Do you eat the calories you are burning from exercise?
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giorgioc722 wrote: »Nope I made my life simple and it seems to work. I eat a base of no more then 2400 cals a day, and if I'm under yay. Days I do any kind of activity longer then an hour; hiking, skating, running, whatever. I allow myself up to 2600, but no more.
Sometimes things change (Like I did an 8 hour hike and the next day I'm SUPER hungry) and I will adjust so I don't have an emotional break down haha.
So basically, you do but it's in your daily activity......the TDEE method as discussed earlier and not the NEAT (MFP) method. It's just a different method of basically doing the same thing.0 -
giorgioc722 wrote: »Nope I made my life simple and it seems to work. I eat a base of no more then 2400 cals a day, and if I'm under yay. Days I do any kind of activity longer then an hour; hiking, skating, running, whatever. I allow myself up to 2600, but no more.
Sometimes things change (Like I did an 8 hour hike and the next day I'm SUPER hungry) and I will adjust so I don't have an emotional break down haha.
So basically, you do but it's in your daily activity......the TDEE method as discussed earlier and not the NEAT (MFP) method. It's just a different method of basically doing the same thing.
Yeah, that sounds about right.
Probably shouldn't of started with a straight nope.
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I recently got a Fitbit Charge HR would it be better to sync it with MFP?0
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I sure do! I have MFP linked to My fitbit and it adjusts my calories up or down based on activity. This past week I was eating around 1700 calories/day and still lost at a good rate.0
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I have the Charge HR, and it is pretty easy to use.
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no i don't eat a single exercise calorie0
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TDEE would be 2+2. Eating back cals is poverty,
I just don't believe in bringing cardio into dieting unless you're stalling. Losing weight w/o cardio is the GOAT. It's 2016
ITT: a person who uses poverty and beta more than a financial analyst.0 -
I recently got a Fitbit Charge HR would it be better to sync it with MFP?
Yes, FitBits compare your MFP (given) activity level with your actual activity level and adjusts your calories accordingly. There is a setting in MFP to allow negative calorie adjustments too. This negative adjustment keeps you honest.
This adjustment is like adding in exercise calories, AND eating them back is expected. Because, creating a larger (and larger) deficit helps with faster "weight" loss, but unfortunately fast weight loss often sacrifices more lean muscle mass loss than most people are comfortable with.
Here's the group for info on your FitBit model
http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/group/1290-fitbit-users0 -
I sure do! I have MFP linked to My fitbit and it adjusts my calories up or down based on activity. This past week I was eating around 1700 calories/day and still lost at a good rate.
I just linked my MFP & Fitbit this morning I plan on eating back no more then half of my exercise calories for a dessert type snack. a few times a week we go out for ice cream or sno cones often with the kids in the evenings and I don't want to deprive myself
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No I try not to I feel like I work hard to workout I do not want to defeat the purpose by eating back my hard work.
But if you're going by mfp numbers and didn't pick maintenance, you already picked a calorie deficit so you're not defeating the purpose by eating at least a portion of your exercise calories back.
Personally, I will always advocate eating as much as you can get away with and still lose at a reasonable rate.0 -
Okay thanks for the information everyone!
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Not if I want to lose weight. There are times I will work out extra hard knowing I have a big meal coming up. I wish I could say 100% I don't but i am working on it. I tried allowing myself to eat what I burn but I only see results when I eat my original calculated calories for the day.0
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ShanRamwhite wrote: »Not if I want to lose weight. There are times I will work out extra hard knowing I have a big meal coming up. I wish I could say 100% I don't but i am working on it. I tried allowing myself to eat what I burn but I only see results when I eat my original calculated calories for the day.
It's calories in vs. calorie out for everyone. MFP gave you a calorie deficit BEFORE exercise. So if you "can't lose weight" when eating any exercise calories then you are doing something wrong. Eating more than you think, or burning less than you think....somewhere in there.
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1234699-logging-accurately-step-by-step-guide0 -
Never. I aim to burn 2300 and I eat 1500. If I have a day where I am super active and burn 2500, I still eat 1500. If I have a lazy day and burn 1800 I still eat 1500.0
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Yikes! H4n4H, you brazen hussy! You'll be in a wheel chair by summer!0
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Of course
but you have to account for over estimated calorie burns so that's why a lot of us suggest eating back 50 -75% of them. 0 -
Depends on what kind of workout I did that day, and how I'm feeling.0
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ElizabethOakes2 wrote: »ElizabethOakes2 wrote: »I bank calories, too. Of course, sometimes, like tonight, things happen, like, you know, opening my oven and finding a rat
NOOOOO. Oh my God. I live in NYC and I'm deathly afraid of them. How did you deal with that? It would take me a long time to use my oven again.
I'd like to say that I calmly caught the rat, threw it over the back fence, and went about my evening. The reality is that I screamed like a sissy-child and threw the broiler pan at it, along with the perfectly seasoned steak that I was preparing for dinner. The rat, apparently afraid of seasoned steaks and screaming women, ran up the back of the stove, across the cabinet and down the back of the fridge. I then texted my husband and told him we were going out for dinner, and, despite considering myself a reasonable, sensible, and self-reliant woman, vacated the premises. It's probably still in my kitchen somewhere, since the traps my husband set last night are still set.
uugghh I wouldn't step foot back in that house until that rat was dead and gone! I can handle bugs and spiders, but mice and rats, i just can not, I have a bad phobia.
We were renting a beautiful house in the country, and then the mice plague came... After a week of living in fear seeing those scurrying little demons everywhere, I packed up and moved, I let the landlord keep our $1200 bond, i didn't care, I wanted out.
I swear, had I stayed there I would have been admitted to the nut house by the end..
ETA: Forgot about the topic lol I sometimes eat all, some or none back, depending how hungry I am on the day.0 -
Back when I was doing NEAT I are back about %75 of my exercise calories.
I've been doing TDEE for 4 months now so I have my exercise calories in my activity level.0 -
I exercise just so I can eat more.
There are some days where I don't eat all of my exercise calories, but very few. 0 -
kksmom1789 wrote: »I sure do! I have MFP linked to My fitbit and it adjusts my calories up or down based on activity. This past week I was eating around 1700 calories/day and still lost at a good rate.
I just linked my MFP & Fitbit this morning I plan on eating back no more then half of my exercise calories for a dessert type snack. a few times a week we go out for ice cream or sno cones often with the kids in the evenings and I don't want to deprive myself
The exercise calories I get from my FitBit are far less generous than those I get from MFP for the same activity and so I am comfortable eating all of my FB calories back.0 -
<still hyperventilating from rat/mice/palmetto bug stories>
Yes, I eat back exercise calories. Emphatically YES. I use the burns calculated on MFP.0 -
vivmom2014 wrote: »<still hyperventilating from rat/mice/palmetto bug stories>
Yes, I eat back exercise calories. Emphatically YES. I use the burns calculated on MFP.
My rodent from last night reappeared by kitchen window an hour ago. Now I have lost it to under the cooker.
Kitchen being scrubbed. Back door open, kitchen door closed. Cat in kitchen with instructions to find what it brought in last night and take it back to where it found it.
Cheers, h.
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middlehaitch wrote: »vivmom2014 wrote: »<still hyperventilating from rat/mice/palmetto bug stories>
Yes, I eat back exercise calories. Emphatically YES. I use the burns calculated on MFP.
My rodent from last night reappeared by kitchen window an hour ago. Now I have lost it to under the cooker.
Kitchen being scrubbed. Back door open, kitchen door closed. Cat in kitchen with instructions to find what it brought in last night and take it back to where it found it.
Cheers, h.
Oh no!! I recall when my cat brought a chipmunk into the house. It was smart and ran under a big upholstered square chair and stayed right in the center. My cat circled that chair about 50 times but his paws wouldn't reach. (I wouldn't know this firsthand, as I was barricaded in my bedroom with a pillow stuffed at the door crack.) My husband finally "led" the poor chipmunk out with a broom...he was fine and off he went. (Cat locked away in the basement for this.)
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middlehaitch wrote: »vivmom2014 wrote: »<still hyperventilating from rat/mice/palmetto bug stories>
Yes, I eat back exercise calories. Emphatically YES. I use the burns calculated on MFP.
My rodent from last night reappeared by kitchen window an hour ago. Now I have lost it to under the cooker.
Kitchen being scrubbed. Back door open, kitchen door closed. Cat in kitchen with instructions to find what it brought in last night and take it back to where it found it.
Cheers, h.
LMAO
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Get a cat or a small terrier.
house - rat = cat\or small fiesty terrier!0 -
ElizabethOakes2 wrote: »I eat back half. I tried not to at first, but that was a silly mistake. I was tired and hungry. Work hard, eat a little more- it's glorious!
+1. I generally eat half, though mostly because I think the running app deducts too much. After a run if it says I burned 500 calories I immediately enter a 250 cal snack. Then I'm less tempted to eat them later, anyway. HOWEVER, don't ignore signs from your body: if you're exhausted or starving or not healing, eat! Just eat healthy food, which really is the best medicine.0 -
Yes, but I don't use MFP to measure them since MFP is batshit crazy.0
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