eating back calories

fitgirlforlife1
fitgirlforlife1 Posts: 60
in Health and Weight Loss
Do y'all eat back your calories from exercising? I only burn about 400 calories from my exercises and only go to the gym 3X a week. I want to lose about 10 more pounds and I eat 1400-1600 calories a day.

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  • QuietBloom
    QuietBloom Posts: 5,413 Member
    I eat every exercise calorie back. I try to use an accurate calculator to figure out my burn though (very important).
  • fitgirlforlife1
    fitgirlforlife1 Posts: 60
    which calculator do you use?
  • fitgirlforlife1
    fitgirlforlife1 Posts: 60
    bump
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    you'll likely want to compare your estimated burn to a few different sources. Better yet, with so little to lose you should probably just do TDEE - 10% or so. You don't look like you have anything to lose...maybe just work on body re-comp if that's the issue.
  • fitgirlforlife1
    fitgirlforlife1 Posts: 60
    What is TDEE and body recomposition? Lol, I am clueless
  • Brunette122
    Brunette122 Posts: 107 Member
    you should get a heart rate monitor to make sure the calorie burn is accurate.

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