Do you eat back your burned calories?

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  • itali614
    itali614 Posts: 53 Member
    I eat some of them back, not more than half because I am not sure the calories MFP says I burn is accurate!
  • mwooderson
    mwooderson Posts: 254 Member
    I can't bring myself to eat back the calories I burn. I know I should eat more wiith the high amount of activity I do every day (weight lifting 3 times per week, cardio daily plus yoga 2 - 3 times a week) but its scary!!! I have lost 64 lbs so far. Most on my own. Although I have learned a ton about meal building and food selection by using MFP.
  • cathylord
    cathylord Posts: 115 Member
    I do. I just started using a HRM that is much more accurate in showing the calories burned, so I feel confident I am not overestimating. MFP is very generous in their calorie allowance, my HRM shows that I burn about 2/3 of the calories MFP would give me for the same amount of time.
  • Love_flowers
    Love_flowers Posts: 365 Member
    My settings are already set on a 550 daily deficit. So whatever little (80-160) I burn by walking I eat it.
    Even though I am losing the last 5kg. When I eat back the burned calories it takes me up to my BMR, which is awesome because I dont want to eat below my BMR if I can help it.
  • sossie18
    sossie18 Posts: 3 Member
    No,
    I am new to MFP, i didn't know about the "burned off calories" being added to your daily allowance, until i added an hours walking.
    i am not going to log any excercise, as i felt the amount being burned off was too high, plus i am happy at the 1700 daily allowance that has been set for me.

    mind you, I drank a whole bottle of sShiraz last night
  • MysticRealm
    MysticRealm Posts: 1,264 Member
    No,
    I am new to MFP, i didn't know about the "burned off calories" being added to your daily allowance, until i added an hours walking.
    i am not going to log any excercise, as i felt the amount being burned off was too high, plus i am happy at the 1700 daily allowance that has been set for me.

    mind you, I drank a whole bottle of sShiraz last night

    You can still eat 1700 calories and log your exercise. That's what I do. I log everything I just only eat the calories I want to eat (for me 1500).
  • SoDamnHungry
    SoDamnHungry Posts: 6,998 Member
    Yes. I EAT THEM ALL. And sometimes I eat them back in candy bars because I earned them and it's what I want.
  • msturtle143
    msturtle143 Posts: 2
    I try not to but some days I am ravenous and i know I've worked hard so I do.
  • jsickman12
    jsickman12 Posts: 139 Member
    I don't eat them back, I drink them back, lol
  • ElizaRoche
    ElizaRoche Posts: 2,005 Member
    I dont. I tried for a while, and my weight got stuck, once i went back to my old routine, the scale started to move down again .. So never again. I will once I wanna maintain.
  • ktrn0312
    ktrn0312 Posts: 722 Member
    I do not eat back my exercise calories since I based my daily caloric intake on my TDEE calculations which takes into account my moderate level of exercising. It is a no brainer for me.
  • blaquebutterfly75
    blaquebutterfly75 Posts: 136 Member
    Yes, I eat them back. My body needs the fuel to get through my strenous workouts.
  • devastation77
    devastation77 Posts: 233
    After a pretty intense workout I will, just to throw some fuel on the fire.
  • amyljl77
    amyljl77 Posts: 43 Member
    I've been eating back my burned calories from exercise and I've lost 6 lbs in 10 days. On the days when I work out if I don't eat those calories I'm starving!
  • devastation77
    devastation77 Posts: 233
    Yes, I eat them back. My body needs the fuel to get through my strenous workouts.

    Soooo pretty much what she said, lol.
  • amyljl77
    amyljl77 Posts: 43 Member
    I never go by MFP calories burned! They are always a little high for me. I go by what my hrm says or what the gym equipments says (only after entering my weight and using the hrm, of course).
  • alitap
    alitap Posts: 38 Member
    no i dont. basically, you only eat them back if you want to maintain your weight but dont do so if you want to lose wight.

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  • SoViLicious
    SoViLicious Posts: 2,633 Member
    I do if I do not I get dizzy. Plus I love to eat.
  • trogalicious
    trogalicious Posts: 4,584 Member
    Yes. If you're using MFP correctly and logging your exercise calories, you should be eating them back.

    ^ The man who has lost 194lbs gets my vote for the correct answer.

    I eat mine back unless it's over a thousand calories burned, just because I find it hard to eat that much extra food.

    yup.
  • imthejenjen
    imthejenjen Posts: 265 Member
    I never eat them back. No, im not malnutritioned, starving, or anything
    Else! :). Im just fine and losing weight at a healthy pace.
  • Elzecat
    Elzecat Posts: 2,916 Member
    I am just curious how many people eat back all of their burned calories? In general I try not to, but I am now trying to really burn them. I'm pushing myself harder I want these last 20lbs to come off. So just curious how others have lost the last bit of weight and if they ate back calories burned or stayed in their original calorie intake for the day?

    Last spring I was within 5 pounds of my goal weight and I still ate most of my exercise calories back (I lost a total of 42 pounds over about a year, then maintained for about 6 months, still eating exercise calories the whole time.) I gained some weight back in the past few months but it's not because of eating exercise calories--due to illness and some other stuff going on in my life, I stopped running, and stopped eating healthy for about 6 months. I try to overestimate the food I'm eating and underestimate exercise calories so that even if I'm a little inaccurate, things should balance out ;)
  • seesarahrun2
    seesarahrun2 Posts: 2
    No! It's a known fact that in order to lose weight you have to have a calorie deficit! I make sure I'm eating my alotted calories for the day BEFORE it subtracts what I'm burning with my workouts...so I go off of my "pre-net" total.
  • trogalicious
    trogalicious Posts: 4,584 Member
    No! It's a known fact that in order to lose weight you have to have a calorie deficit! I make sure I'm eating my alotted calories for the day BEFORE it subtracts what I'm burning with my workouts...so I go off of my "pre-net" total.
    If you're eating at what MFP gave you, that already has the deficit built in.
  • ubermensch13
    ubermensch13 Posts: 824 Member
    EVERY DAMN ONE! To quote Bill Parcells "That's why you lift all them weights"!
  • cld111
    cld111 Posts: 300 Member
    I have to eat them back. I'm too hungry if I don't. And plus, I love eating! :love:
  • becujo
    becujo Posts: 26 Member
    I eat them back, not necessarily all of them. I pretty much am motivated to work out just so I can eat more or enjoy wine, ha. It can determine how hard Im gonna work that day, be it bootcamp or yoga... I have a HRM when I workout and post 85% of what it says I burned; just to be conservative. Funny enough, I used to not eat any calorie and didn't lose weight as quickly as if I was eating them. It's really hard to eat 1200-1400 cals only and then do HIIT workouts on top of that without fainting. Instead of eating the same # of calories every single day, I like to do 1200 one day and then 1700 the next day and so on. I feel it keeps my body from settling into a plateau.
  • carijok
    carijok Posts: 32
    I'm glad I read this thread. I think I'll start creating my own exercises in MFP even if they are already in the database and try to get a more accurate amount of calories burned in an hour by checking multiple sources for activities I do a lot. If I don't work out I'm only sposed to have 1400 in a day. You better believe I'm working out almost every day, lol. But I don't eat 2 ,667 extra calories on a day when I'm waitressing and MFP says I burned that much just going to my job. I eat like four or five hundred extra on a day like that.
  • tryclyn
    tryclyn Posts: 2,414 Member
    I don't, but only because I'm using the TDEE calculation that already has my exercise averaged in. It seems easier to have a set amount each day rather than the variation between workout and rest days.

    It's much easier, for me, this way.
  • jjrichard83
    jjrichard83 Posts: 483 Member
    If you must - eat back only half. Only because you are unsure of what you really burned.

    Also - If you are concerned about eating up burned calories, then you should be eating useful calories only. Clean up the diet.
  • jjrichard83
    jjrichard83 Posts: 483 Member
    no i dont. basically, you only eat them back if you want to maintain your weight but dont do so if you want to lose wight.

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    That is just untrue.

    If you wanted to lose weight and your daily intake was 2000 calories (to maintain), you dropped to 1500 - burn 500 and eat them ALL back, you are still 500 under your daily calorie intake. Anyone on here on the weight loss side is not eating their maintence calories anyway.

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