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Do you eat calories you burn off?

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  • UnknownAX0
    UnknownAX0 Posts: 24 Member
    i try not to and i used to do cardio for 2 hour/day but if was feeling too hungry then i would eat half my exercise calories back
  • mwyvr
    mwyvr Posts: 1,883 Member
    I'm finding I do not eat them all back but tend to leave a couple hundred calories in the green on significant exercise days. I seem to have sufficient energy for exercise and I figure I probably make calorie in estimation mistakes from time to time. I plan on continuing this approach as long as the appears to be tracking my 1kg/week loss objective.
  • leslieanneupton
    leslieanneupton Posts: 6 Member
    I will sometimes if I'm feeling snacky. Mostly I try not to because I'm always anxious I'm not burning as many calories as my fitbit/MFP says I am. That being said if I worked out, got some calories in the bank and I want a little late night snack, I go for it.
  • Ciler_80
    Ciler_80 Posts: 106 Member
    This.
    sandsofarabia wrote: »
    No not really. Especially since I have no idea how accurate those "calories burned" on the tredmil and other machines actually are. I use exercise as a metabolism booster and to keep myself active/in-shape but all my calorie deficient is based on my diet alone.

  • pcrucifer
    pcrucifer Posts: 71 Member
    I do, but not all of them, usually. Looking back, I am usually about 1000 calories per week under my MFP target, and I am losing weight at the target rate. This suggests that either my counting calories is not exact enough or MFP overestimates calories burned in exercise. All told I am probably eating back 50% - 66% of my exercise.
  • jkal1979
    jkal1979 Posts: 1,896 Member
    I eat a portion of them back. My personal rule is to make sure that I net at least 1200 calories a day (my daily goal is 1460).
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