Do you eat your exercise calories?!?!?!?
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Always ate them. Very happy with the results.0
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Sometimes- if I'm really hungry.0
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I usualy do.0
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Yes at least part of them that is what motivates me to exercise.0
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I do but almost never all of them. If you exercise you are going to get hungry so you may need some of them back.0
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Not always, but unfortunatly tonight I drank my exercise calories and then some.0
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Yes I do. I have the rest of my life to reach my goal weight, so aside from a 500 calorie deficit, I eat the way I expect to eat the rest of my life.
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I may sometimes eat 1/2 of them, but I try not to. But some days you just do ????0
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It depends on how many exercise calories I've burned. I'm supposed to consume 1200 calories without exercise. On average, I'm burning about 700 a day from going to the gym. On those days, I wouldn't usually eat them back. But some days I'll burn 1500 at the gym. Those days, I'll eat some back.
I very, very rarely eat them all back. But the way I see it, this way, it doesn't matter if once every couple of months I have an epic fail cheat day. At the end of the week, my calorie defecit is still going to be where it should be. It's what keeps me sane.0 -
RIght now I'm trying not to eat them back...if so, it's only a couple hundred or so. I have about 20-30 lbs to lose...possibly. Once I hit 155 (18 lbs or so) I'll re-evaluate. My plan is to lose 1 lb/wk so any additional workouts should raise that to around 2 lbs/wk if I don't eat most of them back. Of course I do have days where I'll eat 2000-2200...but really trying to stay around 1600.0
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I don't, but my calorie goal is set to 1650 already. When I had it set to 1400 I was eating at least some of them.0
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Yes. They are part of the calorie deficit.0
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uum yes! all of them and sometimes other people's too.
^^ THIS!!
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About half of them lately....I have really increased my cardio and am hungry ALL the time...hoping that this will wear off and I can go back to not eating them and keeping on track to lose for my goal by Christmas.0
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I listen to my body. If I am starving, I try to stick with nutritious foods to eat back but if I am not hungry, I don't. I do find though that too many days in a row of a high deficit leaves me really hungry so I anticipate that and eat more earlier in the day of nutrient dense foods.0
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I think you can eat all of them if you are primarily strength training and about half from primarily cardio. I do a combination of cardio and strength and eat about 50% back with good results.0
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I eat them back most of the time. When I first started losing weight I didn't, then my weight loss slowed way down and I started eating them, the weight loss picked up again.0
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Yes, I always eat them.0
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Only if I am really hungry.0
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Yes, why wouldn't I. The deficit I need to lose weight is already there.0
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as much as I can... 2300 BMR and a 1000 calorie burn makes it tough though0
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Yes. I eat at a deficit to lose weight. I exercise to get fit. Totally different things.0
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Yes I do. If I didn't I wouldn't have enough energy to keep up the daily exercise. As others have said, deficit is already built in.0
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Nope I dont. And I have lost over 180 pounds by not eating them back but having a decent daily calorie range (1600 cals)0
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Absolutely. I like food. Knowing that exercise can get me a slightly bigger dinner, or maybe a vodka tonic, is a huge motivator. I don't always eat all of them -- I won't eat if I'm not hungry, and I won't obsess over making sure that I'm ending a day on a zero level. Some days I go over, some days I'm under; I look at the week as a whole. As long as I'm eating a balanced diet, I'm happy, and I'm under my average goal for the week, it's a good week.
I figure the program is built so that exercise calories can be eaten. Why on earth wouldn't I eat what I'm allowed?
FWIW, I've been eating exercise calories back since I started, six weeks ago. I'm down 5.5 pounds already, and increasing my fitness level. So I'm eating more than I was pre-MFP (former eating disorder patient, never thought I could eat more than 1,300 calories, discovered was undereating my BMR), finally losing weight, *and* more confident about my body? Yeah. I'll stick with what I'm doing.0 -
what do you guys mean a deficit is already built in? i thought that the 3500 calories you're supposed to eliminate every week was supposed to come from both a calorie deficit and exercise?0
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If you don't make sure to net at least 1200 cal but I always eat all my exercise calories. Hope this helps0
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I eat back half of mine if I was hungry....sometimes I didn't. I always used a HRM to keep track. I didn't want to over do it.0
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I do eat some of mine. Depends upon the day. Sometimes I am just hungry! Hey if I worked 2 hours outside I can eat more. I figure as long as I stay under 2000 I will lose albeit very very slowly. Usually stay between 1200 - 1500. I am losing, feeling better. I want to make this a lifestyle, not be obsessed with it. Don't want to gain the weight back!0
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