Long term success and exercise calories

Yanicka1
Yanicka1 Posts: 4,564 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
I am so so so sorry about starting this tread and I will get hell from my friends but I am having a discussion with someone about the fact that those of us long term success stories are those that eat way more than 1200 calories a day and eat their exercise calories.

So I want to do a survey.

How long have you been on MFP? 500 days tomorrow
How many calories a day do you eat without exercise calories? 1600
Do you eat your exercise calories? Yes
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  • scapez
    scapez Posts: 2,018 Member
    How long have you been on MFP? 304 I think
    How many calories a day do you eat without exercise calories? 1500
    Do you eat your exercise calories? Yes because I love to eat!
  • BerryH
    BerryH Posts: 4,698 Member
    How long have you been on MFP? 400 days
    How many calories a day do you eat without exercise calories? 1570 for 0.5lb a week loss
    Do you eat your exercise calories? Oh yes, all of them all the time, they're the tastiest calories!
  • mgmlap
    mgmlap Posts: 1,377 Member
    How long have you been on MFP? about 260
    How many calories a day do you eat without exercise calories? 1600-1800
    Do you eat your exercise calories? Yes
  • MrsSWW
    MrsSWW Posts: 1,585 Member
    How long have you been on MFP? Since Feb 2011
    How many calories a day do you eat without exercise calories? Currently set at 1250, but have increased at times like Christmas when I didn't think it would allow me to stay happy and committed
    Do you eat your exercise calories? Yes, absolutely

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  • treetop57
    treetop57 Posts: 1,578 Member
    How long have you been on MFP? 120 days
    How many calories a day do you eat without exercise calories? 2010
    Do you eat your exercise calories? Hell yeah
  • twinmom01
    twinmom01 Posts: 854 Member
    How long have you been on MFP? on and off for 6 months...on another site before that
    How many calories a day do you eat without exercise calories? 1300-1400
    Do you eat your exercise calories? nope - not really...on my exercise days i may go over my calories by 50-100 but I don't intentionally eat them back
  • LorinaLynn
    LorinaLynn Posts: 13,247 Member
    How long have you been on MFP? Since December 20, 2010 - My "days in a row" is around 450.

    How many calories a day do you eat without exercise calories? About 1800 to maintain.

    Do you eat your exercise calories? Yes! Nothing tastes as good as a calorie earned. :smile:

    Edited to add: Lost 30 pounds in about 7 months, been hovering around 130 since July. Ate between 1350-1500 plus exercise calories while losing.
  • CarrieAnne22
    CarrieAnne22 Posts: 231 Member
    bump because I don't have time to read this right now, but am very interested in the responses....
  • RunHardBeStrong
    RunHardBeStrong Posts: 33,069 Member
    How long have you been on MFP? I've been at it for 3 years, down 104 lbs.

    How many calories a day do you eat without exercise calories? 1500-1600

    Do you eat your exercise calories? Yep!
  • tageekly
    tageekly Posts: 3,755 Member
    How long have you been on MFP? About 7 months.

    How many calories a day do you eat without exercise calories? 1,270 to lose a pound a week.

    Do you eat your exercise calories? Abso-posi-lutely! I worked hard for those calories!
  • MJ7910
    MJ7910 Posts: 1,280 Member
    How long have you been on MFP? 7 months (210 days)

    How many calories a day do you eat without exercise calories? 1500-1600

    Do you eat your exercise calories? Yes, usually anywhere from 100-200 of those calories... i burn about 300 per workout

    oh and i'm in maintenance now! lost 25 lb earlier this year
  • teeley
    teeley Posts: 477 Member
    Been here just over a year
    started with only eating 1200 and not eating exercise

    recently bumped calories to 1600-1800
    and yes eat them back now...
  • xoAmyxo
    xoAmyxo Posts: 110
    How long have you been on MFP?230 i think..
    How many calories a day do you eat without exercise calories? 1300 five days a week 1400 the other two.
    Do you eat your exercise calories? no :)
  • fitnhealthykaren
    fitnhealthykaren Posts: 117
    how about adding "how much weight have you lost?"??
  • HodderAL
    HodderAL Posts: 358 Member
    Bump! I've only been on MFP about 3-4 weeks and I'm interested in this topic!
  • Shweedog
    Shweedog Posts: 883 Member
    How long have you been on MFP? Since July of 2010 (left for a bit and came back with a diff acct).
    How many calories a day do you eat without exercise calories? When losing- 1500 Maintenance- 1850-2000
    Do you eat your exercise calories? Yes
  • zoeluiisa
    zoeluiisa Posts: 392
    Not sure how length of time on MFP is any indicator of success? In some cases it could be the opposite! Wouldn't amount of weight lost or percentage of weight lost be more informative?
  • kak2m4
    kak2m4 Posts: 167 Member
    How long have you been on MFP? 81 days...
    How many calories a day do you eat without exercise calories? 1200
    Do you eat your exercise calories? Hell yeah...well, 50-66% of the MFP estimate. Sometimes I work out simply so I can eat more!
  • ZombieSlayer
    ZombieSlayer Posts: 369 Member
    How long have you been on MFP? a year and a half across two accounts (Start. October 2010, new account 12/31/2011)
    How many calories a day do you eat without exercise calories? 1500 -1600
    Do you eat your exercise calories? Yes

    edit to add: reason for starting new account was a new beginning after a health issue during the last quarter of 2011.
  • tageekly
    tageekly Posts: 3,755 Member
    How long have you been on MFP? About 7 months.

    How many calories a day do you eat without exercise calories? 1,270 to lose a pound a week.

    Do you eat your exercise calories? Abso-posi-lutely! I worked hard for those calories!

    Okay, and have lost 44 pounds in those 7 months.

    ETA: I use a HRM to calculate my exercise calories, not MFP (which was 20-30% too high in almost all activities).
  • melsinct
    melsinct Posts: 3,512 Member
    Disclaimer: I have lost 30 pounds using MFP and started maintaining my weight <2 months ago.

    How long have you been on MFP? One year and change (joined February 2011)

    How many calories a day do you eat without exercise calories? 1730

    Do you eat your exercise calories? Yes
  • mrswinstead
    mrswinstead Posts: 71
    Bump. I like this post.
  • llkilgore
    llkilgore Posts: 1,169 Member
    How long have you been on MFP? Since mid January, 2011.
    How many calories a day do you eat without exercise calories? 1600 for maintenance since mid September.
    Do you eat your exercise calories? Yes, 100% of them, though I do rely on a different site (MapMyRun) to calculate the burn.

    Did you strength train in addition to your cardio? Yes
    What was your weekly goal? A pound a week until I was around 12 pounds above my original goal, then a half pound or less.
    Did you ever hit a plateau? No. I didn't always hit target, but a loss was recorded every week.

    Preservation of muscle mass was a major issue for me from day one because, as a reforming couch potato in my late 50s, I knew I didn't have any to spare. So I never ate fewer than 2/3rds of my exercise calories and dropped that low only after I had strong evidence that the burn for a given exercise was being overestimated.
  • flausa
    flausa Posts: 534 Member
    I've been on MFP since January 27, 2011. When I was in weight loss mode (and I've lost 91 lbs), I was eating 1400-1600 calories a day plus half my exercise calories (more when I was training for my half marathon).

    I'm currently in maintenance and eat between 1900-2300 calories, depending on exercise.
  • skcornett
    skcornett Posts: 169 Member
    How long have you been on MFP? Approx. 240 days (started 8/1/11)
    How many calories a day do you eat without exercise calories? 1500
    Do you eat your exercise calories? Generally, no. I workout 3-4 times a week and prefer not to eat them (but enjoy the safety net they provide). If I do eat them, it's on a weekend.
  • kettrickenx
    kettrickenx Posts: 92 Member
    How long have you been on MFP? 75 days already
    How many calories a day do you eat without exercise calories? 900-1300
    Do you eat your exercise calories? No. I try but I just can't.
  • thilyer
    thilyer Posts: 32 Member
    bump
  • marycmeadows
    marycmeadows Posts: 1,691 Member
    How long have you been on MFP? 250+ days
    How many calories a day do you eat without exercise calories? 1600-1800
    Do you eat your exercise calories? yes, some if not all of them!


    SW 303.4 (1/1/11 -- started w/weight watchers - came to MFP in june/july)
    CW 193.6 (down 109.8lbs)
    GW 160
    5'6'' - 29 y/o
  • irisheyez718
    irisheyez718 Posts: 677 Member
    How long have you been on MFP? 262 days so far!
    How many calories a day do you eat without exercise calories? 1450 but I'm thinking about bumping it up some.
    Do you eat your exercise calories? Heck yeah! They taste so good!
  • marycmeadows
    marycmeadows Posts: 1,691 Member
    How long have you been on MFP? 75 days already
    How many calories a day do you eat without exercise calories? 900-1300
    Do you eat your exercise calories? No. I try but I just can't.

    under 1200 is WAY too little.
    and YES you can eat your exercise calories. being full is a cop out - make smart choices - choose more calorie dense food.

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