People with regular huge calorie burns

Bump! Good question I was wondering similar.

I usually burn more than 900 calories per day with cycling. All I can say is that I am never full.

I used to bike 2 hours and day and run for an hour and then lift. Then I broke my foot. I gained 40 pounds in 2 1/2 months and now that's why I'm here!

I wish I would have just eaten less during the 6 months that I couldn't really do anything but it was SO HARD!!! I should have joined MPF back then. Oh well! Now I have a vast knowledge of how many calories are in things and I know how many calories I burn doing stuff. These are good things to know about!

As long as you know, you shouldn't have an issue!

I became a long distance runner...spent my life at gym, on treadmiil, doing weights or on a trail. Lost 100lbs much in the way you stated. Long story short, just before going on holidays, I decided to do one last ultimate workout as I would be away from gym for a while...well It certainly was one last workout...I seriuosly injured my back showing off with a deadlift. Dumb.

That changed EVERYTHING. It screwed up my running, it was painful. I went off weights. I stopped working out but I didnt stop eating.

I gained the 100lbs back.

This time around I am trying not to be so extreme...yes you can power away the calories, but like you stated, if youve learned no food control in the process you are screwed once an injury or other life stress hits you

I agree with the discipline required comments. If you aren't exercising as much, then definitely your body won't need the fuel (it helps me to think of calories as fuel, not something to be afraid of or overly excited about obtaining -- it seems weird, but like I said, it helps me). For me, personally, because I was a Marine, intense workouts are a way of life, most of the time. As a woman who just had her fourth baby and third c-section, though (and in my mid-thirties!), I'vesort of been dealing with the fallout from this issue since I was on bedrest for four of the nine months of my last pregnancy. I did try to be very good in my eating, but I still went from a major calorie burn, since I would PT in the morning, usually workout on my own at chow and do yoga at night to barely moving. I was only cleared to use the head and take a shower. Now, even though three of the six days I work out I'm doing 800+ calories, my metabolism still hasn't caught back up. Like I said, this is only my personal story and I'm sure everyone is different and has different experiences. Best of luck to you!

I usually workout for 4 hours/6 days a week. I typically burn 3000-4000 calories when I work out. On days I don't exercise I try to limit my calories to 1700. Because of how strenuous my workouts are I eat more on the days I workout. Usually 2000-2400ish. But I'm still eating less than my old lifestyle just eating whatever the heck I wanted. I do need more to fuel my workouts but I am not doing the mindless snacking. Exercise curbs my appetite for snacking. On my rest days from working out I struggle to control my snacking, eating from boredom. Sure, exercise gives me a little wiggle room with my diet. And if I don't work out then I have to be stricter. But I don't think that's any different than anyone else on here. I still log my food and watch what I eat. I don't just say eh, I burned 21,000 calories this week so I can eat whatever I want.

It is not uncommon for this to happen. One must be conscious about maintaining proper equilibrium.

i eat more on my rest days and less on my more active ones. i'm usually not as hungry on the active days anyway, so it all evens out. so i suppose if i stopped with the vigorous workouts, i probably wouldnt have any spikes in my hunger level since i wouldnt be needing as many calories


i'm never not motivate to work out.. injury wise i've been lucky enough to have never been seriously injured in 20 years of exercising, including 6 years of playing rugby. the one time i did get injured (rotator cuff) i worked around the injury and did rehab, so there was no rest.

Im on 1200cal a day and I eat back some of my exercise calories. 4 days a week I burn 500-600 cal and I eat back maybe 150cal. Once a week I do a super session which I burn 900-1100cal and eat back 300-400.

I can't afford the deficit of all those cals.

Some people begin their day at 4-5am to exercise though, that's hella dedication but you won't get me up before the sun except for the days I have an 8am class.

I haven't the drive to devote to such regular exercise, especially in the winter when I'd have to go to the dreaded, freezing, OUTSIDE to do vigorous exercising.

No thanks, I'll moderate my diet and stay curled up warm and happy in my blankets.

When I worked hard on my feet all day, I could eat 2000 a day and still lose a little.

Now I sit ALL day, and I maintain at 1400-1600.

I miss all that food! But being short and little, my body just doesn't need that much on it's own and I no longer have time to be running back and forth and lifting things 8 hours a day to earn more. It was nice when my job WAS my exercise!

When I go for long bike rides or go trekking I end up with large calorie burns. These are not part of my current regular schedule but six months back it would not be abnormal to gave a 3000 or more calories burned Sunday.

While trekking or week long rides - if it is a long trip I'll end up losing a lot of weight because we do don't carry enough/eat at maintenance during those periods, eating 5000-7000 cals day when we are used to a third of that is hard! - Usually, the weeks that follow are recovery weeks and yes, the 10-15 pounds lost come back with friends. It is possible to control but takes a lot of effort.

The hunger settles down about 5-10 days after a big trip. Part of the reason I needed to lose was being a little too loose on the gains after some of these trips.

For years, I played soccer every day, or went for a 5-8 mile run, or played tennis. Never thought twice about what I ate. Then, I injured my knee and had surgery. I was out of commish for about one and a half years. I gained about 20 pounds.
I think it was mostly the dinners. I had been accustomed to second, and even third, helpings to make up my calories. Also, I was accustomed to only eating high calorie foods. But, I never was a big snack eater and I did not become one.
I have since lost that weight as I have started running again. But I do not really think you can exercise off weight. For some of us, at least, our body tells us strongly what it needs to weight and we eat to that. We may regulate with activity, a bit, but really it is what we eat.
It was not so difficult for me to take off the weight, even though I had been used to eating heavy and well for about 50 years, because I felt really uncomfortable being heavier. Until I had gained this weight, I still weighed about the same that I had in college.
I think our bodies regulate our weight, and for some of us, that is stronger than for others. I think research has show that, if you gain weight, the body tends to establish that new, higher weight as its base point and it does not go back down even if you lose weight, at least not for a long while.
That weight regulation is much more important than any exercise.