Eating Calories Burned

Amyl32283

I know this question may have been asked over and over, however I am new here and want some guidance.

I am wondering if I am supposed to be eating the calories I am burning. I am trying to lose weight. I'm supposed to be working out 90 minutes a day according to MFP. For example, I burned 1400 calories yesterday. I really couldn't fathom eating all those extra calories.

Can someone help me with this? Thanks.

now_or_never12

Yes, eat your exercise calories! That's why they are added to your totals.

Ensure you are recording proper calorie burns. Get a heart rate monitor to get the most accurate numbers (MFP tends to overestimate the calories burned) or just eat back 2/3s of them.

Sheila_Ann

I agree with now-or-never. I eat mine back, but if I have a high calorie burning day, I don't eat them all back because. Sometimes I'm just not hungry and I won't eat just to eat.

When I first started I wasn't logging my workout and I was netting around 350 in take of calories. I then stopped losing weight. When I found out I was supposed to eat them back, I started to lose weight and have been losing weight each week.

Best of luck!

Amyl32283

Thanks ladies. I figured I was supposed to since they are added to my totals. Thanks for the info.

kgprice11

tsk tsk tsk there is a search button on the forums so you can search for it and find many pages worth of the same question