Eat Back Exercise Calories?

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I have been eating them lately, but I never do the same thing. Some days I eat them, some days I don't, some days I eat some of them, etc. Depends on how hungry I am.

Hi ! I'm no expert, but will give my opinion. That's all we can do based upon our experiences - right ?? As with anything else, varies with the person. I'm also in losing mode; 1200 cals per day food goal. I'm also 3 months post-op for a total knee replacement. With that said, I have to moderate my exercise to a certain extent. I work out 4 days per week. Light weights and cardio. My cardio is bike and elliptical. Mostly bike at this point. I do 30 minutes cardio and an average of 20 minutes strength training (depends on what part of hte body I"m working on that day). THe cardio is 4 days a week; weights 3 days per week. I do think MFP overestimates calories burned - this is based upon the readouts I get on the equipment at the gym. I eat some of my exercise calories - one half or less on average. Depends on how hungry I am. Some days I"m hungry - not emotionally hungry, but physically hungry. So, I listen to my body and I eat more of those exercise calories. Days that I'm not hungry, I don't eat many of them at all. I'm losing an average of a pound a week. It's a balance for me. If I don't eat enough, it does slow my weight loss down, so I don't eat less than 1200. At most, I"m eating 1400 on the "hungry" exercise days. If I'm exercising, I'm losing the same whether I eat 1200 or 1400. If I don't exercise ... I don't lose eating 1200.

I eat mind back, and occasionally go over my 1200 net, and I am losing an average of 1.3 lbs every week since I started here - which is exactly my goal, so it's working really well for me.

well-- the most important thing to consider is the NET calorie loss. This is found by subtracting the calories your body WOULD have burned had you been carrying out normal activity from the actual calories you burned while exercising. This # would be the safe amount to re-eat if you wanted. Eventually- after a month or two you'll get to the point where you won't feel like you have to- your appetite will bottom out around week 6 of a low-calorie-diet-- studies have proved this.

I'll give you my example for today.

I have eaten 1,400 calories on a 1,600 calorie diet (I weigh 210 so that's still a 2lb/week loss rate!).
Tonight I went to the gym, turned the eliptical machine up to 14 and went hard for 55 minutes. Burned 800 calories. So if I went by that- I'd be at only 600 calories for today and I'd feel like I could eat 1000 more to come out even at my 1600. HOWEVER-- this would be too much because during that 55 minutes I spent exercising my body would have naturally burned some calories (sitting in the car, grocery shopping, or even sleeping!)-- my basal metabolic rate (go here to calculate yours http://www.bmi-calculator.net/bmr-calculator/) tells me that my body would, without exercise, burn about 2,400 calories/day based on my age, weight, height... so during that 55 minutes I WOULD have burned about 100 calories if I never stepped in the gym-- this is factored into your daily goal. so in reality-- if i want to reach my 1,600 exactly I could only eat about 900 more calories.

but I'm not hungry... so I'm gonna go to bed--

I've lost 48 lbs in the past 4 months. Sooo...... trust me?

- Scott
- Doctor of Pharmacy

well-- the most important thing to consider is the NET calorie loss. This is found by subtracting the calories your body WOULD have burned had you been carrying out normal activity from the actual calories you burned while exercising. This # would be the safe amount to re-eat if you wanted. Eventually- after a month or two you'll get to the point where you won't feel like you have to- your appetite will bottom out around week 6 of a low-calorie-diet-- studies have proved this.

I'll give you my example for today.

I have eaten 1,400 calories on a 1,600 calorie diet (I weigh 210 so that's still a 2lb/week loss rate!).
Tonight I went to the gym, turned the eliptical machine up to 14 and went hard for 55 minutes. Burned 800 calories. So if I went by that- I'd be at only 600 calories for today and I'd feel like I could eat 1000 more to come out even at my 1600. HOWEVER-- this would be too much because during that 55 minutes I spent exercising my body would have naturally burned some calories (sitting in the car, grocery shopping, or even sleeping!)-- my basal metabolic rate (go here to calculate yours http://www.bmi-calculator.net/bmr-calculator/) tells me that my body would, without exercise, burn about 2,400 calories/day based on my age, weight, height... so during that 55 minutes I WOULD have burned about 100 calories if I never stepped in the gym-- this is factored into your daily goal. so in reality-- if i want to reach my 1,600 exactly I could only eat about 900 more calories.

but I'm not hungry... so I'm gonna go to bed--

I've lost 48 lbs in the past 4 months. Sooo...... trust me?

- Scott
- Doctor of Pharmacy

^^^^^ Yeah, what he said. LOL
I hope this really works, as I have only been doing this for um....2 days now. LOL J/K GREAT insight here!!

I have lost a total of 57# since feb 17, 2011

I have lost more weight eating back my exercise calories and netting close to 1200 calories a day.

I agree

xx

i dont have a standard that i follow for eatting back exercise calories but on the days i work out im generally more hungry so i will eat a little extra...i just kind of do what my body feels like it needs.