Eatting back Calories after exercise

faith12207
faith12207 Posts: 31
edited October 2 in Health and Weight Loss
Can someone please give me some advice when i exercise like today and gained calories points am i suppose to eat them i have and it seems like it is not helping should i try not eating them? Lost 3 lbs so far but seems it is coming right back to where i started really getting frustrated am i trying to hard?...Any help please...Thanks in advance

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  • TeaBea
    TeaBea Posts: 14,517 Member
    Eat at least some of them back. 1200 calories is for sedentary people who DO NOT exercise. When you exercise you burn calories - if you go below 1200 NET calories it seems like you should lose weight quicker ....but your body holds on to calories when they are too low. Your body thinks that you are starving it.

    Someone on MFP had a great analogy - if you want your car to go - you need to put gas in it. Fuel your workouts.
  • rockstarginaa
    rockstarginaa Posts: 1,529 Member
    I don't tend to eat my exercise calories back only because I am rather full without them. I know I should try and eat some of them back, but I'm so close to goal at this point so I'll worry about it when I switch to maintenance,
  • koosdel
    koosdel Posts: 3,317 Member
    To be skinny- No.

    To be rockin hot babe- Yes.
  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
    To be skinny- No.

    To be rockin hot babe- Yes.

    great answer!!!!
  • _GlaDOS_
    _GlaDOS_ Posts: 1,520 Member
    To be skinny- No.

    To be rockin hot babe- Yes.

    This is correct.

    :drinker:
  • baisleac
    baisleac Posts: 2,019 Member
    To be skinny- No.

    To be rockin hot babe- Yes.

    Best answer!
  • MrsCon40
    MrsCon40 Posts: 2,351 Member
    www.shouldieatmyexercisecalories.com

    learn it. live it. love it.

    :flowerforyou:
  • Kikilicious84
    Kikilicious84 Posts: 312
    To be skinny- No.

    To be rockin hot babe- Yes.

    **runs away to eat exercise calories**

    Haha...Nice.
  • Kikilicious84
    Kikilicious84 Posts: 312
    www.shouldieatmyexercisecalories.com

    learn it. live it. love it.

    :flowerforyou:

    This made me L O L...
  • anubis609
    anubis609 Posts: 3,966 Member
    You don't have to. You may lose weight faster at first, but you'll find out over time that the negative calories will compound and your body will plateau because it doesn't have enough energy to perform like it should. You may become lethargic, have headaches, feel generally weak and/or under the weather.

    Food replenishes, restores, and repairs the pounding it takes internally from exercise. If none of those sound like a reasonable reason to eat your exercise calories back, then welcome the aforementioned symptoms that may come into play one day.

    It's your body and what you decide to do with it.
  • TheNewLK
    TheNewLK Posts: 933 Member
    www.shouldieatmyexercisecalories.com

    learn it. live it. love it.

    :flowerforyou:

    I ♥ you for showing this
  • danstvguy
    danstvguy Posts: 46
    Gee .. I thought the last answer was the best until I saw this one!:laugh:

    That said I think when eating those calories back I wouldn't rush it. You know you can have smaller meals more often ... try again in a couple hours.
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