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Soooo, do you eat the calories you *earn* from excercise?
Aphreal
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I see MFP adds your workout calories to your daily allowance. Do you or don't you?
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I have been eating a majority of them back, but rarely do I eat all of them. Usually I'm not that hungry after I workout, otherwise I would eat every last one!0
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When I get serious about weight loss and better about tracking calories burned and food, I do eat back some but not all. Who know how accurate my burn actually is so I play it safe.0
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I eat less than half of my calories back.....I do know if I do go over my calories I have room to work with knowing I exercised, I feel like overeating if I do.0
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When doing WW I was religious about eating ALL my activity points and I lost wonderfully, their formula is basically eating back half what you burn so I think I will do that. I am already at the least recommended for my height and weight (1200 a day) so I don't want to go under that really.0
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Sometimes, but I've rarely eaten them all back.
I also learned that the calories earned from exercise in the database tend to be way off, so when I add walking minutes, I always correct the caloric burn to half of what it tells me. I also have an exercise bike that takes my pulse and also calculates calories burned so I enter what the bike says I burned since it's always like a third of what the database says. I'd rather be under-calculating calories burned, than over-calculating.
I don't go to bed hungry and I'm seeing results I'm happy with so I don't think it's too much to worry about. At least in my case, everyone is different.0 -
Sometimes, but I've rarely eaten them all back.
I also learned that the calories earned from exercise in the database tend to be way off, so when I add walking minutes, I always correct the caloric burn to half of what it tells me. I also have an exercise bike that takes my pulse and also calculates calories burned so I enter what the bike says I burned since it's always like a third of what the database says. I'd rather be under-calculating calories burned, than over-calculating.
I don't go to bed hungry and I'm seeing results I'm happy with so I don't think it's too much to worry about. At least in my case, everyone is different.
I notice that too. The elliptical and bike I use have calories burned based on my weight and age so I correct it and it is always lower than what MFP shows.0 -
I finally bought a heart rate monitor for calculating calories burned, I love it and feel pretty comfortable with its calculations.0
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Valle can you link what you bought?0
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I try not to eat them all, I just try not to be hungry. I'm a WW convert too so to me it's all about being satified, but I notice the more I workout the hungrier I am... lol so I eat a lot of them when I am behaving.0
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I try not to, I usually save mine for a night out but as I've had a lot of social events this week so I'm not expecting to lose much weight. As long as I don't gain I'll be satisfied. This morning when I came into the office we all had boxes of chocolate truffles on our desks which was very nice of our boss but I have raging pms and have been unable to resist so I'll be busting my butt in the gym for the next few days that's for sure! :blushing:0
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I try not to eat them all, I just try not to be hungry. I'm a WW convert too so to me it's all about being satified, but I notice the more I workout the hungrier I am... lol so I eat a lot of them when I am behaving.
ww convert LOL. *high five*0 -
I see MFP adds your workout calories to your daily allowance. Do you or don't you?
GREAT Q! That has been on my mind too. On cardio days, I have wiggle room, but still try to stay at my 1200 cal allowance. On weights days I'm much hungrier, I don't see how to get my calories burned from lifting, so I tend to be a smidge over the 1200 on those days....anyone have thoughts on that?0 -
I eat anywhere from 30 - 50% of my exercise calories back, depending on how hungry I'm feeling that day. Eating back your exercise calories is a very new concept to me and I want to be a believer! lol0
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Pyle sport from Amazon, it works okay. I paid $25 FOR IT which is very reasonable. It has its quirks but works for what I want (heart rate and calories burned) Ive had it for a week:) Hope this helps! Plus its pink and black (my fav!)0
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I try not to, and most of the time I don't eat the calories I earn.0
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I do eat some of the calories that I earn from exercising. On any other diet I use to feel guilty on eating a piece of cake or obsessed with the calorie count. Well with MFP I can see how the cake or a treat will affect my overall goal and from there I can make the necessary changes through exercise without depriving myself... sweet!0
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I do if I'm hungry. But I adjust what the database says or even what my HRM says. The way I figure it, if it says I burned 350 calories at kickboxing, that's really only about 250 more than I would have burned not kickboxing, right? But sometimes I put it all in and eat it all back anyway
I've been working on eating better/smarter and not just curtailing calories. I upped my calorie target to 1450 net per day and so far so good. I'd like to raise it higher ;-) 0 -
for the most part, no, I don't.0
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My calorie allowance is 1200, I usually burn somewhere around 200, so most of the time I generally do consume my calories from exercise back, cause it is just 1400 total.
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I TRY NOT TO, BUT IF I DO, I DON'T STRESS ABOUT IT. THERE ARE DAYS,I DON'T EARN ANY BECAUSE I AM IN TOO MUCH FIBRO PAIN TO WALK OR DO ANYTHING PHYSICAL, SO I JUST ALWAYS TRY TO STAY IN THE 1200 RANGE.0
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