Exercise Calories - Been Done to Death I know, However...

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sozzell
sozzell Posts: 166
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Hi,

I know this topic has been done to death but the amount of people who question how much I eat is ridiculous so I wanted to ask the question....

My OH is always going on about how I am always eating, even an hour or two after dinner. I'll use y/day as an example:

After my evening meal I still had something like 1065 calories left. I had earned around 500 in exercise during the day, so, around an hour after my dinner I had some homemade banana bread with pure peanut butter. I tried to explain to him that I have already set myself a defecit and so with that, and my calories earned during exercise I needed to eat as many of my allowance as possible, but he doesn't see how this would work....plus the fact that I am eating late in the evening. Surely if you need to eat the calories you need to eat them, right? Or wrong?

Please help!

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  • MissTomGettingThin
    MissTomGettingThin Posts: 776 Member
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    you answered your own question with the deficit comment.
  • suziecue66
    suziecue66 Posts: 1,312 Member
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    If you are steadily losing then your calories are not too high and you are not over-estimating calories burned during exercise.
  • gaia3rd
    gaia3rd Posts: 151
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    Yes, if your diet is working for you, then you obviously need those calories, and it doesn't matter what time you eat them. I'd suggest you quit trying to convince/explain it to people who either don't want to understand or don't respect your judgement; maybe use a simple 'this works for me' then change the subject.

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