EXERCISE CALORIES

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  • SHBoss1673
    SHBoss1673 Posts: 7,161 Member
    Be careful with this McMadame, it doesn't take all food 48 to 72 hours, it can take UP TO 72 hours to process certain types of food, such as red meats.

    some foods are processed within 1 hour or less. And even food that takes much longer, that means that the food is completely processed by then, some starts to be digested immediately upon entry, and as it travels through the stomach and intestines the bacteria in there slowly eat it away and transport it's component parts thorugh the blood. think of it like an alka seltzer pill, it STARTS fizzing immediately, but it takes almost a minute to finish.

    For example, if you were to eat a big hunk of wonder bread (the plain old white version) that would be completely digested within about an hour or so for most people. Why? Because white bread is very close to the state at which your body processes things anyway, all it needs is a little bit more breaking up and it's ready to be used (as sugar mainly, it's composed mostly of simple carbs).
  • SHBoss1673
    SHBoss1673 Posts: 7,161 Member
    Oh, and I'm against calorie banking unless you are a real whiz at knowing your nutrition. It's a slippery slope once you climb on that one.
  • firegirlred
    firegirlred Posts: 674 Member
    Yes you can up to a point. Your body doesn't turn on a dime. It takes 48-72 hours for something you eat to travel from your mouth through your small intestine and out the other side. So it's not like if you eat 500 over your maintenance calories one day, the next day you see a gain. It might take several days. And, if you then eat less the next couple of day, you may never see it.

    Sorry-I gotta post this...:laugh:

    Ever eat corn? Think of it as "tracer fire"

    24 hours. Tops. Usually less.

    Sorry if this is too gross! :tongue:
  • PJilly
    PJilly Posts: 22,167 Member
    Oh, and I'm against calorie banking unless you are a real whiz at knowing your nutrition. It's a slippery slope once you climb on that one.
    I don't like the idea of banking calories either. I like to think of food as being fuel for my body. It doesn't make sense to gas up tomorrow for a drive I'm going to take today. :smile:
  • hallswan
    hallswan Posts: 90
    I eat about half of my excercise calories, sometimes more. It all depends on the time that I excercise. For example, I went to the gym today at 12 noon, ate lunch after and had two snacks and dinner plus desert. I have therefore eaten 3/4 of them. When I am at work, training after, I tend to struggle, if I burn 700 calories, I will be lucky if I eat 100 of that 700.

    Now I know, someone will say you have to plan your calorie intake from morning, but what happens if I plan to go to the gym, eat almost all of them through the day and then I don't go because of work, I will end up overeating!

    I have had an almost steady weight loss, some plateaus and then I loose 3lbs. I think you have to do what works for you, but at the same time don't starve yourself. If you have lots of calories left, like 600, have a handful of nuts, it doesn't stuff you, but gives you those calories.

    Listen to your body, but also listen to others out there, we are all going through this hence we are on this site!
  • marinucciphoto
    marinucciphoto Posts: 70 Member
    At this point, there is no way I can eat that many calories. I am struggling just to eat all of the calories allotted based on a 2 pound per week weight loss. I imagine in time I will get closer. But, given that I am at least 100 pounds overweight, I am not that worried about it. So far, I feel great and am losing weight... though much more than 2 pounds per week!
  • MacMadame
    MacMadame Posts: 1,893 Member
    Be careful with this McMadame, it doesn't take all food 48 to 72 hours, it can take UP TO 72 hours to process certain types of food, such as red meats.
    Well shoot... that's what my biology textbook said! I guess that's part of the sad decline of US education. :laugh:

    I'm not sure what I'm supposed to be careful of though. My philosophy is that none of this stuff is that exact. Even with food logging and wearing a HRM for exercise and getting my RMR and body fat tested and the like, it's still all estimates.

    Therefore, if I log my food and exercise and it says I burned 100 more calories than I took in one day, I know I'm not going to necessarily lose weight. Maybe I really did go under by 100 but maybe I didn't go under at all but just miscalculated something. Heck, it's quite possible I went OVER by a few.

    So I just to make sure it balances out over the course of a few days and I update my spreadsheets every week and look for trouble spots. Some days I'm over and some days I'm under but, if my averages are were they need to be, my weight stays in its 3 pound corridor.
  • bbeland01
    bbeland01 Posts: 9
    In order to lose the weight you need to consume less that what you burn. You also have to think that one pound equal 3500 calories. So i would consume a couple hundred less!! hope that helps :)
  • cmw72
    cmw72 Posts: 390 Member
    I do not eat my exercise calories, for the most part.

    However, on days that I exercise ... If I'm hungry, I'll eat something. I won't worry about going over my BMR calories, or what MFP allows me. I'll just eat something healthy and call it good. I try to listen to what my body is telling me and act accordingly. It's working out so far.
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