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‎03-20-2014 09:29

‎03-20-2014 09:29

do you have to eat all your workout calories, sometimes I don't eat mine but I make sure I eat 1200 cals

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‎03-20-2014 10:01 - edited ‎03-20-2014 10:01

‎03-20-2014 10:01 - edited ‎03-20-2014 10:01

It is not necessary to eat all your exercise calories back, but it is better for your health.  Without proper nutrition, your muscles cannot rebuild and besides losing fat you will lose muscle as well.  Your body will take nutrition from wherever it can, the easiest way it can.  

 

1200 calories is fairly low if you're doing intensive exercise besides being in a caloric defecit to lose weight.  You can go online and calculate your TDEE to determine what your minimum calories for the day should be based on age, weight, gender and exercise level.  You will lose weight, and at a healthy rate.

 

Starvation mode, just FYI, is a myth.  If there were such a thing, you would never see skeletal pictures of starving children, holocaust survivors or anorexia victims.  If your caloric intake does not equal your caloric output, you will lose weight.  Not necessarily just fat, but you will lose weight.  

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‎03-20-2014 10:31

In response to howekaren

‎03-20-2014 10:31

so on the scale it shows on fitbit webpage should I always want it to be in the zone not lower or not higher is this correct, sorry I'm so new at this and I want to be doing it the right way, No way to I want to eat under in a starvation mode... Thank you for you infor! just trying to figure this thing out. Thanks again

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‎03-20-2014 11:10

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‎03-20-2014 11:10

Fitbit is laid out so that if you end your day in the zone, or fairly close to, you will be at a deficit.  It depends on your activity at the time or day versus the food you've eaten up to that point.  You can't be that accurate throughout the day:  if you've just finished a long walk, but supper isn't for 30min, then it's going to show you as being out of the zone, but by the time you eat supper, it should be back in range.  

 

Again, there is no such thing as "starvation mode" as the popular media describes it, so don't worry about that.  Do worry about getting proper nutrition within your caloric range for the day.  Over by 100 or 200 one day will not break you, any more than being under by 100 or 200 will.  

 

Hope that makes sense.

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‎03-20-2014 11:28

In response to howekaren

‎03-20-2014 11:28

Yes Thank you so much, so when I exercise hard I will make sure I eat those calories. My fitbit dashboard gives me to burn 2100 calories a day I don't always do that I get close! so I just eat the calories the log tells me that I'm able to do. I will keep my fingers crossed.. Thank you again.

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