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Eat or Save Earned Exercise Calories

jennys11
jennys11 Posts: 118 Member
edited November 2024 in Fitness and Exercise
I workout everyday for over an hour but I don't log my exercise. I rather just know I exercised and hope the weight comes off faster. What does everyone do with their earned exercise calories? Eat/Save?

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  • sarahs440
    sarahs440 Posts: 405
    I eat at least half of them. It's very important to fuel your body with those calories. I don't have a HRm, so I don't know for sure that MFP calories burned are correct, so I go with eating at least half. Good luck!!
  • MikeSEA
    MikeSEA Posts: 1,074 Member
    I'm intrigued by the concept of saving them. The smart *kitten* in me would like to know what kind of interest rate you're giving for saved calories. To answer the question more seriously, it depends. If I were being really strict about measuring and logging, I'd more likely to eat most of them back. If weren't being that strict about measuring and logging my food, I wouldn't eat them back because I would guess that I would underestimate my caloric intake when I finally got around to logging.
  • susannamarie
    susannamarie Posts: 2,148 Member
    I eat them. As a matter of fact I eat part of them before the exercise since I exercise in the evening. If I did not eat them, I would not have the energy to exercise the way I want to.
  • fmbomzo
    fmbomzo Posts: 382 Member
    I'm trying to get in the habit of eating back up to my BMR to getting into the unhealthy and weight hoarding "starvation mode". Although MFP has a goal of 1390, my BMR is around 1490. So I try to hover there with a combination of diet and exercise.
  • Anayalata
    Anayalata Posts: 391 Member
    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/206951-asked-my-trainer-re-eating-back-calories

    Food is FUEL. Your body NEEDS that fuel. Don't deprive yourself.
    I have BMR of 2000, I'm exercising 500 calories a day = I'm eating 2500~ calories a day and maintaining 140lb.
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