Do you guys eat back your exercise calories?

triggs456
triggs456 Posts: 14
in Health and Weight Loss
just wondering...
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  • AngryDiet
    AngryDiet Posts: 1,349 Member
    Yes. The diet is geared towards running a particular caloric deficit per day. If I burn off extra calories, I need to eat them or I mess up that deficit resulting in possibly negative results.
  • PHewittJr
    PHewittJr Posts: 4
    I dunno. I try not to. Cause im having trouble dropping the weight. Ive actually gained since starting the calorie diet and exercising.
  • mygrl4meee
    mygrl4meee Posts: 943 Member
    I eat some of them back especially if I am hungry. I try not to eat them all back cause somedays I might go over. Hope it all balances out.
  • chantellove
    chantellove Posts: 63 Member
    Usually, yes, because I'm on a pretty low calories allowed per day (1225), so I need to eat them back or else I don't think I'd be getting enough fuel...someone correct me if I'm wrong? :wink:
  • LasVegasTaxiDriver
    LasVegasTaxiDriver Posts: 12
    If your trying to lose weight, no you dont eat them back, the bigger defict the more you will loose, i have over a 2000 calorie defict every day im loosing 5 pounds a week by doing this
  • CyberEd312
    CyberEd312 Posts: 3,536 Member
    Oh I happily eat them back..... BMR is 2300 with a 500 calorie deficit to lose a pound a week is already built in by MFP so my exercise calories are there to fuel my workouts... Currently eating 3200-3400 calories a day with my exercise calories..... Best of Luck to you...
  • suelang93
    suelang93 Posts: 2
    I definitely think you can and should eat them back if you are hungry. Generally I try not too, I'm on a 1200 count per day and I find that if I eat regularly during the day I'm not hungry at all. I have friends who skip meals or eat larger when they are starving and not only are not losing weight but gain and fall off the diet Wagon often. Key is consistent eating, for me.
  • Sabine_Stroehm
    Sabine_Stroehm Posts: 19,263 Member
    If your trying to lose weight, no you dont eat them back, the bigger defict the more you will loose, i have over a 2000 calorie defict every day im loosing 5 pounds a week by doing this
    No offense but this frightens me.
  • Sabine_Stroehm
    Sabine_Stroehm Posts: 19,263 Member
    I tend to eat back about half. My logic? I'm likely underestimating calories and overestimating burn. :smile:
    My weight loss is slow going, but I'm only trying to lose 10lbs so I know it will be.
  • aquasw16
    aquasw16 Posts: 342 Member
    If your trying to lose weight, no you dont eat them back, the bigger defict the more you will loose, i have over a 2000 calorie defict every day im loosing 5 pounds a week by doing this
    No offense but this frightens me.

    THIS!
  • MissVickie220
    MissVickie220 Posts: 29
    i never do EVER esp losing doesn't make sense trying to lose not gain I drink all day . guess trying to lose 5 lbs maybe?
  • ashprather
    ashprather Posts: 227 Member
    yes you need to eat them back! this is a video a friend of mine posted earlier today....

    https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=257767630985176
  • jenkinsdeb
    jenkinsdeb Posts: 44
    Im with you, I usually ALWAYS eat back my earned carlories otherwise I'd sarve and make bad choices..
  • DFWTT
    DFWTT Posts: 374
    I tend to eat back about half. My logic? I'm likely underestimating calories and overestimating burn. :smile:


    This ^^^
  • watboy
    watboy Posts: 380 Member
    I do not.
  • chevy88grl
    chevy88grl Posts: 3,937 Member
    If your trying to lose weight, no you dont eat them back, the bigger defict the more you will loose, i have over a 2000 calorie defict every day im loosing 5 pounds a week by doing this

    If you have a lot of weight to lose, you can handle a larger deficit. Most people can not handle a large calorie deficit and it does NOT guarantee that you'll lose more weight or lose it quicker. You have to give your body enough fuel to function properly and I really don't see how a 2000 calorie deficit is giving your body nearly what it needs. Yes, it may be working now, but I suspect eventually it will stop working. When that time comes? Don't create a larger deficit. Start eating more and you'll probably be shocked to see you'll start to lose weight again.
  • Glucocorticoid
    Glucocorticoid Posts: 867 Member
    No.

    You can just make it a whole lot easier by not tracking the caloric expenditure of exercise. Given that most people overestimate this anyway, why make it more complicated than it needs to be?
  • chevy88grl
    chevy88grl Posts: 3,937 Member
    Yes. After I workout, I'm starving and I need to eat. My body needs food. When I don't eat enough it gets very grumpy and if I do it for too long, I'll start to see a slow gain on the scale.
  • thinkpositive3
    thinkpositive3 Posts: 85 Member
    Yes. If I have extra calories left at the end of the day I'll drink a glass of milk or have a spoonful or two of peanutbutter.....not the junk food that seems to call my name way too often. If I can't eat them back cause I'm not hungry - ehhh, no big deal. :smile:
  • 2Bskinny4good_Stacie
    2Bskinny4good_Stacie Posts: 40
    I do. I'm no longer trying to lose weight, just tone up but I ate back most of the calories I got through exercise when I was attempting to lose too. I do agree with a poster above that it is important to not overestimate the number of calories you burn when you exercise so I have always used a heart rate monitor so I can be as accurate as possible in estimating how many I earned. I also tend to underestimate my resting activity level.
  • angelfood111
    angelfood111 Posts: 2
    I was eating the exercise earned calories, but I was either maintaining, losing very slowly or gaining! I always thought you had to eat them back, but recently I lowered my total calories for the day, do NOT eat my workout earned calories, and 10lbs came off in 4 weeks--which is great for me. I really don't know why this site makes it look like you have "earned" extra calories to be eaten when most people are here trying to lose weight.
    Also, maybe it depends on individual metabolism...?
  • jessibella714
    jessibella714 Posts: 2
    whats the point in eating them back when u push to work them off? I was told by a doctor to eat but workout too, healthy people with healthy weight work out to stay the same it would make sense to me that heavier people would work harder, i try and stay in the negative myself i eat 900 to 1400 a day depending on my hunger and i always overwork it because my daughter needs a more fit mom
  • mznisaelaine
    mznisaelaine Posts: 2,262 Member
    I tend to eat back about half. My logic? I'm likely underestimating calories and overestimating burn. :smile:



    ^^^ This, I try to do this...But today I was super hungry so I ate like 95% of them back :)
  • Sabine_Stroehm
    Sabine_Stroehm Posts: 19,263 Member
    whats the point in eating them back when u push to work them off? I was told by a doctor to eat but workout too, healthy people with healthy weight work out to stay the same it would make sense to me that heavier people would work harder, i try and stay in the negative myself i eat 900 to 1400 a day depending on my hunger and i always overwork it because my daughter needs a more fit mom
    The point for me is to eat enough. :smile: I'm trying to NET 1200-1400 calories a day. If I don't eat back some of the 500-700 calories I burn exercising I won't be eating enough.
  • ElizaRoche
    ElizaRoche Posts: 2,005 Member
    No I dont.. I just eat my 1200, no matter what!
  • hedwighigh
    hedwighigh Posts: 299
    I'm not really worried about losing weight anymore just inches so I'm just trying to hit my BMR which is around 1540 so I try to get around that in my net calories. I was eating around 1200 but I slowly moved it up by about 100 per week. I've gained a little weight but my inches are the same or less depending on which part of me you're talking about. I mainly just want to eat the extra calories in order to be able to work out more effectively for my body. I think less than 1500 would be too little for my body now anyway (I'm 5'10 and 153-157 pounds).

    I would like to eventually get to 145 but I'm not in any hurry anymore.
  • SPBROOKS68
    SPBROOKS68 Posts: 561 Member
    depends on the day...
  • Tourney3p0
    Tourney3p0 Posts: 290 Member
    Depends on if you're trying to lose weight or if you're trying to be healthy.

    If you're just trying to lose weight, no. Don't eat them back. You'll lose lots of weight in muscle mass. If you're trying to be healthy, you should absolutely eat them back.
  • irisheyez718
    irisheyez718 Posts: 677 Member
    Yes, I eat all of them back, all of the time!
  • CoryIda
    CoryIda Posts: 7,870 Member
    Sure do!

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