thanks Everybody for your support and advise it really helps..... And good luck to yall on your journey as well!!!!
  • shanlynt
    shanlynt Posts: 718 Member
    MFP had me at 1200 but I upped it to 1300. I'm trying to eat most of the exercise calories back. Cardio machines are often inaccurate so I figure if eat some calories back, then I'm good.
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