eating back exercise cals: yay or nay?
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I'm no expert on it, but I go by how I feel. If I'm hungry I'll have a few back, but if I only burn off 200 or so I do my best to leave them. If I burn about 500 and I'm hungry I'll have a few back but I try my best to leave them be.0
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Yay, all the way.0
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nay0
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I've been eating mine. And I'm still losing.0
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Yay! Bad experience when not eating them back - loss of muscle, loss of endurance, didn't feel well.0
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I eat mine back. I still lose weight, but more slowly than if I didn't eat them back. I'm OK with that. To each his/her own.0
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I am middle of the road on this question.
I am more for eating enough cals than eating exercise cals back. For me, this is why: An example, if I am to eat 2000 cals a day, but three days a week I burn 1500 cal/day, I would be eating 3500 cals on those three days which would be a difficult feat.
Therefore, I'd rather add like 500 or so cals, or maybe not... It just depends.
My double-pennies.0 -
type "eating back exercise cals" into search.
You'll get about a years worth of reads.
THIS! these threads with the same questions over and over pop up practically every day and i think - "does no one use the search function!?"0 -
I rarely eat my exercise calories back, unless I happen to be very hungry or a special occasion. I find MFP over-estimates how much each workout burns. When I tried for a time to eat back my exercise calories, I stopped losing. So 95% of the time, I eat very few or none at all of the exercise calories.0
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I go by hunger and usually add back 100 calories with a general workout (so 1300 for the day), or more if I feel hungry and it was very challenging.0
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Usually no, but if I'm hungry I have no problem eating them back. Whatever works for you0
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