To Eat or Not To Eat

MiChaChelle

Hello everybody!!
I've been here for about two months now; i always work out and burn around 400 cals or 500 cals per day and i eat them back and that actually helped my weight loss. Question is.. these two weeks i'm working my *kitten* off in the gym and today for instance i burnt around 1800 calories.. should i eat at least 80% of that back in order to have a net of 1200 calories even though it seems like a whole lot of food to take in?

Acg67

Hello everybody!!
I've been here for about two months now; i always work out and burn around 400 cals or 500 cals per day and i eat them back and that actually helped my weight loss. Question is.. these two weeks i'm working my *kitten* off in the gym and today for instance i burnt around 1800 calories.. should i eat at least 80% of that back in order to have a net of 1200 calories even though it seems like a whole lot of food to take in?

wow, what did you do that you burned 1,800 cals?

Personally, I'd try and shoot for a deficit of around 20% or so to your TDEE

chastityfloyed

1800 calories?

MiChaChelle

lol yes.. 1800 calories. mostly running on the treadmill and lots of elliptical training

Lolli1986

when i do massive burns i eat a little bit more than i normally would that day and for the next few days - that is what my body 'tells' me to do, so i do it. i think muscle repair can continue for a number of days (if the muscles are sore, they are being repaired, right?).

before, after, and often during a massive workout i would tend to drink something like juice or (lol) gatorade to keep replenishing the available sugars in my system. this increases cals a lot.

but no, i wouldn't be shovelling an additional 1800 cals of food into my body.

i used to basically do something massively energetic every weekend, like all day hikes, or 40km bike ride.