to eat or not to eat....

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  • mgan9311
    mgan9311 Posts: 30 Member
    glassyo wrote: »
    mgan9311 wrote: »
    Just for clarification on this...

    See I'm not losing weight at 1800-2000 calories a day and I don't eat my exercise calories back. I'm losing inches but I sit all day for work, then I exercise 30-120 minutes 6 days a week in the form or resistance training, walking, hiking, running, spinning, or body weight exercises. In 5 weeks, I've lost two pounds and about 6 inches off my body overall. I'm wondering if I should be eating those exercise calories back based on what my fitbit says I burned. I thought I have been overeating this whole time.

    Um, you're not losing weight but you're losing inches and you lost two pounds and 6 inches? That didn't make sense. :) Nothing's wrong here other than you should eat some of those exercise calories back.

    Like I said, I have only lost two pounds in 5 weeks on the scale (I'm not losing weight "on the scale") but I have lost 6 inches across my body (I am assuming this is fat shrinkage which should = weight loss). I want the scale to show it..I'm female, 41, and 210.6 lbs at 5'5" and trying to get to 170 at least. My measurements are proof I'm doing something right, but I don't know why the scale isn't moving downwards. Point being, shouldn't it be going down after 5 weeks if I'm eating the correct calorie need?
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 34,226 Member
    mgan9311 wrote: »
    glassyo wrote: »
    mgan9311 wrote: »
    Just for clarification on this...

    See I'm not losing weight at 1800-2000 calories a day and I don't eat my exercise calories back. I'm losing inches but I sit all day for work, then I exercise 30-120 minutes 6 days a week in the form or resistance training, walking, hiking, running, spinning, or body weight exercises. In 5 weeks, I've lost two pounds and about 6 inches off my body overall. I'm wondering if I should be eating those exercise calories back based on what my fitbit says I burned. I thought I have been overeating this whole time.

    Um, you're not losing weight but you're losing inches and you lost two pounds and 6 inches? That didn't make sense. :) Nothing's wrong here other than you should eat some of those exercise calories back.

    Like I said, I have only lost two pounds in 5 weeks on the scale (I'm not losing weight "on the scale") but I have lost 6 inches across my body (I am assuming this is fat shrinkage which should = weight loss). I want the scale to show it..I'm female, 41, and 210.6 lbs at 5'5" and trying to get to 170 at least. My measurements are proof I'm doing something right, but I don't know why the scale isn't moving downwards. Point being, shouldn't it be going down after 5 weeks if I'm eating the correct calorie need?

    Possible/probable answer: Water retention changes.

    If you haven't read this, I'd suggest it:

    https://physiqonomics.com/the-weird-and-highly-annoying-world-of-scale-weight-and-fluctuations

    If it's that, you may be setting up for what people call a "whoosh", where the scale sees a sudden drop.

    There are other possibilities, too, but if you'd like to explore that, I'd suggest you start your own thread, with all your details and questions, since this thread started on a different topic and people may not notice that your question is somewhat different.
  • mgan9311
    mgan9311 Posts: 30 Member
    Thanks yall. I appreciate the feedback. I hope the original poster gets something out of it too.
  • PAV8888
    PAV8888 Posts: 14,254 Member
    10k steps of walking either needs to be logged separately and eaten back (MFP way, eat back for moderate walking would be about 64% of the value you see for the exercise to make it a net value since MFP has already assigned BMR*1.25 Cal to the time slot)

    Or you can go against the MFP method if the steps are EVERY day and lump them into activity, which would make you ACTIVE.

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