calories burned: to eat or not to ??

adalton6
adalton6 Posts: 204 Member
edited September 28 in Food and Nutrition
I am confused on the calories that you burn with exercise..... do you eat them back or not? If I do no eat some of them back my calorie tracker tells me I am putting my body into starvatio mode because I am eating to few calories. I just dont understand. Can anyone give me some advice?

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  • taso42_DELETED
    taso42_DELETED Posts: 3,394 Member
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  • Pandorian
    Pandorian Posts: 2,055 Member
    MFP has a program that gives you calories that will give you your chosen rate of loss without doing ANY exercise. As part of this program when you exercise it is intended that you eat back your exercise calories to keep your deficit at the safe and sustainable rate of loss (0.5 1...1.5 or 2 lbs per week)

    So eat 'em back.
  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,420 Member
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  • smithda86
    smithda86 Posts: 10
    depends... if u r not hungry then why eat? long as u keep it reasonable ie not below 1000 cal per day
  • alexia_faith
    alexia_faith Posts: 32 Member
    If you search this topic there are like a million people who asked this same question

    My personal veiw on it is eat a percentage of them back, MFP over eastimates the amount you've burned.

    Starvation mode kicks in if your food in (before exercise) is under 1200

    As long as your food in figure is above 1200 then it stops that issue

    Ideally you ought to be eating back at least 1/2 of those exercise cal, as your body needs to eat back some of the energy it just burnt, otherwise your metabolism slows down and you stop losing


    Thats what I found out from asking the same question, and it seems to be the general end result of most of the same topic threads on here


    Every one is different tho ... you may find that eating back more/less than 1/2 those cals works for you

    Best of luck with your weight loss journey
  • kimmerroze
    kimmerroze Posts: 1,330 Member
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  • erickirb
    erickirb Posts: 12,294 Member
    depends... if u r not hungry then why eat? long as u keep it reasonable ie not below 1000 cal per day

    If you only eat 1000 but burn 600 in they gym will not cut it, that would be like eating 400 and not working out (1000-600). Hunger is not the best indication of nutritional requirements. You should eat 1200 Net at the very least (1200 plus what you burn from exercise)

    So if your daily goal is 1400 and you burn 400, you should eat 1800 (1400+400) to meet your caloric deficit goal, but it would be fine if you only at 1600 (1200+400), and have a slightly larger deficit for the day. But the 1600 should be seen as a minimum, not a goal the goal would be 1800.
  • adalton6
    adalton6 Posts: 204 Member
    http://shouldieatmyexercisecalories.com - Free for a limited time!
    That was awesome! THANKS!!!
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