If you burn more than your eat is it unhealthy

CallDaBoss
CallDaBoss Posts: 49 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
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  • maggiewashere
    maggiewashere Posts: 1 Member
    I think it depends on how much you eat
  • macgurlnet
    macgurlnet Posts: 1,946 Member
    edited January 2016
    Well...that's how you lose weight.

    I'm going to take a guess and say you're talking about going to the gym/working out and burning more calories there than you eat? That's not a good thing.

    You burn calories just by existing. You don't need to spend hours in the gym racking up calorie burns to lose weight.

    The calorie goal you get on MFP is based on the calories you burn by existing, plus some extra based on the activity level you pick (also determined by height, current weight, and desired rate of loss). You need to eat up to this goal at the least.

    From there, you add in those exercise calories and eat a portion of them back.

    Does that help?

    ~Lyssa
  • Machka9
    Machka9 Posts: 25,611 Member
    You lose weight by burning more than you eat.

    CI < CO

    Calories in < Calories out
  • Ninkyou
    Ninkyou Posts: 6,666 Member
    Depends on how much you're eating and how many you're burning.
  • Colorscheme
    Colorscheme Posts: 1,179 Member
    If you burn more than you eat? as in you eat 1500 cals and burn all that off then yes. If you eat at a slight deficit, no that isn't bad.
  • Josh_lol
    Josh_lol Posts: 317 Member
    I wouldn't recommend eating less than your total gym burns. Your body already uses energy just for doing nothing. You need to find foods and exercises that you can do all the time or add into your daily routine. That way, it won't become boring and you'll have a better chance of sustaining a deficit in the long-term.
  • Shawnrivas
    Shawnrivas Posts: 7 Member
    You can find calculators even on the site that based on what wait your goal is will tell you how much to eat. Just burn a 1,000 difference and you'll be fine. Get a Wahoo Heart Rate Monitor works with Android and Apple and wear it when you exercise. It will upload from the app icardio/digifit and post to myfitnesspal.
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  • WinoGelato
    WinoGelato Posts: 13,454 Member
    Shawnrivas wrote: »
    You can find calculators even on the site that based on what wait your goal is will tell you how much to eat. Just burn a 1,000 difference and you'll be fine. Get a Wahoo Heart Rate Monitor works with Android and Apple and wear it when you exercise. It will upload from the app icardio/digifit and post to myfitnesspal.

    This is the second time I've seen you give this advice. A 1000 calorie deficit is not appropriate or healthy for many people. Losing 2 lbs/week would be far too aggressive for many people and could result in loss of lean muscle, fatigue, lack of nutrients, etc. Please stop giving blanket advice to people.
  • brianpperkins
    brianpperkins Posts: 6,124 Member
    Shawnrivas wrote: »
    You can find calculators even on the site that based on what wait your goal is will tell you how much to eat. Just burn a 1,000 difference and you'll be fine. Get a Wahoo Heart Rate Monitor works with Android and Apple and wear it when you exercise. It will upload from the app icardio/digifit and post to myfitnesspal.

    HRMs are only near accurate for a narrow range of activities. 1000 calorie deficits are not a one size fits all proposition.
  • DeniseDinsmoor
    DeniseDinsmoor Posts: 1 Member
    I thought I could accelerate my weight loss by increasing my calorie deficit. Quite the opposite happened. My body retaliated and I hit a plateau. There is truth to "too much of a good thing." Too much activity without increasing your calories is not healthy from what I have been told.
  • ndj1979
    ndj1979 Posts: 29,136 Member
    DeniseDinsmoor wrote: »
    I thought I could accelerate my weight loss by increasing my calorie deficit. Quite the opposite happened. My body retaliated and I hit a plateau. There is truth to "too much of a good thing." Too much activity without increasing your calories is not healthy from what I have been told.

    sorry that is a myth. If you are in a 1000 calorie deficit you are not just to start gaining or not losing weight….if that was the case people could never die from starvation ...

    see minnesota starvation study.
  • 20yearsyounger
    20yearsyounger Posts: 1,630 Member
    ndj1979 wrote: »
    DeniseDinsmoor wrote: »
    I thought I could accelerate my weight loss by increasing my calorie deficit. Quite the opposite happened. My body retaliated and I hit a plateau. There is truth to "too much of a good thing." Too much activity without increasing your calories is not healthy from what I have been told.

    sorry that is a myth. If you are in a 1000 calorie deficit you are not just to start gaining or not losing weight….if that was the case people could never die from starvation ...

    see minnesota starvation study.

    Although I agree that permanently you wouldn't go into any starvation mode, there are some things that happen temporarily with some people that makes it feel like you hit a plateau
  • ndj1979
    ndj1979 Posts: 29,136 Member
    20yearsyounger wrote: »
    ndj1979 wrote: »
    DeniseDinsmoor wrote: »
    I thought I could accelerate my weight loss by increasing my calorie deficit. Quite the opposite happened. My body retaliated and I hit a plateau. There is truth to "too much of a good thing." Too much activity without increasing your calories is not healthy from what I have been told.

    sorry that is a myth. If you are in a 1000 calorie deficit you are not just to start gaining or not losing weight….if that was the case people could never die from starvation ...

    see minnesota starvation study.

    Although I agree that permanently you wouldn't go into any starvation mode, there are some things that happen temporarily with some people that makes it feel like you hit a plateau

    sorry, you can't be in a huge deficit and just stop losing weight, its math and physics and stuff.

  • brianpperkins
    brianpperkins Posts: 6,124 Member
    edited January 2016
    People often use weight and fat loss interchangeably. A calorie deficit creates an energy imbalance which must somehow get rectified meaning the body turns to stored energy, primarily in the form of fat, to equalize things. That does not preclude other dynamics within the body from creating changes in overall weight ... water retention, waste within the system, etc ... lose a pound of fat but retain an extra 2 cups of water within the body and try to figure that out on the scale.

    If one is truly in an energy debt, the body will look internally for that energy resulting in a loss.

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