Getting on the band wagon! More=Less

BobbieLee1959

Okay, so I have read post after post about eating back exercise calories...Today, at 3 weeks 6 days post hysterectomy surgery (March 6), I am feeling very well and spent the day cleaning closets and drawers out, trying on a ton of clothes and working up a pretty decent lather doing so. I have no way to measure what kind of exercise this gave me, but for three hours, I was moving non stop, sorting and packing items for Good Will, delivery to friends homes, etc.

I decided to guesstimate this as the same as 90 minutes of light housework, considering the lifting, pushing, pulling, folding, sorting and hauling items for delivery. I don't have a clue how accurate a measure this is, but since so many of you who currently work out, advise eating back exercise calories, I have decided to give it a try...EEK!! It does make me a bit nervous, because keeping calories at MFP set goals has been working pretty well, but I do not want to have my net cals to be too low, so today, my diary reflects eating these calories (or most of them) back.

I came up with a snack to make this a little easier to accomplish that I have been wanting to try anyway. I made a smoothie consisting of:

1/2 a medium banana
2 cups cultured coconut milk
2 mandarin oranges
1/2 tsp vanilla

This totaled approximately 267 calories, leaving me a little shy of my workout cals of 443, so I also had a slimwich bun and two campari tomatoes for another 140.

I was a tad under my goal before this snack so I think this is sufficient to get me to my goal.

Any comments? Please feel free to check my diary. It still says I am at 1089 net, but without a more accurate measure of my calories burned, I think this *might* be okay?

If you all think I should try for more calories next time, I will do my best, but for now, I am feeling pretty comfortable.

ALso a ?????? Since I will only probably be working out every other day to begin with after my doctor releases me, should I just net the 1260 that MFP suggests on the days that I don't burn extra calories working out?

Thank you all for taking the time to read and comment as you feel lead!