Eating back calories?

riley_kinnett
riley_kinnett Posts: 60 Member
edited December 2 in Health and Weight Loss
I am at a 1540 cal/day goal right now. I work out almost every day and burn right around 500 calories. Should I eat these back? I usually try to eat some back and leave about 300 calories left over. But after I work out I am usually so hungry that I end up eating most of them back. What I do eat back is 99% of the time fruits, vegetables and maybe something sweet after dinner (usually under 150 cal). Just wondering if I should be eating them back or not

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  • malibu927
    malibu927 Posts: 17,562 Member
    How is your weight loss going? You are supposed to eat them back, but depending on how you calculate your exercise burns they can be overestimated.
  • riley_kinnett
    riley_kinnett Posts: 60 Member
    malibu927 wrote: »
    How is your weight loss going? You are supposed to eat them back, but depending on how you calculate your exercise burns they can be overestimated.

    Losing about a pound each week
  • solieco1
    solieco1 Posts: 1,559 Member
    I'd keep doing what you're doing.
  • malibu927
    malibu927 Posts: 17,562 Member
    Continue eating them back if a pound a week is what you're aiming for (and if you have less than 50 pounds to lose, you should be at that rate). If you believe you should be losing quicker, cut dos to eating about 200-250 calories back.
  • markswife1992
    markswife1992 Posts: 262 Member
    i did eat mine back,
    but have recently started gaining weight so i am going to stop logging exercise and not eat those cals anymore.
  • SezxyStef
    SezxyStef Posts: 15,267 Member
    as long as you are losing there is no reason to worry.
    markswife1992 wrote: »
    i did eat mine back,
    but have recently started gaining weight so i am going to stop logging exercise and not eat those cals anymore.

    This would be because you aren't logging accurately.

    MFP is designed to eat them back and still lose weight.
  • Jeyradan
    Jeyradan Posts: 164 Member
    If you're a) losing a pound a week, b) working out hard, and c) feeling hungry afterward, I would say you're doing fine. You're losing weight steadily by doing it, and your body's sending you signals. If you couldn't shake the weight, it might be different, but you're doing great eating them back!

    (For what it's worth, nearly everything I've read on here says that MFP is designed for you to eat back exercise calories. I also had a doctor's appointment last week and, although obviously this is only a personal anecdote, she instructed me to eat back mine.)
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