Do you eat your exercise calories earned?

No Sweetheart,
do not do that if you do, its like exercising for nothing. You should eat your calculated calories for the day only,
meaning what your body would burn without any exercise. then workout to reduce that counting daily calories. Exc; My natural calorie daily is 2140, so I eat 2140 exercise 1400 calories. This gives me -740 for the day, not bad. Aprox. 3500 calories to a pound of fat. On a five day workout week I've been losing around 1.5lbs per week. Hope this all helps.

I used to not eat them, and saw decent results...

Now I definitely eat them--my lifestyle has become more "active" I guess you could say. I bike to and from work each day (6.4 miles total) and usually run, swim, or walk or something as well--I kept my activity level at "sedentary" and log the biking and the other cardio and eat ALL of those babies back. I wasn't planning on it at first, but I got so hungry!

General consensus is: Do it.

It never works for me. I'm not finding any experts that really advocate it (unless you're trying to put on weight.)
So. No.
Not unless I want to gain weight.

I just started, so I know im not really one to give advice. But so far im not eating the extra calories I burn because I figure Id be eating everything i just exercised off, you know? Just a thought because im trying to do lose the same. Good Luck!

You need to change your though process and relationship with food if this is how you feel. You need to look at it as fueling your workout, and fueling your day to day activity instead.

No Sweetheart,
do not do that if you do, its like exercising for nothing. You should eat your calculated calories for the day only,
meaning what your body would burn without any exercise. then workout to reduce that counting daily calories. Exc; My natural calorie daily is 2140, so I eat 2140 exercise 1400 calories. This gives me -740 for the day, not bad. Aprox. 3500 calories to a pound of fat. On a five day workout week I've been losing around 1.5lbs per week. Hope this all helps.

Wrong, that is not how MFP works.

MFP give you a caloric intake assuming no exercise to lose your goal amount of weight/week, once you exercise your body needs more fuel to get through the rest of the day.

See my first post and this example:
As an example say MFP gives you 1450 calories to lose 1 lb/week, and you plan on exercising 5x/week for an average of 400 cals per workout. well MFP will tell you to eat 1450 on the days you don't workout and 1850 on the days you do whereas a "professional" may tell you to eat 1700 everyday regardless if you workout.

So for the week MFP will have you eat 12,150 (1450*2+1850*5) whereas doing it the other way will have you eat 11,900 (1700*7) almost the same number of cals for the week (250 dif). The issue in not following MFP is if you don't workout the full 5 days or burn more or less than planned. If that is the case you may lose more or less than your goal, whereas MFP will have you lose your goal amount regardless how much you actually workout.

What many MFPers do is take the low 1450 and not eat back exercise calories which is wrong, if you are not eating them back then your daily activity level should reflect the higher burn with would be covered in the 1700/day above.

If I don't eat them back, I don't lose weight, it's as simple as that. If I have my deficit over 1000 calories, my body refuses to drop any weight at all, most times I end up gaining weight.

I am new to calorie counting, I have used pro point before and I was encouraged to eat the the pro points I had earned by excercising, so I am going to convert the calories I have earned and see how it goes!

I just started, so I know im not really one to give advice. But so far im not eating the extra calories I burn because I figure Id be eating everything i just exercised off, you know? Just a thought because im trying to do lose the same. Good Luck!

You need to change your though process and relationship with food if this is how you feel. You need to look at it as fueling your workout, and fueling your day to day activity instead.

Agree! The way you view and focus on food and exercise will greatly impact your overall weight goals and maintenance:-) Good luck, Food is not the enemy:-)

I see your point, but your ALREADY eating less amount of calories according to your goal. I eat LESS than my exercise calories but i do eat most of them because of the fuel it gives me. i work out twice a day & have lost 60lbs and it works great for me!

Numbers, numbers, numbers...I just did a little math and have determined that I probably am losing 1 pound a week. Eh. All that matters to me is that smaller pants are fitting me now, and that my male friends think I'm kind of a hottie now. If I'm losing 1 pound a week x 52 weeks = yay! I'm losing 52 pounds. In a year. Sounds good to me!

And also, I'm agreeing with keeping your body guessing. I kind of slacked on working out for a while and just ate less, and that was pissing me off because I was hungry, so I put exercise back in, and voila! Losing again! I do a tread mill and I will spike my brisk walk on it with different grades, and will randomly pop it up in speed and then back down. At that point my body is like WTF and confused, but it's working for me. Once your body settles, it slows down. Gotta keep it guessing!