Does everyone eat their workout calories?

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laheart
laheart Posts: 10
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hi...I was wondering if most people eat the extra calories that they burn during a workout or do you stick to your normal daily allowance?

Thanks!
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  • sharonuk10
    sharonuk10 Posts: 277
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    I eat at least half of them, more if I am hungry enough.
  • Ebby0525
    Ebby0525 Posts: 11 Member
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    Most of the time, I dont! I feel like to loose u have to burn what you eat, but if I get hungry I eat something lite like, fruit ...usually I dont tho...not sure if tthats good or bad just my way lol...
  • michelearnold
    michelearnold Posts: 32
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    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.
  • Amarillo_NDN
    Amarillo_NDN Posts: 1,018 Member
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    I eat most of mine
  • goron59
    goron59 Posts: 890 Member
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    I eat mine, but only up to about 400.
  • Siciliana35
    Siciliana35 Posts: 6
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    I rarely do, I just feel like I will get to my goal faster if I don't. But once in a while I might go a few calories over my daily allowance and I am super happy when they are covered by my extras from exercise :bigsmile:
  • MichelleFirestone
    MichelleFirestone Posts: 212 Member
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    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
  • deblynnc
    deblynnc Posts: 1 Member
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    Sometimes yes, sometimes no. It depends on how hungry I am that day. I usually try to leave at least some of them, if not all.
  • lynne_p
    lynne_p Posts: 173 Member
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    I usually eat about half of them. I'm usually under my daily count by 100-200.
  • amylynne26
    amylynne26 Posts: 195 Member
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    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:
  • edorice
    edorice Posts: 4,519 Member
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    I eat only a few of them.
  • myricksmom
    myricksmom Posts: 15 Member
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    I usually eat about half of them - it achieves a balance in mind where I feel like I am rewarded for exercise...and I feel like I still burned extra...
  • Somenameioi
    Somenameioi Posts: 43 Member
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    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!
  • AmandaR910
    AmandaR910 Posts: 991
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    I am new but I'm going to try to not eat my work out calories since my daily allowance is pretty high (I'm pregnant so it's set at my DR's minimum for pregnancy).
  • sjaudio
    sjaudio Posts: 52
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    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).
  • jimmydeanbakker
    jimmydeanbakker Posts: 333
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    I try to eat my exercise calories, but I cannot eat them all every time. I usually have better results when I eat as many of those workout calories as possible. I have to be careful because I don't want my calorie deficit to be too high all the time. Right now I have a deficit of about 400. My workout calories in one day can exceed 1500 calories. I'm a long distance runner. Don't panic. That puts my deficit at 1900. That deficit is way too big to lose weight safely. So, I try to bring that deficit under 800 the best that I can. And because I'm a long distance runner and an aerobics instructor, it's actually hard work. Eat as many of those workout calories as possible. You'll have better results.
  • missyhse
    missyhse Posts: 189
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    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.
  • laheart
    laheart Posts: 10
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    Thanks for all the replies!
  • RRodine
    RRodine Posts: 9
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    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.
  • NatalieWinning
    NatalieWinning Posts: 999 Member
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    I try not to. Half the time I do anyway. I'm loosing about a pound a week overall. The more I leave of my calories the better to make up for the days i'm not so good at the diet. Some days my food choices takes the calories up unintentionally, or I'm just hungry.

    I take advantage of extra because I "earned" them. It's a reward for the effort when I need a little something, and I don't enjoy exercise. So I might work out when I didn't want to because I know i'm going to be hungry that day. I have to work for it. Or, I know I'm going to enjoy something that will put me over, so I have to work it off. Enjoying eating is still imortant to me. Hopefully I keep making better choices overall, but never loose the enjoyment of food. A person needs a cookie or an ice cream here and there!

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