EXERCISE/FOOD CALORIES. STILL BAFFLED NEED ADVICE

queenstatus
queenstatus Posts: 267 Member
edited September 25 in Health and Weight Loss
Ok I know that you are suppose to eat all of your exercise. Calories but what do you do when they are too many to eat. Lately. I haven't been to the gym because last week when I walked and went. To the gym. There was way too many calories to eat to back. I want to walk and go to the gym but I don't want to jeopardize. My weightloss. What to do?

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  • Mindful_Trent
    Mindful_Trent Posts: 3,954 Member
    I wouldn't worry about eating back 100% of them, but you should be eating back a good chunk. Plan ahead - on days you plan on working out, eat a bigger meal for all your meals - dont' save your exercise calories for after the workout. It's not hard to add 100-200 calories to each meal, and 50-100 calories to snacks. Working them in throughout the day makes it super easy.

    For example, I only have 100 calories (or so) left for the day today and haven't had dinner, but I'm going to be working out (was planning on it), so will earn enough exercise calories to have a good dinner. If I weren't going to workout, I would've had a smaller lunch.
  • NanoReefDiver
    NanoReefDiver Posts: 153
    Plan them in to the day. I always plan the day the night before. Today, for example, I knew I would have time to work out so I planned meals that put me about 300-something calories over. It's easy to put them in through the day. Add some extra snacks, put on a second tablespoon of peanut butter, keep nuts around, add an extra side.... much easier than throwing in tons of calories at the end of the day!
  • kao708
    kao708 Posts: 813 Member
    You don't have to eat them all back. That theory doesn't always work for everyone so eat what you can and see what happens.
  • stanvoodoo
    stanvoodoo Posts: 1,023 Member
    I think the main issue is not going below 1200 calories per day.
  • dawnna76
    dawnna76 Posts: 987 Member
    you dont have to eat them all back. just make sure you net at least 1200 at the end of the day after fatoring your exercise.

    Like I am allowed 1600 a day. I generally burn dont always east them all back and usually end my day around 1450 net calories.
  • fitness_warrior83
    fitness_warrior83 Posts: 8
    If you want to lose about a pound a week, you should have a 500 calorie deficit everyday. That means that you're burning 500 calories more than you're consuming. It dont mean eat all your exercise calories back. For example, yesterday my bodybugg told me that from midnight to 11:59 pm on Wednesday, I burned a total of 2100 calories. That includes sitting, cleaning, my workouts, sleeping, etc. My goal would be to eat 1600 calories to have that 500 calorie deficit. If you want to lose more than one pound a week then your deficit should be more than 500. It helps if you have some sort of heart rate monitor or something that counts the calories you are burning.
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