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IsMollyReallyHungry

Do you eat your exercise calories? If so why or why not? Thanks in advance for your replies.

lilmissy2

I haven't been here long and to be honest, I'm not really using the site as it is intended. I just like the support networks.

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If I was trying to lose weight I probably wouldn't eat all of my exercise calories but I would make sure I at least reached the original calorie setting (ie not BMR, the setting that allows for whichever expenditure you put in e.g. lightly active). The reason for this is that it is very difficult to estimate how much is burnt doing exercise because we are all so different. For example, my partner and I entered the same walk and it came up higher calories burnt for me than for him because I weigh slightly more. It didn't take into account that males burn a large amount more than females when working out because they have a much higher muscle mass. My point is, the estimates are just that. So I wouldn't be trying to eat right down to the last calorie of exercise.