eating back cal?

taso42

Eating BACK calories is not the way to look at it. You don't say oh i just burned 500 calories i'll go eat it. You need to NET the calories in the day. your net is what you burn (living a healthy life you need at least 1200 calories, and work out) - what you eat = 0 ... CALORIES IN EQUALS CALORIES OUT. all you have to remember. and plan ahead. If i know I have a hard work out that burns 500 calories I never wait till 8pm to consume those even if its when I just burned that.

Here is someone who gets it. :drinker:

sweetpeaz12345

i tore all of anterior cruciate ligaments in both knees when i was in grade 7, its been 10 years since that and this fall im finally having surgery. iv been soo use to the pain that comes with walking running jogging since iv done sports (rugby, soccer, and volleyball) since that happened,. i can handle the pain when it comes to the treadmill and eliptical, it when more weight gets added i find tears running down my face, and end up with bruises that take for ever to go away. dont get me wrong i sleep with icepacks on both knees every single night.

You should try swimming, its a great no impact activity, and is no so hard on your joints. Plus its a great burn!

XoSaraoX

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You should try swimming, its a great no impact activity, and is no so hard on your joints. Plus its a great burn!
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have a pool and swim every chance i get...

Phrak

People need to be aware you cannot determine exercise calories with any sort of accuracy. Most machines over estimate by a massive margin. So if you are "burning" 1000 cal on a treadmill, you are most likely actually burning much less probably less then 700. This is why i do not like people eating calories back based on machine readings.

susannamarie

People need to be aware you cannot determine exercise calories with any sort of accuracy. Most machines over estimate by a massive margin. So if you are "burning" 1000 cal on a treadmill, you are most likely actually burning much less probably less then 700. This is why i do not like people eating calories back based on machine readings.

No, but if the machine says you burned 1000, you're probably safe assuming you hit at least 500.

I consciously try to underestimate but I do eat a lot of the calories back.

psuLemon

i tore all of anterior cruciate ligaments in both knees when i was in grade 7, its been 10 years since that and this fall im finally having surgery. iv been soo use to the pain that comes with walking running jogging since iv done sports (rugby, soccer, and volleyball) since that happened,. i can handle the pain when it comes to the treadmill and eliptical, it when more weight gets added i find tears running down my face, and end up with bruises that take for ever to go away. dont get me wrong i sleep with icepacks on both knees every single night.

Can you do stuff without weights? Sorry, not trying to belabor this conversation. But if you started without weights for a while (maybe some sexy knee braces) and eventually added 5 lbs here and there. I ask because it's what I did. If not, then we will move on, lol.

XoSaraoX

i tore all of anterior cruciate ligaments in both knees when i was in grade 7, its been 10 years since that and this fall im finally having surgery. iv been soo use to the pain that comes with walking running jogging since iv done sports (rugby, soccer, and volleyball) since that happened,. i can handle the pain when it comes to the treadmill and eliptical, it when more weight gets added i find tears running down my face, and end up with bruises that take for ever to go away. dont get me wrong i sleep with icepacks on both knees every single night.

Can you do stuff without weights? Sorry, not trying to belabor this conversation. But if you started without weights for a while (maybe some sexy knee braces) and eventually added 5 lbs here and there. I ask because it's what I did. If not, then we will move on, lol.

i sometimes do stuff without weights, lol i do own two not so sexy knee braces, but very expesive , but find it very weird to workout with them on, something that im sure the more i do it, the less "weird" it will become. i think its the metal in the sides that make even moving the feet on the eliptical hard.

Ambrogio1

People need to be aware you cannot determine exercise calories with any sort of accuracy. Most machines over estimate by a massive margin. So if you are "burning" 1000 cal on a treadmill, you are most likely actually burning much less probably less then 700. This is why i do not like people eating calories back based on machine readings.

GD PT! In the begining of a weight loss program you have to eat back but eventually you should just use that deficit to accelerate fat loss. I don't eat back cals and when I do its under by alot at leats

I currently add in my cals and then negate them with fake food entries.

LorinaLynn

People need to be aware you cannot determine exercise calories with any sort of accuracy. Most machines over estimate by a massive margin. So if you are "burning" 1000 cal on a treadmill, you are most likely actually burning much less probably less then 700. This is why i do not like people eating calories back based on machine readings.

There's a really easy way to determine if your calorie burn is accurate... and that's by the results you get. The estimates I get from MFP, Runkeeper and the treadmill are all very close to each other, and while eating my calories, I got the results I wanted when I wanted to lose, and I'm maintaining while maintaining.

So that would be my advice. Try it. If it doesn't work, tweak it.

kittenmitton

Is it bad that I've seen so many of these topics that the title just blurred together and I read it as "eating black cats?"

No, I don't think you should eat kitties. That's not nice.

/off topic

I don't eat back my calories though, but that's just because I'm assuming food contains more calories than it says it contains and I burn less than the machine says I burn.

LorinaLynn

Is it bad that I've seen so many of these topics that the title just blurred together and I read it as "eating black cats?"

No, I don't think you should eat kitties. That's not nice.

Whew. It wasn't just me. I have a special place in my heart for black cats, and do not want to eat them.

taso42

Is it bad that I've seen so many of these topics that the title just blurred together and I read it as "eating black cats?"

Odd that you mentioned this because the same exact thing happened to me today!

I don't eat back my calories though, but that's just because I'm assuming food contains more calories than it says it contains and I burn less than the machine says I burn.

In that case, you sort of are then, aren't you?

Phrak

People need to be aware you cannot determine exercise calories with any sort of accuracy. Most machines over estimate by a massive margin. So if you are "burning" 1000 cal on a treadmill, you are most likely actually burning much less probably less then 700. This is why i do not like people eating calories back based on machine readings.

There's a really easy way to determine if your calorie burn is accurate... and that's by the results you get. The estimates I get from MFP, Runkeeper and the treadmill are all very close to each other, and while eating my calories, I got the results I wanted when I wanted to lose, and I'm maintaining while maintaining.

So that would be my advice. Try it. If it doesn't work, tweak it.

Also could be your NEAT is higher offsetting the inaccuracies of the machines.

funkycamper

Eating BACK calories is not the way to look at it. You don't say oh i just burned 500 calories i'll go eat it. You need to NET the calories in the day. your net is what you burn (living a healthy life you need at least 1200 calories, and work out) - what you eat = 0 ... CALORIES IN EQUALS CALORIES OUT. all you have to remember. and plan ahead. If i know I have a hard work out that burns 500 calories I never wait till 8pm to consume those even if its when I just burned that.

Here is someone who gets it. :drinker:

This. Or you could try zig-zagging your calories throughout the week. I tend to go for a weekly net calorie target. This allows for some great splurges without going over my calories for the week. Your body isn't set on a 24-hour time clock. While you definitely need extra calories for nutrition and energy if you're working out intensely, you don't necessarily need to eat them all in the same day.

LorinaLynn

Also could be your NEAT is higher offsetting the inaccuracies of the machines.

Does it matter? If the estimates are working for any given individual, they're close enough to accurate. If they're not working for that individual, they're not close enough to accurate.

At the end of the day, if I'm exercising the way I do, I can eat around 2100 calories a day to maintain my weight. It doesn't matter to me if my estimate of 1700-ish to maintain plus 400 exercise calories burned is right, or if I actually require 1900 to maintain and only burned 200 via exercise. It would just be a different math to get to the same result.