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1) eat as much of it as you can until you feel full, then stop and at least wait a couple hours

2) try to include healthy calories instead of filling it with a giant burger or a box of ice cream cones

3) thanks for asking, I hope you see great results from eating back the calories! it works well for a large majority of us!

Some people will tell you that you don't have to eat the exercise calories. In my opinion you should. I eat most of mine and I feel great and I am losing a pound a week. It's important that your net calories don't go below 1,200 -- so if you burned 900 that means you should eat 2,100. If you go below 1,200 your metabolism will slow down and not burn the fat that you want it to.

When you talk about the 2,000 recommendation that is pre-exercise number -- yours is at 1,600. You need to fuel your body if you want it to help you burn 900 calories.

So I would eat some / most of your exercise calories.

Don't feel obligated to fill them all up. But even the "average" 2000 cal diet on nutrition labels is just an average. There are plenty of people (athletes, or people simply wanting to build muscle or maintain a larger frame) who eat more than 2000 cal and are healthy.

The only risk is that if you consistently go well under your calorie expenditure, you could put your system into "starvation mode," where it decreases the metabolism to hang onto your fat stores since you aren't getting enough (it's a throwback from defense mechanism of ancient ancestors so they could live longer until they found more food). The threshold for each person is different, but if you're within 500 cal of your goal, you'll probably be ok.

Make sure you get enough dairy in your diet. It's often overlooked, and can be a good way to add a few more calories. Whole grains are another good source, as are fruits. All these options also pack in the nutrients as well as a few extra calories.

I am really uneducated when it comes to eating back your exercise calories but I know that for me, I walk every night so that I have those extra calories. I really really really love food and I eat the calories back because I'm hungry. I try to leave a few but that's just for my mind, not because I know anything about the subject. I have lost weight doing this and I'm going to keep it up. Good luck!