Burning 1000 Cal a workout?????

if you wanted to keep your net calories at 1200/day, and you burn about 1000 in exercise, you should be eating 2200 calories a day.

I'm sure this has been asked tons BUT I burn about 1000 calories per workout (mostly more). MFP has me on a 1200 Cal diet.....About how many Calories should I consume daily. I would just like actual calories that I need posted.....I don't want to have to add and subtract to figure it out. I'm not good at all that. Thank you LOTS : )

I am 5'7" and about 170lbs right now.

What do you do that burns 1000 cals and for how long! i need to try it lol

How many times a week do you burn 1000 calories? My aim is to burn 1000 too at every gym session, what sort of stuff do you do?

Many people make a decision to eat back all of their exercise calories or just half. I eat half of my exercise calories. So if your base is 1,200 calories you would eat an addition 500 calories on top of that to eat half the exercise calories. Of course, adjust it if you're not getting results.

yep! believe it or not you gotta eat to lose weight (of course you gotta eat all the good stuff)

because if you ate 1200 calories and burned 1000, your body would be running on 200 cals a day, and if you keep it up your body will start storing fat and you won't lose any weight.

some people don't eat their exercise calories back, some eat them all back, some eat 75% back. you gotta see what works for you, but I think it's important to eat back your exercise calories so your body has the fuel it needs to get through the day and process your 1000 calorie workout!

you might end up gaining if you only take in 200 calories after burning 1000 on a 1200 cal diet. thats not enough to give your body the fuel it needs to function and your body may start storing calories which leads to weight gain, if im not mistaken. also depends on how often you excercise.

I'm sure this has been asked tons BUT I burn about 1000 calories per workout (mostly more). MFP has me on a 1200 Cal diet.....About how many Calories should I consume daily. I would just like actual calories that I need posted.....I don't want to have to add and subtract to figure it out. I'm not good at all that. Thank you LOTS : )

I am 5'7" and about 170lbs right now.

Well- I am 5'7 too
Your calories will automatically be adjusted for the exact amount that you burn each day in your food tracker. So if you burn 1000 calories- you will receive 1000 extra calories in your food tracker- so I would say as long as you stay within the calories in the food tracker (after you log your excercise) you will be fine.

I'm sort of a newbie here, but not a newbie to working out at intense levels for extended periods of time.

Bethybooo, you should really consider any activity that you do for exercise, on MFP's calcs, to be overestimated. For the first few weeks I was doing it, I'd go for a 30 minute run and it would say that I had burned 500 cals. I'm a 200lb dude, mid 30's, so I thought that seemed right. But when I enter my bicycling time and my average speed, there is a HUGE gap between what my HR monitor is showing and what MFP calcs. For instance, 100 minutes out riding my bike at 17 mph comes in somewhere around 1900 calories burned. My HR monitor shows the actual energy output to be around 1200 calories. I take the lower one.

I really do think there is a conspiracy that is buried into our public health policies to underestimate how much we are eating, and overestimate how much we are working out. It just makes good sense to do so, from a capitalistic standpoint!!

I couldnt agree more-

Also, that 1200 calories limit doesn't work for everyone. Quite a few, but not all. If I eat between 1200 - 1300 NET calories (that's taking my 500 - 650 calories workouts into account) per day, I stop losing weight. I actually have to eat more than that, around 1600 - 1700 before I actually start seeing weight loss.

Does anybody know how much metabolism is sped up and how long it's in "burn" mode after a workout like this? I am new to this kind of tracking (where it subtracts off your exercise calories burned) -- not sure I like the way it implies to eat more... how do you figure out the balance there? Is it based on weight?

It's going to depend on a lot of factors, and from person to person. A lot of this process is figuring out what works for you. Some things work, some things won't.

To answer some of your questions when I burn 1,000 at the gym its usually by doing 1 hour on treadmill (600-700 cals- and half hour on cross trainer/eliptical 300 cal)

Does anybody know how much metabolism is sped up and how long it's in "burn" mode after a workout like this? I am new to this kind of tracking (where it subtracts off your exercise calories burned) -- not sure I like the way it implies to eat more... how do you figure out the balance there? Is it based on weight?

MFP figures out your BMR (basal metabolic rate) based on your age, height, weight, using the Mifflin Jeor formula. This is the amount of calories you need just for your body to function, they would feed you this much if you were in a coma.

Then it asks you your activity level NOT INCLUDING exercise, for what you do in your daily life, work, school, taking care of kids, etc. It figures out your needed calories not including the exercise.

Then it asks you how many pounds you want to lose per week and subtracts a set amount of calories per day, 500 for 1 pound a week, 1,000 for 2 pounds a week, etc. (note: choosing 2 pounds a week is not the right thing to choose unless you are very obese).

It subtracts those calories, but only down to a minimum of 1200 a day.

Now, notice that all of that figuring above DID NOT INCLUDE EXERCISE. This is so that you would lose weight without any exercise, many people who come here are unable to exercise. When you DO exercise, you need to add more fuel. MFP adds those calories when you log your exercise. If you do not eat them, then you are creating too much of a calorie deficit which adds stress to your body which releases stress hormones and is unhealthy for you.

All exercise is not created equal, and it really comes down to your personal intensity level. This is why you can have a 10, 15 minute HIIT workout that burns VASTLY more calories than the figure given for 'Calishtenics - vigorous' or you can be an excellent runner and not be challenged at all for 30 minutes at 'Running - 7mph' and burn far less than it gives. My weightlifting, a pro athlete's routine, and a 2nd-week-in-the-gym lady's 30 minute weightlifting routine aren't even going to be in the same league but it's all going to tell you the same thing online. I got 775 calories for 50 minute of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu this morning, just like I do 2x every week, and I can guarantee you that some practices are quite a bit harder than others.

I personally don't like HRMs either unless you are training for an endurance event and want to fact-check yourself for pace and intensity. You don't burn any fat during a workout, after all, and there are tons of factors that can seriously affect how those calories affect you in the following period. It's a little like seeing how much stronger you are right after you finish lifting instead of waiting until the next exercise.

No to mention that high intensity conditioning and strength-training both have a lot more effect during the recovery period than moderate cardio. Rebuilding the body's infrastructure while resting increases BMR, and at rest is when you burn fat. If you don't give your body a stimulus that makes it rebuild and improve, even with the same amount of calories burned during the workout you'll burn less fat because you don't have that increased BMR in the recovery period. I think that this is a big factor in many people's plateau issues. If you don't keep updating your goals, your body won't be challenged as much as so won't burn as much during the same workout, as well as not having to do much for recovery.

These are just general guides, don't take them too seriously. If you want to get serious, get yourself some calipers and keep really close track of your body fat while keeping track of any strength/fitness gains. Lower calories until fat loss plateaus and fitness gains remain consistent. This will take quite a while and plenty of dedication but it's the only way to know for sure, with your workout and your body, what the exact reality is.

Eat when your hungry. I only use my exercise calories to catch me when I go over. I am not going to eat simply because this tells me too. If I am not hungry and i burned 1000 extra calories I am not going to go shove food in my face to appease myfitnesspal!