Will I lose weight if I eat my exercise calories?

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  • megsmom2
    megsmom2 Posts: 2,362 Member
    I have nothing to add here just wanted to see my ticker!

    And a great ticker it is too!
  • krhn
    krhn Posts: 781 Member
    Definitely!!! That's assuming your diet is a caloric deficit - some MFP members don't bother eating back the calories burnt because it allows them to reach their goal weight quicker however, by doing so, you are forfeiting the chance of losing muscle as well as fat!
  • Pepper2185
    Pepper2185 Posts: 994 Member
    Yes, definitely eat back exercise calories. And while you have only 6lbs to lose change your settings to "lose 0.5lb per week" 1200 is too low

    Yep.
  • CyberEd312
    CyberEd312 Posts: 3,536 Member
    Doesn't work for me, either! In fact, I think you'll lose, but lose slower .. and who wants slow? I eat my exercise calories only on special occasions.

    May not be your cup of tea but losing slow in the long term is the best way for keeping the weight of permanently. And there is nothing wrong with slow it all adds up over time... Look at my ticker.... nothing wrong with my weight lose over the lost 43 months and I guarantee it is permanent....
  • 0408boys
    0408boys Posts: 72 Member
    This seems to be how my body works also.
  • sally_jeffswife
    sally_jeffswife Posts: 766 Member
    I usually eat some of them back not all of them usually but I eat a little of them bk just to keep going
  • NickiLee52
    NickiLee52 Posts: 15
    Hi Ed... at first when I saw 311 lbs lost I thought that had to be a mistake... WOW! Congratulations to you - you are an inspiration! I am so excited for you and know you must be so very proud!
  • Tammy22274
    Tammy22274 Posts: 23 Member
    I personal myself do not eat back any of my calories and this was something that I ran by my Specialist that deals with Weight loss and medical condition with in the Endocrine system. I was adviced if I wanted to loss weight that it is not recommended to eat back my exercise calories. I was on WW's almost 2 years ago and they told me that in order to loss weight that you have to burn the calories you eat, so for example if you eat 1300 calories then you have to burn 1330 calories in order to loss weight. I just never bothered to eat back calories at this point because it has worked for me not to. Everyone's body is different so it is a hard questions to answer I believe. As for the TDEE thing that everyone does on here, I haven't a clue how to really do it even after I checked out the thread where it gave detail for detail on how to lol.. Maybe I should just give the information to someone else to do it for me and see what they come up with lol.

    As you see from my ticker I have lost 16 lbs. and I started this on Jan. 21st, 2013, so it is just shy of 30 days and 16lbs lost already!!!!
    Not eating them is working for me but again it depends on the persons body and everyone's is different, so you have to try both ways and see what one works for you!!!

    Good Luck!!
  • akaMrsmojo
    akaMrsmojo Posts: 762 Member
    I personal myself do not eat back any of my calories and this was something that I ran by my Specialist that deals with Weight loss and medical condition with in the Endocrine system. I was adviced if I wanted to loss weight that it is not recommended to eat back my exercise calories. I was on WW's almost 2 years ago and they told me that in order to loss weight that you have to burn the calories you eat, so for example if you eat 1300 calories then you have to burn 1330 calories in order to loss weight. I just never bothered to eat back calories at this point because it has worked for me not to. Everyone's body is different so it is a hard questions to answer I believe. As for the TDEE thing that everyone does on here, I haven't a clue how to really do it even after I checked out the thread where it gave detail for detail on how to lol.. Maybe I should just give the information to someone else to do it for me and see what they come up with lol.

    As you see from my ticker I have lost 16 lbs. and I started this on Jan. 21st, 2013, so it is just shy of 30 days and 16lbs lost already!!!!
    Not eating them is working for me but again it depends on the persons body and everyone's is different, so you have to try both ways and see what one works for you!!!

    Good Luck!!

    Here is the deal, did you told your nutritionist person that MFP creates the deficit for you. That WW is dangerous and I never heard of them saying any such thing. In fact, it is my understanding you can eat more if you exercise, similar to MFP.

    Your body needs fuel. You may have lost 16 pounds, but is that fat, water or muscle. My friend did the same thing, I ate mine back. We lost at the exact same rate. At the end, she gained back 30 easily. I need to eat, I like to eat.

    Believe me stick the MFP guidelines, it is set up for your success.
  • RonandDi
    RonandDi Posts: 120 Member
    I'm one of the ones that won't see results if I eat back all the calories burnt by exercise. Might be a number of different reasons, but none the less, it doesn't work for me.

    My suggestion would be to try eating all the recomended calories, if you don't see results, cut back a little. Don't expect results overnight, or even a few days, but if you constantly eat the recomended calories for a couple weeks with no results, why would you think 2 more weeks will be any different. Not everyone is the same....

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