Excercise calories

Ashlove5
Ashlove5 Posts: 152 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
As you know my fitness pal gives you back excercise calories to eat , do you guys eat your activity and excercise calories back? Can it affect your weight loss pace if you do?

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  • lalalacroix
    lalalacroix Posts: 834 Member
    Personally I find the numbers inflated, but many others do not. I only eat a portion. The percentage that I eat depends on the exercise and how inflated I consider the amount to be.
  • Teabythesea_
    Teabythesea_ Posts: 559 Member
    It can only affect your weight loss if the estimated exercise calories are overstated and erase your deficit. To get around this many people will only eat back around half of them. In short, yes you should at least be eating back a portion of them as that is how MFP is designed.

    If you would rather not deal with exercise calorie calculations then you can use an online TDEE calculator which includes exercise in its calculation, subtract calories from that (250 for .5lb a week, 500 for 1lb a week, etc.) and eat to that number regardless of whether or not you exercise.
  • Strudders67
    Strudders67 Posts: 989 Member
    If I've been walking, as I can gauge my speed fairly accurately and I know how long I walked for, I'm happy to eat the calories that MFP gives me. If I've been on the crosstrainer (elliptical) in the gym, I log half the time as I know MFP gives me roughly double what the machine says I burned. The machine knows my speed and the effort level I selected, so I trust the machine's figures more than MFP. I eat my exercise calories though, otherwise my NET calories would be far too low to be good for me.
  • NorthCascades
    NorthCascades Posts: 10,968 Member
    ashsabiha wrote: »
    As you know my fitness pal gives you back excercise calories to eat , do you guys eat your activity and excercise calories back? Can it affect your weight loss pace if you do?

    This practice helps you avoid losing weight at a dangerous pace, where you'd be losing hair, feeling lethargic, etc.
  • callsitlikeiseeit
    callsitlikeiseeit Posts: 8,626 Member
    ALLLLLL of them

    well, not usually, but normally around half or so.

    not eating back some of them can result in bad things, depending on how truly accurate your caloric intake is.
  • Panini911
    Panini911 Posts: 2,325 Member
    yes eat them. sometimes they over estimate calories burned so you can chose to eat 50-60% but eat at least some good portion of them.

    here is an explanation
    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10503681/exercise-calories-do-i-eat-these-a-video-explanation/p1

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