Yes x 3, I'm still trail running/walkng 3x a week with my dog. Made it up to 14 minutes of running, then 45 minutes walking. I definitely eat my exercise calories, and feed my dog extra on trail days. In between, we're just walking the neighborhood, so we eat less.

Monday, 8/3

Tracking: Yes
Calories: under
Exercise: Yes, walk

Pass days to date - 1

I try to keep my deficit to less than 300 calories per day. Depending on how active I’ve been that day, I eat back some exercise calories to get there. I am in no hurry and I don’t like being hungry (no one I know wants to be around me when I’m hungry). I find MFP to be generous in calculating exercise calories so I use my watch to determine my total energy expenditure. I try to log what I’m eating as I’m preparing it - this way I know where I’m at especially with macros — if I don’t, I am way too low on protein. I have also been working on limiting added sugar and tracking in real time helps me adjust what I’m eating to keep it in check versus tracking at the end of the day and saying “ooops” even if I’m within my calorie goal. I tend to eat the same things, so posting usually entails the “copy to date” function.

Today is my birthday, so I'm taking my first and only pass in August for it.

I did get in 28 minutes of barre upper body strength + 3 mile run this morning.

I more often than not eat some of my exercise calories but not today... Varies with me, back to work now so my 'crutch' is 4 hrs cleaning 'in the bank' which I don't count, any cleaning over 4hrs I do count...
Exercise yes 10 min quigong, 25 min leslie sansone, 30 min strength training, 150 min cleaning, 60 min walk, 20 min gardening
Tracking yes calories yes

Yes x3.

Exercise was a nice walk - beautiful day in this part of the world.

I eat back most exercise calories. I don't eat back from walking or yoga and mostly don't eat back 100% but if I'm hungry then yeah I will.

Exercise: walked an hour
Calories: stayed within budget
Tracking: yes

"If you have been with the UAC for awhile, please share your own personal choices in how you treat exercise calories."

I eat my exercise calories back, but not all of them.

First of all, I don't own any fitness devices. In addition, I'm not going to the gym right now (which has machines that measure calorie burn), plus I do a LOT of exercise at work due to the pandemic.

I don't know how many steps I take or how fast I walk, run, or do other exercise. If I exercise outside, sometimes I can measure the distance with my car and use the time and a math formula to come up with my speed and calorie burn, etc., but that gets to be too much.

Secondly, ordinary people like you and me (mostly not healthcare or fitness professionals) enter data into the MFP exercise datebase -- so it's probably not accurate.

It's better to lowball my exercise than give myself big calorie burns that most likely aren't realistic. I leave a buffer for safety.