Extra calories earned - My fitness pal - do you eat yours?

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  • rfsatar
    rfsatar Posts: 599 Member
    I eat back every single one of mine as I want to keep lean tissue and just lose fat.

    * I eat to TDEE-20%
    * Eat back calories based on my HRM, not the ones estimated by MFP, which are far too high for me
    * End result: steady weight loss, retaining lean tissue, not feeling deprived and grumpy

    Follow the Roadmap from an earlier post on this thread - it works!

    Gotta say... this.
    I re-set my MFP goal to my BMR and adjusted my activity to lightly active and now the numbers are pretty damn close to the calculator I use (Scooby's workshop Accurate Calorie Calculator).
    Now this means I can exercise, log it in full (and I too use an HRM) plus I wear a fitbit to capture any additional activity linked to MFP.
    This means I typically eat back my exercise cals and I stick to a pretty good deficit over the whole day - and weight is coming off nice and slowly, as are the inches.
    I eat what I want, the weight comes off... everybody wins!
  • amandapye78
    amandapye78 Posts: 820 Member
    I have been been working out a lot lately and burning a ton of calories sometimes over a 1,000 a day. I eat 1500 on a regular day and can't physically eat 2500 anymore so if I have a really big workout I just relax a little and have a glass of wine or eat more protein.
  • SRH7
    SRH7 Posts: 2,037 Member
    I eat back every single one of mine as I want to keep lean tissue and just lose fat.

    * I eat to TDEE-20%
    * Eat back calories based on my HRM, not the ones estimated by MFP, which are far too high for me
    * End result: steady weight loss, retaining lean tissue, not feeling deprived and grumpy

    Follow the Roadmap from an earlier post on this thread - it works!

    Gotta say... this.
    I re-set my MFP goal to my BMR and adjusted my activity to lightly active and now the numbers are pretty damn close to the calculator I use (Scooby's workshop Accurate Calorie Calculator).
    Now this means I can exercise, log it in full (and I too use an HRM) plus I wear a fitbit to capture any additional activity linked to MFP.
    This means I typically eat back my exercise cals and I stick to a pretty good deficit over the whole day - and weight is coming off nice and slowly, as are the inches.
    I eat what I want, the weight comes off... everybody wins!

    :flowerforyou:

    I only wish I knew this years ago. It really is that simple. Forget diet plans, slimming groups, eat this food, don't eat that food. I could write a book and make a stack of money but it really would consist of just one page with those three lines.
  • tamarapeart
    tamarapeart Posts: 14
    This has been an issue for me. I hear it's best to eat them back, because not eating them can be unhealthy. However, I have a lot of weight I need to lose. So right now, I try not eating them back. I know this is not good in the long term, so the closer I get to my goal, the more I planned to allow myself to start eating them back.

    What about people who are trying to lose closer to a lot of weight like myself? Should we really be eating them back? Should we wait till we are closer to our goal and learning to maintain the loss? This really confuses me.

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