Eating exercise calories.
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ndjohnson526
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How many of you eat your exercise calories?
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I do. Not all of them, but definitely some of them.1
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I do. All of them.
Do the experiment: pick either "yes" "no" or "some of them." Do that for a month, see how it affects you. I use a set number for an hour of moderate exercise, because I've been at this for ten years and I know from past data that is what works for me.4 -
I try not to eat them but sometimes do.0
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ndjohnson526 wrote: »I try not to eat them but sometimes do.
Well, you'll find out if that works. It's a big ole science project. You're the guinea pig.
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cmriverside wrote: »I do. All of them.
Do the experiment: pick either "yes" "no" or "some of them." Do that for a month, see how it affects you. I use a set number for an hour of moderate exercise, because I've been at this for ten years and I know from past data that is what works for me.
Where do you find that setting?1 -
cmriverside wrote: »I do. All of them.
Do the experiment: pick either "yes" "no" or "some of them." Do that for a month, see how it affects you. I use a set number for an hour of moderate exercise, because I've been at this for ten years and I know from past data that is what works for me.
Where do you find that setting?
There's not a setting. You can manually adjust your exercise calories burned as you enter them into your diary.1 -
I'm so confused by this. Why in the world would you eat back calories burned from exercise? For example: If I burn 900 calories at the gym and my TDEE for maintenance is 3000 and I eat 2500 calories that day, I have a deficit of 1400 (500+900) with exercise. Eating back the 900 calories I burned from exercise would only give me a 500 calorie deficit. Wouldn't staying home not exercising and eating -500 TDEE maintenance produce the same result net calories wise? Someone explain the logic of this to me please.6
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I'm so confused by this. Why in the world would you eat back calories burned from exercise? For example: If I burn 900 calories at the gym and my TDEE for maintenance is 3000 and I eat 2500 calories that day, I have a deficit of 1400 (500+900) with exercise. Eating back the 900 calories I burned from exercise would only give me a 500 calorie deficit. Wouldn't staying home eating not exercising and eating -500 TDEE maintenance produce the same result net calories wise? Someone explain the logic of this to me please.
YOU may have a maintenance TDEE of over 3000, but small people with a TDEE under 1500 can't really eat 500 calories net a day, now can they?
Doubt you actually "burn" 900 calories at the gym, for that matter.
Here's the info on how this site calculates.
https://myfitnesspal.desk.com/customer/en/portal/articles/410332-how-does-myfitnesspal-calculate-my-initial-goals-
Do whatever you want. You don't need a 1400 calorie deficit unless you're more than 100+ pounds overweight. He who loses and eats the most food wins.8 -
MFP calculates your deficit without exercise. When you exercise you increase that deficit, possibly to dangerous levels. It takes energy to fuel your workouts.
You WANT a 500 calorie deficit to lose 1lb per week 1,000 is really the highest you should go (assuming you're 75lbs or more overweight) unless you've significantly more than 75 to lose. I'm sure someone will chime in with the exact numbers.
Exercise is for health and fitness. Calorie deficit is for weight.
And just my n=1: to lose 1lb/week I'm on 1380 calories, meaning I probably maintain on around 900. If I walk for three hours at 3mph, MFP tells me I burned just under 800 calories. If I don't eat some of those back, I'm pretty darned hungry.1 -
I almost always eat back my calories from exercise. In order to lose the weight (2 lbs. a week) MFP has me set at 1280 calories which is NOT a lot of food. So I exercise and can eat more. I also enjoy working out, it is stress release and also will keep me in better condition than not exercising.0
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cmriverside wrote: »I do. All of them.
Do the experiment: pick either "yes" "no" or "some of them." Do that for a month, see how it affects you. I use a set number for an hour of moderate exercise, because I've been at this for ten years and I know from past data that is what works for me.
Where do you find that setting?
It's not a setting. It's a decision. So you either eat them back, you don't, or you eat some of them. Pick one.
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I choose to not eat my exercise calories. If I'm working hard to burn them, I don't want to eat them back. My doctor and dietician are completely supportive of NOT eating exercise calories.3
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I'm so confused by this. Why in the world would you eat back calories burned from exercise? For example: If I burn 900 calories at the gym and my TDEE for maintenance is 3000 and I eat 2500 calories that day, I have a deficit of 1400 (500+900) with exercise. Eating back the 900 calories I burned from exercise would only give me a 500 calorie deficit. Wouldn't staying home not exercising and eating -500 TDEE maintenance produce the same result net calories wise? Someone explain the logic of this to me please.
I eat my exercise calories - all of them - because I have two separate goals: one is to lose weight, the other is to become physically strong and aerobically fit.
Sure, you can lose weight by not exercising, and just eating the right foods. But the way I see it, losing weight and becoming physically fit are two very different things. I have to eat enough, not only to lose weight, but also to be able to support my secondary goal of becoming aerobically fit. That means I have to eat more. I see the extra food intake as fuel for my fitness goal. It's a different mindset to thinking of exercise as "another way to create a deficit."
If a person is on 1200 calories a day, and manages (by some miracle - I could never do this) to eat only that amount, but then exercises 500 calories off, that's a net intake of 700 calories, which is way too low to be healthy. You end up starving yourself and training your body to become more efficient at storing fat for another famine, which is opposite to what you want in the long run.
I eat right to lose weight. I do aerobics (mainly) for heart health. I do yoga and Pilates for flexibility and core strength. I do weightlifting for strength and, especially as a woman, to prevent osteoporosis later in life. Each of these things, I do for different reasons, with different goals in mind. The one big massive goal I work towards is to become the healthiest person I can be, well into old age.
I have to eat enough to be able to do all of that.5 -
I do so I reach at least 1200 cals net for the day0
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I use TDEE so I don't have to deal with eating back exercise calories. My daily calorie burn is pretty consistent day to day, so I just focus on keeping calories where they need to be and turn off the "add back calories" feature on MFP.1
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I'm a huge runner....I run 4-7 miles per workout. Im burning a lot of cals. If I don't eat a bigger dinner and eat back some of those cals I feel like crud. Huge deficits are great if you want to hurt yourself. Also, remember that exercising is worth it for more than just losing weight, you're also toning muscle, being healthy and maintaining an awesome metabolism.3
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I'm so confused by this. Why in the world would you eat back calories burned from exercise? For example: If I burn 900 calories at the gym and my TDEE for maintenance is 3000 and I eat 2500 calories that day, I have a deficit of 1400 (500+900) with exercise. Eating back the 900 calories I burned from exercise would only give me a 500 calorie deficit. Wouldn't staying home not exercising and eating -500 TDEE maintenance produce the same result net calories wise? Someone explain the logic of this to me please.
Unless you are overestimating your exercise burn or underestimating your food intake, you will burn out with a deficit that steep. Gotta fuel those workouts. That's why I eat back most of my exercise.3
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