Eating Excercise calories
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Ready2BFitMom
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What is the consensus on this? Do you eat them back, do you not? Does it depend on the type of excercise?
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The general rule of thumb is to eat half back.0
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There isn't a consensus. But MFP is designed for you to eat them back and if you can figure out how to calculate them accurately, you should eat all of them back. Since most of the tools seem to be reporting about twice as many calories burned as people are actually burning, it is probably better to only eat half of them.0
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MFP is setup for you to eat back your exercise calories....
Typically MFP is over estimated so the general advice is 50-75%...however if you are lucky like me...you can eat them all back and still lose weight.0 -
I usually try not to eat them back and save them for the weekend.0
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The machine this morning said that I lost 635 calories. I logged it in at 525 and plan on trying to eat back only about 300 of those. That way if I go a little over on the weekend I'm still good but the machines very much lie. If you have a machine that asks for weight/age input and has a HR monitor it's more accurate but still overestimates in my opinion... When I do it this way, though, and don't log in pedometer "calories" I find I still lose consistently and don't beat myself up over treats when they happen.0
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I don't generally eat them back. I stick to what I'm allocated.0
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My personal opinion is eat back 50% and adjust according to your rate of loss. So if you are losing faster than expected, eat back more.0
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I eat most of mine back, but I have a Fitbit and I find it to be pretty accurate.0
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I bank mine too. That way I will never go over for the week.0
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It does depend on the type of exercise if you're looking at strength training vs. cardio. If you're doing cardio and using MFP's estimates, eat back 50% for 4-6 weeks and see what happens with your weight loss.
Some people recommend to not eat back much, if anything, from calorie burns from strength training because they're grossly overestimated, even compared to cardio.
I have a Fitbit and have been eating back all the exercise calories it gives me and my weight loss has been spot on so far. I did just start strength training (I log all exercise in the Fitbit app) and I'm continuing to eat back all the calories so we'll see if it's estimating those well also.
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The problem I have is that on the days that I log my activity (I do most of my cardio at the gym; even if I'm active outside of it, I don't bother trying to measure out how long I've been walking when I'm just out and about) are not the days I want to eat more - it's usually the day after, if I've not gone to the gym that day too. So even if I can 'save' the calories and look at my CICO on a weekly basis instead, on my day-to-day the calories are going to be all over the place - which can be discouraging if I'm in the 'red' two-three days a week.
Those of you who 'save' your calories for the weekend, how do you deal with that? Have you reached a place where it's no longer discouraging?0 -
The problem I have is that on the days that I log my activity (I do most of my cardio at the gym; even if I'm active outside of it, I don't bother trying to measure out how long I've been walking when I'm just out and about) are not the days I want to eat more - it's usually the day after, if I've not gone to the gym that day too. So even if I can 'save' the calories and look at my CICO on a weekly basis instead, on my day-to-day the calories are going to be all over the place - which can be discouraging if I'm in the 'red' two-three days a week.
Those of you who 'save' your calories for the weekend, how do you deal with that? Have you reached a place where it's no longer discouraging?
On the MFP app, go to More, then Nutrition. You can view your calories for the week, along with a weekly average. For me, as long as my average is right around my goal, I'm OK with having a day or two in the red.
You can pay for premium and have different goals for each day, too, but I'm good with checking the graph in the app
You could try logging your exercise on a different day so the calories are there, too.
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I try not to eat them back0
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One of the main reasons I exercise is so I can eat more
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I don't bank mine and I generally eat a little more than half. I don't really trust the accuracy of the fitbit but MFP already has me at a deficit so eating back some would most likely keep me at a deficit. That being said, if I just don't feel like I need the extra calories, I won't eat them. Like today, for instance, MFP says I have around 1200 calories after logging breakfast and lunch. I earned around 677 calories. I probably will use very little if any, of the earned calories because I'm not very hungry. If I felt like I was starving, I would. I guess I listen to my body.0
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i ates them allz. lost 100 pounds that way.0
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I've always eaten them all. Through 50 pounds of weight loss, through 2 years of maintenance. And now through 2 bulk and cut cycles. It works.0
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i ates them allz. lost 100 pounds that way.MB_Positif wrote: »I've always eaten them all. Through 50 pounds of weight loss, through 2 years of maintenance. And now through 2 bulk and cut cycles. It works.
Great! Were you using apps to calculate your exercise, or typing exercises into MFP, or another way?0
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