Eating your exercise

menyeca71
menyeca71 Posts: 30
edited November 15 in Health and Weight Loss
would like to get a feel for how many people eat their earned exercise calories?
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  • janejellyroll
    janejellyroll Posts: 25,763 Member
    I eat most of them.
  • ana3067
    ana3067 Posts: 5,623 Member
    I do by default because I do TDEE method. When I did neat method I ate them back on work out days.
  • CharlieBeansmomTracey
    CharlieBeansmomTracey Posts: 7,682 Member
    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 back
  • AmyRhubarb
    AmyRhubarb Posts: 6,890 Member
    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.
  • MysticRealm
    MysticRealm Posts: 1,264 Member
    I do TDEE method as well so, by default, I also eat them back.
  • LITtlerMeCO
    LITtlerMeCO Posts: 130 Member
    I do, especially on days I lift.
  • wishiwasarunner
    wishiwasarunner Posts: 202 Member
    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 overestimation
  • mudmonkeyonwheels
    mudmonkeyonwheels Posts: 426 Member
    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.
  • arditarose
    arditarose Posts: 15,573 Member
    I eat them back, and then some. Perhaps not on the same day I exercise, but at some point during the week.
  • TimothyFish
    TimothyFish Posts: 4,925 Member
    I eat them back, but I leave out a few to account for overlap with BMR and to make up for logging food incorrectly.
  • BWBTrish
    BWBTrish Posts: 2,817 Member
    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
  • Liftng4Lis
    Liftng4Lis Posts: 15,151 Member
    A portion of them.
  • toni632015
    toni632015 Posts: 1
    What is TDEE? :\ thank you
  • AmyRhubarb
    AmyRhubarb Posts: 6,890 Member
    edited March 2015
    toni632015 wrote: »
    What is TDEE? :\ thank you
    TDEE is Total Daily Energy Expenditure - or the number of cals the body burns all day long in a 24 hour period - sleeping, working, walking, watching tv, exercise, brushing your teeth, etc.

    Great info here: In Place of a Road Map
  • minties82
    minties82 Posts: 907 Member
    I eat 30-50% percent back.
  • kpw818
    kpw818 Posts: 113 Member
    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.
  • helenbenzie75
    helenbenzie75 Posts: 95 Member
    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. :smile:
  • azulvioleta6
    azulvioleta6 Posts: 4,195 Member
    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.
  • sijomial
    sijomial Posts: 19,809 Member
    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?
  • amusedmonkey
    amusedmonkey Posts: 10,330 Member
    I eat every single calorie of them back. If I don't eat all of it one day I bank it for later.
  • hhnkhl
    hhnkhl Posts: 231 Member
    I stick with the regular routine regardless of the activity.
  • brocej
    brocej Posts: 24 Member
    Nope. I eat (BMR * 1.35) * 0.75 everyday regardless of how much exercise I do.
  • lauracups
    lauracups Posts: 533 Member
    It varies by the day. If I have done a lot of cardio and weights and had a busy active day I will have most those calories back IF I have the appetite increase too. When I log my workouts I've already cut it in half from what mfp said I burned. I try to plan ahead as much as possible if I know what type of food I'll be having at a social event etc. After a while it becomes habit.
  • pinkteapot3
    pinkteapot3 Posts: 157 Member
    edited March 2015
    I just do MFP the way it was designed - using the cal goal it gives me and not worrying about TDEE, BMR or any of the other acronyms on here that confuse me. I eat 100% of my exercise cals and have lost 11lbs in 11 weeks, with it set to a goal of 1lb per week.

    I do log both food and exercise with an OCD level of accuracy. All food is weighed, and for exercise I only log my running and cycling. I use apps to record my running and bike rides, so I know the exact speed and time and can log accordingly. If I do something like walk to the local shop (2 mins away) or do a bit of weeding in the garden, I don't log that. Things that don't even raise the heart rate.
  • callsitlikeiseeit
    callsitlikeiseeit Posts: 8,626 Member
    when i was at 1200 cals i ate them all back. i was hungry. so hungry. LOL

    upped to 1500 and now (am not hungry LOL!) and will eat back if i am hungry or want a treat but thats about it.
  • RoxieDawn
    RoxieDawn Posts: 15,488 Member
    Pretty simple, eat some of them or all of them if you need them.

    Deficit= weight loss.
  • rebeccahunt718
    rebeccahunt718 Posts: 48 Member
    I try not to because I read an article stating most people tend to underestimate calories eaten and overestimate calories burned. The only exercise calories I count on MPF are what my fitbit calculates. I try to keep myself in a deficit with that and not eat back those calories. However, if I go over my 1200 calorie goal for the day by +/- 100 calories, I don't kick myself over it.

    Good luck on your weight loss goals!
  • WeddedBliss1992
    WeddedBliss1992 Posts: 414 Member
    i do not. i don't even log exercise.
  • SuzyH
    SuzyH Posts: 196 Member
    My most successful weight loss was not even counting the calories burned from exercising. However, (I fell off the wagon!), this time around I log the exercise because I like to see it, but try to keep really close to the calories before exercise. There are days, though, when I am really hungry that I allow myself to eat some of the calories back. Weight loss for me is better, however, not eating the calories back.

  • ana3067
    ana3067 Posts: 5,623 Member
    kpw818 wrote: »
    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.

    If you've only just recently increased to 1800 after eating much lower than this, you're probably just adjusting to it. I wasn't losing on a calorie goal that was LOWER than what I was losing weight on last month - stalls, adjustments, etc all happen. So you need to give it a month or so to see if you lose at all (I don't always follow thsi advice, but I've been doing TDEE for a while now and I've decided I want to lose a bit faster than 0.5lb/week so I lowered my calories a bit again)
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