Eating your exercise
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menyeca71
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would like to get a feel for how many people eat their earned exercise calories?
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I eat most of them.0
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I do by default because I do TDEE method. When I did neat method I ate them back on work out days.0
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I eat 50-75 percent. depending on how hungry I am afterward. sometimes I eat less than 50% but I always make sure I eat something back0
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My goal is to eat as many calories as I can and still lose weight. Like ana3067, I also do the TDEE method, so I know my upper and lower calorie limits. My daily goal is 2000 cals, but I know I can go a bit higher if I want to and I'll still come in under maintenance cals and I won't gain.0
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I do TDEE method as well so, by default, I also eat them back.0
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I do, especially on days I lift.0
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I eat as many as I need/want to feel satisfied. Usually, I try to leave the majority of them uneaten - but some days I may exercise only to make up for a higher calorie day and so end up eating back all of them. You have to be careful how you are measuring them if you want to eat them back though. Be aware that MFP tends to dramatically overestimate the amount you burn on certain activities. IF you are relying on that calorie burn and eat it all back, you may find that you are not really at a deficit at all any more due to overestimation0
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I do. I will normally eat most of them back as my goal net is 1200-1400 anyway so I wouldn't want to go below that.0
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I eat them back, and then some. Perhaps not on the same day I exercise, but at some point during the week.0
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I eat them back, but I leave out a few to account for overlap with BMR and to make up for logging food incorrectly.0
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TimothyFish wrote: »I eat them back, but I leave out a few to account for overlap with BMR and to make up for logging food incorrectly.
For the same reason i eat 25% back of my exercise calories
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A portion of them.0
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What is TDEE? thank you0
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toni632015 wrote: »What is TDEE? thank you
Great info here: In Place of a Road Map
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I eat 30-50% percent back.0
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I do TDEE, eat 1800 daily, and don't log exercise. Partially an experiment, to see if I need to eat more/less. So far its maintenance or just under. I tried to figure in calories burned exercising, and I think I figured too low.
But, this seems to be working overall. I'm not wanting to really eat more than that most days.0 -
arditarose wrote: »I eat them back, and then some. Perhaps not on the same day I exercise, but at some point during the week.
Yep in the same, I had 200 calories left over yesterday. If I need then during the week they are there for me to use if I don't then it helps my weight loss more.0 -
I do not eat them back unless I have burned 1500+ calories. That seems to be the point at which exercise starts to make me hungrier and I need a couple hundred extra calories.
I have some unique health/metabolic issues. Most people probably should eat back a significant portion of their exercise calories, but that does not work for me.0 -
Yes - the ones you have earned taste the best.
You will have to account for them when you get to goal weight so why not while you are losing?0 -
I eat every single calorie of them back. If I don't eat all of it one day I bank it for later.0
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