Do you add calories lost after exercise to total allowed?

[AugMummy]

Apologies for posting here when there is a weight loss thread but I know this gets more traffic and I’m really unsure and want a balanced response:

I’m trying to lose weight as I have been in a bad place and slowly starting to be healthy issue is I don’t know whether I’m supposed to add calories to my total now so I’ve just logged the excercise I did - it’s only 60 calories I’ve lost and I’m doing fast 800 so do I now have total of 860 calories to eat today?

Slow weight loss is best n
All diet companies have a vested interest in failure though. Which is why their programmes don’t actually work for 90%+ of people, if by ‘work’ you mean facilitate both weight loss and maintenance.

It would depend for me. If I was aiming for 1200 - 1500 cals a day I probably wouldnt eat any I burnt off.

However 800 cals is very low so I would eat those 60 cals back.

Personally I wouldn't because it's so unlikely to be an accurate reflection of your true calorie burn. Perhaps if you're feeling especially hungry you could use some of them.

No, you shouldn't eat back, your exercise calories. What type of exercise did you do that only used 60 calories. Surely that's just day to day living rather than focused exercise

No don’t add exercise cals. If you do your TDEE it factors in your exercise level into your cals. Don’t overestimate how active you are - steps watches over estimate.

The only time my weight loss stalled was when adding the exercise to MFP. It drastically overestimates calories burned and gives you the additional calories back to eat.

After 4.5+ stone weight loss, I feel it’s far better to not eat the exercise calories back. I’ve been on maintenance calories for a couple of years and maintained perfectly thanks to not adding, & eating, exercise calories.

I lost over 5 stone through diet and exercise and I never added the calories back on to my daily food intake. That said, I rarely calorie counted in a strict way, I just changed the type of food I ate and watched my portions.

I didn't exactly but I knew on days where I had ran 10km I could splurge a bit more with my food but we are talking about 500cals being burnt running 10km on top of the few 100 I'd normally burn walking the dogs so that gave quite a bit of leeway. For 60cals I wouldn't though.