Eating Exercise Cals Slowing Your Weight loss? Read This.
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Thank you! I think that with the new year there are a lot of newbies (as well as old doubters). And with many (myself included) early stages of calories counting can induce some serious food fear! Undereating is no one's friend!0
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Excellent post and incredibly helpful. Thanks!0
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Just now finding this one. Always great info, AB! Thanks!0
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Thanks for posting, this was very helpful!0
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One thing I do wonder about is if everyone knows that the MFP exercise calories are high, why doesn't MFP lower them?
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@Accountant_boi: Once again, great info explained well.
@the community at large: For me personally, MFP accurately estimates not only my BMR, but my exercise calories, too. I don't know if it is because of my individual characteristics or if it is because MFP and I interpret my exercise effort and food quantities the same. I don't use a HRM because I matched my goals for nearly a year without it and it seems like too much work. Only within the last few weeks have I noticed that my weight loss has slowed, but then again, I am getting close to my goal. Maybe to tackle that last 10 to 20 pounds I will have to get a HRM.
And yes, I eat back my exercise calories, down to the very last one.0 -
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Wow! Thanks for this, Awesome job explaining, I needed it!....0
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I hate math, so I need people in my life that enjoy calculating things. What a great and informative post. Thank you!0
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Awesome post. Thanks for taking time to write it all out :-)0 -
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Thank you for taking the time to do this. This post is helpful to a lot of people. Have a wonderful weekend.0
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I am by no means a math person, so thank you for breaking this down in a way that I can understand.
I was trying to eat back evey single one of the 600+ calories my cheap HRM told me I burned. I also fall into the very petite range. My weight loss completely stalled. I've revamped this a bit and for the past couple weeks have been eating 250 of my exercise calories back, max. I've started losing weight again.0 -
One other thing some folks might not take into acoount - you may be building muscle, so your scale number will hardly budge. Be sure to get a bodyfat measurement, then you'll know if this is the case.
When I started lifting religiously, my weight loss practically stopped (2 lbs. in one month!?). BUT, my bodyfat % went down nearly 2% in one month, so I built muscle. I can certainly see it, and my measurements reflected it somewhat too (3 inches off waist, 1 inch off chest).
Since my goal is to get my bodyfat % down first, and lose lbs. second, I'm just fine with small numbers on the scale...Slow and steady wins the race in my case!0 -
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Great post. I've never even thought about subtracting my 'regularly burned' cals from my exercise burns. Since I eat back exercise cals, this could very well explain my extremely slow/almost non-existant weight loss - I'm eating back even more calories than I'm ACTUALLY burning through exercise!
I've now taken my normal daily caloric use and divided it up so that I know how many I typically burn per minute and can subtract these from whatever exercise I do, no matter how long the exercise is!0 -
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