Should I really eat back the calories I burned off?

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  • sirmio
    sirmio Posts: 44 Member
    Additionally, the study followed men, in the 1950s, some who had physical jobs prior to the experiment. Point being that it's really hard to relate this study's findings to most modern day people's issues with exercise calories.

    I think that is a very important point. I've seen plenty of studies indicating that sugar consumption has gone through the roof since then and I'd imagine that other heavily processed foods aren't helping either. Another interesting thing is that the Minnesota Semi-Starvation Study comes up a lot on dieting sites, but as I wrote before, the subjects started the study below their ideal weight. That's not even close to being the same thing as people who are trying to limit caloric intake because they are already clinically overweight.

    Thanks for the response, I appreciate it. :)
  • love2run
    love2run Posts: 8
    According to your goal, you are supposed to eat a number of calories a day and exercise a number of calories per week. It depends on your goal. Eat the calories that you are supposed to eat a day (1200?) and make sure you exercise by the end of the week the number of calories that you are supposed to exercise (600?). You have to eat your daily calories 1200 and make sure that by the end of the week you exercise 600 calories. Let's say that you are going to exercise three times a week and you do 250 calories the first time; some of those calories should go to the 600. Maybe you want 200 to go to your 600 and you can eat 50 more calories on that day, 1250. You could use all the calories for the 600 and not eat any extra. Or you could eat all of them on that day but knowing that you still have to exercise 600 by the end of the week. You have to plan ahead and make sure that by the end of the week you have those 600 calories exercised. If in your daily intake you eat 1250 one day. That means that you will have exercise those 50 calories that you ate extra. So, instead of exercising 600 that week, you will have to exercise 650. I don't know if this makes sense, but it has worked for me. The more you exercise a week the more calories you will extra to eat. If you exercise 800 calories in the week, that means you can eat 200 calories more during the week.
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