An objective look at eating "exercise calories"

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Thank you all so much for taking the time to post so much for mean to read!! :grumble: Only joking! I love it, I feel I understand about my body then I read something that makes me feel so ignorant!!

I am incorporating more protein in my diet, this is so important to me, this read has made me think even more about how I eat, thank you all xxxxxxx

Now I just need to remember it all xxxxxxxx :flowerforyou: :flowerforyou: :flowerforyou:

I'm asking you, not Stormie! Sorry about that.

I'm a teenager and I'm 6' tall and weigh 331 lbs. I'd be so happy to lose just 50 pounds, what a relief. I spend a lot of time doing schoolwork, but I also play racquetball a couple times a week, swim like an hour at a time regularly, walk about 30 minutes several times a week. I also play drums and I get exercise calories for that (and I have to say, I do really get a workout playing drums). I've had a eally stressful life, went through some years where I did not have much to eat. Then, when we had more food, I started to eat "normal" amounts, but I would suddenly gain a bunch of weight all at once. All added up. No doctor could figure out why. I never went on a real restrictive diet.

So we keep looking for something to help me and found mfp. I see a couple of things now after studying mfp: I never in my life ate nearly as much as mfp tells me to eat everyday, even before exercise. Even when more food was available, I ate about the same amount as everybody else in my family and they are not nearly as big as me (nor are they teenagers, you heard about the "growing boy," right?). And our family eats healthy. Then I would go to summer camp or something and eat mostly burgers, fries, cokes, stuff I never had at home. I would come home and weigh 15 pounds more -- 1 week!

Now I am exercising, so mfp is telling me to eat even more! Since I've been here I wasn't eating my regular calories for the day. With working out, I usually have 500 to over 1,000 exercise calories left over every day. Yeah, not a typo.

So all the time I've been on mfp, I didn't lose any weight at all. But I didn't gain any weight and that gave me some hope, you know! Also someone told me I would gain weight from getting more muscle.

Now I am trying to understand your post and I think it was you wrote about stress, too. Seems like you're talking about skinny people need to eat their exercise calories. Does what you said go for someone like me, too? Someone who is way overweight but can still earn a lot of exercise calories -- some days if I swim laps for an hour, play drums for an hour, go for a walk -- mfp tells me to eat just massive amounts of food. But I'm not losing with what I'm doing and running 500-1000 behind on calories. So that's my question. It's like, really? Kinda scary to eat that after all these years of training myself to eat a lot less. You think that's why I'm not losing?

Thank you for this explanation. This has been bugging me

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Thanks so much for explaining this minefield of a subject so simply! It's finally starting to make sense

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