Exercise Calories...

So If I burn 800 calories a day hiking, I need to eat those 800 calories on top of my set 1200 calories? Ugh...

Women are supposed to have 1200 Calories so if you goal is 1200 and your burn 800 then you do need to eat those calories. But if your goal is 2000 and you burn 800 your just fine. But if you find yourself not loosing weight then you need to changes somethings up. Eating more might actually help you loose weight.

I don't understand this really....if weight loss is all about calories in vs calories out...then if you eat your exercise calories won't you just be neutral and maintain?

No. If you are following the MFP guidelines that you set up when you started, you will STILL be eating fewer calories. This is due to the fact that MFP already factors in a calorie deficit for you. It is usually a 500 calorie deficit. The math has already been done for you. Please folks, eat back at least some of your exercise calories. It really does work.

Yes eat your calories, I learned the hard way too, I was trying to just eat 1200 calories a day even when teaching my Zumba class and I wasn't losing any weight and I kept asking do I gotta eat my exercise calories, yes yes yes!!!

So the next 1 1/2 I ate my calories as close as possible and I dropped like 4 pounds in that one week!!!!

So like everyone is saying if you don't your body thinks it's starving and starts storing the next's day food!!!!! And MFP has allready figured in your exercise goals and what you want to lose.. So yes eat as close as possible to the calorie burn.

My advise, if you know your going to work out that day start eating more thru out the day, allow yourself that extra snack or two and if you have extra after dinner eat some dessert, it's totally been working for me and I don't feel deprived and I don't feel like I'm on any diet at all!!!!

So other than the health benefits from the exercise I get from Hiking 5 miles a day, It really can be acheived as easily by walking maybe 2 miles a day. and maybe a 5 mile once a week.

I have lost 20lbs so far and it just scares me to eat more. I am not starving myself, I am eatting various fruit Veggies, chicken and fish in moderation. and having Medifast bars fro snacks. and 1% MIlk as a treat, I love milk. Fear being when I get to my goal weight, How to maintain and not gain back


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Ok, this is interesting to me; My MFP daily calorie limit is 1240; today's workouts burned 1175. I *did* supplement my intake (HAD to - I'm ravenous!) with a couple extra snacks (a banana, edamame and skim milk), but I'm still at a 600 calories deficit for the day.

Now I *was* excited about this deficit, felt good that I worked hard today, but now I'm concerned!

:drinker:

just be careful about eating back all your exercise calories if youre relying on the gym machines to tell you how many you have - ive recently started wearing a heart rate monitor (£25 from argos ) and its showing when the gym says ive burnt 500calories im actually only burning 300-350

I have a gazelle that tells me how many calories that I have burnt, so thats probably inaccurate right? Because I have so been going by that.

What sort of heart monitors do you have? Which ones are best?

And one last question if I'm suppose to have 1200 calories and I've been under that amount the past few days and my net is 800 I should be eating more ? (if my exercise calories are accurate that is). Thats a little confusing to me. But I sure dont want my body to go into starvation mode.

I'll check mine when I get home tonight and post up the model. I love it; picked it up for like $25, and it's been great. And while I'm not sure if ALL of them do, mine syncs to the machine at the gym - no need to place your hands on the sensors - it picks up your pulse rate from your HRM.