Do you eat your earned calories from exercising?

hayesjh01
hayesjh01 Posts: 12 Member
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Do you eat your extra calories you earn from working out?

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  • kami3006
    kami3006 Posts: 4,979 Member
    edited January 2019
    hayesjh01 wrote: »
    Do you eat your extra calories you earn from working out?

    Yes. This app is designed for you to. Otherwise, I would not be able to maintain my weight and when I was losing I wouldn't have had the energy to progress in my weight lifting. And, I would have been super hungry.

    This is a fantastic video about eating exercise calories: https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10503681/exercise-calories-do-i-eat-these-a-video-explanation/p1
  • Chef_Barbell
    Chef_Barbell Posts: 6,644 Member
    Yup... the body needs fuel to perform
  • jennifer_417
    jennifer_417 Posts: 12,344 Member
    Every single one. I do tend to underlog my exercise, though, because MFP overestimates calorie burns.
  • Gisel2015
    Gisel2015 Posts: 4,186 Member
    Not really. After being in maintenance for 9 years, not being too consistent or strict with the weighing and logging any more, and knowing that at my age and with may workouts, I don't burn too many calories, I defined my own TDEE.

    I log the minutes exercising and give myself an extra 10 calories per workout. If I am hungry, I will eat all of them (they taste the same as the non-exercise calories) but if I am not, I save them for the weekend when I eat out but I don't log. It works for me.





  • Evamutt
    Evamutt Posts: 2,750 Member
    always
  • HerFire
    HerFire Posts: 22 Member
    edited January 2019
    Not usually. If I do it’s maybe half.
  • daygirl5000
    daygirl5000 Posts: 38 Member
    Thank-you this thread is awesome!!
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10503681/exercise-calories-do-i-eat-these-a-video-explanation/p1
  • kgirlhart
    kgirlhart Posts: 5,165 Member
    If you used mfp to get your goal then you should be eating back the exercise calories. If you used a TDEE calculator to get your goal then the exercise calories are already added to the goal and you don't add them again.
  • preciousgirls
    preciousgirls Posts: 1 Member
    What is Tdee?
  • estherdragonbat
    estherdragonbat Posts: 5,283 Member
    Total Daily Energy Expenditure: IE how many calories you burn in a day

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