eating my burned calories?

LindieLu79

I'm new here, so I apologize if this is repetitious... but I was wondering what the general consensus is about eating the calories that you burned working out?

I have a hard time accepting this concept... I don't know what the research is on this, but I just signed up for MFP this week and have been logging everything (food and exercise)... and each time I enter in the number of calories burned, it tells me to eat that many calories back. I'm no rocket scientist, but how will I lose weight (I need to see sort of a result quickly or I'm probably not going to stick with this), if I just eat back everything I just worked my tail off burning?! What's the point of working out if you're just going to eat those back again? Yes I 'm sure I'll lose weight because I am keeping an eye on my caloric intake, but I want my exercise to matter... so I'm making sure I meet my daily caloric intake but I am not eating back the calories I burned at the gym.

what has been your experience with this?! Do you eat back the calories? How does this affect your weight loss goal?

TrainerRobin

Welcome! Rather than recite the answer here, I hope this will help you out.
Good luck!!

Robin

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/blog/TrainerRobin/view/myth-or-fact-calories-in-versus-calories-out-3500-calories-one-pound-and-should-i-eat-my-exercise-calories-62012#comments