In Place Of A Road Map 3/2013

hi heybales,

what is the harm in me eating some or all of my exercise calories? will that mean i will just gain or maintain? or will i still lose, just not much?

TDEE include exercise (unless doing it differently).
You eat that with deficit.

You exercise and log it.
You eat that too.

You at best removed some of your deficit, but at worst more likely just ate back your deficit and are in surplus.

Question - this roadmap is tremendously helpful. I readjusted to 1600 a day from 1200 a day. I think I am still spinning on defining level of activity - I read that unless you are absolutely not moving around during the day, to look at "light."

When I calc my TDEE I get:

1847 - desk job
2116 - light activity

Then less 20% to lose weight, I get:

1478 - desk
1693 - light

My job is desk but I am not STILL all day - huge corporation, I can log 5-7K steps a day on my pedometer plus shuffling kids and such every day.

I selected 1600 as I took the advice of not logging sedentary to heart unless you are just not moving all day - with the warmer weather I am now able to get out on weekends and do long bike rides or trail walks but that is the real extent to my working out.

I guess I am looking to clarify level of activity - mainly b/c if "desk" is more accurate then I am eating a bit above my 20% deduction at 1600...............

I take my #'s to be that in general, I should probably eat between 1478 (desk) and 1693 (light) to lose weight. Then once I hit my goal, if I go back to Fat 2 Fit and plug in that true goal weight #, I would eat between 1638 (desk) and 1877 (light) to maintain.........

So bottom line, do you consider that sedentary level for desk jobs or do I follow that statement in this original post of never logging that unless you truly are in bed all day and not moving??? I just want my readjusted #'s to be as close to accurate as possible and of course, plan to monitor over the next few weeks - thanks all!

hi heybales,

what is the harm in me eating some or all of my exercise calories? will that mean i will just gain or maintain? or will i still lose, just not much?

TDEE include exercise (unless doing it differently).
You eat that with deficit.

You exercise and log it.
You eat that too.

You at best removed some of your deficit, but at worst more likely just ate back your deficit and are in surplus.

what is the harm in me eating some or all of my exercise calories? will that mean i will just gain or maintain? or will i still lose, just not much?

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not sure i follow you.

just to clarify, basis moderately active i.e. i am currently exercising 5 days a week for about 50 - 60 mins each, my tdee less 20 % is just over 1800 calories. so far i have not been eating my exercise calories so am netting about 1800, except for yesterday which was my rest day when i went a little bit over and net little over 1900. am i doing something wrong? my understanding was that i shouldnt be touching my exercise calories as they are already factored in my tdee calculation however i am finding your msg abit conflicting. pls clarify.