Eat my exercise calories? But I'm not hungry.

I have the same problem. I have eaten already but I have over 300 calories left. I mayeat some hummus & pita chips.

My personal recommendation would be...if you're not hungry, don't eat! You've eaten SOMETHING already, so it's unlikely your body is going to go into starvation mode. If you burn more calories than you consume, that's the key to weight loss.

Unless of course you're not TRYING to lose weight...

And kudos for having a negative! My negative usually becomes positive after breakfast...LOL

If you are not hungry, you're not hungry and honestly the worst thing you could do would be eat. What about some popcorn or something like that? It has calories but not tons and it is not bad for you either (as long as it is not movies theater stuff lol). Edys has really good frozen fruit bars, they are not too bad either. Good luck and congratulations on your workouts

I've asked this question before and usually what people tell me is to plan better (which I'm starting to do). When you know you're going to do a certain type of exercise one day, plan to your meals accordingly. Sometimes I have an overly active day and wind up eating some junk at the end of the night...but I don't feel guilty for it. It's up to you whether you'd rather meet your net no matter what cost or not meet your net at all.

I don't think you you have to eat back every last calorie, but if you are exercising more then your body needs more good calories to run on, and being consistently low on calories isn't going to do your body any favours.
If you are way under your net cals every single day then I'd suggest planning your days better so you aren't left with so many cals to eat at the end if the day - ie. add some healthy snacks earlier on in the day.
If this is a one off, don't stress about it, just plan better for tomorrow!

My personal recommendation would be...if you're not hungry, don't eat! You've eaten SOMETHING already, so it's unlikely your body is going to go into starvation mode. If you burn more calories than you consume, that's the key to weight loss.

Unless of course you're not TRYING to lose weight...

And kudos for having a negative! My negative usually becomes positive after breakfast...LOL

I agree with this. I also agree with the person who said to plan better. "Failing to plan is planning to fail."

But I digress, I would say you're good, just as long as it's once in a while.

The same thing happens to me all the time because I frequently burn over 1000 calories. If I know I'm going to burn a lot that day, I'll eat more during the day (I mostly workout in the evenings). So at 5 pm my diary may say I've gone over on calories by a couple hundred, but at 8 pm, I'm back in the green. I never eat all of them back on a big burn day, though. As long as you eat SOME of them back (at least a couple hundred..depending on how much you burn), you're good. Your calories (not net..just intake) should be over 1200 if you exercise during the day (or whatever your daily goal is..mine happens to be 1200). Having said all of this, I am still losing weight consistantly. I don't eat all my calories back, but I do eat some..more or less depending on how hungry I am.

I keep reading about how important it is to eat back the calories you lose exercising. i certainly don't want to push my body into starvation mode or do anything unhealthy for my body. It's just that most of the time I'm not hungry enough to eat my exercise calories!

For example, today I'm at approx. 528 calories so far. That's lunch and snacks (I took advantage of an opportunity to sleep in today so woke up too late for breakfast). I went on a long walk, about 10 km, that burned off around 567 calories. This puts me at around -39, which means I have to eat over 1600 calories by the end of the day.

Except it's 7:30 PM already and my dinner will consist of a pork chop and steamed vegetables, which won't be nearly 1600. Should I add in some high-calorie foods like ice cream just to get up to the 1580 that MFP recommend I have? I'm not sure what to do here - what are your suggestions/recommendations?

I have never heard this...in that case I'm never eating enough; but dont you want to be in the negative to lose?

banana with peanut butter or apple with peanut butter. go buy a protein bar-- that's around 300 calories right there. Most people don't eat enough protein. Maybe you should plan out your day better for food. If you know you are going to be burning 500 calories, eat before and after. If you ate a banana with peaunut butter before you have about 250 there, and if you had a protein bar after, that is another 300, so you will eat back your calories easily. Focus on eating smaller meals throughout the day.

Also, if i'm recalling right you said you walked a 10K? that's about 6.2 miles, and i'm assuimng that took you quite some time because I run that in about 55 min.. ANY time you exercise for more than 60 min, you should be eating something small or just a supplement to give you extra energy. When you go on your walk, eat a granola bar after an hour or bring a gaterade to drink. You need to think of FUELING your body. Eat more small things throughout the day. Also, find foods that are high in calories because you are having an issue with that. So protein shakes, milk, protein bars, banana, apples, carrots, avacado.. etc.

Step one: take peanut butter jar
Step 2 : Take spoon
Step 3 : Dip spoon in jar
Step 4 : Lick spoon

Tomorrow plan better. This is not healthy and in the long run will hurt you.