question about exercise and food intake

abbie38

I'm gonna repost this in nutrition and food, but I had a question. I teach an hour of dance aerobics every day except for Mondays, where I teach for 2 1/2 hours and Saturdays, when I teach for an hour and a half. I typically consume 1400 calories a day, which ends up being a lot of food for me, as most of my meals are low fat, high veggie content. On the days where I work out more, should I be consuming more, even though I'm not typically any more hungry? i just don't want to sabotage my metabolism, which is finally coming out of hiding from being fed a diet of 1000 calories a day for umpteen years. Thanks for any input!

meganwojo

I know on weight watchers, when you burn your points with exercise, your told to eat them back keeping you at your calorie intake for the day. I however eat 1200 a day and burn about 700 a day with my 1 1/2 hr workout. I only re eat about 400 of those calories. I think if you eat at least half of what you burn you should be fine!

abbie38

That makes sense. I usually burn about 700 calories teaching a zumba class, so the days where I teach for 2 and 3 hours, I feel like there's no way I could consume that much. Thanks for the advice

ivykivy

Hunger has nothing to do with whether or not you need to eat especially for people who've had over or undereating problems in the past. Lack of hunger is a sign of malnutrition, also.
I would say on those days that you teach you need to at least eat your maintenance calories. You could probably eat maintenance all week as still lose about 1lb per week. You could cut out some of the veggies (if you eat more that 7 servings) and/or add some good fats - nuts, seeds (flax, pumpkin), fatty fish.

siobhannestor

I would say, if you are exercising that hard and reach a plateau, then add calories. I know it's counter intuitive, but that's what the coaches suggested I do on the Beach Body site and it actually worked!