Eat calorie burn or not

Jessicao33

Do u eat calories burn or no? P,ease explain I ask this because I read some did to help lose and I see some others don't.

I want to lose and tone so I am not eating much of my calories burn just try to stay with in my 1200 calories a day with my work outs. I guess what I am saying is if I burn 500 calories and my goal for intake calories are 1200 I still in my calories set for the day. Yes I eat some burn calorie but not all can you cause tell me what u do and why..thanks. I

I start 2 weeks ago today and only lost a pound in half thanks

ValRAAAAY

Yes. I eat back my exercise calories. As long as I'm netting around 1900 a day, I'm good to go!

*edited for spelling*

TylerJ76

Yes!

alpine1994

I do 2-3 days per week. If I eat them back every day I won't lose, and if I never eat them back I am a miserable beast! I lose 1 or 2lbs per week on average.

Jessicao33

Oh ok thank you

So if you burn X amount calories eat them back even if you go over your daily calories if you have 1200 but burned 300 you want to eat a total of 1500 is that right???

ObtainingBalance

I have mine set on sedentary and I eat back any calories burned.

Somedays I'm not extremely hungry, and I only eat back 1/2-3/4 of the calories.

I still manage to lose 3-5 lbs per month ~ I think it works well.

Myfitnesspal specifically tells us exercise calories are allowance and you can eat all of them back (BUT if you have it set to lightly active or something, MFP already adds exercise calories in...so you exercising and eating those back doesnt leave u with any deficit.)

Make sense?

Either set your activity level on whatever you are, and dont eat exercise calories back...
Or set it on sedentary, and eat anything back that you burn (because MFP already has ur deficit created for u...exercise calories just make the deficit larger.)

Nimadi486

I always eat them back. When I first started using MFP I didn't, and I was exhausted during workouts. I think it also depends on how much you are working out. If you are burning 400-500 calories in a workout, you are going to be very very hungry if you don't eat back some of the exercise calories. Good luck!

junipearl

I always try to eat most of them back (although it can be hard) because i don't want my body to get used to a 600 net calorie intake and then store everything I eat when I start eating normally again.

it also gives me an incentive to work out when I am feeling lazy - you want that second chicken breast? Better for a run!

_danjo_

if you have 1200 but burned 300 you want to eat a total of 1500 is that right???

YES