Do you eat your workout calories? If you do are you still lo

Having those extra calories is what motivates me to work out. I find it really hard to stay within 1200 calories so I rely on my workout to give me some wiggle room. I say to myself, "If you go to the gym, you can have a cookie for dessert or a glass of wine with dinner." Stuff like that. It's worked for me so far! And I don't have to EVER feel hungry or deprived of the stuff I want. I think that's the key to losing weight and maintaining it and that's what MFP is about, I think.

not always, I feel that I lose more weight when I don't

I don't always but if I'm extra hungry & I have the extra calories I will. Obviously I try to aim for stuff that is on the healthy side although I have been guilty of using it for a chocolate or a 'treat' :blushing:

i dont eat my work out calories back. i just started this and ive only lost 4 lbs so far in about 5 days. i want to continue this path and it seems to be working.

Totally laughed out loud to this comment while sitting at work!

That's the only reason I work out. Just kidding, sorta.

That's the main reason I work out

I hardly ever eat ALLL of my workout calories...just because I can't physically eat that much during the day. But I have pretty high burn numbers that usually stay around 700 cals or more I try and eat back at least 200-300 of my exercise cals if possible. just make WISE decisions on the food you're choosing to eat. so fruits, veggies, whole grains, nuts, ect...

I also have done a little research...and everything says to eat your excercise calories.

To the guy who lost over 200 pounds - I so wanna be on your team!! Awesome man!! You inspire me...

I ate mine since I started, and had great progress while I was losing weight.

The best part is that I never trained my body to survive on a minimal amount of calories, so at 39, I have the metabolism of a teenager and can eat pretty much whatever I want. Well, maybe that's the second best part. The real best part is that since I fueled my body properly, the majority of my weight loss has been from fat, and I've kept my lean muscle. So I'm about 130# and wearing clothes I last wore twenty years ago when I was 110#.

There were times that I didn't think it was possible for me to lose weight because when I reduced calories a lot, it was so hard for me to drop the pounds. I thought it was simple matter of "the less you eat, the more you lose." Not so. I now know that I have to eat enough for my body to feel comfortable ditching the excess fat.

I don't! I did at first but didn't loose any weight....very once in awhile I do like if I'm going out to eat...but I try very hard not too....and I'm loosing!
{Sarah}

Hey all....Quick question??? I've been monitoring my calories well and really focusing on consuming my daily protein limit, but staying with my calorie limit. Tonight I burned 920 calories according to my heart rate monitor at the gym, I logged~ 800 and MFP gave me 400 calories back when I just logged everything in. I have met my calorie limit for the day but in no way plan to consume 400 calories before bed. I'm gonna eat a protein before bed around 100 calories. So dilemma...I feel like there is no way to consume my exercise cals. Is this bad??

I have the same problem. I eat back a lot of my exercise cals but I don't want to force myself to eat if I'm not hungry

Leaving a big leftover chunk of calories once in a while is no big deal, but if you do it consistently, it's not good for you long term.

If I had ~400 leftover calories, I'd have a protein powder mixed with chocolate milk. That'd be about 300 calories and about 35g of protein, and absolutely delicious.