Losing weight by eating back exercise cals? HELP

RemoteWilderness
RemoteWilderness Posts: 29 Member
edited November 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
Looking for people to tell me that they've lost tons of weight while almost always eating back exercise calories. I'm trying to lose 120lbs. Thank you so much.

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  • RemoteWilderness
    RemoteWilderness Posts: 29 Member
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  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 34,688 Member
    I estimated mine carefully then ate them all. But I only lost 50-something pounds, 'cos I stopped when I got to a healthy weight . . . but I was old (59-60) and hypothyroid when I did it, so maybe it still counts. ;)
  • tinkerbellang83
    tinkerbellang83 Posts: 9,147 Member
    Lost my first 35lbs eating them all back. I have dropped a percentage of them now due to some of my activity not tracking as accurately through my Garmin (Rowing calories are a little inflated) so I only eat around 70% of my calories, I have a fair bit still to lose so on days when I am not rowing it gives me a bit more room for going over or creating a larger deficit.
  • GOT_Obsessed
    GOT_Obsessed Posts: 817 Member
    Me, yes. I ate everyone of them back. (60 lb)

    I don't use a fitness tracker to calculate them, just the database. But I tended to underestimate my burn on purpose just to be sure. I am anal that way.

    Example:
    If I went for a walk I chose "slow" not "moderate" pace even though I have had friends walking with me that struggled to keep up.

    A lot of people will eat about 50 percent of them back just to be sure. Either method seems to work.

    Best of luck.
  • motivatedmartha
    motivatedmartha Posts: 1,108 Member
    As long as you are sure your logging is on point eat back the extra calories your body has used exercising. I aim for 50% as I use the mfp database and feel some of the activities I regularly do are a bit high. Sometimes I eat a lot less than that, sometimes a bit more but generally it balances out. 43lb lost and still going
  • GrumpyHeadmistress
    GrumpyHeadmistress Posts: 666 Member
    Lost 112lbs eating back every single yummy exercise calorie.
  • kshama2001
    kshama2001 Posts: 28,052 Member
    MFP uses the NEAT method (Non-Exercise Activity Thermogenesis), and as such this system is designed for exercise calories to be eaten back. However, many consider the burns given by MFP to be inflated and only eat a percentage, such as 50%, back. Others, however, are able to lose weight while eating 100% of their exercise calories.

    http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/818082/exercise-calories-again-wtf/p1
  • ashliedelgado
    ashliedelgado Posts: 814 Member
    50-75%, 70lbs lost, 40 to go.
  • rheddmobile
    rheddmobile Posts: 6,840 Member
    edited July 2018
    I'm down 125, I eat mine, but with a caveat - I don't trust the calories mapmyhike gives me for my hikes (sometimes over 1000 for an hour), so I take a more reasonable estimate. Even so, most people here would consider my estimates inflated, but they work for me and I'm still slowly losing while eating at what MFP considers "maintenance" for me, so that's what's important.

    If you aren't losing at first after beginning a new exercise regimen, that's to be expected, because your muscles will retain water at first. Trust the process and wait at least three weeks before adjusting.
  • Idontcareyoupick
    Idontcareyoupick Posts: 2,854 Member
    I eat my exercise calories back and have lost 30 lbs, so slow and steady for me. I also estimate about half of what mfp and less than machines since they are inaccurate
  • jade_222
    jade_222 Posts: 147 Member
    I lost all my pregnancy weight and an additional 15 pounds eating back calories. I re-gained some of the weight and wasn't eating back my exercise calories so I would lose the weight faster but discovered that it made me really hungry and then I would over eat. So since then I have started eating my exercise calories and have been really successful in not overeating and losing weight.

    I think the trick is accuracy of calories burned so I think some people aim to eat back only 75% of their exercise calories or something like that. If you use a heart rate monitor and get an accurate calorie burn it would probably be safe to eat back all.
  • Spliner1969
    Spliner1969 Posts: 3,233 Member
    Lost 130 eating back my exercise calories. Trick was figuring out the accurate amount of calories to eat back. If my fitness app was giving me 1000 calorie burns for an hour long workout I cut that in half sometimes less than half if I didn't work very hard at it. Can't always trust a device or machine to tell you how many calories you burned.
  • Psychgrrl
    Psychgrrl Posts: 3,177 Member
    AnnPT77 wrote: »
    I estimated mine carefully then ate them all. But I only lost 50-something pounds, 'cos I stopped when I got to a healthy weight . . . but I was old (59-60) and hypothyroid when I did it, so maybe it still counts. ;)

    You always count! :blush:
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