Use or not to use exercises calories?

nevelleup2
nevelleup2 Posts: 1 Member
edited November 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
Hello there ideas wondering if anyone uses there extra calories lorie they get from exercise. I try not to but doesn't make any difference to my weight if I do or don't

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  • diannethegeek
    diannethegeek Posts: 14,776 Member
    I use almost every one of them. The site was designed for me to be able to so why wouldn't I?
  • shadow2soul
    shadow2soul Posts: 7,692 Member
    Yes I do. If I didn't my deficit would be too large which could lead to binge eating, fatigue, case of the hangry, and will result in body using lean mass as well as fat for fuel.

    I've tried not eating them. It didn't work well for me with my workout schedule.
  • gamerbabe14
    gamerbabe14 Posts: 876 Member
    I have to or else I will feel insanely hungry.
  • Tacklewasher
    Tacklewasher Posts: 7,122 Member
    Crap. Half the reason I run is so I can eat more.

    OP. You pick a reasonable weight loss rate when setting up MFP. If you exercise and don't eat them back, you will go beyond this reasonable weight loss rate and go into the too fast range. Yes, you can play around a bit, but MFP is designed for them to be eaten back.
  • kenyonhaff
    kenyonhaff Posts: 1,377 Member
    It depends. A 20 minute yoga program is different than a three hour hike.
  • HoneyBadger302
    HoneyBadger302 Posts: 2,102 Member
    I eat back almost all of mine most days. That still leaves me at a deficit overall. If I didn't eat them back, with my current workouts, I'd be waaaaay to low on intake.

    That being said, I use a chest HRM and the app that goes along with it where I can choose specific activities as I'm going, not just estimates based off of a database.
  • kimny72
    kimny72 Posts: 16,011 Member
    If you got your calorie goal from MFP, they calculated that goal assuming you would log your exercise and eat back at least some of them. So yes, of course.

    The ultimate indicator is your real world results: your weight loss and comfort level.
  • jaquieduck
    jaquieduck Posts: 14 Member
    Only about half. I don't feel hungry often, I NEVER go to bed hungry, and I just don't think I actually burn as many calories as MFP and my fitbit say I do. The calorie adjustment seems overly generous.
    Besides, sometimes if I walk a lot during the day and then sit around in the evening, or go to bed early MFP takes some of the exercise adjustment away when I sync my fitbit!
  • lulalacroix
    lulalacroix Posts: 1,082 Member
    Tacklewasher wrote: »
    Crap. Half the reason I run is so I can eat more.

    I run for wine. Somewhere there must be a t-shirt that says that.

    Heck yes, eat at least half your exercise calories. Your body probably needs it.
  • BNY721
    BNY721 Posts: 125 Member
    Absolutely. It is very rare that I do not.
  • lucerorojo
    lucerorojo Posts: 790 Member
    I eat back all my exercise calories. When by chance I haven't, it is NOT pretty! Starving, waking up in the middle of the night, lethargic and cranky. Just not good.
  • dragon_girl26
    dragon_girl26 Posts: 2,187 Member
    Yup. MFP is designed for you to do so, and besides..exercise calories taste the best! <3
  • Sambo_fitness
    Sambo_fitness Posts: 137 Member
    I don't trust the amount that is calculated on here.
    However, I know that if I am hungry, I need fuel!!!
    Definitely learn to recognize the signs as well as mentioned above to find out if you are eating enough.
  • rheddmobile
    rheddmobile Posts: 6,840 Member
    I take the numbers with a grain of salt - mapmyhike once gave me 400 calories for a thirty minute shopping trip. But I do eat back what I believe to be the correct number. The thing is to pay attention to your rate of loss over time, and how you feel. When my logging is tight, I typically lose right about what MFP tells me I should be losing, so my burns can't be far off.

    I once got a really big burn from a run and decided it was overestimated, finished the day with something like 1500 calories left over, and the next day I felt downright sick with hunger. So apparently I did burn a bunch and needed to eat more.
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 34,877 Member
    I estimated exercise calories carefully, and ate pretty much every single one throughout losing 50+ pounds in less than a year, and staying at a healthy weight for 2 years since.

    If you have a slow loss rate (i.e. a small calorie deficit), and do a small-ish number of calories of exercise, it's probably fairly safe not to eat them back.

    If you're losing a pound or two (or more) weekly, or doing many hundreds of calories worth of exercise, not eating them could prove to be a major health misjudgement, or a route to a future compensatory binge that derails weight-loss progress temporarily.
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