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  • First off, congratulations!! That is wonderful that you got pregnant so quickly!! Thank you for replying to my message. I have my calories set to 1200 as I put it to 2lbs per week. I tend to eat back most of my exercise calories as I have heard to keep your net calories at 1200 to keep from going into starvation mode. Any…
  • Yes, in my opinion you should eat back at least half if not all of your exercise calories. It is recommended that everybody eat at least 1200 net calories so I would have that be your goal. For example, I ate around 2,000 calories today because I burned 1,000 hiking. My net calories is looking around 1100-1200 right now.
  • Everyone has a different opinion about this subject. Here is my take. My base calories I want to eat and not go over is 1200 calories. Today I went hiking and burned almost 1,000 calories. I ate those back because I want my net calories to stay around 1200 calories---if not your body may go into starvation mode and hoard…
  • I am in the same boat as well! A year and a half ago I had a miscarriage- I was eating very unhealthy, not exercising, etc. (Not saying that was the cause of my miscarriage-but improving my health will only help to have a healthy pregnancy!) My husband and I are starting to try this month. I currently am 5 foot 3 and weigh…
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