Q for those who're losing 2lbs/week-eating back cals?

myfitnessval
myfitnessval Posts: 687 Member
in Food and Nutrition
I have a question for those who have been steadily loosing around 2lbs a week. Have you been eating all your exercise calories back?

I have my loss set to roughly 2lbs a week, which for me is around 1280 cals intake, when I do exercise it ups it by my 260 calories burned. I'm scared to eat those 260 back for fear of not losing my 2lbs/week.

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  • IveLanded
    IveLanded Posts: 797 Member
    When I was first losing, I was at 2-3lbs a week. I was eating 1200 calories and then exercising at LEAST 500 calories worth and NOT eating it back. I don't recommend that long term, but it worked for me to get started. I was on that calculation of needing to have a deficit of at least 500 a day in order to lose at least 1lb a week.
  • myfitnessval
    myfitnessval Posts: 687 Member
    Well thats good, I keep seeing people freak out and say it slows your metabolism and its freakin me out! If i'm gonna curb my greasy burrito habit I better be doing it for a good reason dammit! lol
  • eresin
    eresin Posts: 104 Member
    My Fitness Pal is set so that you always have a deficit. If you do not each back your exercise calories you are simply creating a bigger deficit.
  • Claire594
    Claire594 Posts: 349 Member
    I've lost 47lbs in 21 weeks. I was eating between 1400 and 1700 a day on exercise days and sticking to what mfp set me on non exercise days.

    I also weigh in on a saturday and then I pretty much have a free day that day, have a chinese/icecream or whatever. My saturdays are usually about 2000-2500 calories of food but i try to go swimming and get a good walk in to counteract the bigger amount of calories I have eaten.

    It has been working for me so far. I had my deficit set to a pound and a half. I've just this week changed it to a pound a week deficit as my calories mfp had set me had droped down to 1300 and i was struggling on non exercise days.

    Good luck ;)
  • hookandy
    hookandy Posts: 278 Member
    I've been using MFP since Jan, mainly eating back all my exercise cals. Tracking my lose I seem to have lost a steady 2lb per week in average. I seem to lose a chunk then sit for a week or 2 then lose a chunk again, but seems to average out.

    I am just getting to the point that I think I have broken some of my old habbits, but my biggest lesson is that I will be doing this tracking thing from now on. I might get to the point that I can trust myself to eat well for a weekend without, but I doubt it!

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