Eating your exercise calories.
ErinI5787
Posts: 17 Member
Ive seen different responses about this. I've been losing steadily. My calories is set to 1200, then I usually exercise and burn anywhere from 150-400 or more. Obviously I make sure I eat at least 1200. And on days when I don't exercise (just one a week, for rest) I eat probably about 1250 or 1300 at most. On the days I exercise I usually eat the majority of my burned calories. I leave 50-100 there but eat the rest because I know I need to keep my body working properly so that it can lose. Does this sound correct and healthy?
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Yes, especially when your target net intake is set fairly low.0
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It sounds reasonable enough to me, and if you have been losing steadily ... well, don't fix what's not broken. Wait until (and if) you hit a plateau to do that0
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It's been scientifically proven that exercise calories taste better.0
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Go to "Message Boards" "Home" then search for "eating exercise calories" there are 50 pages of posts there on this very subject.0
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BUMP0
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It's been scientifically proven that exercise calories taste better.
True story.0 -
eating back exercise calories can backfire if you over-estimate calories burned during exercise.
Unless you have a HRM that tells you calories burned. I need to get one - does anyone know if HRM can ever be wrong??0 -
It's been scientifically proven that exercise calories taste better.
Natch.0 -
eating back exercise calories can backfire if you over-estimate calories burned during exercise.
Unless you have a HRM that tells you calories burned. I need to get one - does anyone know if HRM can ever be wrong??
While I 100% agree w/you that it can backfire, if she's losing steadily it sounds like she's not too far off.0 -
It's been scientifically proven that exercise calories taste better.
True story.
This. And they make you sexier.0 -
I stick to 1200 calories a day, and sometimes eat them back depending on how I feel. If I'm hungry I'll eat them but if I'm not feeling hungry I don't.0
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:noway:
This is one of those necrophiliac equine flagellation topics.......
People are split on this and from every 4 people responding you will get 1 who says do, 1 who says don't, 1 who says eat some of them and 1 who posts something like this which doesn't assist you with your query at all0 -
I try not to eat them back as non exercise days I eat over my goal0
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It's been scientifically proven that exercise calories taste better.
True story.
This. And they make you sexier.
this is why I try to eat so many of them. I need the help.0 -
If I didn't eat mine I would quit. Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm0
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