Do you guys eat your burned calories?

MakeitaHABITwithHeather
MakeitaHABITwithHeather Posts: 6 Member
in Food and Nutrition
I go back and forth with this all the time and would like to see everyones answers! :)
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  • mamigotskillz
    mamigotskillz Posts: 8
    I do sometimes.... not all the time ill say once a week....
  • mindiv
    mindiv Posts: 49 Member
    Not all the time here, either. Sometimes.
  • ryanxpei
    ryanxpei Posts: 8
    I do because I will eat 1200 calories in 3 meals. Then burn between 800 and 1200 calories depending how much PT I do that day. I think a net result of 0 to 400 calories could be detrimental to my health if I didn't eat them back.
  • jozzler
    jozzler Posts: 37
    Only when i need to!
  • 130annie
    130annie Posts: 339 Member
    If I have too many, I eat some back....
  • juliep1974
    juliep1974 Posts: 222 Member
    Yup - almost every last delicious one!
  • dr2k12
    dr2k12 Posts: 291 Member
    Almost all of them almost all the time...
  • ryanxpei
    ryanxpei Posts: 8
    I must fill them all back with BACON!
  • rachelerwin
    rachelerwin Posts: 140 Member
    I do not.
  • rockerbabyy
    rockerbabyy Posts: 2,258 Member
    i do - though if im really full i dont force it that day. if i have some leftover at the end of the week, ill eat them then to keep my weekly numbers where they need to be. either going out to eat, or splurging at home
  • robin52077
    robin52077 Posts: 4,383 Member
    They way this site is set up, they are DESIGNED to be eaten. If you manually set your own goals based on some other TDEE calculator then you may not have to eat them, But if you let MFP choose your goal, there is already a deficit in place, and not eating them creates TOO large a deficit, which can cause failure.
  • YumemiruJin
    YumemiruJin Posts: 133 Member
    I average 700-850 calories burned when I exercise and end up eating back about 400-600 if I want them (mostly carbs like fruit, veg, sometimes protein).

    I try to keep at least 200 that I've kept burned off, but sometimes it's more, sometimes it's less.
  • SoDamnHungry
    SoDamnHungry Posts: 6,998 Member
    Yup! And yum!
  • Flixie00
    Flixie00 Posts: 1,195 Member
    yep
  • HelenDootson
    HelenDootson Posts: 443 Member
    Only on special occasions and when I am on holiday
  • WestCoastPhoenix
    WestCoastPhoenix Posts: 802 Member
    Always.
  • janzia
    janzia Posts: 76 Member
    Sometimes. Here lately though I have been more often than not but I've been exercising a lot and hard.
  • MrsGSR
    MrsGSR Posts: 88
    Yup, on here my activity is set to sedentry, then I log everything I do and eat back some of the calories, up to 80% of my TDEE which has been worked out taking into account my exercise :) I like to over-complicate things haha
  • super_monty
    super_monty Posts: 419 Member
    Starting a new program Monday, I must eat them or I will fail to build.
  • DakotaKeogh
    DakotaKeogh Posts: 693 Member
    Occasionally I eat some of them. Rarely all of them. Usually I don't bother. I think my 50+ year old metabolism is pretty slow.
  • DebbieLyn63
    DebbieLyn63 Posts: 2,654 Member
    Nope, as a rule I don't eat them back. On the rare occasion that I go over a few calories, it is nice not to see the red numbers! I am on track to lose 2 pounds per week. I have 500 built into calorie deficit and burn an additional 500 to get the 1000 total deficit to lose the 2 pounds per week. I also have over 50 pounds still to lose, so this rate works for me at this point.
  • DebbieLyn63
    DebbieLyn63 Posts: 2,654 Member
    I do not.

    But don't you know that you will not lose any weight if you don't?? Oh wait. never mind. :wink:
  • wellbert
    wellbert Posts: 3,924 Member
    yes. it helps me gain weight for lifting.
  • LouMonoLou
    LouMonoLou Posts: 192
    Maybe,it depends on the exercise I've done.
  • scrapfrfun
    scrapfrfun Posts: 47
    Nope, unless I have a high calorie exercise burn kind of day and then will eat half back. When I did WW, I never ate the extras they gave me either ... Good Luck!
  • sijomial
    sijomial Posts: 19,809 Member
    Yes - I'm only aiming for 1lb at week loss. If I'm having a high calorie day then I log the food first so I know how much exercise I will have to do to balance things out.
  • jhungate
    jhungate Posts: 95 Member
    Should eat some of them to keep metabolism at its peak. I try to eat at least 50% of them, some days it is a challenge - today I have run 18.5 miles so it would be difficult to do it.
  • ambate2
    ambate2 Posts: 61
    In general, I try not to. If I've worked out and have extra calories, I may eat some of them, but in general, I try not to eat over 100 calories over my allotment. I do have my days where I end up eating them all or even going over, but those are few and far between.
  • Josalinn
    Josalinn Posts: 1,066 Member
    I do, mostly on Days that I have night school. You're brain needs the extra calories to do all that thinking!
  • Defren
    Defren Posts: 216 Member
    No I never do, only because I find it hard to manage my 1,500 a day I have set for myself.

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