Exercise calories

[Hogwoo]

Should I be eating the exercise calories my tracker (Endomondo)suggests or sticking to the 1400 calories regardless?

[DreamstoReality]

Stick to the 1400 hogwoo. The exercise calories are burning off the fat molecules you are trying to get rid of so by eating them again you are refilling the fat. I find it helps to keep track of the calories I burn while exercising only as a guide to how hard I am exercising. So if I aim to burn off 200 calories in a 10 minute treadmill session then I know I am working that hard each time.

Well done in doing so well and hope this helps.

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Hi hogwoo,

I suppose this site is mainly about - dare I say the word? - fat.

And the best way to reduce the amount of fat carried within a human body is to reduce the calorie intake (by reducing the amount eaten and by reducing the percentage of that which is high calorie and/or fat) and by upping activity levels (e.g. by exercise) to encourage your body to burn off the accrued fat.

Of course it isn't all quite as mathematically convenient as that sounds, because lots of things can alter the rate that you store fat, or burn fat, or how quickly you burn it. But the key of it is to take in significantly less calories that you use to maintain your body and it's daily activities (including exercise).

If you are not overweight and you start a significant exercise regime, you might even have to eat extra calories to maintain an appropriate healthy body weight. Extreme examples of that is that people on trans-Artic expeditions have to take in huge amounts of calories by drinking liquid fat to cope with extreme physical exertion and the very low temperatures.

If you don't have the reduction in calories in relation to your daily activity levels, you're body won't have a need to burn its fat stores.