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Just started eating my exercise calories

wifeymou1112
wifeymou1112 Posts: 129 Member
edited January 26 in Health and Weight Loss
Hit a plateau at 159lbs for weeks so have decided to start eating my calories from exercise (30ds and 6week6pack) hopefully will start to lose weight now! Any advice welcome... Thank you :-)

Holly

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  • crepesncroissants
    crepesncroissants Posts: 13
    I've always been afraid to eat them back, though all the threads on here say that it really works to do it :) I'm curious to know how it works out for you!
  • wifeymou1112
    wifeymou1112 Posts: 129 Member
    I'm curious too! I always go under my limit and am sick of nothing changing! :-)

    Going to be so annoyed if I start to gain!! Hahaha XD
  • Pamela_in_Progress
    Pamela_in_Progress Posts: 197 Member
    I never used to eat back my calories either and the scale didn't budge. Now I eat back some and sometimes all of the calories from exercise and it's slowly coming off. If you're already eating at a deficit then you should try to be eating back your calories to fuel your body. :)
  • j6o4
    j6o4 Posts: 871 Member
    MFP already calculates a deficit for you, by not eating your exercise calories you are creating an even larger deficit which might not be beneficial.
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