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Eating your exercise calories?

vivrevotrevie
vivrevotrevie Posts: 80 Member
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What do you think?

Do you stick to your calorie allotment for the day (i.e. 1200), or do you eat back the calories you burned working out as well?

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  • SweetPeasMom55
    SweetPeasMom55 Posts: 3,514 Member
    Depends on the person I don't eat back the calories.
  • louann_jude
    louann_jude Posts: 307 Member
    I don't eat them back either. I don't understand it mostly and I figured if I was hungry I could eat and if not I will just not worry about it.
  • alannabuck
    alannabuck Posts: 9 Member
    When I started using MFP regularly last year, I was eating it back without giving it much thought. Weight loss was stagnant. Decided at some point to not track my workouts in MFP and noticed a difference pretty quickly.

    I make exceptions, though, if I burned 700+ calories in a workout from running. I will eat back a portion because I notice the uptick in hunger, and food is energy! :smile:
  • no_pink_skirts
    no_pink_skirts Posts: 914 Member
    It depends. If I haven't hit my macro goal and I'm hungry I'll eat like a Greek yogurt to get protein and satisfy a craving. I have a hard time hitting my protein goal, so I'm always trying to up that a bit since I'm working on beginning strength training and I need it more than ever.
  • KMGetsFit
    KMGetsFit Posts: 14 Member
    I'm pretty new to the whole diet world. So, with my limited knowledge I rationalized that I should not eat back the calories because that digs in to the defilecit that I need to create. Like someone else said, if I burn a ton of calories then I will eat a portion back. In cases like that, I will feel as though I'm starving and low on energy. So more food is needed.

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