Quiting exercise

jolarocknrolla

MFP **WAY** overestimates calories burned via exercise in my experience. Do you have a heartrate monitor?

Personally, i'm one of the people that doesn't eat back exercise calories (i do eat more on intense workout days, just not as much as MFP seems to think i should).

barbielovesgym

You are eating way too much...

NoxDineen

I lose at 3100 calories, what's insane about it? Calories in vs. calories out. There are people on here that lose at 4k, it's all about the math and your effort.

M
5'10
180 lbs

The original poster is a woman, though, so I'd imagine her metabolism and calorie burn is probably closer to mine than yours. The exercise she listed doesn't seem to come anywhere close allowing her to eat 3100 calories and be at a deficit.

Mostly though my concern was her plan to quit working out and just cut her intake in half, that's a really unhealthy strategy. She's much better off following the advice of others in this thread: get a HRM for accurate calories burned and trade some cardio for strength training.

graelwyn

Not sure if you use a hrm but mft estimates for exercise burn is not always accurate. Although I am sure some can lose weight eating 3000 calories a day, they would have to be particularly heavy to begin, or do a heck of a lot of exercise. My goal intake today is 2700 after 45 minutes on an elliptical, walking and 20 mins interval training on a stationary bike. I set my activity level to sedentary, use a hrm for my exercise and a fitbit for everything outside of that.

And actually, it is not that hard to reach that eating healthy things, I manage it just fine and am maintaining at the bottom end of a healthy bmi for my height. But to lose weight, I cannot imagine eating that much, I would suggest keeping your cardio to an hour 3-5 times a week and doing some strength training a few times a week, but giving exercise up seems a little crazy as it is not just about losing weight, it is about health.

rgrewall

Using this tool should help you figure it out if you are putting in the foods honestly. You might also just be seeking attention. Who joins a site like this and says they want to quit?

magerum

I really don't have anything to contribute to this thread... mostly because the original premise makes my face hurt.

However, I have to say, as 24 year martial artist and father of 4... that "Napout" t-shirt Magerum's son is wearing is the single greatest thing, I have ever seen, ever.

I shall now Google until I find many, many of these.

Bwahaha, thanks! I thought so too, I bought it in the next coupld sizes to make sure he had one for a while.

sewedo1

If you love the exercise, and plan for it to be a part of your lifestyle for years to come, then don't stop. It might help to stop trying to eat all those caloried "back" and start listening to your body for hunger signs and allowing some occsional reasonable splurges. Changing up your exercise/eating routine from time-to-time can make things more interesting and I think does "surprise" your body into weight-loss. Keep me posted on how you're doing, whatever you decide....good luck!

moran1917

If you quit working out you will lose the abilities you have gained. Then when you decide to workout again everything will be super hard again. Keep going, try something new.

shesquats

Agree w/many others, stopping exercise is not the answer but I would suggest changing it to strength training 3 days a week and 2 days of cardio.

aproc

It isn't the exercise that is hindering your weightloss. Just make changes to your diet until you start losing. Eliminating exercise is the last thing you should do though. A good strength program and a bit of cardio can do wonders for your goals but if you are not eating right then you won't see the changes. It mostly comes down to diet in losing weight.

kdiamond

3100 calories is sort of insane. Walking 2 miles would burn maybe 100 calories, running 2 miles would also burn maybe 200 calories, and hour of kickboxing... 600ish?

So you're trying to lose weight at over 2k calories net per day? Eat less calories (and maybe re-examine what you're eating), keep working out.

This. You are not burning 1500 calories in exercise. As a woman you would have to do HOURS to get there. I would venture to say you're probably burning somewhere near 500 including the boot camp.

Lower your calorie intake, keep the exercise as much as you want, just up your calories like 300 instead of 1000+.