Eating back Insanity calories

StarcrazyAngel
StarcrazyAngel Posts: 9
in Health and Weight Loss
I'm starting Insanity today with 1708 cals as my daily intake and just wondering when I do the workouts do I need to eat back the calories that I burned? As before when I wasn't on insanity I was doing dance classes and say I burned 400 cals in a session I would eat back those and still lose weight.
Thanks

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  • jennifer_417
    jennifer_417 Posts: 12,344 Member
    There is some disagreement about that on here, I think that you SHOULD eat them back, because the cal intake MFP gives you is already a deficite for weight loss. However, I'm fairly certain that MFP overestimates cals burned, so I would aim to eat back MOST of your exercise cals if you are going by MFP calculations.
  • smh19692000
    smh19692000 Posts: 13 Member
    I agree with the overestimation point made here. I am also reluctant to eat back the calories given due to exercise because of this. Xx However I stopped logging the fitness cals so that I could stick to the food part of calorie intake and loss far more weight than my 1.5lb a week expected drop. all about choices I supose.

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