eating your workout cals

melissap81

Okay so when i enter my insanity workout to my log it increases my food cals allowed. Should i eat 500 more calories sincei burn 500 calorise on insanity? This really confuses me as i thought i was supposed to decrease with exercise but its adding my burned calories back in. Thoughts?

Thanks,
Melissa

Amanda0325

please search.. eating back my calories.. there are 90000 million threads about this.

melissap81

will do, thanks

therealangd

Do what works for you.

Following the plan as MFP sets out, yes, you eat the calories that you burn.

shirleycottrell

Your not the only one confused so am I. I thought it was eat less exercise more but from everything I read on here that doesn't seem to agree. I am about stressed enough to give up

GetFitWithDe

I typically don't eat all of them if at all but that varies based on your situation. For me it would hurt me to eat those calories b/c my wieght loss goals are so much more stringent. They say you should as long as they are good calories!

rsouthland

The best way to explain it so it's not confusing is to show you some simple math... I'll use my numbers.

If I slept for 24 hours and didn't get out of bed, I'd naturally burn 2400 calories, just being alive in hibernation mode. Through MFP, I have a deficit of 700 calories a day, because my goal is 1700 (2400-1700=700).

When you exercise and only eat your goal, it further adds to your deficit. So, today for example I work out and burn 1000 calories. I would add my natural deficit of 700 and my 1000 from working out to be 1700 net deficit.

I've read a lot about this next number. How much daily net deficit is considered safe. People have lots of different opinions, but a common answer is not to exceed 1200 net defict. This means, at a minimum, I'd need to eat back 500 calories of my workout, to ensure I'm at a net deficit of 1200. Preferably, I'd eat back 700-800 of my 1000 workout because adding deficit to the 700 is making it quite a lot in my opinion.

I'm sure this is clear as mud. I know it can be confusing and you'll get lots of opinions as I've said.

itsuki

You could always check out this great resource:

http://www.shouldieatmyexercisecalories.com/