Does everyone eat their workout calories?

I eat at least half of them, more if I am hungry enough.

I eat all of mine sometimes. It just depends on how hungry I am that day. More often than not, I do have at least 100 or more calories left for the day when I complete my entries.

I eat mine, but only up to about 400.

I ate them. The 1200 calories is set for me to lose 1lb a week. if I don't eat the additional work out calories, say 400-500, then I'm under on calories and that would put your body in starvation mode

I usually eat about half of them. I'm usually under my daily count by 100-200.

I eat only a few of them.

I work out mostly so I can eat more. :laugh: My 1 lb a week goal has me at 1200 calories (the 500 cal deficit is built in) Without the exercise calories I would be so hungry and probably cranky I can only imagine my husband would sit on me and force feed me cookies. :noway:

lmfao!

I don't. Sometimes if I workout a lot, I might go over my daily allowance a little bit, but I rarely have more than 1600 calories a day. My workouts are generally burn around 1000 calories (I'm kind of a gym rat). I don't think there is anything wrong with eating some of your workout calories if you're hungry, but for me, I feel like it defeats the purpose if I eat a lot. So far, my strategy seems to be working just fine (I'm down 16 pounds in less than six weeks).

I always eat my workout calories, especially as an endurance athlete. The system is designed for you to loose weight at a healthy pace if you eat the number of calories suggested. So if you're consistently way under caloric intake your body actually suffers and could go into starvation mode.

I am set at 1.5 pounds a week and even with eating most of my workout calories I have lost almost 3lbs a week for the last two weeks. If I think I am going to go over my calories I will go do an extra workout to counter act the food.

I really struggle to eat what i'm supposed to anyway so I don't. I see a personal trainer once every two weeks and she says I shouldn't eat less that 1200 calories a day or my body will start storing fat but I find it really hard to hit 1200 let alone my daily allowance of 1490! I just don't understand how I could lose weight if I eat more!? Ha!
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Whee! Talk about all kinds of answers! So...does that clear the sonfusion? ^_^

Really it comes down to finding what works for you and your body. Some people can avoid eating the extra cals, some choose not to, some work out in order to be able to eat as they wish while still staying in the green (or close to it) according to the MFP food log. Everyone seems to be making progress in their own way, so is there one 'right' answer? I tend to think not.

If you are working out pretty hardcore and have your weightloss goals set fairly high (~2lb/wk) and are finding that you are grouchy and hungry and generally not feeling much like a rock star, maybe it is time to consume some of those cals that you are burning at the gym.

On the other hand, it you are charging through your workouts and feeling awesome and staying within the original daily allowance as you have it set and seeing results, why change what seems to work?

A lot just comes down to: is what you are doing a sustainable life choice? Most all of us can or have done some pretty extreme stuff in the eat/don't eat/work out like mad realm at one point or another. And we are here because it apparently was not something we could keep up over the long run.

Try what you think will work for you - weigh/measure yourself at the beginning, go a week or two and see where you are with things. If it works and you are happy, rock on. If it wasn't quite what you were hoping for, change the plan a bit. Just remember to be patient with yourself! (I find I need to say that to myself regularly...)

Be well.
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Nope! Haven't done it since June when I started working out and still don't. Only 15 pounds to my goal! In fact, I never even heard of eating your workout calories until I came to this site.

i only eat mine if i'm hungry