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Advice on eating back calories burnt!

lilgemforgets
lilgemforgets Posts: 285
edited December 2024 in Food and Nutrition
am 300 calories under and then got 500 back due to exercise. Therefore i am meant to eat another 801 calories...but not at all hungry, any suggestions?

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  • cheyennetheeventer
    cheyennetheeventer Posts: 29 Member
    You don't need to eat it all. :) All you need is the minimum 1200 for the day, and if you're not hungry after that then thats awesome! If you still don't have the 1200, I'd just wait until you are hungry. Unless you are planning on going to bed within the next 3 hours, then I honestly don't know what to tell you, I've never been so full that I couldn't eat my recommended calories.
  • lilgemforgets
    lilgemforgets Posts: 285
    Thanks alot for the advice! I usually have no problem eating the calories but i had to stay late at work tonight and before i know it its 8pm and i am only just heading out for a run!
  • cheyennetheeventer
    cheyennetheeventer Posts: 29 Member
    I know exactly what you are talking about! This summer job has been killing me like that.
  • mgobluetx12
    mgobluetx12 Posts: 1,326 Member
    I don't understand eating calories back and have never heard it before this site. The way we're all going to lose is from creating a deficit. Why would you want to eat those calories once you've burned them? Let them stay burned!!!
  • Troublemonster
    Troublemonster Posts: 223 Member
    No harm in not eating them as long as you're getting enough to sustain you.

    Vevvie, the idea being if your MFP plan has a deficit built into it then eating those extra calories won't hurt as long as you fill them in a healthy way. If you don't fill them you'll just jump a little bit ahead. In the last 6 months I ate the extra calories more often than not and dropped 37 pounds in the process. I probably could have dropped more by not filling those calories but it sure made it nice when I was working at night and my food choices were limited by convenience.
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