Eating back calories
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sonyambrown510
Posts: 30
Just curious to see how many of you eat back your exercise/steps calories?
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I do not - but I set my base calories higher to account for that.0
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I was told I should eat back about half.0
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I used to and lost just fine doing so (I ate back about 75%, but it somewhat depended on the activity). Now I use the method where I estimate and average them into my calories in advance so eat a higher base.0
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I eat most of them back. If you add exercise, I would set your basic calculation to sedentary, so you're not counting activity twice.0
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i eat my exercise calories back a few days of the week either half or all of them0
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I'm set to "Light Activity" on my profile and I just eat back my calories. I may switch to eating back only half as that sounds good too; but there is no way I could ignore 800+ calories burnt after a solid run and then make it through my day as if I don't need to recover them...0
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Depends on if you can rely on the accuracy of the calculated calories. But I don't eat back...its all a net loss0
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I do not eat back my exercise calories on a regular basis. However, if I do happen to eat some back I don't fret.0
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I had a hard time losing weight when I wasn't eating back the majority of my calories. I have my profile set to sedentary, then I use a personal tracker to add in all my exercise from work (I work retail, so I'm constantly on my feet), and exercising. I would STARVE if I didn't eat back at least half of them.0
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I don't believe anything is 100% accurate (I even use a bodymedia fit to track everything I do) so if I'm hungry...I eat. Simple as that. I don't gorge myself daily.0
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I didn't. Burned out. Stopped. Do now. Feel BETTER!0
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i eat back half,sometimes more if im still hungry0
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I set my daily calories to higher and then I just count all exercise as 1 calorie. I don't like the mentality of "eating back" the calories.0
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If you're using MFP's NEAT method, you are recommended to eat back at least 50% of your exercise calories (due to the overestimated burn amounts). If you had a HRM, you could remedy that and eat back what you burned according to that.
If you go by the TDEE-20% method, you don't eat back exercise calories because all of your burned calories are included in the total amount of calories you eat a day. This is preferable for a lot of people because it takes a lot of guesswork out of the equation. Here is a helpful link about that.0 -
I decided to give NEAT a shot for the heck of it and currently eating half. I'm using Fitocracy to get my numbers though.0
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BBeccaJean wrote: »I eat most of them back. If you add exercise, I would set your basic calculation to sedentary, so you're not counting activity twice.
Not recommended. Sedentary means you literally do nothing at all.0 -
I eat back at least half. Let's say you have your calories set to 1500 a day and burn about 500 then you are netting only 1,000 calories for that day which to me is way too low.0
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I use TDEE method, so no.0
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