Anyone NOT eat all of there exercise calories??
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:noway: Saw a lot of responses like this...Why would anyone bother using MFP's GUESStimate when you can use an HRM with a chest strap that actually measures your expenditure?Because some people don't have the extra money to buy one right now.
Me thinks tis' why they invented Ebay. Tis' where I picked mine up, many moons ago.
(for 50% off the retail price)
Even 50% off is too much for some people. Some people are breaking the bank just to try and eat healthy and get exercise in. A HRM is great if you can get one...if not, well people have been losing weight for far longer than HRM have been around.
Also, I don't really think it's helpful to make people explain HOW broke they are. If a person says they can't afford it, THAT SHOULD BE ENOUGH! Geez!
I NEVER asked for anyone to elaborate. I just didn't appreciate the IMPLICATION that the one I purchased was USED simply because I bought it off of Ebay. "Geez!"
Well and I didn't appreciate the implication that there were more pennies to rub together if only i could find them.
I wasn't trying to imply anything other than the fact that some people don't have it in their budget to buy fancy equipment. I *did* find one at K-mart for $15. I haven't done a bunch of research on it because I am not trying to buy one.
There are a lot of things that I would *like* to own, things that would make my life easier. But we have extraordinary expenses right now that preclude me from spoiling myself.0 -
:noway: Saw a lot of responses like this...Why would anyone bother using MFP's GUESStimate when you can use an HRM with a chest strap that actually measures your expenditure?Because some people don't have the extra money to buy one right now.
Me thinks tis' why they invented ebay. Tis' where I picked mine up, many moons ago.
(for 50% off the retail price)
As soon as I have extra money, I will buy a new one at K-mart. But no extra money means just that. We are scraping pennies together until the middle of September.
Just trying to figure out if you are trying to imply that my HRM wasn't new? (For the record, it was UNUSED and Sealed in it's original package)
If I was scraping pennies together, I really wouldn't turn my nose up at Ebay...Just a thought.
I appreciate your advice, but it is unwarranted. I don't have the money for an HRM right now, PERIOD! That is *SO* NOT a priority.
I love ebay. I love K-mart. I love to get good deals. When I'm in the market for an HRM, I will check ebay and Amazon and everywhere else. I always do my homework before buying something. I don't even have bathroom scales right now, so I can't weigh myself for a long time. Being broke means you do NOT buy things that aren't necessary!
I have a family to provide for. I can't even buy my kids school clothes right now, so why the hell would I make a purchase of a fancy piece of electronic equipment when I can't even get my daughter a pair of pants?
The fact that you felt the need to tell me your life story was unnecessary. It was rude to imply that the HRM I purchased was USED simply because I bought it on ebay.
You felt it was important to state you would buy a " *new* one at Kmart " and it had the same connotation as if I had searched through a dumpster for it, or purchased it at a thrift store.
If it's not a priority for you that's all well and good, but then why bother responding to me at all? My original post about HRMs was to those people who seemed to not even be aware HRMs exist. These same people were commenting and questioning the validity of MFP's numbers.0 -
:noway: Saw a lot of responses like this...Why would anyone bother using MFP's GUESStimate when you can use an HRM with a chest strap that actually measures your expenditure?Because some people don't have the extra money to buy one right now.
Me thinks tis' why they invented Ebay. Tis' where I picked mine up, many moons ago.
(for 50% off the retail price)
Even 50% off is too much for some people. Some people are breaking the bank just to try and eat healthy and get exercise in. A HRM is great if you can get one...if not, well people have been losing weight for far longer than HRM have been around.
Also, I don't really think it's helpful to make people explain HOW broke they are. If a person says they can't afford it, THAT SHOULD BE ENOUGH! Geez!
I NEVER asked for anyone to elaborate. I just didn't appreciate the IMPLICATION that the one I purchased was USED simply because I bought it off of Ebay. "Geez!"
Well and I didn't appreciate the implication that there were more pennies to rub together if only i could find them.
I wasn't trying to imply anything other than the fact that some people don't have it in their budget to buy fancy equipment. I *did* find one at K-mart for $15. I haven't done a bunch of research on it because I am not trying to buy one.
There are a lot of things that I would *like* to own, things that would make my life easier. But we have extraordinary expenses right now that preclude me from spoiling myself.
Then next time make to keep your implications to yourself and there won't be a problem. :drinker:0 -
I eat a little under half of my exercise calories back.0
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Then next time make to keep your implications to yourself and there won't be a problem. :drinker:
WOW...0 -
I am new here, but, i did eat my calories from exercising yesterday. I don't want to, and plan to stop doing that, but, i am just now beginning to change my ways back to healthy life again....so even NOT overeating, is good first step for *me* as i transition away from sedentary gluttony,
and work back to a healthy diet and lifestyle again, lol! I hope to improve and improve, and have tried to avoid setting the bar too high right off the bat, i don't want to get discouraged early on.
baby steps for *me* for NOW is my current plan....hoping to pick up momentum and bettter habits as i go along though!!!
I am now thinking about a remark i saw way back on page 2 maybe, where someone posted she only adds in her exercise AFTER she has finished her food intake, to better see how many calories she really has left or something like that...
THAT seems like a good idea to me...
I don't really want my exercise 'adding' to my daily calories allowed, at all,
but, it seems like MFP calculator IS adding in any exercise, giving me false sense of how many calories i have left for the day......is that right?0 -
I only used to eat half of my exercise calories and was always 300 calories under my net goal. This left me hungry and I ended up making up for it by binging the next day. I started eating back my exercise calories and the cravings I had went away. I'm still in a deficit, a much smaller one, when I eat my exercise calories so why should I settle for less when I can eat more and still lose?0
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If I'm not hungry, I don't eat, period. I'm not going to eat just for the sake of calories, unless I'm majorly under. If I get up to AT LEAST 1100-1200, I don't bother if I'm not hungry. I don't really exercise too much, unless it's going out for walks or for a swim with my kids, don't have the time.0
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I rarely eat back ANY exercise calories. I've been doing great.0
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I try to keep my net above 1200 so I eat some of them back but not all0
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I don't eat them back, I drink them back and have a bloody good night!
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:noway: Saw a lot of responses like this...Why would anyone bother using MFP's GUESStimate when you can use an HRM with a chest strap that actually measures your expenditure?Because some people don't have the extra money to buy one right now.
Me thinks tis' why they invented ebay. Tis' where I picked mine up, many moons ago.
(for 50% off the retail price)
As soon as I have extra money, I will buy a new one at K-mart. But no extra money means just that. We are scraping pennies together until the middle of September.
Just trying to figure out if you are trying to imply that my HRM wasn't new? (For the record, it was UNUSED and Sealed in it's original package)
If I was scraping pennies together, I really wouldn't turn my nose up at Ebay...Just a thought.
Seriously? What part of broke don't people understand. yipppeee you could afford one, good for you. But others can't. Please be respectful. When your broke even Ebay is expensive. SMDH
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I am new here, but, i did eat my calories from exercising yesterday. I don't want to, and plan to stop doing that, but, i am just now beginning to change my ways back to healthy life again....so even NOT overeating, is good first step for *me* as i transition back to a healthy diet and lifestyle again, lol! I hope to improve and improve, and have tried to avoid setting the bar too high right off the bat, i don't want to get discouraged early on.
baby steps for *me* for NOW is my current plan....hoping to pick up momentum and bettter habits as i go along though!!!
I am now thinking about a remark i saw way back on page 2 maybe, where someone posted she only adds in her exercise AFTER she has finished her food intake, to better see how many calories she really has left or something like that...
THAT seems like a good idea to me...
I don't really want my exercise 'adding' to my daily calories allowed, at all,
but, it seems like MFP calculator IS adding in any exercise, giving me false sense of how many calories i have left for the day......is that right?
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I didn't really understand your last sentence...0 -
I figured out recently that another advantage of working out late at night (besides the gym being empty) is that I don't feel the need to eat the exercise calories.
Don't know what will happen if I ever do get the urge but it will be something very light or nothing at all.0 -
I bicycle17 to 18 miles every evening and get credited with over 1300 calories. It would be impossible for me to eat those calories in the 2 hour window that I have before going to bed.0
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The comment about the HRM makes me laugh. I'm still waiting to get mine because I simply can't afford it right now. I have to rely on the 'guesstimate'. But I'm going to assume those guesstimates are made by individuals using an HRM to begin with, so they can't be too far off.
I don't usually eat back my exercise calories, but I will eat into them if I'm hungry. I go based on the cues by my body. Even if I don't have those 'additional calories' (not additional if they're earned from burning...) and I still feel hungry, I'll sometimes eat over. Rare, but it happens.
Yeah, I don't think most of them are that far off. I have lost 28 pounds in one month by using MFP alone. So something is going right. Some people don't understand what it means to be broke.
I don't understand what it means to be broke? ARE YOU KIDDING ME? My husband had $6.00 to his name until he got paid a couple of days ago. It was $16, but he needed gas.
We live right by NYC. Nothing is cheap here. NOTHING. We pay an $800 Maintenance fee, just to keep a roof over our heads. Plus Electricity, Food bills, Internet, Phone.
OH and my doctor bills and medication (which run around $6,000 to $8,000 a month)
AND WE ALSO PAY FOR MY MOTHER IN LAWS MORTGAGE. She owns a 3 family home and the mortgage is almost $4,000 a month. Her ex-husband racked up thousands of dollars worth of debt and they tacked the debt on to her home. She has 2 jobs but and works 18 hours a day, and she still can't afford it. If she doesn't pay for it, she'll lose it - so we give her a lot of money to help pay that.
They also turned her water off a few weeks ago, so we paid that too.
I had to SAVE up for my HRM money. SO don't sit there and say I don't know what it's like to be broke.0 -
I look at it like this-
The number of calories you have a day is already the 500 deficit. So even if you eat back your exercise calories you are still at the -500. You are just also building muscles.
Correct. It's also the way to keep the weight off long term. 0 -
hmmm interesting question, i wasnt eating my calories burned, then i was told by a nutritionist specialist that you should eat them because if you dont you are starving your body, soooo this week i am eating them back and i will see if it works, if i dont lose any weight then i will go back to not eating them, and lesson learned. i just cant be disappointed in my decision to experiment on this and if i dont lose weight then get my *kitten* back on track to how i was doing this in the first place 0
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I dont eat my calories back either, i just drink water and keep hydrated, if i do feel peckish i will snack on fruit and low fat yogurts, low fat chocolate etc.
I'm not too worried though if i do go over, i just make up for it the next day
How you make up for it the next day?0 -
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lol, the fault is mine, i'm sure, as i am NEW here. I am just beginning to use the daily calorie calculator, and i do not yet fully understand it...yet. Your advice or guidance would be much appreciated, as i really do want to get the best use of that calculator. My plan/goal is, to NOT eat my exercise calories.
Yesterday, I added in my exercise, early in the day,
and NOW realize, when i did that
i think the calorie count for me was increased, and i *thought* i still had like 800 calories left to eat for the day, and i *thought* that 800 left was from my 1200 calorie limit,
but now i think, MFP calculator increased my 1,200 when i added in the exercise..........is that right? Is that what happens? do you understand my question now?
so maybe it IS best to wait til end of day, after you are done eating, to add in exercise??? IF one plans to NOT eat their exercise calories, i mean.0 -
I bicycle17 to 18 miles every evening and get credited with over 1300 calories. It would be impossible for me to eat those calories in the 2 hour window that I have before going to bed.
I pre-log my workouts and spread the calories around during the day in the form of healthy whole foods. In your case (because you're VERY active) it would be really tough to eat them all back...but I would suggest pre-logging that ride and perhaps eating 1/2 back. You don't want to short your body the fuel it needs to keep losing or to keep the weight off long term if you are in maintenance.0 -
If you decide to start eating back your exercise calories, I would wait more than a week to gauge the result. Sometimes you will see a gain on the scale if you start taking in more calories than you normally do because of water retention. It happened to me when I first started.0
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I look at it like this-
The number of calories you have a day is already the 500 deficit. So even if you eat back your exercise calories you are still at the -500. You are just also building muscles.
Totally agree with this^^^. This keeps your metabolism from suffering. I try to eat at least half of my exercise calories because MFP provides estimates. I use this just as a guide. Going below the 1200 mark is a no no for me. I want to make sure I am getting the proper nutrition to fuel my body. In the past, I've noticed if I did not eat enough calories, I did not lose weight. I will continue to follow what worked for me and continue steadily losing my 2 lbs per week.0 -
///"I didn't really understand your last sentence..."////
lol, the fault is mine, i'm sure, as i am NEW here. I am just beginning to use the daily calorie calculator, and i do not yet fully understand it...yet. Your advice or guidance would be much appreciated, as i really do want to get the best use of that calculator. My plan/goal is, to NOT eat my exercise calories.
Yesterday, I added in my exercise, early in the day,
and NOW realize, when i did that
i think the calorie count for me was increased, and i *thought* i still had like 800 calories left to eat for the day, and i *thought* that 800 left was from my 1200 calorie limit,
but now i think, MFP calculator increased my 1,200 when i added in the exercise..........is that right? Is that what happens? do you understand my question now?
I'll use my own personal example. My settings are 1200/day to lose 1lb/week.
I often burn 500 calories in an exercise class.
That would mean if i did not eat back my exercise calories on that particular day my NET would be 700 for that particular day. I don't believe in fueling my healthy weight 35 year old body with only 700 calories. So I pre-log that workout and spread the extra around during the day. I'm taking in more than the 1200 on that particular day.
For all the people in this forum post that said "no, I never eat them back"...how do you think (in my particular example) that fueling my body with only 700 calories NET would be a good idea?0 -
I do not eat back all my exercise cals from MFP. I have a fitbit so I'm able to accurately monitor my deficit on a minute to minute basis. I eat enough to keep the deficit between 1000-750 cals a day This week a saw a 1.6 lb loss 0
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I rarely eat them all back, but I do eat when I'm hungry.0
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I eat half mine back...the calories burned according to MFP seems super generous, so just to be safe I cut that number in half and it's working quite well for me :-)0
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I do not eat back all my exercise cals from MFP. I have a fitbit so I'm able to accurately monitor my deficit on a minute to minute basis. I eat enough to keep the deficit between 1000-750 cals a day This week a saw a 1.6 lb loss
I've often heard that if you need to lose more than 1lb/week (or if you are participating in a plan that is set up for greater than 1lb/week loss) that you should seek the advice of a doctor. Just to make sure you are not doing any permanent damage eating twice the suggested deficit per day on the days you have a deficit of 1,000 instead of the suggested 500. If you have a lot to lose your doctor might support this plan.0 -
Which HRM do you suggest?0
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I usually burn between 700-900 per day therefore i am usually hungry so I end up eating 200-300 back, whenever I am not eating any of them back I plateau so I think eating some back is ok if you want to lose.0
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