do YOU eat your exercise calories?

I do eat mine back.
In theory because it keeps my net calories up to the level where I maintain a 500 calorie deficit daily, and thus won't lose more than 1lb per week. I am fairly close to my goal and do not want to lose faster.
In practise it is also because if i have exercised I am generally hunngier and I enjoy the opportunity to have a larger food intake on some days.
That said I don't eat them back just to make a target, I eat the calories from healthy food, and because of hunger. So sometimes I will eat slightly under the goal to get my net calories when I have exercised

Edit: I have always met my target for weight loss on this site, and always been eating back my calories. It works for me.

I eat mine back because a deficit is already built into my formulas. I *do* have days where I do not succeed at that, but I do try to end up right around zero to100 calories remaining for the day.

And then some. I do and always have. Click the link in my signature to see my success. P.S. (God, I miss you, Taso) http://shouldieatmyexercisecalories.com/

I do eat mine back.
In theory because it keeps my net calories up to the level where I maintain a 500 calorie deficit daily, and thus won't lose more than 1lb per week. I am fairly close to my goal and do not want to lose faster.
In practise it is also because if i have exercised I am generally hunngier and I enjoy the opportunity to have a larger food intake on some days.
That said I don't eat them back just to make a target, I eat the calories from healthy food, and because of hunger. So sometimes I will eat slightly under the goal to get my net calories when I have exercised

Edit: I have always met my target for weight loss on this site, and always been eating back my calories. It works for me.

This basically sums it up for me. I've lost 18lbs eating my exercise calories back. It helps feed your body to recover and grow from the exercise you're giving it. I agree with making the healthier choices in the name of nutrition instead of just getting anything.

I always try to as I don't want to be in any more of a starvation mode than I have put my body through thus far.
Seems to be working - so I am happy with that.

I go by how hungry I am. I eat pretty well and healthy during the day and will eat according to appetite. plus I think some of the calories burned are overestimated. Today I did a swim and afterwards was more tired than usual so had more to eat afterwards.

I know the topic has been done to death, but when I started on here I was eating all my calories back and losing b**ger all. I then started eating jless despite the exercising and was losing a pound a week and more and was not at all hungry!! Then I got confused because of all the forum posts and asked the question and was told - you have to eat all your calories back or you'll ruin your metabolism and gain weight when you start eating properly again!! - well I started doing that and have yet again lost nothing, in fact I put a pound back on over the last 2 weeks. I'm going to go back to eating whatever I want and not trying really hard to fill myself up with calories because I was finding that really difficult. I am a vegetarian and trying to eat my 1200 cals and then another 6-800 was a nightmare. I think that as long as I am getting plenty of protein, plenty carbs and am never hungry I don't see the problem. I eat 6 times a day, homemade fruit smoothies, veg soups, protein packed meat substitute, steamed veg, nuts etc etc and that will bring me up to 1400 cals a day or more, leaving 400 cals over -ish.
I know I'll get knocked for saying this but I don't care, its my body and I want to lose weight. If I am going to get myself into a routine of eating this way for the rest of my days then I don't see the problem. I'm not planning on eating more than I am now. The point of doing this for me is to lose weight AND change my eating habits. I do not want to be eating more than I'm eating now as this leaves me happy, satisfied and full of energy.

This is what I am doing, I am in no way advocating this as a suggestion to anyone else!!!

Yes i do all i would starve, it's working for me that the moment when it stops working i will change.

I don't. Not right now. I don't even log my exercise right now. Cos I tried it for a while, logging exercise and eating some of them back (only about 300-400, so not all of them) and I never lost weight. I never put on either but I never lost. So I decided to try just eating my 1330 weather I exercise or not. I feel hungry a lot of the time but I am losing weight now. I think I just need to get used to feeling hungry because it seems to be the only way I am going to lose any weight.

I don't, as i simply don't trust how many I've burned! My daily exercise just allows me have a treat that day...its worth that sweat just to actually have the chicken leg with skin on, rather than off!