some advice

13kay13
13kay13 Posts: 11 Member
edited November 22 in Health and Weight Loss
looking for some advice on how many minutes exercised a day is good and does it matter if you do or dont eat back calories burned please?

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  • 13kay13
    13kay13 Posts: 11 Member
    thanks, i do an hour walk a day sometimes hour and half, i wasnt 100% sure if was meant to eat them or not as read so many different things. i updated mfp and as have lost 49lbs it reduced my daily cals and got a bit confused
  • Maxxitt
    Maxxitt Posts: 1,281 Member
    Is it time to slow down your deficit given your weight loss to this point? One of the facts about weight loss is that the less you weigh, the fewer calories you burn, which is why updating mfp is needed, and why weight loss slows the closer a person gets to a healthy weight.
  • toxikon
    toxikon Posts: 2,383 Member
    Keep in mind that while exercise is important for health, it is not important for simply losing weight. You could reach your goal weight with a calorie deficit and no exercise if you wanted to.

    Cardio is good for your heart and lungs and strength training is great for your bones and muscles. If you regularly exercise, you'll be setting yourself up for better health later in life.
  • MegaMooseEsq
    MegaMooseEsq Posts: 3,118 Member
    I've been reading a book called "The First 20 Minutes" which covers a lot of recent science on exercise and health. In a nutshell, even small but consistent amounts of exercise have enormous health benefits, almost everyone who manages to keep weight off exercises (usually walking), but although it is quite possible to lose weight without exercise, it is very difficult to lose weight through exercise alone.

    As for eating back calories, the standard advice around these here parts is to start with eating back a portion of your exercise calories and then see what the scale does. Other people start eating back more, others less. But the tool is designed for you to create your deficit through diet and then eat back anything you burn through intentional exercise. An hour to an hour-and-a-half walk would be enough exercise that I'd probably want to eat that back. And walking is one of the easiest exercises to reliably estimate your burn, so long as you're not overestimating your pace.
  • Tacklewasher
    Tacklewasher Posts: 7,122 Member
    13kay13 wrote: »
    thanks, i do an hour walk a day sometimes hour and half, i wasnt 100% sure if was meant to eat them or not as read so many different things. i updated mfp and as have lost 49lbs it reduced my daily cals and got a bit confused

    It kinda depends on how you set your activity level. If you included the walks, and so set yourself to be lightly active or active, then you won't be eating them back as they are included in the normal setting. If you didn't take them into account, and set your stats to sedentary, then you should eat back your walks.

    Just walking is a funny one because some people just automatically include it in their normal activity and only think of the gym as the extra.

    What did you set as an activity level in MFP?

    And, yes. When you lose weight you lose calories as well. Sucks but it is the way life works. :)
  • 13kay13
    13kay13 Posts: 11 Member
    thanks for replies. i walk all day everyday so i set it as active, i only log the hour or hour and half as exercise, was this right?
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