Eating your exercise calories...

alord426
alord426 Posts: 129 Member
edited December 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
When you exercise your total calorie amount goes higher than what it is set for.. do you all normally eat your "normal calorie goal" amount or try and eat what you earned through exercise as well?

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  • ElizabethRoad
    ElizabethRoad Posts: 5,138 Member
    Your total calorie goal gets higher, not your net. Anyway, it gets higher because you're supposed to eat more.
  • alord426
    alord426 Posts: 129 Member
    Your total calorie goal gets higher, not your net. Anyway, it gets higher because you're supposed to eat more.

    Thank you for correcting me :) I am still getting use to this.
  • ksz1104
    ksz1104 Posts: 260 Member
    some people don't eat back thier calories, but if you are doing high intensity exercising, I would say you should at least eat some of it back. I am doing Insanity right now, and if you dont keep your body fueled you wll be exhausted. Also, some people wont eat it back because they want to lose weight faster. I am happy with 1 lb a week. I know i actually had to increase my calorie intake bc i was eating 1400 and i wasnt losing weight so I had to up it to 1700. Eating too few calories can slow or stop weight loss. Just some food for thought!
  • annahiven
    annahiven Posts: 177 Member
    I eat them back because I get extra hungry... And I've had no problems losing weight. :)
  • irisheyez718
    irisheyez718 Posts: 677 Member
    I do eat back my exercise calories, all of them, most of the time.
  • BSBgirl337
    BSBgirl337 Posts: 119 Member
    I eat some of it. I don't eat the entire amount it gives me back because then I feel like the exercise was a wash if I'm going to eat it all back. I go over my normal calorie goal that day because I am hungry. I listen to my body. If I eat my normal calories, and I'm still hungry, I eat some more. I just don't go over what the exercise increased it to.
  • LTGPSA
    LTGPSA Posts: 633 Member
    I eat the majority of my exercise calories, have been successful at losing weight and have been maintaining since January.
  • tmauck4472
    tmauck4472 Posts: 1,785 Member
    Depends on how hungry I am. If I'm not hungry I don't eat any of them back
  • alord426
    alord426 Posts: 129 Member
    Thanks everyone for all of your replies! :) I have been eating a few back but not all. If I am hungry I will use them if not, then at least they are there if I did need them!
  • mbaugham
    mbaugham Posts: 70
    I try to only eat my actual calories for the day and not eat the exercise calories that I gained back. Only time I will eat those extra is if I am hungry after I've worked out.
  • itsjustdawn
    itsjustdawn Posts: 1,073 Member
    Your total calorie goal gets higher, not your net. Anyway, it gets higher because you're supposed to eat more.


    LOVE THIS
  • itsjustdawn
    itsjustdawn Posts: 1,073 Member
    I try to only eat my actual calories for the day and not eat the exercise calories that I gained back. Only time I will eat those extra is if I am hungry after I've worked out.

    What's your limit? Why don't you eat back your exercise calories? Just not hungry?
  • itsjustdawn
    itsjustdawn Posts: 1,073 Member
    I try to look at it as fueling my body FOR the exercise. Like, I will eat oatmeal before a work out, but not on any day where I am not working out, since it's what I use to give me the fuel for that particular day. That was just an example, but oatmeal is my pre-workout meal usually, but an additional 150 calories that I don't use every single day... if that made sense :-)
  • momof2osaurus
    momof2osaurus Posts: 477 Member
    I eat them back if I'm hungry. Which ends up being most of the calories, most days.
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