Eat half your exercise calories

Oh SNAP!

So MFP does not grossly overestimate calories burned? Unless this is just a ****ty way to convince more people to use TDEE -20% I am missing your point.

Do you seriously think that calorie counting and exercise burns are numerically accurate? There's a margin of error in all calculations.

You do the best you can after trial and error, and for a lot of women on here, the exercise calorie burn is way overestimated. I've seen lots of 2000 calorie entries for 2 hour walks. All I can hope is that the people aren't eating those back.

No, just an illogical approach.

i think choosing 50% is completely random, but i don't find it illogical. you've got to set the number somewhere, and as long as people are willing to adjust either their target cals or exercise cals (basically, their total cals) based on results, starting at 50% is as logical as 100% or 25% or 130%.

This stuff is all much more about guessing and making adjustments than people wish to believe.

So it's illogical to only eat back half your exercise calories, yet somehow its ok for alot of people advocate logging 1.1 servings for the overestimation of calories.

Interesting.
::Chin-stroke::

For the record, there's no way I'm eating back all my calories.
I eat what I feel I need to be satisfied. Right now I've eaten 840 total and after an 8-mile run I've burned 875, so I'm in negative calories at 4:30pm . I'm not gonna gorge on a 1900 calorie dinner so it all squares at the end.

Great plan! I wish you the best of luck in your future hospital stays.

So MFP does not grossly overestimate calories burned?

You think it doubles what you realistically burn?

I've seen tons of people on MFP posting, literally, 10x their actual burns. IMO, for the heavier, newer MFPers, the advice most likely to lead to success is to not eat back any exercise calories at all. I agree that it isn't "logical", on a certain level, but given the demonstrated inability of so many people to get their burns even close to accurate, it is a reasonable solution to the problem.

Yes, they should learn to do it right. But if they're not going to, then it's alright to show them an alternate path that at least approximates reality.

IMO, etc.

I also think MFP makes this needlessly complicated with the whole "net" calories thing - it simply requires too much math for most users. And it's also not correct mathematically, because it means the more you exercise (and eat back), the smaller your deficit becomes as a percentage of TDEE.

Great plan! I wish you the best of luck in your future hospital stays.

Sure thing bud. :drinker:

Edit: I ate just over 1100 calories in Chkcken Pesto and bowtie pasta, including a slice of pie for dinner.
What should I eat to fill up the remaining 750 cals so I don't end up in the hospital? :laugh:

What kind of calorie deficit are running on a daily basis? JMO but I don't find running negative calories by 4:30 in the afternoon to be something to giggle about.

I eat the treadmill after I'm done exercising.

If I only do half the exercise should I eat all of the calories?

only if you gave 110% effort