Food Calories and workout burn calories

carleyfunk
carleyfunk Posts: 59 Member
edited November 8 in Health and Weight Loss
Am I just supposed to eat my calories or am I supposed to eat the calories I burn too?

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  • Bells5001
    Bells5001 Posts: 75 Member
    Eat both:-)
  • crawpapa
    crawpapa Posts: 156 Member
    Do not eat the calories you burned. Stick with your set calories.
  • ladybug1951
    ladybug1951 Posts: 8 Member
    Still do not understand why as it seems that those extra calories would convert to weigh loss. Can understand eating calories that you are told to eat but still makes little sense why I should eat up calories obtained while exercising unless I know that whatever I eat that day will go over my 1200 limit and then I feel good as I have covered the extra calories eaten.
  • cassblue21
    cassblue21 Posts: 207
    For me it depends on the day. I will eat back half or all. Sometimes I am ok not eating back any of them. It really just depends on how hungry I am that day! :)
  • abraam
    abraam Posts: 25
    you should check out this post! I have found it very helpful in answering this question for myself :)

    http://shouldieatmyexercisecalories.com/index2.html
  • MaximalLife
    MaximalLife Posts: 2,447 Member
    Am I just supposed to eat my calories or am I supposed to eat the calories I burn too?
    Yes, eat them both.
    Simply stated MFP has already figured out your total calories you need to eat per day to lose 1lb etc. a week.
    That's WITHOUT exercise. You'll notice that when you actually add exercise in, the calorie limit goes up.
    Why? Because it's telling you to eat your exercise calories.
    Large deficits aren't really good to do because while you will lose weight, what kind of weight will it be?
    In many cases you'll lose lean muscle tissue which LOWERS your metabolic rate even more.
    Then you have to eat even less to compensate for less of a calorie burn to continue to lose the same amount of weight each week.

    Be efficient.
    Exercise hard and eat back the calories. The hard exercise will RAISE your metabolic rate and burn more fat at rest.
  • Idbigjohn63
    Idbigjohn63 Posts: 7
    You should eat them, That's why it says calories earned. If you don't and have to many extra calories it warns you that you didn't have enough calories.
  • vguynes
    vguynes Posts: 753 Member
    I think you should eat them if you are feeling hungry. You earned them, so why not use them?
  • mevers1
    mevers1 Posts: 1
    You burn a certain amount of calories just being, it varies from person to person, an average woman burns 1600-1800cal a day. It's called your basal metobolic rate. If you eat your exercise calories plus your set calories you are still minus calories for the day.
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