Hard time eating back calories burned

I know everyone hates to hear it, but we didn't get fat eating incredibly low calorie; we know how to consume large amounts of calories. It should not be hard to add calories to your day. Snack on cheese, peanut butter, avacado, almonds, cook with olive oil, add some snacks through out the day, etc.

3 egg cheese omelette, bacon, hash browns, fruit salad, big glass of orange juice, ice cream on apple pie for dessert.
Problem solved.

I know everyone hates to hear it, but we didn't get fat eating incredibly low calorie; we know how to consume large amounts of calories. It should not be hard to add calories to your day. Snack on cheese, peanut butter, avacado, almonds, cook with olive oil, add some snacks through out the day, etc.

Very true!

What are you doing that is burning 600 calories?

What are you doing that is burning 600 calories?

i had planned to ask the same thing. i know MFP estimates a ridiculous high number when i have put in exercise before that the machine just didn't give me (based on my heart rate)...make sure those calories burned are correct before eating them all back!

I don't understand how people can eat so little. I've been doing MFP for a year and a half...and what I ate for breakfast today is almost your calorie intake for the whole day. Much larger breakfast than normal, but if that was all I could eat all day? I'd be the world's biggest b*tch! lol I'm sure you can find something extra to eat. A handful of nuts? A bowl of cereal? I have a hard time believing anyone would feel full after eating so little all day. Good luck!

I just don't get it. If I eat back my excersize calories.. how do I create the deficit for weight loss?

MFP has already given you a deficit, unless you think 1,200 is a maintain calorie intake?

eat back at least half.
Try reading Burn the FAt Feed the Muscle. Think of your body like a furnace, if you hardly ever feed it or give it "plastic" or things that don't burn well or hot you will not go through your calories, you need to feed it often and feed it enough to get it fired up!!!
Your body will lose weight and build muscle better when you eat the proper range for yourself, it is trial and error and a week with no loss or a slight gain is not a failure, it is feedback! Try to do things the right way to keep the fat off and learn the way your body works.

You insist that you aren't trying to eat so little and exercise excessively but that is exactly what you are doing. 800 calories is likely a 50% deficit, if not more, even if you were sedentary. You keep doing this and you won't have your periods, which should be an obvious sign to you that this isn't sustainable and you need to drastically curtail physical activity and start eating a bit more.

The reality is you need to find a way to eat more. With such an extreme calorie deficit and so much cardio, you are burning a lot of muscle, which I assume you would rather not do. I agree with the other poster who suggested estimating your calories burned early in the day and work on eating the calories you need throughout the day so you're not left with a huge amount at the end of the day. If you truly are finding this too difficult, ease up on the exercise. However, I would recommend eating healthy, calorie dense foods and continuing the exercise. Not to be rude, but I think most of us are here because we found ourselves eating too much, so I can't imagine it's that hard to eat enough. Like other suggested, try snacking on nuts, whole milk, cheese, avocados, nut butters, use olive oil, full fat dairy products and salad dressings and you should be fine.

Eat more: Almonds, almond butter, peanuts, chia seeds, how about some protein shakes post workout?

If you know you are going to burn that much, add something to each Meal/snack.
Add 100-200 and 100 to snacks. Be smart and eat complex carbs and protein.... Raw nuts/un salted are a quick way to get calories/ protein and healthy fats..... But limit yourself on them....

I think everyone in the thread agrees.... Eat.....

Keep up the great work!

Unfortunately, I dont like eggs at all! But last night I did a bad thing and went out to get a chicken fried steak scramble (no eggs) Im pretty sure I ate back all of my calories :} Its just hard for me to eat them all back usually. I dont want to lose weight the unhealthy way so Im trying to figure this out!! I honestly dont feel that hungry at all and I dont want to stuff myself!!

Going out and killing someone is doing a bad thing. Cheating on your husband is doing a bad thing. Eating chicken fried steak is not doing a bad thing. Stop looking at food as "good" or "bad". Most of the time, when someone can't get their head around eating enough calories, it's because they are being overly-restrictive with their diet. No one food will make you fat or stop you losing weight. Even lard.