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    Do you eat calories burned?

    Posts: 7
    edited December 2024 in Fitness and Exercise
    Just wondering if you eat calories burned as I tend to find I loose more if I don't.

    I'm currently sticking to 1200 cals a day.

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    • Posts: 146 Member
      I like you find i lose more weight if i don't always eat back my burned calories.
      If im hungrier than normal i will go upto maybe 1300cals but as a rule have no more than 1200. :-)
    • Posts: 3,536 Member
      Yep eat pretty much all of them back... (10% I don't for error in calories burned and/or calories logged) I use a Polar FT60 HRM to tract calories burned during cardio... I lift 3 days a week but do not count any calories burned from strength training... Eating my exercise calories back allows me to eat at 800-900 calories over my BMR which is currently 2300 (and that is with a 500 calorie deficit built in, to lose a pound a week) Good Luck
    • Posts: 537 Member
      I try my best to get close, I'm usually under
    • Posts: 2,036 Member
      If you're set at 1,200 then, yes, you need to eat your exercise. You may be losing weight now at just 1,200, but you're setting yourself up for a plateau and a lot of muscle loss.

      BTW- I love your horse!
    • Posts: 1,067 Member
      Yep, I eat 'em up. I need a shirt that says, "Will run for pizza/chocolate/cake/brownies."
    • Posts: 138 Member
      Yes, definitely need to refuel. Just a piece of advice based on what I have read in other sources, 1200 is the bare minimum you should go with or you may cause your body to go into starvation prevention mode. Treat food as fuel for exercise.
      Yep, I eat 'em up. I need a shirt that says, "Will run for pizza/chocolate/cake/brownies."

      ^^ AMEN!!! For me - add ice cream and Mike and Ikes/Jelly Beans!^^

      Greg
    • Posts: 177 Member
      I eat mine back and still lose weight & never feel hungry still.
      Think about it...creating a deficit of 1200 a day is already enough to make you lose weight (to have gained weight you had to be eating alot more), then you workout & say burn 300 cals...not eating those 300 back, your only eating 900 cals. Thats not enough to fuel your body.
      Good luck!!
    • Posts: 1,421 Member
      Depends on the day. There are days where I burn far more than I could eat back, because I'm not hungry enough to eat them all. Usually what that means is the next day, I'll go over, because my body generally wants more the next day to refuel. I follow my body's cues. If I'm hungry, I eat, and most days, I eat all or over my exercise calories back.

      Or drink them in a glass of wine. Some days, I exercise just for that alcohol.

      If I didn't, I would definitely lose weight faster, but I'd be ravenous all the time. Which is just lame.
    • Posts: 56 Member
      Ok so I have this right my goal is 1770 & I worked out and earned another 770. I ate 1362 (really had thought that was higher but was so tired and went to bed early) so my net was only 591. Should my net have been way higher?
    • Posts: 123
      If my net is less than my goal then I eat. I try to keep my net within + or - 50 of my goal.
    • Posts: 122 Member
      I have just posted something along the lines of eating back calories and how much to log during a workout. Its all a bit confusing to me!

      http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/554474-accuracy-when-adding-calories-a-point-to-consider
    • Posts: 7 Member
      Yep, I eat 'em up. I need a shirt that says, "Will run for pizza/chocolate/cake/brownies."

      Ha! I couldn't agree more!:). Insert honey buns for me:)
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