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Long term success and exercise calories
Yanicka1
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I am so so so sorry about starting this tread and I will get hell from my friends but I am having a discussion with someone about the fact that those of us long term success stories are those that eat way more than 1200 calories a day and eat their exercise calories.
So I want to do a survey.
How long have you been on MFP? 500 days tomorrow
How many calories a day do you eat without exercise calories? 1600
Do you eat your exercise calories? Yes
So I want to do a survey.
How long have you been on MFP? 500 days tomorrow
How many calories a day do you eat without exercise calories? 1600
Do you eat your exercise calories? Yes
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How long have you been on MFP? 304 I think
How many calories a day do you eat without exercise calories? 1500
Do you eat your exercise calories? Yes because I love to eat!0 -
How long have you been on MFP? 400 days
How many calories a day do you eat without exercise calories? 1570 for 0.5lb a week loss
Do you eat your exercise calories? Oh yes, all of them all the time, they're the tastiest calories!0 -
How long have you been on MFP? about 260
How many calories a day do you eat without exercise calories? 1600-1800
Do you eat your exercise calories? Yes0 -
How long have you been on MFP? Since Feb 2011
How many calories a day do you eat without exercise calories? Currently set at 1250, but have increased at times like Christmas when I didn't think it would allow me to stay happy and committed
Do you eat your exercise calories? Yes, absolutely
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How long have you been on MFP? 120 days
How many calories a day do you eat without exercise calories? 2010
Do you eat your exercise calories? Hell yeah0 -
How long have you been on MFP? on and off for 6 months...on another site before that
How many calories a day do you eat without exercise calories? 1300-1400
Do you eat your exercise calories? nope - not really...on my exercise days i may go over my calories by 50-100 but I don't intentionally eat them back0 -
How long have you been on MFP? Since December 20, 2010 - My "days in a row" is around 450.
How many calories a day do you eat without exercise calories? About 1800 to maintain.
Do you eat your exercise calories? Yes! Nothing tastes as good as a calorie earned.
Edited to add: Lost 30 pounds in about 7 months, been hovering around 130 since July. Ate between 1350-1500 plus exercise calories while losing.0 -
bump because I don't have time to read this right now, but am very interested in the responses....0
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How long have you been on MFP? I've been at it for 3 years, down 104 lbs.
How many calories a day do you eat without exercise calories? 1500-1600
Do you eat your exercise calories? Yep!0 -
How long have you been on MFP? About 7 months.
How many calories a day do you eat without exercise calories? 1,270 to lose a pound a week.
Do you eat your exercise calories? Abso-posi-lutely! I worked hard for those calories!0 -
How long have you been on MFP? 7 months (210 days)
How many calories a day do you eat without exercise calories? 1500-1600
Do you eat your exercise calories? Yes, usually anywhere from 100-200 of those calories... i burn about 300 per workout
oh and i'm in maintenance now! lost 25 lb earlier this year0 -
Been here just over a year
started with only eating 1200 and not eating exercise
recently bumped calories to 1600-1800
and yes eat them back now...0 -
How long have you been on MFP?230 i think..
How many calories a day do you eat without exercise calories? 1300 five days a week 1400 the other two.
Do you eat your exercise calories? no0 -
how about adding "how much weight have you lost?"??0
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Bump! I've only been on MFP about 3-4 weeks and I'm interested in this topic!0
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How long have you been on MFP? Since July of 2010 (left for a bit and came back with a diff acct).
How many calories a day do you eat without exercise calories? When losing- 1500 Maintenance- 1850-2000
Do you eat your exercise calories? Yes0 -
Not sure how length of time on MFP is any indicator of success? In some cases it could be the opposite! Wouldn't amount of weight lost or percentage of weight lost be more informative?0
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How long have you been on MFP? 81 days...
How many calories a day do you eat without exercise calories? 1200
Do you eat your exercise calories? Hell yeah...well, 50-66% of the MFP estimate. Sometimes I work out simply so I can eat more!0 -
How long have you been on MFP? a year and a half across two accounts (Start. October 2010, new account 12/31/2011)
How many calories a day do you eat without exercise calories? 1500 -1600
Do you eat your exercise calories? Yes
edit to add: reason for starting new account was a new beginning after a health issue during the last quarter of 2011.0 -
How long have you been on MFP? About 7 months.
How many calories a day do you eat without exercise calories? 1,270 to lose a pound a week.
Do you eat your exercise calories? Abso-posi-lutely! I worked hard for those calories!
Okay, and have lost 44 pounds in those 7 months.
ETA: I use a HRM to calculate my exercise calories, not MFP (which was 20-30% too high in almost all activities).0
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