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I don't consider myself on a low calorie diet I eat 1490 calories a day- and I work out 5-6 days a week burning min 500 calories but my goal is to burn 600-750.0
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AmyNvegas is right. You only need to burn an extra 500 calories a day to lose a pound a week. If you exercise you are burning more calories. The term "eating your exercise calories" makes it sound weird and wrong. It is just because this site minuses the 500 calories before you figure in your exercise. If you did it the other way around, add the exercise calories and then minus the 500 it wouldn't seem like you are "eating your exercise calories"0
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AmyNvegas is right. You only need to burn an extra 500 calories a day to lose a pound a week. If you exercise you are burning more calories. The term "eating your exercise calories" makes it sound weird and wrong. It is just because this site minuses the 500 calories before you figure in your exercise. If you did it the other way around, add the exercise calories and then minus the 500 it wouldn't seem like you are "eating your exercise calories"
good way to look at it...
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Im content I have lost 30+ lbs prior to MFP just by eating 1500 calories a day and becoming active again-
I like MFP because I can log my food instead of wasting paper daily (i used post-its)
Coming to MFP lowered my calories more ( I did try eating my exercise calories and it had the reverse effect on me) I thought I wasn't doing something right since the site told me to eat more so I tried and nothing I would either stay the same or I gained (neither of which did I want)
Yes I burn 500-750 calories 5-6 days a week and I eat 1490 calories a day- I consult a trainer who says Its okay to eat between 1400-1600 calories a day for a female- I also consult a doctor who knows everything I do and monitors me ( my doctor told me to actually workout more)
Yes it takes 3500 calories to lose or gain a pound- So whatever I am over that 3500 I just count that as additional weight loss--
Yes this site deducts roughly 500 calories but it is still an estimate so who is to say the calories it gives you are correct they could be higher or lower- I use MFP as a guide the rest is up to me and my body.
I also listen to my body not my stomach.
Im not in starvation mode I know what starvation mode is and what it does-
When I am stressed I don't eat (at all I will get sick if I do) and I went through and ordeal this November where I didn't eat for weeks if I did it was small amounts- I lost alot of weight I knew it would all come back once the stress was gone because my body would hold on to whatever food i ate (I knew what was happening).
I eat daily don't skip meals and workout if I am hungry I will eat something but I am not going to force food/500-750 calories down my throat after a workout just because they are there. I eat to live not live to eat. (don't get me wrong I like to eat but I don't wake up wondering what I am going to eat next or if I spend extra time at the gym I can have a donut-0 -
Even if BMR was given as baseline for comatose patients it still would mean you need to eat more than that. Scientifically BMR is minimum energy it takes to continue cell growth and repair (respiratory function transport of nutrient-basically all the body systems carrying on their jobs). A coma state indicates there is very little on no function in various muscle and sensory tissues. However in a normal state those tissues/systems are functioning therefore their would be a greater energy need just based on that.
If you really want more info you could go to your local college and pick up an human physiology textbook or the journal of human physiology. Also there are several colleges that have podcasts lectures.0 -
I just looked at my calories under my goal page and MFP doesnt even have me at a 500 calorie deficit-0
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Really? It doesn't look something like this below. This is from my goal page. If I did not exercise and wanted to lose 1 pound a week I should have 1,300 calories. To maintain my normal weight with no exercise I would have 1,800 calories a day. If I eat 1,300 calories and then work off 500 calories on the treadmill, well then I can add another 500 calories to my Net Calories consumed, and then be back up at 1,800. Or I could not eat my "exercise calories". But I am way to hungry for that. I choose to eat them.I just looked at my calories under my goal page and MFP doesnt even have me at a 500 calorie deficit-
Your Diet Profile Target
Calories Burned
From Normal Daily Activity 1,800 calories/day
Net Calories Consumed*
Your Daily Goal 1,300 calories/day
Daily Calorie Deficit 500 calories
Projected Weight Loss 1.0 lbs/week0 -
Really? It doesn't look something like this below. This is from my goal page. If I did not exercise and wanted to lose 1 pound a week I should have 1,300 calories. To maintain my normal weight with no exercise I would have 1,800 calories a day. If I eat 1,300 calories and then work off 500 calories on the treadmill, well then I can add another 500 calories to my Net Calories consumed, and then be back up at 1,800. Or I could not eat my "exercise calories". But I am way to hungry for that. I choose to eat them.I just looked at my calories under my goal page and MFP doesnt even have me at a 500 calorie deficit-
Your Diet Profile Target
Calories Burned
From Normal Daily Activity 1,800 calories/day
Net Calories Consumed*
Your Daily Goal 1,300 calories/day
Daily Calorie Deficit 500 calories
Projected Weight Loss 1.0 lbs/week
Nope it has me at 490 here is mine
Your Diet Profile Target
Calories Burned
From Normal Daily Activity 1,970 calories/day
Net Calories Consumed*
Your Daily Goal 1,490 calories/day
Daily Calorie Deficit 480 calories
Projected Weight Loss 1.0 lbs/week
*Net calories consumed = total calories consumed - exercise calories burned
***Now I still use this as just an estimate because other sites I have looked at tell me I should eat more or less calories a day to lose a 1lb a week- I use MFP as just a guide***
I may work at a desk all day long but I am very mobile I jump around always moving I run around with my kids wrestle with my husband (enough to get my heart rate up and sweat) I practice with my daughters basketball team so on and so forth but yet I am still listed and sedentary (sp)-0 -
Hmm, weird that it isn't 500, but it is figuring a Daily Calorie Deficit.0
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Hmm, weird that it isn't 500, but it is figuring a Daily Calorie Deficit.
Yes it gives me a deficit just not for 500- which is fine because I will gain it through exercise-0 -
It comes from the facts that we are already in a calorie deficit according to the weight we want to lose each week. Example my calories to maintain my weight are about 3290 per day with my everyday activity not including exercise. My MFP calories are 2290 for a deficit of 1000 a day which will get me the 2 pounds a week since 3500 = one pound. The human body has a defense mechanism which kicks in when you consistently eat less than 1000 calories less than it takes to run your body which triggers a slow down in metabolism otherwise known as starvation mode. Now if I exercise and burn 400 calories and do not eat those 400 I will be at a deficit of 1400 which could and with my body most definitely will put me into that conservation mode and I actually gain instead of lose. Now as we know everyone is different. Some people have a stronger gene when it comes to this conservation than others that is why some people can eat all day or barely at all and stay at a mostly consitent weight or within 10-20 pounds of a good weight while others become obese and even morbidly obese. These are ancient self preservation genes that are much stronger in some people than others and date back to the feast and famine times of prehistoric man when food was harder to come by. I am one of the lucky ones with the really prevalent genes!:huh: That is why some people continue to lose when they do not eat exercise calories and some do not or even gain. Hope that helps.:flowerforyou:
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Not sure if the part about MFP tracking your BMR/Normal Activity cals is accurate...The BMR calculator says I need 1755 cals to maintain yet the goals area Normal Activity Cals is 2190.......so, really check into your BMR to be sure about the deficit you think you are getting...........0 -
ok thanks for resonding- here is my thing every fitness plan/workout that I have seen or read states to eat 1200-1500 calories with a max of 1600 calories for a female and to stagger them daily never eating the same amount daily and to workout I have not seen nor read anything saying to eat 1200-1600 calories and workout then eat that as well.
Also the BMR aren't that accurate they are just estimates used for hospitals to use on coma patients.
I agree with this, I have tracked my BMR all over the net and it varies, but is consistantly lower then the daily goals that MFP has set for me, therefore when testing the theory on eatin the exercise cals I maintained a weight for a bit, when I finally figured out that I was not in enough of a deficit I stopped eating them and started losing.
My situation may vary from others. I could see eating your exercise cals if you are working out super hard an burning more then 1800 cals a day....this is too much of a deficit possibly so eating some of them will make sense. I personally will keep mine at a 1000-1600 deficit on my own.
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I don't think even studies would change what people choose to do.
Amen! :laugh:
I personally think it is especially true to eat the majority of your exercise calories when you have less to lose.
I tend to agree with you on doing this with less to lose, but for those of us looking at 100+ I am not feeling I am going to get the benefit by eating them.
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I don't know if there's a study but, to me, it just makes intuitive sense. One of the reasons I exercise is so that I can eat more. I'm baffled by people who post that they can't figure out how to eat more than 600 calories a day without stuffing themselves. I've been doing this over a year and I can still put away 3000 calories in a day if I don't pay attention. I try to use a common sense approach and try to eat about 1500 to 1900 calories in a day, depending on how much exercise I've done. I don't want to have to obsess about every little bite. I treat all of these numbers like estimates and adjust what I'm doing based on my results. I alway eat some of my exercise calories but seldom eat all of them. And, if I eat all of them my weight loss slows down. I'm assuming that's because the estimates are off.
And I agree, you could find reams of medical documentation proving the theory, and people would still do what they want.
The internet can be a blessing and a curse. You can find something to support whatever you want to believe. :laugh:
I agree with this......because I have been researching my own body, the #'s here in 2 different areas for the same BMR/Normal Activity are off b y 400, if I ate the excercise cals I would have a 80 cal deficit.....no loss, which happened to me already, the min I stopped eating them all.....boom I start losing again.
~~~~ I alway eat some of my exercise calories but seldom eat all of them. And, if I eat all of them my weight loss slows down. I'm assuming that's because the estimates are off. ~~~
because I have been researching my own body, the #'s here in 2 different areas for the same BMR/Normal Activity are off b y 400, if I ate the excercise cals I would have a 80 cal deficit.....no loss, which happened to me already, the min I stopped eating them all.....boom I start losing again.
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hey now how come I didn't get the pages Amy got?:sad:so....it appears the consensus is that we don't know if a 3rd party
(and I should have been more clear, my fault)
an objective party that has no interest in the outcome is the one who discovered this method. As I said earlier, I believe it, I follow it and it works for me. If a different appraoch works for some, good.
I will continue to eat my exercise cals because I like to eat. I also cannot imagine how someone can't eat a couple hundred or evn 500 more cals a day. Sometimes I wish I had that problem.
I just found some very good pages on ExRx.net that you gave me the other night Dave. It has sources I didn't actually look them up but it did have sources. It is under starvation effect in the Why low cal diets fail page.
Amy:bigsmile:
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My favorite post for answers:
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/23912-links-in-mfp-you-want-to-read-again-and-again
hey thanks...another reason to like that site...I am always looking at that guy doing lifts that I MIGHT try...lol
SongBird turned me onto that site
Sounds like an interesting site!:drinker:
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hey now how come I didn't get the pages Amy got?:sad:so....it appears the consensus is that we don't know if a 3rd party
(and I should have been more clear, my fault)
an objective party that has no interest in the outcome is the one who discovered this method. As I said earlier, I believe it, I follow it and it works for me. If a different appraoch works for some, good.
I will continue to eat my exercise cals because I like to eat. I also cannot imagine how someone can't eat a couple hundred or evn 500 more cals a day. Sometimes I wish I had that problem.
I just found some very good pages on ExRx.net that you gave me the other night Dave. It has sources I didn't actually look them up but it did have sources. It is under starvation effect in the Why low cal diets fail page.
Amy:bigsmile:
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My favorite post for answers:
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/23912-links-in-mfp-you-want-to-read-again-and-again
hey thanks...another reason to like that site...I am always looking at that guy doing lifts that I MIGHT try...lol
SongBird turned me onto that site
Sounds like an interesting site!:drinker:
FC
you could probably write that site your own bad self....you are awesome and fantastic:laugh:0 -
I think it's imperative we all do what works for our own bodies. I'm not sure where the rumor startedI don't know if there's a study but, to me, it just makes intuitive sense. One of the reasons I exercise is so that I can eat more. I'm baffled by people who post that they can't figure out how to eat more than 600 calories a day without stuffing themselves. I've been doing this over a year and I can still put away 3000 calories in a day if I don't pay attention. I try to use a common sense approach and try to eat about 1500 to 1900 calories in a day, depending on how much exercise I've done. I don't want to have to obsess about every little bite. I treat all of these numbers like estimates and adjust what I'm doing based on my results. I alway eat some of my exercise calories but seldom eat all of them. And, if I eat all of them my weight loss slows down. I'm assuming that's because the estimates are off.
And I agree, you could find reams of medical documentation proving the theory, and people would still do what they want.
The internet can be a blessing and a curse. You can find something to support whatever you want to believe. :laugh:
I agree with this......because I have been researching my own body, the #'s here in 2 different areas for the same BMR/Normal Activity are off b y 400, if I ate the excercise cals I would have a 80 cal deficit.....no loss, which happened to me already, the min I stopped eating them all.....boom I start losing again.
~~~~ I alway eat some of my exercise calories but seldom eat all of them. And, if I eat all of them my weight loss slows down. I'm assuming that's because the estimates are off. ~~~
because I have been researching my own body, the #'s here in 2 different areas for the same BMR/Normal Activity are off b y 400, if I ate the excercise cals I would have a 80 cal deficit.....no loss, which happened to me already, the min I stopped eating them all.....boom I start losing again.
Created by MyFitnessPal.com - Online Calorie Counter that I eat all mine because in fact I don't. I do think eating them vs. not eating them a person would want to take into account the amount they are looking to lose. I have a higher amount to lose, no way do I eat 1200 a day, most tough workouts I do at the gym burn me around 1200-1300 cals, I sure don't feel the need to add them all back in.
But for those of you that do and you remain losers go for it! I had never heard of the concept of 'eating back excercise cals' until I joined MFP either. I have discussed it with professionals I deal with and they look at me like I'm from Outer Space so I think a good question is raised in the 'where it all began' before MFP thinking. I think questioning sources can be a very healthy thing to do (and I don't mean bashing the sources but being curious and questioning in a respectful manner)...so many studies so many conflicting reports:frown: ... it gets pretty crazy trying to sort them all out.:ohwell: :noway:
I have read the 'eat the excercise cals' posts/thread so I do know what the thread contains but perhaps I simply don't fully understand the whole concept myself in that I would eat back 100%.
At most I might eat back 1/2 of them and even that not always.:flowerforyou:
But remember because I do one thing doesn't mean it's right or wrong for another person here, it's simple what I have found works for me the past couple years on my journey to clean eating!:drinker:
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AmyNvegas is right. You only need to burn an extra 500 calories a day to lose a pound a week. If you exercise you are burning more calories. The term "eating your exercise calories" makes it sound weird and wrong. It is just because this site minuses the 500 calories before you figure in your exercise. If you did it the other way around, add the exercise calories and then minus the 500 it wouldn't seem like you are "eating your exercise calories"
But from what does this site figure in that deficit? Because this is the issue I have. Although I understand that the BMR here is a "guess", I have done my own and it is on the lower side where MFP has me at a higher BMR, which in turns gives me this deficit you speak of ., But in reality if I eat what MFP says 1200 cals AND my excercise cals I will only have a 80 cal deficit in my normal activity cals. I try and burn at least 400 cals a day so that I can at least get 500 deficit in the day...I can't eat my exercise cals....I don't trust the deficit built in here.
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I just looked at my calories under my goal page and MFP doesnt even have me at a 500 calorie deficit-
Bingo.
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Now tell us something we don't KNOW Dave!:grumble: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: Oh I'm so kidding guys
hey now how come I didn't get the pages Amy got?:sad:so....it appears the consensus is that we don't know if a 3rd party
(and I should have been more clear, my fault)
an objective party that has no interest in the outcome is the one who discovered this method. As I said earlier, I believe it, I follow it and it works for me. If a different appraoch works for some, good.
I will continue to eat my exercise cals because I like to eat. I also cannot imagine how someone can't eat a couple hundred or evn 500 more cals a day. Sometimes I wish I had that problem.
I just found some very good pages on ExRx.net that you gave me the other night Dave. It has sources I didn't actually look them up but it did have sources. It is under starvation effect in the Why low cal diets fail page.
Amy:bigsmile:
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My favorite post for answers:
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/23912-links-in-mfp-you-want-to-read-again-and-again
hey thanks...another reason to like that site...I am always looking at that guy doing lifts that I MIGHT try...lol
SongBird turned me onto that site
Sounds like an interesting site!:drinker:
FC
you could probably write that site your own bad self....you are awesome and fantastic:laugh::bigsmile: :laugh: I don't even know what site we're talking about here yet.
ah thanks Dave for that kind vote of confidence...ah I think ?:flowerforyou: :noway: :bigsmile: Hold on a sec! You were laughin when you said that!
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I think it's imperative we all do what works for our own bodies. I'm not sure where the rumor startedI don't know if there's a study but, to me, it just makes intuitive sense. One of the reasons I exercise is so that I can eat more. I'm baffled by people who post that they can't figure out how to eat more than 600 calories a day without stuffing themselves. I've been doing this over a year and I can still put away 3000 calories in a day if I don't pay attention. I try to use a common sense approach and try to eat about 1500 to 1900 calories in a day, depending on how much exercise I've done. I don't want to have to obsess about every little bite. I treat all of these numbers like estimates and adjust what I'm doing based on my results. I alway eat some of my exercise calories but seldom eat all of them. And, if I eat all of them my weight loss slows down. I'm assuming that's because the estimates are off.
And I agree, you could find reams of medical documentation proving the theory, and people would still do what they want.
The internet can be a blessing and a curse. You can find something to support whatever you want to believe. :laugh:
I agree with this......because I have been researching my own body, the #'s here in 2 different areas for the same BMR/Normal Activity are off b y 400, if I ate the excercise cals I would have a 80 cal deficit.....no loss, which happened to me already, the min I stopped eating them all.....boom I start losing again.
~~~~ I alway eat some of my exercise calories but seldom eat all of them. And, if I eat all of them my weight loss slows down. I'm assuming that's because the estimates are off. ~~~
because I have been researching my own body, the #'s here in 2 different areas for the same BMR/Normal Activity are off b y 400, if I ate the excercise cals I would have a 80 cal deficit.....no loss, which happened to me already, the min I stopped eating them all.....boom I start losing again.
Created by MyFitnessPal.com - Online Calorie Counter that I eat all mine because in fact I don't. I do think eating them vs. not eating them a person would want to take into account the amount they are looking to lose. I have a higher amount to lose, no way do I eat 1200 a day, most tough workouts I do at the gym burn me around 1200-1300 cals, I sure don't feel the need to add them all back in.
But for those of you that do and you remain losers go for it! I had never heard of the concept of 'eating back excercise cals' until I joined MFP either. I have discussed it with professionals I deal with and they look at me like I'm from Outer Space so I think a good question is raised in the 'where it all began' before MFP thinking. I think questioning sources can be a very healthy thing to do (and I don't mean bashing the sources but being curious and questioning in a respectful manner)...so many studies so many conflicting reports:frown: ... it gets pretty crazy trying to sort them all out.:ohwell: :noway:
I have read the 'eat the excercise cals' posts/thread so I do know what the thread contains but perhaps I simply don't fully understand the whole concept myself in that I would eat back 100%.
At most I might eat back 1/2 of them and even that not always.:flowerforyou:
But remember because I do one thing doesn't mean it's right or wrong for another person here, it's simple what I have found works for me the past couple years on my journey to clean eating!:drinker:
FC
I too get looked at like I have 8 heads when I ask about eating what you burn- Your right when you said because I do it doesn't mean its the right or wrong thing- I asked this question because I have noticed everytime someone post a question about weight loss or beginning their weightloss journey someone or alot of people constantly say eat ALL of your exercise calories so I wanted to know where the idea came from-
Yes if you had a real intense 1200-1300 calorie burning workout you should eat something that doesn't mean eat it all back- they make protein bars and recovery shakes and after workout smoothies-
It all comes down to each is own and instead of people thinking what they are doing is right and if someone does different than its the wrong way- We need to remember that MFP and all other websites are just ***GUIDES***
You can still lose weight by not changing your diet and just adding exercise but what is that really teaching you because when the workouts stop that means weight will come back on thats why they say diet/exercising is the most beneficial in weight loss as well as maintaining what you have lost0 -
I think it's imperative we all do what works for our own bodies. I'm not sure where the rumor started that I eat all mine because in fact I don't. I do think eating them vs. not eating them a person would want to take into account the amount they are looking to lose. I have a higher amount to lose, no way do I eat 1200 a day, most tough workouts I do at the gym burn me around 1200-1300 cals, I sure don't feel the need to add them all back in.
But for those of you that do and you remain losers go for it! I had never heard of the concept of 'eating back excercise cals' until I joined MFP either. I have discussed it with professionals I deal with and they look at me like I'm from Outer Space so I think a good question is raised in the 'where it all began' before MFP thinking. I think questioning sources can be a very healthy thing to do (and I don't mean bashing the sources but being curious and questioning in a respectful manner)...so many studies so many conflicting reports:frown: ... it gets pretty crazy trying to sort them all out.:ohwell: :noway:
I have read the 'eat the excercise cals' posts/thread so I do know what the thread contains but perhaps I simply don't fully understand the whole concept myself in that I would eat back 100%.
At most I might eat back 1/2 of them and even that not always.:flowerforyou:
But remember because I do one thing doesn't mean it's right or wrong for another person here, it's simple what I have found works for me the past couple years on my journey to clean eating!:drinker:
FC
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thanks for that.....as always a thoughtful post....I think it is so important for those starting out to have questions instead of just doing what they have been told to do...experiment...we are all unique and if it works, it works!
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I think it's imperative we all do what works for our own bodies. I'm not sure where the rumor startedI don't know if there's a study but, to me, it just makes intuitive sense. One of the reasons I exercise is so that I can eat more. I'm baffled by people who post that they can't figure out how to eat more than 600 calories a day without stuffing themselves. I've been doing this over a year and I can still put away 3000 calories in a day if I don't pay attention. I try to use a common sense approach and try to eat about 1500 to 1900 calories in a day, depending on how much exercise I've done. I don't want to have to obsess about every little bite. I treat all of these numbers like estimates and adjust what I'm doing based on my results. I alway eat some of my exercise calories but seldom eat all of them. And, if I eat all of them my weight loss slows down. I'm assuming that's because the estimates are off.
And I agree, you could find reams of medical documentation proving the theory, and people would still do what they want.
The internet can be a blessing and a curse. You can find something to support whatever you want to believe. :laugh:
I agree with this......because I have been researching my own body, the #'s here in 2 different areas for the same BMR/Normal Activity are off b y 400, if I ate the excercise cals I would have a 80 cal deficit.....no loss, which happened to me already, the min I stopped eating them all.....boom I start losing again.
~~~~ I alway eat some of my exercise calories but seldom eat all of them. And, if I eat all of them my weight loss slows down. I'm assuming that's because the estimates are off. ~~~
because I have been researching my own body, the #'s here in 2 different areas for the same BMR/Normal Activity are off b y 400, if I ate the excercise cals I would have a 80 cal deficit.....no loss, which happened to me already, the min I stopped eating them all.....boom I start losing again.
Created by MyFitnessPal.com - Online Calorie Counter that I eat all mine because in fact I don't. I do think eating them vs. not eating them a person would want to take into account the amount they are looking to lose. I have a higher amount to lose, no way do I eat 1200 a day, most tough workouts I do at the gym burn me around 1200-1300 cals, I sure don't feel the need to add them all back in.
But for those of you that do and you remain losers go for it! I had never heard of the concept of 'eating back excercise cals' until I joined MFP either. I have discussed it with professionals I deal with and they look at me like I'm from Outer Space so I think a good question is raised in the 'where it all began' before MFP thinking. I think questioning sources can be a very healthy thing to do (and I don't mean bashing the sources but being curious and questioning in a respectful manner)...so many studies so many conflicting reports:frown: ... it gets pretty crazy trying to sort them all out.:ohwell: :noway:
I have read the 'eat the excercise cals' posts/thread so I do know what the thread contains but perhaps I simply don't fully understand the whole concept myself in that I would eat back 100%.
At most I might eat back 1/2 of them and even that not always.:flowerforyou:
But remember because I do one thing doesn't mean it's right or wrong for another person here, it's simple what I have found works for me the past couple years on my journey to clean eating!:drinker:
FC
Thanks for clearing this up and taking a position outloud here, I think we all look up to your great losses, alot pay attention to what works for you because you have lost so much.......
I understand you are not condoning either topic....To eat or not to eat......but thanks for clearing the air on what FC does or does not do.
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I love MFP its practically the only place we can get people from all walks of life who are basically trying to achieve the same goal and bring them together ..in return each of us here can pick the things we would like to try from others and see if it may help us as well.......:bigsmile: ......thks for the insight0
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But from what does this site figure in that deficit? Because this is the issue I have. Although I understand that the BMR here is a "guess", I have done my own and it is on the lower side where MFP has me at a higher BMR, which in turns gives me this deficit you speak of ., But in reality if I eat what MFP says 1200 cals AND my excercise cals I will only have a 80 cal deficit in my normal activity cals. I try and burn at least 400 cals a day so that I can at least get 500 deficit in the day...I can't eat my exercise cals....I don't trust the deficit built in here.
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MFP takes your BMR, adds in a factor for your daily activity level (sedentary, lightly active...)--and then takes the deficit from that total. You can adjust these numbers under goals/custom.0 -
Yea, well I did feel the strong urge to do that when I saw my name paired up with Oprahs!:blushing: :laugh:
I think it's imperative we all do what works for our own bodies. I'm not sure where the rumor startedI don't know if there's a study but, to me, it just makes intuitive sense. One of the reasons I exercise is so that I can eat more. I'm baffled by people who post that they can't figure out how to eat more than 600 calories a day without stuffing themselves. I've been doing this over a year and I can still put away 3000 calories in a day if I don't pay attention. I try to use a common sense approach and try to eat about 1500 to 1900 calories in a day, depending on how much exercise I've done. I don't want to have to obsess about every little bite. I treat all of these numbers like estimates and adjust what I'm doing based on my results. I alway eat some of my exercise calories but seldom eat all of them. And, if I eat all of them my weight loss slows down. I'm assuming that's because the estimates are off.
And I agree, you could find reams of medical documentation proving the theory, and people would still do what they want.
The internet can be a blessing and a curse. You can find something to support whatever you want to believe. :laugh:
I agree with this......because I have been researching my own body, the #'s here in 2 different areas for the same BMR/Normal Activity are off b y 400, if I ate the excercise cals I would have a 80 cal deficit.....no loss, which happened to me already, the min I stopped eating them all.....boom I start losing again.
~~~~ I alway eat some of my exercise calories but seldom eat all of them. And, if I eat all of them my weight loss slows down. I'm assuming that's because the estimates are off. ~~~
because I have been researching my own body, the #'s here in 2 different areas for the same BMR/Normal Activity are off b y 400, if I ate the excercise cals I would have a 80 cal deficit.....no loss, which happened to me already, the min I stopped eating them all.....boom I start losing again.
Created by MyFitnessPal.com - Online Calorie Counter that I eat all mine because in fact I don't. I do think eating them vs. not eating them a person would want to take into account the amount they are looking to lose. I have a higher amount to lose, no way do I eat 1200 a day, most tough workouts I do at the gym burn me around 1200-1300 cals, I sure don't feel the need to add them all back in.
But for those of you that do and you remain losers go for it! I had never heard of the concept of 'eating back excercise cals' until I joined MFP either. I have discussed it with professionals I deal with and they look at me like I'm from Outer Space so I think a good question is raised in the 'where it all began' before MFP thinking. I think questioning sources can be a very healthy thing to do (and I don't mean bashing the sources but being curious and questioning in a respectful manner)...so many studies so many conflicting reports:frown: ... it gets pretty crazy trying to sort them all out.:ohwell: :noway:
I have read the 'eat the excercise cals' posts/thread so I do know what the thread contains but perhaps I simply don't fully understand the whole concept myself in that I would eat back 100%.
At most I might eat back 1/2 of them and even that not always.:flowerforyou:
But remember because I do one thing doesn't mean it's right or wrong for another person here, it's simple what I have found works for me the past couple years on my journey to clean eating!:drinker:
FC
Thanks for clearing this up and taking a position outloud here, I think we all look up to your great losses, alot pay attention to what works for you because you have lost so much.......
I understand you are not condoning either topic....To eat or not to eat......but thanks for clearing the air on what FC does or does not do.
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I just looked at my calories under my goal page and MFP doesnt even have me at a 500 calorie deficit-
Did you custom set your goals along the way? I've changed my calories and my percentages from what MFP set up for me. And my changes are what it shows now, not the 500 calories deficit either.0 -
very good point!:happy:I love MFP its practically the only place we can get people from all walks of life who are basically trying to achieve the same goal and bring them together ..in return each of us here can pick the things we would like to try from others and see if it may help us as well.......:bigsmile: ......thks for the insight0 -
But from what does this site figure in that deficit? Because this is the issue I have. Although I understand that the BMR here is a "guess", I have done my own and it is on the lower side where MFP has me at a higher BMR, which in turns gives me this deficit you speak of ., But in reality if I eat what MFP says 1200 cals AND my excercise cals I will only have a 80 cal deficit in my normal activity cals. I try and burn at least 400 cals a day so that I can at least get 500 deficit in the day...I can't eat my exercise cals....I don't trust the deficit built in here.
Thats me
MFP takes your BMR, adds in a factor for your daily activity level (sedentary, lightly active...)--and then takes the deficit from that total. You can adjust these numbers under goals/custom.
This does not work..../the BMR is close to correct in the BMR calculator.....regardless if I say I workout 23 hours a day or 1 hour a day, the Normal Daily activity is the same in my goals and is a number that is NOT CORRECT for me based on other sites...I know how to track myself daily in my food diary.
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