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nanpfeffer
nanpfeffer Posts: 10 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
I'm having the same problem not knowing to eat my extra calories or just let them sit there and just use my allotted calories. What do you all think?

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  • DrusiliaDD
    DrusiliaDD Posts: 71 Member
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    My Fitness Pal is known to overestimate calorie burns so most people recommend you eat back between 50-75% of them.
  • nanpfeffer
    nanpfeffer Posts: 10 Member
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    My treadmill tells me of my calories that I burn
  • CattOfTheGarage
    CattOfTheGarage Posts: 2,750 Member
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    If you're doing a significant amount of exercise you should eat back some of it, myfitnesspal calorie goals are too low if you ignore exercise.
  • size102b
    size102b Posts: 1,370 Member
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    nanpfeffer wrote: »
    My treadmill tells me of my calories that I burn

    Treadmills and most devices are way over estimated they tell us too many calories
    HRM heart rate monitors are abit better
    Don't eat back more than half what anything is telling you you burned off

    Set your mfp calories at sedentary and then eat 1/2 exercise calories

    It's easy to eat calories that's how we came here most of us for eating too many
    Have a snack a glass of milk fruit toast an egg

    Don't start off depriving your body otherwise it will become a cycle of yoyoing in off your plan
  • Gallowmere1984
    Gallowmere1984 Posts: 6,626 Member
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    I don't eat back any, unless I am bulking. Personal preference entirely, imo.
  • CattOfTheGarage
    CattOfTheGarage Posts: 2,750 Member
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    Gallowmere1984 wrote: »
    I don't eat back any, unless I am bulking. Personal preference entirely, imo.

    So you are knowingly inflating your deficit beyond the rate of loss you have chosen.

    Excessive deficits are not a good idea.

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