WHY DO PEOPLE EAT BACK THEIR EXERCISE CALS?!

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  • magerum
    magerum Posts: 12,589 Member
    This is still alive? Impressive.
  • nicholettebell
    nicholettebell Posts: 414
    I'm hungry. I'm going to eat back my exercise calories! Or drink them...not sure yet. :drinker:
  • Katahna
    Katahna Posts: 326 Member
    Your diet should include it's own deficit... eating back calories burnt from excersize is just normal... I don't see what the issue is?

    I do it... and I lose 1kg+ a week...
  • chubbygirl253
    chubbygirl253 Posts: 1,309 Member
    I don't get why either! I want to burn more than I eat!
  • whoviangleek
    whoviangleek Posts: 24
    I only do it when I feel like I'm starving. But I never eat all of them.
  • runzalot81
    runzalot81 Posts: 782 Member
    I will go back to what I said earlier....

    Make things easier on yourself don't eat and don't exercise then there is no concern then you also don't have to worry about counting or not counting!

    .....then you have tons of free time on your hands!

    If i eat 1200 and I burn 1200 calories then I have zero calories for the day; goal accomplished! Right?

    People....a 1200 calorie diet (for women) is based on NO exercise; this is what you need to function and live a healthy life. When you burn the calories it is like you never ate them; therefore, you must eat more to meet the 1200 calorie daily intake. When the doctor or nutritionist tells you to "eat" 1200 calories this is based on NO exercise so if you exercise you have to eat more to start with OR eat back your calories!

    Lets' say it takes 3 logs to keep a fire going; if they all burn to ashes what will happen to the fire if you don't replace the logs???
    :noway:
  • yourenotmine
    yourenotmine Posts: 645 Member
    WHY NOT?
  • CoderGal
    CoderGal Posts: 6,800 Member
    I eat back some these days because I feel like I am starving. I am still losing.

    Do whatever you want and I will do whatever I want. I don't eat all my exercise calories back, but that's neither here nor there.

    Ive noticed lot of people do either or.. i was just wondering why the people who do eat them back do it to begin with! I just dont get it!
    The only way i can understand them doing this is if they went WAY over their calories to begin with and needed to work them off. Then technically they "ate" their exercise cals

    Just my personal experience, but if I do eat a little of my exercise calories back, I lose more *shrug*

    Same here. When I burn more AND eat more (healthfully), I lose more than just working out and eating less.
    same.

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