Eating Exercise Cals Slowing Your Weight loss? Read This.

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  • Cait_Sidhe
    Cait_Sidhe Posts: 3,150 Member
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    I am by no means a math person, so thank you for breaking this down in a way that I can understand.

    I was trying to eat back evey single one of the 600+ calories my cheap HRM told me I burned. I also fall into the very petite range. My weight loss completely stalled. I've revamped this a bit and for the past couple weeks have been eating 250 of my exercise calories back, max. I've started losing weight again.
  • VegGrrl
    VegGrrl Posts: 336 Member
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    One other thing some folks might not take into acoount - you may be building muscle, so your scale number will hardly budge. Be sure to get a bodyfat measurement, then you'll know if this is the case.

    When I started lifting religiously, my weight loss practically stopped (2 lbs. in one month!?). BUT, my bodyfat % went down nearly 2% in one month, so I built muscle. I can certainly see it, and my measurements reflected it somewhat too (3 inches off waist, 1 inch off chest).

    Since my goal is to get my bodyfat % down first, and lose lbs. second, I'm just fine with small numbers on the scale...Slow and steady wins the race in my case!
  • Yori1
    Yori1 Posts: 142
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    Bump for later.
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    LisaKyle11 Posts: 662 Member
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    carmenstop1 Posts: 210 Member
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  • wanttogetskinny
    wanttogetskinny Posts: 194
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    Great post. I've never even thought about subtracting my 'regularly burned' cals from my exercise burns. Since I eat back exercise cals, this could very well explain my extremely slow/almost non-existant weight loss - I'm eating back even more calories than I'm ACTUALLY burning through exercise!

    I've now taken my normal daily caloric use and divided it up so that I know how many I typically burn per minute and can subtract these from whatever exercise I do, no matter how long the exercise is!
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  • StacySkinny
    StacySkinny Posts: 984 Member
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    I remember when you first posted this! It's so good that people are STILL bumping it more than a year later. lol Awesome!
  • DawnVanSlim
    DawnVanSlim Posts: 10,471
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    Great post, thank you!
  • sar123bear
    sar123bear Posts: 81
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    Bump :glasses:
  • rhondatime2chg
    rhondatime2chg Posts: 92 Member
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    Great info. Saving so I can read later.

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