Eating back exercise calories

danaaustin1
danaaustin1 Posts: 1
in Food and Nutrition
Ok I need to know, do you get to eat back exercise calories? I weight 137 doing a1200 calorie diet. I want to loose 10 or 15 pounds. Can i eat back those calories i log from exercise?

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  • gemmaleigh1989
    gemmaleigh1989 Posts: 241 Member
    Yes. You have probably heard about why you shouldn't eat below 1200 calories and the same applies if you eat 1200 and then burn off more during exercise. Your goal should be for your NET calories to be at 1200 a day. I (NET = calories consumed minus calories burned).

    Some people think that then defeats the purpose of exercise. Why exercise if you just eat back those calories burned? Why exercise if your calories are going to end up the same as days where you don't exercise? You may as well not exercise then right? Wrong. There are more benefits to exercise than calorie burn and getting to eat more. Fitness, cardiovascular health, and it changes your body composition. Strong is the new skinny ;)

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