Do you eat your exercise calories?!?!?!?

caseyglew

Do you eat your exercise calories?!?!?!?

akmlebre

NO!!! thats all towards my weight loss...lol

paulasnchz

Great question! I struggle with this... I personally try not to eat the extra calories. But if I have a bad day, I do.

paulasnchz

LOL Akm!

mightymac

I was eating back some, but i'm pushing to hit my goal before xmas, so at the moment, no i'm not eating them back.

TrailRunner61

I do if I'm hungry. I've lost 40lbs so far so I'd say it's working.

msjones2831

No, I will eat my calories back when I'm in maintence, but not during the weight loss process

ElizaRoche

No i dont

dr2k12

I typically do or at least most of them...

CyberEd312

Yep and enjoying every last one of them!!! Best of Luck... :drinker:

toogsmom

Sometimes accidently , only by a 100 usually! But kinda figure thats what the exercise is for....to create a burn that deletes fat from my body not so I can eat more!!!

Puzz1e

Its all about consistency and medium/long term sustainability. In general I try not to consume back my exercise calories - but If I am really hungry and/or feel I need extra energy for upcoming workout I may consume some/all of the burn calories

truddy6647

I do sometimes. Most days I don't, however, sometimes I feel really hungry and eat back some of those cal. However in the same aspect I don't always hit my min for the day without the exercise cal. so I think at the end of a week it all averages out

mercymarque

I don't. I will if hungry but I go to the gym after I have eaten my meals for the day. I go around 8 pm after I put my little one down for bed. Do what works best for u. Some say eat them and it works for them some say don't. Some eat a banana before an exercise and some have protein for a post exercise.

kellicci

I usually do.

Word of advice tot he newbies. If you have a small amount of weight to lose eating them back is not counter-productive! However, make sure you are measuring all your food and only eat back all of them if you use a HRM if you're going by estimates on MFP or gym equipment only eat back half to 75%. When you have just a few pounds to lose chances that 1200 is already below your BMR are pretty good and eating well below your BMR for a long time isn't that good for you. So if you're at a 1200 calorie goal and you exercise 500 calories off that's only leaving 700 for the day for you body to work with and that is not sustainable.

RixxyRikaa

I do. if what MFP gave me is the amount i need to lose anything, why not?

jodi41086

i eat most of them i still lose just not as quickly. i think im losing pretty quick though. more then im supposed to each week. im always hungry

yogeshsarkar

I usually try not to and in any case strength training calories aren’t counted, so in a way that is good. Though I do try and walk more to compensate, in case I eat a few extra calories in a day.

SDStafford

It depends on how much I exercise, and how much I've eaten. If I put in an hour on the bike, it's a thousand Kcals, and given the 500 calorie deficit my goal represents, I'm usually Hungry! I try to just eat back enough so that I'm not starving, and I often wind up with around a thousand calories under my maintenance level if I do it right. Nothing burns cals like bike riding!

DL21Smith

I normally do not. I like to have them there for "emergencies" if I go over for the day..lol

danaweston

you can eat them back but in my experience that causes weight loss to stall to a stop:grumble:

quietcoral

I usually eat at least half back mainly because creating too big of a deficit is going to cause your metabolism to slow down and you're going to start lose more muscle that way. You will lose weight faster, but for a price. If you are more overweight a large deficit is ok, but the closer to goal weight the less of a deficit you should have to lose weight in a healthy way.

RiotMTB

Yes. A caloric defecit is already built in to MFPs caloric calculation. Eating back your excercise calorise means the body has the nutrients to properly repair (build muscle, and maintain bone) and refuel (blood, muscle, and liver glycogen) itself from the results of the excercise.

underwater77

if i am hungry i do. if i am not, i don't. i earned a ****load of calories from exercise today, so it'd be asinine to do it.

love4fitnesslove4food_wechange

uum yes! all of them and sometimes other people's too.

SARgirl

I eat the majority of mine back and sometimes still go over but it hasn't affected my weight loss. Plus I like to eat:)

Klem4

Yes, usually about half, sometimes more if I'm especially hungry that day. Works fine for me. I feel like i've been a pig this last week or so, and I've finally started to lose again, so obviously my body needed some extra fuel. I'm actually trying to eat more, and be more consistent.

jnp96

I do. Not all of them and not all of the time. It really depends. If I am hungry I will. If not than I don't.

hiker359

Yup...feed the muscle, burn the fat! I eat to sustain my LBM and work out hard to burn away the fat.

bronnyd

i eat most of my exercise calories back. if i didn't eat any exercise calories back i would be STARVING and that just doesn't fly with me, i get cranky

even with eating back most of my exercise calories i am still losing at a faster than expected pace, so i'm going to enjoy being able to eat more when i push myself harder at the gym!

Simone_King

It depends on the day. Sometimes yes sometimes not.