for those who eat back exercise calories

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  • gayje
    gayje Posts: 230 Member
    The muscle under this fat was hard-earned through many years of lugging my fat *kitten* around. I REFUSE TO LOSE IT.

    :laugh:

    You deserve a :drinker: for being willing to just say it like it is! I am going to remember this and use it the next time I have a chance to.

    BTW, I eat at 30% below TDEE and haven't lost anything in the month I've been doing it. I'm not ready to make a change yet but not seeing the scale move is getting OLD fast.
  • MoreBean13
    MoreBean13 Posts: 8,701 Member
    The muscle under this fat was hard-earned through many years of lugging my fat *kitten* around. I REFUSE TO LOSE IT.

    :laugh:

    You deserve a :drinker: for being willing to just say it like it is! I am going to remember this and use it the next time I have a chance to.

    BTW, I eat at 30% below TDEE and haven't lost anything in the month I've been doing it. I'm not ready to make a change yet but not seeing the scale move is getting OLD fast.
    That's a pretty big deficit! You're doing that and not eating exercise cals back- or you are eating them?
  • tammyr112
    tammyr112 Posts: 17
    If I am hungry, I eat them back. If I am not hungry, I do not eat them back. They are there, but I do not eat them back just for the sake of eating my exercise calories.

    this ^^^^^^
  • carrietehbear
    carrietehbear Posts: 384 Member
    Anybody who is eating below their BMR is dangerously underfeeding. If you dont know what that is, or why its important, better look it up. I cannot stress this enough.

    OP - Losing 3lbs a week is not healthy, and there's a good chance you're losing muscle mass. I dont know how tall you are or what your body composition is, but 1200 - 1300kcal a day is way underfeeding for most people especially if you are exercising regularly.

    A medium frame woman who is 5' 9'' and 155lbs has a BMR of ~1480 calories. If she is moderately active, she needs AT LEAST 1750 a day, and her maintenance is something like 2100 - 2200.

    You may be approaching your goal quickly, but I urge you to re-evaluate your strategy befor you end up looking skinny and malnourished when you reach your goal because you burned off a bunch of muscle from improper dieting.

    Your muscle mass is your most important asset when it comes to keeping weight off. Muscle has metabolism, therefore the more of it you have, the higher your metabolism will be.

    Learn to diet properly or you could do serious damage to your metabolism, among other things.

    I'm really short. I'm barely over 5 ft. I've been working on my goal since Christmas so I don't think 55 lbs in 9 months is too quickly. Until a couple weeks ago, the most I lost in a week was 1.8 lbs. And then I had this gain.... which is why I am re-evaluating my caloric intake. I recognize that losing 3 lbs a week at this point in the journey isn't normal but I chalked it up to the change in my workouts.
  • LorinaLynn
    LorinaLynn Posts: 13,247 Member
    I ate most of mine back from the beginning. I really had zero faith this would work because every other weight loss attempt in my life was an abysmal failure, but I was more focused on being healthier than losing pounds.

    I was surprised this worked. And really happy that exercise calories made it painless.

    I made the switch to more than 1200 calories when I realized that it wasn't possible for me to lose more than one pound a week anyway, so why bother with eating the minimum if eating more than that would work just as well?
  • KAR1959
    KAR1959 Posts: 4,335 Member
    I eat some but not all. It keeps me from feeling hungry and overeating. I'm losing so I guess it's working.
  • FionaAnne22
    FionaAnne22 Posts: 178 Member
    I eat most of mine, I personally would struggle to only eat 1200 a day, and this motivates me to exercise, so that I can eat more! I usually have 100 - 200 left over, in case I'm a bit hungry later on, and to compensate for the high calories burned MFP seems to log!
  • katrinaorchid
    katrinaorchid Posts: 1
    I believe that you could safely increase your intake. However I keep finding that the minute I start eating back exercise calories straight away, I stop losing the weight. Perhaps increase it slowly over time to give your body some time to get used to.
  • carrietehbear
    carrietehbear Posts: 384 Member
    My BMR is 1391 so I'm going to increase my daily intake to at least 1400 a day. Until I get a chance to see a doctor (I recently moved to a new state), I'm going to listen to my body when it comes to eating more. I certainly don't want to lose the muscle that I'm working hard to get. (My trainer has done a good job of drilling into my head that it's not really about weight loss but body fat loss.... )
  • birdieaz
    birdieaz Posts: 448 Member
    I dont because my calories are set to include exercise. My BMR is 1280 and I eat betwen 1550-1750, you could definitely up your calories and continue to lose.
  • SARgirl
    SARgirl Posts: 572 Member
    I've eaten back my calories from the start. I LOVE food so I looked forward to those calories burned so I could have something yummy for dinner or a snack! The days that I didnt exercise we're tough to stay within my calories and I really had to be diligent about planning for the day.
  • Ella135
    Ella135 Posts: 1 Member
    Hi new friend, I found this post enlightening. Thanks.

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