Eating Exercise calories?

http://shouldieatmyexercisecalories.com/

All the answer you need is there.

I eat all my exercise calories. I average 10 pounds a month weight loss. I'm currently in maintenance to let my hormones reset, before I go back in to lose the last 20 pounds. So, 50 down, 20 to go, eating every exercise calorie.

GuruMeditatio Is this an answer or an insult. This place is for help and support not snyde comments. Take them elsewhere

I beg your pardon? It was an answer.

Forgive me for not replying in great detail to a question which is asked several times a day, every single day.

More elaboration here.
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/61706-guide-to-calorie-deficits
http://shouldieatmyexercisecalories.com/
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/groups/home/457-unofficial-mfp-faq
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/390145-should-i-eat-my-exercise-calories

Guess what buddy, not everyone is seasoned mfp poster such as yourself so I bet it will be asked a few more times, maybe just don't bother responding? Crazy thought I know. Have a nice day!

Why exactly are you so bent out of shape? Relax. Have a snack.
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I generally eat most of my exercise calories back.
I will try to present this logically.

MFP gives you a recommended caloric deficit to lose weight in a sustained manner (sane). This recommendation assumes a certain activity level that resembles day to day life. For the overwhelming majority of us that did not involve regular exercise. Our bodies are not accustomed to it. When we exercise and log it. MFP compensates to keep the same sane caloric deficit for the sustained deficit that we can live with until we reach our goal. It is practical.

I do not exercise so I can eat more. I exercise because of the health benefits. Losing weight without exercise means losing both fat and muscle. This is a very undesirable outcome for me, because I enjoy outdoor activities that require strength, endurance, and stamina.

Now when I started this at 5'7" and 336lbs, walking 2 miles at 3 mph tore the crap out of my body. My muscles were shocked. My joints pointed out that they were abused. All this great activity to get me healthy was stressing the body and it did not like it.
However my cardiopulmonary health was ecstatic. My blood sugar was much better regulated and my blood pressure and cholesterol were much better.

I chose not to eat them early on and injured myself multiple times. After a few months of frustration I began eating them back.

Those exercise calories I consumed back along with the nutrients contained therein fueled the recovery process. Muscles got stronger along with sinew. Joints were able to recover and rebuild. I can keep exercising for the fitness benefits. I handle stress much better.

Had I not consumed them I would not have enjoyed the benefits of exercise.

http://shouldieatmyexercisecalories.com/

All the answer you need is there.

No offense, but this is lame.. . . Just sayin'. . .

Why is a website that links to about a dozen extremely informative threads on this very topic lame? If you don't want to hear the answer, don't ask the question. After all, you did ask for everyone's thoughts, I like giving people good resources to educate themselves when they have questions.

Honestly it's like a 50/50 on MFP if people do eat their exercise calories or don't eat them. It's a high debate topic and here is my advice: go 2 weeks eating your exercise cals back and another 2 weeks not eating them back and see what works best for you.

I go by a very simple method. If I am still hungry, I eat some exercise calories. If I'm not hungry, I don't. Our bodies are pretty good about telling us what we need once we get used to listening to them. :flowerforyou:

I think you should, because what happens when 3 months down the line you hit a plateau? If you have been eating exercise calories at least you have something to cut back on.

Here's the biggest benefit, though, in my book: Since I lost weight eating a total of 1800+ calories a day, that means that now that I'm on maintenance, I can eat pretty much what I want to stay this way. It would have totally sucked if I'd trained my body to survive on much less calories, screwed up my metabolism, and been forced to eat as if on a diet for the rest of my life to maintain that weight.

THIS... everybody should read this and remember it! Why train your body to run on a low-calorie diet when you don't have to!? By following a low-calorie diet so you can lose weight faster, you're setting yourself up for it to be much more difficult to maintain your weight loss down the road. I know everyone's body functions a little differently, but I've been losing weight really easily eating about 2100 calories most days. That includes refueling with the calories I burned off through exercise (aka - eating my exercise calories back). I probably could have lost 41 pounds faster than seven months, but losing almost 6 pounds a month seems pretty reasonable and healthy to me.