If eating back exercise calories is hindering your weight loss: Or is your sole purpose for exercising to burn calories?Īlso, I lost all of my weight (60lbs do far) eating back every delicious exercise calorie MFP/my fitness tracker gave me. Which I agree is true, if only because the app itself is no longer nudging your calorie allowance up/completely invalidating your exercise. Presumably because that helps MyFitnessPal advertise that you are x% more likely to lose weight using the premium version. i don't want exercise calories figured in. I leave those calories to make up for that. I'll have take out meals that I don't know the nutritional value of (I rarely go to chains) or eat someone else's cooking and I'll know I'm only guesstimating. I also don't eat my exercise calories back because I know my logging isn't always accurate. Most likely, I would have calories left from previous days I could use, but I just don't want to have to be bothered with keeping track of that. If I had MFP set to the 1.5 lbs a week loss setting and ate back my exercise calories I would eat about a hundred calories more than I do now on the days I work out.īUT on the days I don't exercise I wouldn't have as many calories as I do now (250 less calories) which I would find annoying. I eat at the one pound a week loss calorie intake and the other half of a pound comes from my exercise that I don't eat back. However, I feel that calorie goal is too low for me.

My situation is thus though: I have MFP set to lose a pound a week, but I would really like to lose 1.5 lbs a week and I am still obese at this point so it's not an unrealistic goal. I don't work out tremendously hard and I exercise, in part, to create a larger deficit.

I like seeing my calories burned and I like keeping a track of how much I exercised per day, but I have zero interest in eating those calories back. After I finish my workout I quick add calories to match the amount of calories I burned through workout.

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