Is it possible to lose weight in the long run while increasing exercise and eating back the calories

i eat back most of mine and have lost 73 pounds.

BUT it all depends on your deficit, and how accurate you are with logging (both food and exercise)

if the scale is not you friend yet, you need to reevaluate your food logging and how many calories you are eating back.

Yes, I have increased my exercise quite a bit, eat back about 75% of the extra calories and have had success.

I have increased my exercise as a part of the whole process here, but as others have mentioned, I rarely eat all my exercise calories back ... usually somewhere between 50% and 75%.

I also estimate my calories burned on the low side. If I ride my bicycle on the trainer, I log it as the lightest stationary bike option available even if I spend my time doing rather intense commercial intervals. If I ride outside, I select the 16-19 km/h speed no matter what speed I really do. I round my times down so that if I walk for 39 minutes, I'll round down to 35.

And I've lost 26 kg that way.

I started a quite active job last year in April which increased my activity level by quite a lot. I also started doing cardio + weight training at the gym in August about 2-3 times a week. I still go to the gym now.

In all the time since I changed my activity levels, I haven't really changed what I was eating. I did lose some of my appetite and lost some of my desire to eat as much as more weight dropped off. But that's probably because the amount of calories my body needed became lower as I lost more weight.

But since the 1st April 2015, I've lost about 46 lbs. I haven't lost anything since the start of December because I've been indulging a little too much and stopped logging for a few weeks.

Yes, it can be done. If you REALLY like food so much that you can't give it up, becoming more active will help. Even if it doesn't help you lose weight, you'll become fitter as time goes on which is a nice bonus.

Your diet is the biggest contributor to your weight. A 30-minute run burning like 400-700 calories (I can't be precise there) can so easily be eaten back. Personally, I like eating. And I know that I'll need to control some of the things I eat from this point if I want to keep losing more weight. But I'm a lot fitter now even if I am still over 230 lbs.

chooklady wrote: »

I'd like to hear from anyone who has increased their exercise at the same time as watching mfp calories, eating back most of their exercise calories. I am pleased with my healthier lifestyle and diet but the scale is not my friend, yet.

I have personally played around with this question myself. At first I didn't eat back none of my burned cals from exercise. Then, I found myself extremely hungry and tempted to binge. Then I opted for adding back in only 50% of my exercise burned cals and I still found myself struggling. So, I ultimately just eat back all my burned cals from exercise now and it has worked for me. In fact, I stepped on the scale this morning and I had lost another pound since 3 days ago! So, with that said..IF you are really good at entering the cals from food accurately, then yet-by all means...eat back your burned cals from exercise and you will still lose weight. If, however; you don't log your food and or exercise properly then you may find you have trouble. ME-I'm really anal about my cals so I always over estimate my food cals and underestimate my exercise cals. So, if I eat a apple and it says 80 cals for a medium apple. I always enter the large apple on MFP and over estimate it! If my app says I burned 500 cals doing a 75 minute walk, then I usually enter about 450 cals. It's just a safety net for me. You will find what works best for YOU. Hope this helps! Add me if you like!

If I am hungry I will eat back my exercise calories. If i'm not hungry then I don't eat them back.
Listen to your body, If it needs fuel then eat.

I sort of eat back my exercise calories. My activity is built into my daily goal, but on days where I have schedules a longer/more intense workout, I increase my daily goal by a couple hundred calories. I got to this point through a lot of experimenting and seeing how I felt. This works best for me.

However, in the past I have also achieved losses by following MFP guidelines for calorie intake and then eating back all of my exercise calories.

Seriously, do whatever works for you.

I use TDEE so I eat the same amount every day regardless of exercise, and my eating back is built in. I went from C25k, to 10k, to half marathon, and added strength training. I didn't change my calorie intake, so I left my activity calculation at moderate. There were days when I was going to die if I didn't eat more, like after 11 mile runs, so I would eat maintenance or a little more on that particular day.

I lost 60lbs this way.