Eating back exercise calories
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Shazr2
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Curious to know who eats back the calories that you've burned with exercise? I personally don't but just wondered who does
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I usually end up eating maybe 1/4 of them, I'm just not hungry so don't feel I need to eat more than that.0
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I use a Fitbit to calculate my exercise calories (since the only exercise I do is walking), and eat them all back, because I can barely stay in my calories as it is.0
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i use the TDEE method so i dont eat back any0
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I don't usually but if I'm hungry I will.
Or if I know I'm going out for a big meal/drinks/celebration I'll make sure I workout in the morning to compensate for the extra intake later in the day.0 -
Hardly ever track them, hardly ever eat them back. On the occasional very hungry day I will eat back some of them and log them so that my diary balances. I hate the seeing the red.
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Coming from my experience, it's better not to.0
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I usually add about 100 to my intake depends how hungry I feel0
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I used to.
Now I use the TDEE method and include them in my goal, which is simply a different form of eating them back that doesn't require logging.
IF you log accurately and are keeping an aggressive deficit and work out vigorously on top of that without eating more, that's a bad idea. The plans that don't involve eating back are different, as they should be based on an estimate of your overall activity already (or a less aggressive deficit).0 -
It depends how hungry I am, I try to eat intuitively. I usually eat back about 1/4 of them, but it varies - sometimes none, sometimes all. I often hoard them for use on the weekends.0
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I eat some of mine back. For me it's a good motivator to do some exercise, even if it's just a stroll, and I already have quite a big deficit. If it's several hundred, though, I only eat back half, otherwise it doesn't feel worth it.0
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It depends on your goals. I'm not trying to lose fat. I usually eat over all of calories almost everyday (not by a huge amount). I'm focused on strength; and I like to workout. I only track calories, b/c I log my food to track my protein intake.0
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ljones22903 wrote: »i use the TDEE method so i don't eat back any
Same here.0 -
Sometimes I eat back some of them if I am hungry and need it, but I usually don't. I more so track my exercise here to keep on track of how often/how long I am working out.0
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At least 50% of my exercise calories are eaten back. Since I cycle almost every day for gradually lengthening miles I don't want to empty the tank >30 miles from home.0
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I would eat back 50%-75% of my exercise calories while I was losing weight. Most of my exercise calories were from my half marathon training, so I needed to eat those back or my training would suffer. Now that I'm in maintenance and have a fitbit, I tend to eat back almost all of my exercise calories and it has been working for me.0
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I use the TDEE method instead. Too much work to figure out how many calories I burned and actuall guess correctly.
My adice to everyone is to eat depending on their results and not rely on the calculation after the first month...0 -
I try to eat back whatever will keep my net calories above 1200. On days that I run more than four miles, it's difficult, but I'm training for a half marathon, so I need that fuel.0
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100% of them. If I don't my workouts suffer.0
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Always! I am exercising to get in shape and to be able to eat a decent amount while dieting. I am trying to lose a specific amount of weight each week. If I quit eating back my exercise calories then I would lose too much weight.0
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I have 1500 daily calories which is enough for me to feel full. I exercise everyday but don't eat those calories back, I have been using MFP for 5 weeks and have lost 10 lbs so I am happy I am being healthy but will watch my losses to make sure I shouldn't eat some back0
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