eating exercise calories?

aodier · January 2009

im finding it really hard to eat excersice calories mostly because it seems like I am defeating the purpose of working out and losing weight. can someone help me out with understanding why we should eat those excersice calories after I have already eaten the recommended 1200? anything helps!

aodier · January 2009

im finding it really hard to eat excersice calories mostly because it seems like I am defeating the purpose of working out and losing weight. can someone help me out with understanding why we should eat those excersice calories after I have already eaten the recommended 1200? anything helps!

Jennnnnnnny · January 2009

i believe its because since MFP already gives you a lower amount of calories than you already were eating before if you dont eat your exercise calories than your body will go into starvation mode and it will be harder to lose weight..

i hope i helped:flowerforyou:

ohthatbambi · January 2009

have talked to TWO doctors about this and they both told me that eating all of your exercise calories should be my goal for maintenance...NOT for weight loss. While eating some of those calories may be necessary on some days, pending how intense your exercise routine is....the whole point of dieting is to shock your system into dropping pounds. Starvation is a bad idea. At 1240 calories a day I starve. I feel light headed, dizzy and just plain sick so I upped what MFP told me to consume to 1400. If I don't exercise at all I try to stay around this. If I do exercise, which is most days then I some more, but NEVER all of them. I wear a HRM with a chest strap so I feel like my calorie burn is fairly accurate. EX) Yesterday I burned over 1000 cals so I ate about 1900 calories. They were clean calories for the most part, but I was hungry so I ate.

I spent two months eating my "earned" calories in an attempt to make that concept work for me and I gained 10 pounds! I was heartbroken so I went and talked to two of my doctors and they changed my way of thinking and with that I had success.

I am a FIRM believer that EVERYONE'S body does NOT work the same way. There are some here who eat those calories and have had GREAT success. There are also some here who have tried and it didn't work. So my advice to you is TRY it for a few weeks and see what YOUR body needs. You know you better than anyone else. Listen to your body. It is probably MORE honest with you than anyone in the world. It won't lie and it will tell you what it needs!

GOOD LUCK!

aodier · January 2009

thanks!

aodier · January 2009

have talked to TWO doctors about this and they both told me that eating all of your exercise calories should be my goal for maintenance...NOT for weight loss. While eating some of those calories may be necessary on some days, pending how intense your exercise routine is....the whole point of dieting is to shock your system into dropping pounds. Starvation is a bad idea. At 1240 calories a day I starve. I feel light headed, dizzy and just plain sick so I upped what MFP told me to consume to 1400. If I don't exercise at all I try to stay around this. If I do exercise, which is most days then I some more, but NEVER all of them. I wear a HRM with a chest strap so I feel like my calorie burn is fairly accurate. EX) Yesterday I burned over 1000 cals so I ate about 1900 calories. They were clean calories for the most part, but I was hungry so I ate.

I spent two months eating my "earned" calories in an attempt to make that concept work for me and I gained 10 pounds! I was heartbroken so I went and talked to two of my doctors and they changed my way of thinking and with that I had success.

I am a FIRM believer that EVERYONE'S body does NOT work the same way. There are some here who eat those calories and have had GREAT success. There are also some here who have tried and it didn't work. So my advice to you is TRY it for a few weeks and see what YOUR body needs. You know you better than anyone else. Listen to your body. It is probably MORE honest with you than anyone in the world. It won't lie and it will tell you what it needs!

GOOD LUCK!

thanks for the advice! I will definatley have to try different things. so far I have only been doing this for 5 days so I will have to see where it goes!

kerrilucko · January 2009

have talked to TWO doctors about this and they both told me that eating all of your exercise calories should be my goal for maintenance...NOT for weight loss. While eating some of those calories may be necessary on some days, pending how intense your exercise routine is....the whole point of dieting is to shock your system into dropping pounds. Starvation is a bad idea. At 1240 calories a day I starve. I feel light headed, dizzy and just plain sick so I upped what MFP told me to consume to 1400. If I don't exercise at all I try to stay around this. If I do exercise, which is most days then I some more, but NEVER all of them. I wear a HRM with a chest strap so I feel like my calorie burn is fairly accurate. EX) Yesterday I burned over 1000 cals so I ate about 1900 calories. They were clean calories for the most part, but I was hungry so I ate.

I spent two months eating my "earned" calories in an attempt to make that concept work for me and I gained 10 pounds! I was heartbroken so I went and talked to two of my doctors and they changed my way of thinking and with that I had success.

I am a FIRM believer that EVERYONE'S body does NOT work the same way. There are some here who eat those calories and have had GREAT success. There are also some here who have tried and it didn't work. So my advice to you is TRY it for a few weeks and see what YOUR body needs. You know you better than anyone else. Listen to your body. It is probably MORE honest with you than anyone in the world. It won't lie and it will tell you what it needs!

GOOD LUCK!

Yes, eating excercise calories is the goal for maintenance IF you are eating at a maintenace number. For example at my current weight, I should be eating 1800 calories to maintain. If I work out and burn say....... 400 calories, I should then eat 2200 calories to maintain. Now if I want to lose weight, I shouldn't eat those calories back at all, I should just eat the 1800 and put myself at that 400 calorie deficit. Now, what MPF does, is it automatically generates a deficit for me. SO instead of being told to eat 1800 calories, I'm told to eat 1400 instead. There, now my deficit is already built in. If I work out and burn 400 calories now, my net calories are way down at 1000 which is much to low and quite unhealthy, so I get to eat back that 400 that I burned off (and no, this doesn't make excercise pointless because I'm still toning, and increasing my cardiovascular fitness.)
It all depends on what your goal is. If you want to be healthy, lose slowly, and maintain in the future, follow MFP's plan, it works. If you want to lose quickly, well... then your body will suffer in the long run.

ps- I've talked to a doctor too and he loved the idea of MFP, agreed with eating exercise cals in this context and congratulated me on being down more than 50 lbs. I don't know if I could trust a doctor that doesn't understand simple mathematics.:flowerforyou: good luck!

eating exercise calories?

Replies

Categories