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Taking a week off from exercise-should I lower my calories?

cari4jc1
cari4jc1 Posts: 233
edited December 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
I've decided to take a week off from exercise due to injury. Should I keep eating my normal calories or lower them some? I currently eat about 1800. My bmr is about 1600 and my tdee is currently 2400.

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  • bahacca
    bahacca Posts: 878 Member
    If you are tracking your calorie intake here, then there is no reason to lower your calories-you simply won't GET the added exercise calories. If you are NOT tracking on here, then I'd cut by a couple hundred a day if you work out daily. I had to take a week off for injury as well. ANd now, 1 week later, I'm sick. It SUCKS!
  • cari4jc1
    cari4jc1 Posts: 233
    Thank you for your reply! I do track calories on here, but i set my own calorie goal based on the calculators that I have used on the web. I'm just really afraid of gaining back anything. It's been a long hard road so far to get off those 17 pounds and I don't want to get set back, but I also don't want to keep working out on my strained hamstrings and end up permenatly damaging them. I've been putting off taking a "break" for weeks and working out even though my hamstrings have been screaming at me.

    I'm also scared that if I stop I won't be able to start back up or that I'll have to start back at zero. This stinks!
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