may as well just sit on my bum

what is the point to exercise if you have to eat the cals burnt back?, may as well sit on my bum, do nothing and enjoy the cals

^ THIS is why people think you don't exercise. You later stated that you do, but this stongly implies to intend to stop as you "might as well sit on your bum".

Do you intend to exercise or not?
Do you intend to eat back your calories or not?

After 11 pages of advice, what is your conclusion?

yes I intend to continue with my exercise plan
no I dont intend to eat back all my cals but will eat extra should I feel hungry enough to and certainly if a party or other special occasion would not feel guilty or deprive myself one bit
I will however take on board those polite and reasonable comments but totally dis regard anyone who has bullied me on here as if they can bully then their comments account for nothing.
if you read I have infact thanked those who have been sticking to the advice rather than add sarky comments and childish pictures
At the end of the day what works for some may not work for others

You're welcome

Well I'm not sure about everyone else but I've lost the will to live now!!! I intend to keep exercising and eating back some or all exercise calories and keep the 60 pounds I've lost off. We all have our own way, if it works for you go with it, if not try something else and above all don't get upset when people have a bit of fun :laugh:

Exercise is meant to keep your muscle mass in shape AND to improve your heart and lung functions (at least, for me, that's the point of cardio and strength training).

For some weight loss is about being HEALTHY, not just being slim and those who want to be healthy should look at exercise as an added necessary challenge.

Plus, I like being able to eat 1500 instead of 1300 on exercise days. It's a nice break.

The reason some people are being a little less than nice is;

1. Whether you meant to or not, your OP had a lot of attitude in it. If we could picture you saying it you'd have your hand on your hip and rolling your eyes.

2. You don't want to listen to any helpful information we are trying to give you. You've decided that eating E calories back is stupid and that's that.

3. You're helping to spread bad information. When I first started here, I also asked (asked, not made a post just to let all of MFP know what I was going to do) if we should eat back the calories we burn. Many people gave me excellent explanations as to why we should eat them back which I was grateful for. It then made sense to me, I just had to clarify to make sure I was doing it right. However if I were a newbie today asking this question, I would be so confused because every other person argues to the death that you shouldn't eat them back. What you choose to do is your life and no there is no law that says you have to do it.....but people who come here that genuinly want to follow the program the correct way, the way the program was designed need to get the correct information. Eating E calories back will NOT make you gain weight, it will NOT make you maintaine weight. If you want to following the program the way it was meant to be followed, you SHOULD eat your E calories back.

Well said!!!!

I used to eat all my calories back like you...

Then I took an arrow to the knee.

I used to eat all my calories back like you...

Then I took an arrow to the knee.

fed up of repeating myself as no-one reads it anyway but I DO EXERCISE JUST WANTED TO KNOW THE IMPORTANCE OF EATING THOSE CALS BACK

I actually have seen it with my own yes, I eat the calories back and for some reason, I lose more weight faster. I also just upped my calories by 200 and jump started my weight loss again.

I read on your profile where you would like to be able to walk with out being winded. I think weight should be the least of your worries, how about exercising so you can play with all 8 of those grandchildren? Or would you still rather just sit on on your bum?

Geesh, and they say Americans are fat and lazy.............

the last thing she does is sit on her bum, and she does play with her grandchildren.......she does not need someone like you to tell her to play with her grandchildren!!!!

So many pages of nasty comments!

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