Anyone not losing weight eating ALL their calories?
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Nishka09
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I mean eating your excercise calories in addition to your daily ones. Just curious.
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i dont cause i gain0
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Nope. I've always eaten all my calories (within 100-200 for mistake room) and have still lost.0
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How are you calculating your calories burned, sounds like your numbers might be off0
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Ok, I am new here. If I don't eat all my calories will that slow me down. It seems like a lot of calories. I am doing the right amount of exercise everyday and still have calories left over.0
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If you are not losing when eating all your calories, the issue maybe one or more of the following:
- A slow metabolism (could be due to thyroid issue or prolonged under eating)
- Over estimating caloires burned (Machines and MFP tend to over estimate caloric burn)
- under estimating the amount you eat (if you are not measuring and weight this is quite likely)
- Have the wrong activity setting on MFP (either to high or to low)
- Have the wrong weekly weight loss goal set based on your current condition (usually set too aggressive i.e. set at 2lbs when should be 1 lb)
If you don't have a slow metabolism and are doing the rest correctly then you will lose, on average, your weekly weight loss goal amount.
If you have 15-40ish pounds to go a 1 lb/week goal should be doable, with 40-75 a 1.5 lb/week, 75+ 2lb/week and 15 or less you should have a goal of no more than 0.5 lbs/week. and on top of these goals all exercise calories, if properly calculated should be eaten to meet these goals.0 -
Nope. I've always eaten all my calories (within 100-200 for mistake room) and have still lost.
Same here!0 -
I exercised and ate all my calories for a solid 3months without losing0
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I usually never eat my exercise calories, I eat around 1200 a day sometimes not even that (I am just not hungry enough to eat a lot)
if I am having a cheat day then I will eat my exercise calories but thats it0 -
I haven't purchased one yet, but the general consensus on MFP is to buy a HRM(Heart Rate Monitor) the ones with the watch and chest band. They are under $100 and they will measure your true caloric burn. As stated earlier your calories may be off due to guessing or inaccurate measuring or....wrong exercise caloric burn. You might surprise yourself and find that you are burning more calories than you think and need to eat more. Wouldn't that be great. I had a friend that had this problem. He started losing like crazy.0
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Nope. I've always eaten all my calories (within 100-200 for mistake room) and have still lost.0
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I usually never eat my exercise calories, I eat around 1200 a day sometimes not even that (I am just not hungry enough to eat a lot)
if I am having a cheat day then I will eat my exercise calories but thats it
If you are not hungry and not eating 1200 you probably already have metabolism issues, and it is difficult to get the required nutrition, Macros and micros, on so few calories. Also hunger is not the best indication of nutrition requirements, as after a prolonged period of not eating enough, you brain will not send the hunger cues properly.0 -
You shouldn't eat all of your exercise calories back, but you should eat some of them....if you are eating too few calories, your body may be storing your fat instead of burning it.0
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I met with a personal trainer and a nutritionist and they advised that you do NOT have to eat your "work out calories". I gain when I eat my calories back, so I usually range from 1200 Monday-thursday then Friday-Sunday 1400. They advised to rotate your calorie intake, I save mine for the weekends.0
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You shouldn't eat all of your exercise calories back, but you should eat some of them....if you are eating too few calories, your body may be storing your fat instead of burning it.
If calculated correctly you should eat all of them, if you use mfp calculation I would eat 50-75% of them.0 -
I'm fairly new here, but I find 1200 calories really hard to stick to. I do exercise and need those extra calories just to not feel hungry. Pretty much I eat the same about 1500 cal regardless of if I exercise or not. So I try to always get at least 300 calories of exercise in each day (which isn't hard because I have been biking to and from my office .... lots of hills!). Most days I have some left over calories from exercise and rarely go over my daily allotment. On the weekends I typically take a long (and strenuous hike) which burns about 2000 calories.... I never eat all of these calories. In 2 weeks I've only lost 2 lbs.... but I figure it will go slowly. I guess what I'm saying is that you don't want to be hungry, but try not to eat all of your exercise calories.0
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I usually eat back about half of my exercise calories, and I've lost my 2lbs+ per week since I've started. If I go more than a few days without losing anything, I realize that I haven't been drinking enough water and that usually fixes the problem. Since I exercise usually after supper, I tend to end up with extra calories left over.0
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I aim for around 1500 a day, and with exercise calories average around 1800 a day, and I'm losing steadily. I have normal fluctuations, and some weeks I lose more than others, but my progress report graphic shows a pretty steady downward trend, even when I increased calories.0
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Nope. I've always eaten all my calories (within 100-200 for mistake room) and have still lost.0
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I usually never eat my exercise calories, I eat around 1200 a day sometimes not even that (I am just not hungry enough to eat a lot)
if I am having a cheat day then I will eat my exercise calories but thats it
If you are not hungry and not eating 1200 you probably already have metabolism issues, and it is difficult to get the required nutrition, Macros and micros, on so few calories. Also hunger is not the best indication of nutrition requirements, as after a prolonged period of not eating enough, you brain will not send the hunger cues properly.
so if this would be the case, how would you fix it? If you are eating healthy and excercising already, how else do you fix a slow metabolism?0 -
I haven't yet decided what to do about these "exercise calories." I never heard of eating them back before. I teach Zumba twice a week, and it is two 1-hr classes back-to-back. So on Tuesdays and Thursdays I easily burn an extra 1,200 calories. There is just no way I am eating an additional 1,200 calories on those days! That's huge.0
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