Exercise & Calories
teeseeytopcat
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Hello folks . . . do you consume all, or some or none of the calories which are "given" to you when you exercise?
Thanks in advance.
Thanks in advance.
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Most do half, as to account for errors in over calculations on the burns.0
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Yeah, when I first started I kinda ate them all because I didn't log my weight training and figured it'd even out.
Now I don't eat them back because my deficit is not as high and I only do cardio like twice a week. Gives me a little room for errors-which I am for some reason constantly making these days.0 -
Dumb question. ... but why bother exercising if you're going to eat all the calories back that you burned??1
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Because your car use more gas when you drive longer and faster.....Same concept, you can't expect your body to function better without fuel.....Not that difficult.... ;-)christinev297 wrote: »Dumb question. ... but why bother exercising if you're going to eat all the calories back that you burned??
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christinev297 wrote: »Dumb question. ... but why bother exercising if you're going to eat all the calories back that you burned??
Because if you set MFP to a certain amount of calories, that's your deficit-if you burn more and eat them back, you're still at that same deficit. You can eat more if you exercise, good for the heart and soul and belly.0 -
Oh ok. Thanks guys xx0
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Sometimes I eat about half; sometimes I don't eat any. I feel MFP overestimates calories burned.
ETA: I do log my exercise though, just to have a record of what I've done and when.0 -
I log my exercise calories, but I rarely surpass my calorie intake goal. I don't freak out if I do, because I'm only human, but I don't really trust the numbers on here. There is no way I burn 600 calories at my job a McDonald's (ironic, I know), no matter how vigorous it may seem. It doesn't really seem possible. I just like to log my exercise and activity calories because I like the mathematical aspect of the whole "net calorie" concept.0
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I eat all of them except for 100 calories as a buffer against any inaccuracies. But, I do not use MFP exercise numbers. Rather, I use a Fitbit, which I find incredibly accurate. Based off of data collection of exercise, food, and weight over the last 6 months, I've lost (or not, oops, maintenance level eating) pretty much what the numbers predict I should have.0
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williams969 wrote: »I eat all of them except for 100 calories as a buffer against any inaccuracies. But, I do not use MFP exercise numbers. Rather, I use a Fitbit, which I find incredibly accurate. Based off of data collection of exercise, food, and weight over the last 6 months, I've lost (or not, oops, maintenance level eating) pretty much what the numbers predict I should have.
This is what I do as well, to account for anything my Flex may have picked up accidentally when I'm doing a lot of hands-on projects at work.0 -
teeseeytopcat wrote: »Hello folks . . . do you consume all, or some or none of the calories which are "given" to you when you exercise?
Thanks in advance.
I generally don't. I am not sure the counts are accurate, I am not psycho with hunger, and I am happy at the rate I am losing.
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I wear a heart rate monitor when I exercise, and eat back most, if not all, of my exercise calories.
I exercise because I like to eat.0 -
I don't eat them any back usually but I normally have one day a week I eat at maintenance calories. It still puts me at a deficit and I don't go over my weekly calories in order to lose 1 lb a week.0
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Yep, I eat them. I'm happier that way. That and when your exercising around 6hrs a week, 1400 calories isn't going to cut it. But, here's my break down:
I don't use MFP estimates. I have MFP set to Sedentary.
I have a Fitbit, which I use to give me (or take away) calories based on how active I am for the day. On days were, I'm truly sedentary my fitbit usually results in me losing like 100 calories. I could raise my MFP activity level, but then on days where I'm sick/lazy, I end up losing like 300 or so calories by the end of the day. Seeing that large of a negative adjustment makes me sad.
I log all my exercise on Fitbit. I let my fitbit decide my calories for walking/running and use a HRM for my exercise DVD's/youtube videos. I only log up to 80% of the calories my HRM gives me.
The only thing in my MFP exercise log is my Fitbit Adjustment (includes exercise & daily activity that I did above MFP's prediction).0 -
christinev297 wrote: »Dumb question. ... but why bother exercising if you're going to eat all the calories back that you burned??
So you can eat more and not feel deprived, yet still lose fat.
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For some of us, exercise isn't about losing weight. Exercise makes you feel better. It makes your brain function better. It improves you blood pressure. It gives you something to do. And yeah, it lets you eat more than you could if you didn't exercise. But I can see that for people whose hobby is losing weight, it doesn't make sense.christinev297 wrote: »Dumb question. ... but why bother exercising if you're going to eat all the calories back that you burned??
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Thanks to everyone for your input. 0
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I don't . I feel better after exercising, I do eat some of them back but not all.0
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I absolutely love working out!!! I wake up during the week at 4:30am...just to make sure that I can get in a full hour and half at the gym! It's my "me" time... I don't have to do anything for anyone, I don't have to answer to anyone...it's all about me!! And I love lifting...the feeling that I am getting stronger...it's a passion!! I think you truly have to enjoy it. Some people just never get that feeling....it's a shame really; working out makes me feel so awesome!! It's like an all day high!! lol! Yeah, I am kind of ate up with it.
As for my calories...most days I do eat them back...most of them. But....throughout the last few years...even when I have ate all my calories back...I felt good about it because I was weight training and although I may not be dropping lots of pounds...I am toning and turning a flabby body into a great work of art...
ok ok...I am done being excited about working out... (for the moment)....
Eat back your exercise calories...MFP sets you up with a deficient already... you will continue to lose weight even if you eat back all your calories from working out. But be honest about your calories...that is the problem with most people...they don't wear a hrm or accurately count their calories...
Best of luck to all of you!!!
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shadow2soul wrote: »Yep, I eat them. I'm happier that way. That and when your exercising around 6hrs a week, 1400 calories isn't going to cut it. But, here's my break down:
I don't use MFP estimates. I have MFP set to Sedentary.
I have a Fitbit, which I use to give me (or take away) calories based on how active I am for the day. On days were, I'm truly sedentary my fitbit usually results in me losing like 100 calories. I could raise my MFP activity level, but then on days where I'm sick/lazy, I end up losing like 300 or so calories by the end of the day. Seeing that large of a negative adjustment makes me sad.
I log all my exercise on Fitbit. I let my fitbit decide my calories for walking/running and use a HRM for my exercise DVD's/youtube videos. I only log up to 80% of the calories my HRM gives me.
The only thing in my MFP exercise log is my Fitbit Adjustment (includes exercise & daily activity that I did above MFP's prediction).
Actually I workout more than 6 hours a week (12+) and eat about 1400, but I am petite and dobnot /probably don't weigh as much ad you do. I am close to goal and still losing about 8 lbs/ month0 -
caracrawford1 wrote: »shadow2soul wrote: »Yep, I eat them. I'm happier that way. That and when your exercising around 6hrs a week, 1400 calories isn't going to cut it. But, here's my break down:
I don't use MFP estimates. I have MFP set to Sedentary.
I have a Fitbit, which I use to give me (or take away) calories based on how active I am for the day. On days were, I'm truly sedentary my fitbit usually results in me losing like 100 calories. I could raise my MFP activity level, but then on days where I'm sick/lazy, I end up losing like 300 or so calories by the end of the day. Seeing that large of a negative adjustment makes me sad.
I log all my exercise on Fitbit. I let my fitbit decide my calories for walking/running and use a HRM for my exercise DVD's/youtube videos. I only log up to 80% of the calories my HRM gives me.
The only thing in my MFP exercise log is my Fitbit Adjustment (includes exercise & daily activity that I did above MFP's prediction).
Actually I workout more than 6 hours a week (12+) and eat about 1400, but I am petite and dobnot /probably don't weigh as much ad you do. I am close to goal and still losing about 8 lbs/ month
Ya probably. You look thin in your profile pic. I'm in the high 160's currently. As for 8lbs a month, well I only want to lose about 4lbs per month. I'm hoping to maintain as much muscle as possible. Based on my estimated TDEE (from intake vs loss data) I would lose over 2lbs per week if I ate around 1400 calories (the math puts me at burning around 2600 calories per day). I discovered yesterday that I'm averaging close to 2lbs per week loss with an average intake of around 1800 calories (between 1200-1400 NET) and I need to up my calories a bit because I don't want fast weight loss.0 -
It depends on what I have planned the next day as the weather I eat into them significantly.
For example tomorrow I have a session with my Trainer and I have in the past been quite light on my calories the day before and seriously struggled to get through the hour to the point of nearly getting ejected out the back of a treadmill when I nearly fainted once. So tonight I ran 7 miles and will eat back about half those calories.
On normal days when I have a normal days training the day after I will only use them if I miscalculate my daily intake and then probably no more than 200 of them0 -
I don't eat back my exercise calories, however I do exercise away my excess calories. If what I plan to eat (or what I already ate) puts me over my calorie goal for the day, I adjust my exercise goals accordingly. I also compare what other online calories burned calculators give me for numbers for the exercise I do to get a more accurate idea of what I'm burning.0
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Depends on the day. Some days I don't eat any of the calories back and other days I treat myself to a small amount of ice cream or glass of wine with the calories I burned0
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daffodilsoup wrote: »I wear a heart rate monitor when I exercise, and eat back most, if not all, of my exercise calories.
I exercise because I like to eat.
This. Like others have said, I eat them back but leave a 100ish calorie buffer to account for possible errors. I've successfully been more or less at maintenance since the start of summer, so that seems to work, at least for me.
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I cut my exercise time in half when entering it into MFP. And then I allow myself to eat all of them back if I want to. Sometimes I'm just not hungry. I found if I don't eat them back, the next day I am "starving". I exercise a lot and consistently so my body is pretty happy eating around the same amount of calories per day.0
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if you use myfitnesspal's idea of calories you are supposed to eat all exercise calories.. (if say you have a heart rate monitor).. if you dont then id suggest some or half.. or looking up a closer idea of what you most likely burn during your exercise. i personally prefer the tdee method because then its already calculated in it and i dont have to stress over it.
here are some tdee websites.
http://scoobysworkshop.com/calorie-calculator/
http://iifym.com/iifym-calculator/0 -
shadow2soul wrote: »Yep, I eat them. I'm happier that way. That and when your exercising around 6hrs a week, 1400 calories isn't going to cut it. But, here's my break down:
I don't use MFP estimates. I have MFP set to Sedentary.
I have a Fitbit, which I use to give me (or take away) calories based on how active I am for the day. On days were, I'm truly sedentary my fitbit usually results in me losing like 100 calories. I could raise my MFP activity level, but then on days where I'm sick/lazy, I end up losing like 300 or so calories by the end of the day. Seeing that large of a negative adjustment makes me sad.
I log all my exercise on Fitbit. I let my fitbit decide my calories for walking/running and use a HRM for my exercise DVD's/youtube videos. I only log up to 80% of the calories my HRM gives me.
The only thing in my MFP exercise log is my Fitbit Adjustment (includes exercise & daily activity that I did above MFP's prediction).
Is there a way to set-up MFP or Fitbit to deduct calories if you're too sedentary a particular day?
Also if you a HRM (I have a Polar) do you take the Fitbit off while using the HRM?
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dunnodunno wrote: »shadow2soul wrote: »Yep, I eat them. I'm happier that way. That and when your exercising around 6hrs a week, 1400 calories isn't going to cut it. But, here's my break down:
I don't use MFP estimates. I have MFP set to Sedentary.
I have a Fitbit, which I use to give me (or take away) calories based on how active I am for the day. On days were, I'm truly sedentary my fitbit usually results in me losing like 100 calories. I could raise my MFP activity level, but then on days where I'm sick/lazy, I end up losing like 300 or so calories by the end of the day. Seeing that large of a negative adjustment makes me sad.
I log all my exercise on Fitbit. I let my fitbit decide my calories for walking/running and use a HRM for my exercise DVD's/youtube videos. I only log up to 80% of the calories my HRM gives me.
The only thing in my MFP exercise log is my Fitbit Adjustment (includes exercise & daily activity that I did above MFP's prediction).
Is there a way to set-up MFP or Fitbit to deduct calories if you're too sedentary a particular day?
Also if you a HRM (I have a Polar) do you take the Fitbit off while using the HRM?
If you go to your MFP Diary settings, click the box to enable negative adjustments. This will allow Fitbit to deduct calories if your not as active as MFP thinks you will be.
I leave it on. It doesn't matter one way or the other. When you log exercise calories (either here or on fitbit...your choice) you have to put in the start time and duration. It takes that information to overwrite whatever fitbit thought you burned during that time period. I can log say a 30 min walk for 1 calorie burn and fitbit even gets rid of my BMR for the time period I log it for. Since my HRM isn't the nicest, I start an activity record with my fitbit so I know the exact start time.
I'm also very likely to forget to put my fitbit back on if I take it off. I'm a tad bit scatter brained.0 -
shadow2soul wrote: »dunnodunno wrote: »shadow2soul wrote: »Yep, I eat them. I'm happier that way. That and when your exercising around 6hrs a week, 1400 calories isn't going to cut it. But, here's my break down:
I don't use MFP estimates. I have MFP set to Sedentary.
I have a Fitbit, which I use to give me (or take away) calories based on how active I am for the day. On days were, I'm truly sedentary my fitbit usually results in me losing like 100 calories. I could raise my MFP activity level, but then on days where I'm sick/lazy, I end up losing like 300 or so calories by the end of the day. Seeing that large of a negative adjustment makes me sad.
I log all my exercise on Fitbit. I let my fitbit decide my calories for walking/running and use a HRM for my exercise DVD's/youtube videos. I only log up to 80% of the calories my HRM gives me.
The only thing in my MFP exercise log is my Fitbit Adjustment (includes exercise & daily activity that I did above MFP's prediction).
Is there a way to set-up MFP or Fitbit to deduct calories if you're too sedentary a particular day?
Also if you use a HRM (I have a Polar) do you take the Fitbit off while using the HRM?
If you go to your MFP Diary settings, click the box to enable negative adjustments. This will allow Fitbit to deduct calories if your not as active as MFP thinks you will be.
I leave it on. It doesn't matter one way or the other. When you log exercise calories (either here or on fitbit...your choice) you have to put in the start time and duration. It takes that information to overwrite whatever fitbit thought you burned during that time period. I can log say a 30 min walk for 1 calorie burn and fitbit even gets rid of my BMR for the time period I log it for. Since my HRM isn't the nicest, I start an activity record with my fitbit so I know the exact start time.
I'm also very likely to forget to put my fitbit back on if I take it off. I'm a tad bit scatter brained.
Thanks for the reply. Will have to remember the time, calories, and duration of the exercise if I do use my HRM.0
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