Eating back workout calories

124»

Replies

  • happiimilk
    happiimilk Posts: 44 Member
    I try not to since I feel like if I ate them back, it would defeat the purpose of having burned any of my calories.
  • nicleed
    nicleed Posts: 247 Member
    I set my goals to lose .5 pound a week, but that is just so I know what my cushion is if I eat out etc. I want to lose about a pound a week, so I tend to not eat back exercise cals, But I do eat when I am hungry.

    When I had it set for a pound a week, I always ate them back - otherwise I felt deprived.

    Just my little way of tricking myself :)

    (FWIW, I only needed to lose about 20 pounds at the start of MFP and have 11 to go)
  • brevislux
    brevislux Posts: 1,093 Member
    I do my best but if I'm not hungry then I don't. It's best to eat them, I believe.

    Edit: keep in mind MFP is really generous estimating the calories you burn though.
  • Naija82
    Naija82 Posts: 345 Member
    I would never eat back my workout calories. Working out for someone like me is a living hell, I'm not sure if it gets any better as you lose weight, but I know I didn't just go through something that hard to just go and throw it in the trash.

    Those extra calories I'm burning are attributing to my calorie deficit, which the bigger the better. If you REALLY love food and are willing to give up that extra calorie deficit, feel free, but I wouldn't be caught dead doing that to myself. But I'm also in a situation that the faster I lose weight the better.

    The faster you lose weigh the more likely it is you will be losing muscle especially if you are not refuelling properly after your workouts. Sometimes I wonder how hard people are actually exercising as I'm literally starving after my workouts and 1200 kcals is not enough. That's my 2 cents.
  • Naija82
    Naija82 Posts: 345 Member
    I was asking the same thing I have been doing everything but not sure if eatting back the calories is a good thing I've been doing this since Aug 19th and it tells me that I should be down 10 pounds and it has been way longer the 5 weeks yet nothing has happen not even a pound .. I'm getting real upset. What I'm I doing wrong?

    Eating back your calories for the day is a good way to ruin your weight loss goals. No paper or diet has ever stressed eating back your exercise calories. If someone has a paper that says otherwise then i would glady be openminded enough to read it. It's a MyFitnessPal myth.

    Ruin your weight loss goals? Really I haven't seen mine ruined and the inches are still dropping. What I think you don't understand is MFP has already created a deficit for you while most other diets tend to incorporate calories from physical activity into your calorie goal. You can't tell me you think someone who goes for a 10 mile run, does some weight training and burns around 1200 kcals should not eat back their calories.

Categories