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Survey NOT a Debate - Exercise Calories

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  • taso42_DELETED
    taso42_DELETED Posts: 3,394 Member
    Does anybody want to do an analysis and see if there's any correlation between how people answered and where their ticker is?

    That sounds like work.

    I avoid work.

    Me too.. which is why I think someone other than myself ought to do it. :wink:
  • Tayla08
    Tayla08 Posts: 94
    Nope I normally don't eat them back, periodically I will... I lose weight consistantly as long as long as I follow my 1220 calorie goal, if I binge on day, it takes me a week to get back to my current weight.
  • KyleB65
    KyleB65 Posts: 1,196 Member
    No, I am not eating back my calories
    yes, I am loosing weight (roughly the 2 lbs a week that I want to lose
  • nikkidee1983
    nikkidee1983 Posts: 38
    Yes, when I am still hungry
    Yes, I am losing, slowly but I am losing.
  • MichelleF81
    MichelleF81 Posts: 98 Member
    Yes, I eat back most of my exercise calories. Yes, I'm losing weight each week.
  • willimh
    willimh Posts: 227 Member
    Sometimes I eat them. I always plateau and stay there. Just joined WW again and Im losing again.
  • JThomas61
    JThomas61 Posts: 892
    No, I never eat back my exercise calories.
    I have stalled on a plateau for three weeks haven't gone up and haven't gone down
  • louiseei
    louiseei Posts: 254 Member
    Yes I eat them and a bit over sometimes,
    Yes I'm losing (even though I'm actually on maintenance cals now)
  • Legs_McGee
    Legs_McGee Posts: 845 Member
    Yes, I eat my exercise calories back
    I was losing consistently - I lost 18 pounds in two months. Now I'm in maintenance mode. I still eat my exercise calories and I've maintained my weight loss for 3 months.
  • NanoReefDiver
    NanoReefDiver Posts: 153
    Yes, I eat them all back. I love food.
    Yes.
  • daddyratty
    daddyratty Posts: 305 Member
    1. Most of the time, yes.
    2. Yes.
  • cruiseking
    cruiseking Posts: 338 Member
    1)No
    2)Yes
  • missjaiy
    missjaiy Posts: 58
    1. Yes I eat them back
    2. Yes, I've lost more than what MFP has predicted for my first week.
  • wjassell
    wjassell Posts: 104 Member
    1. No
    2. Yes
  • leix
    leix Posts: 176
    1. No
    2. When i dont mess up, Yes
  • Delicate
    Delicate Posts: 625 Member
    If im hungry yes, if im not then no

    it has possibly stopped me 'losing weight' but im getting smaller measurement wise since im closish to what i set up as my weight goal (but i had a measurement goal also and i'd be happier with that)
  • harderfasterstr0nger
    harderfasterstr0nger Posts: 62
    1) Nope, never. I eat under but that's another story
    2) I would if I didn't live in a binge/restrict/overexercise/binge/purge cycle

    <3
  • cheesesandwich
    cheesesandwich Posts: 79 Member
    1. I'm no longer eating them after a few months of eating most or all of them back,
    2. and yes, I've begun to steadily lose weight again.
  • miss_ally08
    miss_ally08 Posts: 167 Member
    1. Do you eat back your calories?
    No, as much as I would like to, I never end up hungry enough to eat them all back & I'd rather not shove a whole bunch of food & force myself to eat, just to eat them back.

    2. Are you losing weight consistently?
    Yes. I loose something almost every week. I did a plateau for awhile but I was having some cheat days, but now that I'm not, its back to loosing :)
  • Jessilynmorgan
    Jessilynmorgan Posts: 12 Member
    I wasn't in the beginning and I was losing more, but I am exercising much longer, harder, and more frequently now, so I do tend to eat back the calories. I am also within 10lbs of my goal and it is getting much harder to lose weight. I'm hungrier now than I was when I started! Sometimes I'm also guilty of exercising to balance out excess calories (like I will jump on the treadmill to burn enough to have a treat).
  • Bethany28
    Bethany28 Posts: 263
    Bumping.
  • jodazary
    jodazary Posts: 144 Member
    no never
    yes
  • tonilizzy88
    tonilizzy88 Posts: 920 Member
    Hiya,

    im sure we are all well aware that eating back your exercise calories can be a sore topic for some and usually ends in a debate.
    All im wanting to know is 1. Do you eat back your calories 2. Are you losing weight consistently. They only have to be yes and no answers, i don't people getting fired up or upset, just want to get some data on it :happy:

    1.only half
    2.i am now but didnt when i ate all of them back
  • kitinboots
    kitinboots Posts: 589 Member
    1. I don't eat the last 200 - they're there in case I over estimated my workouts or underestimated my calories consumed. My workouts sometimes burn a whole day's calories, so I find it tough to double my day's food in s healthy way.

    2. I don't weigh myself as that is not a number that I care about. I see consistent results though, in muscle definition and I can tell my body fat % is dropping, so I probably am losing weight.
  • Pleasedaspunch
    Pleasedaspunch Posts: 52
    1. When i first started nope but now i prob eat at least half of them back
    2. So far so good :)
  • Kagard11
    Kagard11 Posts: 396 Member
    Initially I was eating them all back and stalled. Now I only eat some back if I am hungry.
    Yes, I am now consistently losing!
  • Cdcaldwe
    Cdcaldwe Posts: 189 Member
    Never eat them back. Loosing weight. Started May of 2011.
  • ScottieMama
    ScottieMama Posts: 3
    1. Yes I eat my exercise calories.
    2. I am losing weight faster than I should be... so I need to be eating my exercise calories.
  • zadrii
    zadrii Posts: 21
    1. No, I would burst if I ate that much!
    2. Yes, I have reached my goal.
  • mislmar
    mislmar Posts: 41 Member
    1. No never eat back calories

    2. Yes I am losing weight about 2 lbs average every week.
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