Still have 1000 calories left, HELP!

Use the MFP calorie bank. If you really can't eat the 1000 calories, you can make a deposit and help another user that needs some extra calories today for a bowl of ice cream.

Thanks in advance.

In general, I don't try to eat all of the calories back that MFP says I earned from exercise. If you really feel the need to eat some of those calories, I would only do about half of what you earned from exercise. You definitely want to eat some to keep your body from going into conservation mode but I think MFP's exercise calculations are on the high side.

I use Map My Ride....does anyone else use this...do you find the estimates for exercises are inaccurate? I just plug in how long I did if for (I use a timer) and it calculates the calories. It bases the calculations off my height, weight etc.

I use Map My Run for figuring out distances traveled. I find its calorie estimator to be WAY higher than the calorie estimator on MFP (e.g. MapMyRun tells me a 60 minute spin class burns 620 calories; the bike I actually ride on usually says about 450; and the MFP one had me logging about 510. I just set it at 520 which I think is "safe" - I really need a HRM to figure it out for sure).

And I really bust my butt at spin class... like, sweating during the first 5-10 minutes of class... and drenched by the end of class. (and I"m in fairly decent shape when it comes to cardio endurance, etc). I think 900 calories for 90 minutes of exercise is pretty high.

My gym has posted this regarding calorie burn:

"Low to moderate - approximately 4 calories per minutes (calisthenics, slow cycling, yoga, mat pilates, walking slow)
Moderate to vigorous - approximately 5 to 8 calories per minutes (aerobic dance, step, moderate cycling, swimming, aqua, tennis, walking briskly)
Highly vigorous - approximately 8 to 10 calories per minutes (interval workouts, walking vigorously, jogging, kick boxing, running, intense cycling, skipping rope)"

so if that is correct, I guess if you were HIGHLY VIGOROUS for the ENTIRE 90 minutes you were working out, you could burn a max of 900 calories - but that means no water breaks, no warm up/cool down/stretching, etc.

I would save if you want a treat GET IT (i.e. that ice cream) but if you want to not go in that direction that definitely nuts, avocado, and protein - steak perhaps. I LOVE nuts - not trail mix because that has sugars but a nice lightly salted fancy nut mix or just pistachios in the shell, etc. Enjoy those extra calories for me lol

Can't see your diary... But as suggested already, nuts, seeds, eggs. Regarding calorie burn I started using an HRM , I never trusted the online calculators, they always seemed to high. Also if you plan on eating back your exercise calories I recommend deducting another 60 calories per hour of workout - that's about how much your body would have burned in that time if you weren't to be exercising. This number is different for everybody - depends on your BMR.

One McDonald's Big Mac should about do it... and they are open 24 hours in most major cities. =D