Going to bed with 500 calories left to eat????

armywifeinpink
armywifeinpink Posts: 39
edited September 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
So I have been doing some serious calorie counting and working out and now I am getting to the point where I am burning more than what I am taking in.
If I still have over 500 calories to eat before I go to bed for the night do I need to eat those calories back even if I just had a good size diner and am full? If I dont do you think it would make much difference on not putting my body in starvation mode?
Thanks for the help!!

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  • luv2ash
    luv2ash Posts: 1,903 Member
    It'd be nice to see your diary--how many calories are you taking in? how many calories are you burning?is that a true burn? meaning are you wearing a HRM? Or relying on MFP's burn (which sucks) counts?
  • I highly doubt your intending to to do this nor am I saying that you have one, but exercising off all of the calories that you eat in one day is actually considered an eating disorder and very unhealthy. You should try to add more calories to your meals throughout the day. Think of the exercise your going to do and plan all your meals accordingly. :)
  • MamaLeague
    MamaLeague Posts: 148 Member
    See, on Tuesdays and Thursdays I take my aunts aerobic class that she teaches. It's on trampolines and an amazing workout and in about 60min, I burn between 600-750 calories. (according to my heart rate monitor)

    My problem is also having a large deficit on these days. Eating the calories back is one thing, but staying within my appropriate levels (most importantly for me: sodium) is another. Due to water retention and arthritis, I try my best to stay between 1500 and 2000.
  • Here's where My Fitness Pal and I disagree. My goal is to weigh 140 pounds. To get there, I'm eating 1400 calories -- on good days. :~þ (We're not going to discuss yesterday.) Because the calorie burns for different exercises are different for each body, and because deciding how active we REALLY are is so subjective, I see the 'eating your exercise calories' thing as a guideline. (There's a LOT of discussion about this concept around here!) It looks like you're averaging losing 5 lb a month which really isn't an over-the-top loss.

    As you get closer to your goal, that will probably slow down unless you adjust your calories to reflect your lowered poundage. Remember, it takes 3500 excess calories to add a pound, and a 3500 calorie deficit to lose one. I was taught that we weigh what we weigh because we eat the number of calories we need to be at that weight -- roughly 10 calories/pound. Women will lose weight if they eat 80% of that.

    Eating when you aren't hungry -- especially in the evening was probably one of the ways you got where you were. Starving ourselves isn't the answer, but re-learning what hunger feels like is something most of us who are overweight need to do.

    Your numbers look like you're doing something right. Nutrition isn't like accounting -- sometimes things just need to average out over the course of a week, not balance every day.

    Keep up the good work!
  • Yes, I do wear a heart rate monitor and go off of that. And I am usually only working out once a day. But when I eat, I eat chicken, and fish (my favsssss) and I love brocolli (strang I know) and for snacks its like gornola or fruit and I dont drink nothing but green tea and water.....I am never going hungry thats for sure, I do the whole eating every 2-3 hours, its just things like fruit and stuff that isnt giving me those extra calories.....even with the calories that I do burn off I eat anywhere from 1300-1500 calories with anywhere from 250-500 calories left at night......
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