Long exercise purely to eat more?
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I wouldn't say it was long exercise for me, but I do at least 60 minutes of cardio every single day just so I can have a larger meal while still losing weight at ~2 pounds per week.4
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JaydedMiss wrote: »JaydedMiss wrote: »I do this, initially it was just to lose weight but now technically I should be at maintenance. I have decided, I want to eat chocolate etc. again so I make sure I have more than enough cals to eat whatever the hell I like at night
Cool so its semi normal im hearing as long as it doesnt effect my life. I started as a way to increase my defecit, And ensure i had enough calories for a few beers a week. Maybe a pizza or something. I love pizza ;D
For me that's satisfying. Having that fear of logging something like a whole pizza or something pretty big but realising you still have plenty of room for something else big and nasty...... especially if you get the 'low cal' pizza options
A thin crust pizza (decent size) from the store is under 800 calories. Sucks if you only have 1200 a day, But super doable if you burn a few hundred off walkign for another m eal in your day. Yum. I don't really get any guilt over it. Just work to make it fit
Helps that i walk 4 miles just to buy it from the store when i want it 
Look at my diary for yesterday. My thin-crust pizza is fun and easy to make, and gives me ~400 calories.2 -
I love to build and reinforce the connection in my brain between food and energy. I feel like that is a healthy attitude toward nutrition and activity. That being said, I feel like there is a line that could potentially be crossed if the drive to exercise or the drive to binge eat are obsessive.2
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I do, I prelog my day every morning and a lot of the time i start off in the red, and then i walk it off until I'm back in the green again, I average around 15kms a day. If I'm going out for dinner and I know it's gonna be a calorie laden meal, then i'll walk more that day to fit it in.
Yesterday i did it kinda backward, i logged as i ate, and i didnt manage to exercise it all off, i ended up 200 calories over at the end of the day... But today I'm full of energy and not hungry at all, so it'll even itself out.
So to get to the point.. Yes, I exercise purely to eat more.6 -
Yes, I def exercise to eat more5
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It probably takes a professional to diagnose a real problem. Although it is extremely common for people to exercise so they can eat more or as punishment for indulging, I really don't like that mindset. Exercise should mostly be done to improve fitness and make your quality of life better. Calorie burn and it's helpfulness to weight loss is a bonus. I know every now and then an extra hard or long workout to offset and indulgence isn't a big deal, but it shouldn't be the norm.
This is pretty much where I stand...0 -
I maintain at just about 1400 cals. You bet I walk a lot to get more food! LOL I would like to find some balance, tho. Learn to be content with fewer treats so I can have time for a hobby or something. 1
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Okay so if anyones here. Here is my fitbits stats, I got a new job and celebrated walking more If my fitbit says 2600 calories, And my food log says to eat 2600 calories, Which do i listen to closer?
If iv only burned 2,600 calories wouldnt eating 2600 calories put me at even with no weight loss? Normally i eat a few hundred back of what it gives me, Never had it give me 1400 extra calories back from exercise before not sure what to do LOL
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JaydedMiss wrote: »I do this alot ill walk 10-15 miles just so i can eat more, Lots more with that many miles.
Never really considered if this is normal or healthy or not. Anyone else do this? Sometimes i just really like to eat bulk food instead of 1200 calories. And i like walking so why not really. -shrugs- Been working for me so far. Kind of like planned indulging
Anyone know if this could be bad for me going from 1200 to closer to 2,000-2500 with walking some days at random.
Burn to earn. Be it walking, cycling, running, swimming. Cardio can burn huge calories so you can indeed chow down. I love my weekend bike training rides (or races) that are usually 1000 - 2000 calories of burn.
You can also use the longer exercise to balance out the CICO equation in your favor (be it to equal a deficit, or maintenance).
It's pretty normal stuff. So you're good.3 -
If I had all the time in the world I would rather do hours of walking/exercise and eat at maintenance to create a deficit. However due to working full time it's not possible so I compromise with however much exercise fits my schedule.1
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It probably takes a professional to diagnose a real problem. Although it is extremely common for people to exercise so they can eat more or as punishment for indulging, I really don't like that mindset. Exercise should mostly be done to improve fitness and make your quality of life better. Calorie burn and it's helpfulness to weight loss is a bonus. I know every now and then an extra hard or long workout to offset and indulgence isn't a big deal, but it shouldn't be the norm.
That's exactly what she's doing. Exercising allows her to meet her goals and eat a pizza, which improves her quality of life. Which is what you prescribed.13 -
NorthCascades wrote: »It probably takes a professional to diagnose a real problem. Although it is extremely common for people to exercise so they can eat more or as punishment for indulging, I really don't like that mindset. Exercise should mostly be done to improve fitness and make your quality of life better. Calorie burn and it's helpfulness to weight loss is a bonus. I know every now and then an extra hard or long workout to offset and indulgence isn't a big deal, but it shouldn't be the norm.
That's exactly what she's doing. Exercising allows her to meet her goals and eat a pizza, which improves her quality of life. Which is what you prescribed.
Pizza definatly improves quality of life ;D11 -
Christine_72 wrote: »I do, I prelog my day every morning and a lot of the time i start off in the red, and then i walk it off until I'm back in the green again, I average around 15kms a day. If I'm going out for dinner and I know it's gonna be a calorie laden meal, then i'll walk more that day to fit it in.
Yesterday i did it kinda backward, i logged as i ate, and i didnt manage to exercise it all off, i ended up 200 calories over at the end of the day... But today I'm full of energy and not hungry at all, so it'll even itself out.
So to get to the point.. Yes, I exercise purely to eat more.
Yes, I do this as well. As an older woman, just getting the hang of maintaining a weight I haven't seen in 35 years has been challenging. I have eaten to my hearts content all those years and am amazed and a little saddened by how little I can actually eat to maintain. Therefore, I hike and walk...a lot.10 -
NorthCascades wrote: »It probably takes a professional to diagnose a real problem. Although it is extremely common for people to exercise so they can eat more or as punishment for indulging, I really don't like that mindset. Exercise should mostly be done to improve fitness and make your quality of life better. Calorie burn and it's helpfulness to weight loss is a bonus. I know every now and then an extra hard or long workout to offset and indulgence isn't a big deal, but it shouldn't be the norm.
That's exactly what she's doing. Exercising allows her to meet her goals and eat a pizza, which improves her quality of life. Which is what you prescribed.
This is true...but it can also be a slippery slope...
Certainly one of the advantages for me of regular exercise is to be able to just live life and not give a ton of thought to my diet (though I eat pretty well)...particularly when it comes to beer...but it's not the "reason" I guess...
I don't really ever think, "hey...I'm going out for pizza with my kiddos Saturday...better do a bunch of unplanned exercise to make up for it." I think you can easily get into a situation where exercise becomes punishment or penance which isn't a healthy mindset IMO.
IDK, I just exercise regularly...I enjoy a good ride...I guess it generally means that I can enjoy my beers without much thought, but I just don't think about that so much. I ride to ride...3 -
JaydedMiss wrote: »Okay so if anyones here. Here is my fitbits stats, I got a new job and celebrated walking more If my fitbit says 2600 calories, And my food log says to eat 2600 calories, Which do i listen to closer?
If iv only burned 2,600 calories wouldnt eating 2600 calories put me at even with no weight loss? Normally i eat a few hundred back of what it gives me, Never had it give me 1400 extra calories back from exercise before not sure what to do LOL
Anyone? Id like to not under/overeat0 -
KANGOOJUMPS wrote: »ME!, I do 2 to 3 hours, eat and drink what I want. it works for me!
Oh man, a while back I found some cardio that I really, REALLY loved. Without changing my eating habits I lost like 40lbs over the summer.
...then gained it all back as soon as I stopped, cause I wasn't doing insane amounts of cardio anymore but still eating too much.
So yeah, sustainability is key.
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I follow MFP for calories in, and let fitbit handle calories out. Following 2 different paths to the same destination can get confusing, if that makes sense??
Did you set a deficit in your fitbit app? How much did fitbit say you had left to eat for the day (screenshot below)? If you have both mfp and fitbit set with the same deficit, eg -500 calories per day, then they should roughly match up at the end of the day.
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Puzzled by the responses which say it's risky because it's a slippery slope to exercise bulimia.
By the same token, calorie restriction is risky because it's a slippery slope to anorexia.
And for some people, that is true. So some people would rule out calorie counting as a weight loss strategy, because the similarity to anorexia makes the whole mindset seem disordered to them. That position is understandable, but it's very extreme.
If we can agree that calorie counting is not the same as anorexia (which I hope we can, or why are we here?) then surely we can allow that exercising to eat more is not the same as exercise bulimia.
At the end of the day, it's just another way to create a deficit, and I would argue, a far healthier one than starving yourself without exercise. Especially for short women, maintaining a deficit without exercise can be extremely difficult and I can see nothing unhealthy about increasing exercise in order to allow for more food while still keeping a deficit.
Seems to me some of the objections are more a subjective preference of the TDEE method over NEAT - the feeling that raising your TDEE by increasing activity in order to eat more would be OK, but logging extra exercise above NEAT in order to eat more is not. There isn't a lot of logic there, the two are completely equivalent.22 -
I'm far too lazy to develop exercise bulimia.19
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Christine_72 wrote: »I follow MFP for calories in, and let fitbit handle calories out. Following 2 different paths to the same destination can get confusing, if that makes sense??
Did you set a deficit in your fitbit app? How much did fitbit say you had left to eat for the day (screenshot below)? If you have both mfp and fitbit set with the same deficit, eg -500 calories per day, then they should roughly match up at the end of the day.
They do not match up
Fitbit is set to -750 calories (1.5 pounds) and gives me 2359 total calorie to eat. MFP is set to -2 pounds a week And actually gives me 2600 to eat. Super backwards, Super confused.
Especially when my fitbit says iv only burned 2600..Wheres the negative anything. ..Although its jumped to almost 2800 now...Im beggining to not trust anything
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