Extra calories earned from exercise

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  • ThisGirl2013
    ThisGirl2013 Posts: 220 Member
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    If I eat back anything, it is just a small amount and because I need to fuel my body after the workout.
    Or, I workout BECAUSE I ate a ton that day and needed to kinda balance it all out ;)
  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,100 Member
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    Jilian from the biggest loser said the way you do it is burn more calories than you eat. To lose weight. SO CONFUSING. GRR

    You are already set at a deficit by MFP. So if you just sit on the couch all day then you are still burning more than you eat if you are logging calories correctly. If you work out you have created and even bigger deficit and can eat them back. The key is to net 1200 calories. Not gross but net! :)

    Yes, and Jillian uses BodyMedia or some such tracking device on her clients. They don't create a bigger deficit than is healthy. You have to take things in context. JM does not propose creating a negative deficit for anyone. Read all of her stuff, don't just grab onto one sentence.

    Here, OP read these:

    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/819055-setting-your-calorie-and-macro-targets

    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/186814-some-mfp-basics

    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/61706-guide-to-calorie-deficits

    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/818082-exercise-calories-again-wtf



    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/912920-in-place-of-a-road-map-3-2013


    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/groups/home/3817-eat-more-to-weigh-less <<~~~~ This would be a good group to join, or at least read through the topiocs.
  • LorinaLynn
    LorinaLynn Posts: 13,247 Member
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    Jilian from the biggest loser said the way you do it is burn more calories than you eat. To lose weight. SO CONFUSING. GRR

    Yes, and don't forget that your body is constantly burning calories. She's not saying you need to burn more than you eat through exercise alone.

    Click on the "apps" button near the top, then find the "BMR" calculator. Or just click here: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/tools/bmr-calculator

    That's the amount of calories your body burns just by being alive. Just your heart beating and lungs breathing and spleen... spleening. The minute you get out of bed, you're burning more calories than that. How many more depends on how active you are throughout the day and with exercise.
  • mrsTravo9112
    mrsTravo9112 Posts: 66 Member
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    I am in week 10 of TurboFire by Beachbody & i love it! So, that is how i arrived at the amount of calories I should eat a day & that's what I placed in MFP... So my workout is already included in that total of calories to have for the da... I don't eat any extra that MPF adds, unless I am killer hungry. - which does happen & I don't feel guilty for it either.
  • millermail
    millermail Posts: 3
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    I never eat them back. If I have gone through the trouble of working out and burning them off, I do not eat them back. I am 5'1" tall and have lost 23 of the 30 pounds I need to lose since January 1. I wouldn't have done that if I ate them back.
  • GamerLady
    GamerLady Posts: 359 Member
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    I don't eat them back either.
  • metacognition
    metacognition Posts: 626 Member
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    I eat some of them back if it's a cardio day and only if I haven't challenged myself (example: steady state jogging for an hour).

    I eat a lot before the cardio, and less in the evening.

    If I am weight training hard that day, I eat my exercise calories and likely a couple hundred more. I space out some big meals a couple hours before and after weights.
  • AimeeJoe31415
    AimeeJoe31415 Posts: 3
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    I think I love you!


    That is an awesome response!
  • Alta2000
    Alta2000 Posts: 655 Member
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    I eat some of them back if it's a cardio day and only if I haven't challenged myself (example: steady state jogging for an hour).

    I eat a lot before the cardio, and less in the evening.

    If I am weight training hard that day, I eat my exercise calories and likely a couple hundred more. I space out some big meals a couple hours before and after weights.

    This.

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