High calorie burn days

[jreeds]

For those of you tracking calories, what do you do on high calorie but days? I ran 65 minutes this morning and then DH & I took the kids on a hike on a nature trail this afternoon for just over an hour. Some of which I was carrying DS. According to MFP ( which I know measures calorie burn high) I burned about a thousand calories. I have a hard enough time eating back all my calories on a normal day, let alone this! I don't want to feel like crap tomorrow so should I eat them all back? Eat half back? WWH&F do?

[jreeds]

MFP has me at 1600 so 500 sounds reasonable. The funny thing is on a really active day I'm never very hungry ( usually even less hungry than usual) but the day after I'm ravenous. Lol tomorrow I'll probably want to stuff my face!

[gummybear]

Aug 24, 2013 15:55:54 GMT -5 jreeds said:

MFP has me at 1600 so 500 sounds reasonable. The funny thing is on a really active day I'm never very hungry ( usually even less hungry than usual) but the day after I'm ravenous. Lol tomorrow I'll probably want to stuff my face!

I was going to post this. On my long run day I can burn over 1,000 calories just from the run. I am rarely very hungry after that. But the next day, whoa, baby. I tend to "go over" the calories for that day by a lot.

It is for this reason I like to look at weekly trends rather than the day to day. My appetite and workouts vary too much to get hung up on the numbers in a 24 hour period.

[finallykrisb]

I spread them out over the next couple of days. Not eating them when I'm already at a deficit makes me feel sluggish.

[jreeds]

Aug 24, 2013 16:26:30 GMT -5 gummybear said:

Aug 24, 2013 15:55:54 GMT -5 jreeds said:

MFP has me at 1600 so 500 sounds reasonable. The funny thing is on a really active day I'm never very hungry ( usually even less hungry than usual) but the day after I'm ravenous. Lol tomorrow I'll probably want to stuff my face!

I was going to post this. On my long run day I can burn over 1,000 calories just from the run. I am rarely very hungry after that. But the next day, whoa, baby. I tend to "go over" the calories for that day by a lot.

It is for this reason I like to look at weekly trends rather than the day to day. My appetite and workouts vary too much to get hung up on the numbers in a 24 hour period.

This makes sense. I have been trying to mix up my deficits, high consumption for 2 days, low consumption one day etc. I don't always look at the weekly deficit though. I should pay more attention to that.

[spedrunner]

this makes perfect sense as to why im usually more starving on my rest days!! Dugh!!!

No advice, just putting 2 and 2 together here lol

[Wines Not Whines]

I just listen to my body and eat when I'm hungry. Like some others said, I'm often starving the day after my long workouts. I think my body is so busy trying to repair itself immediately after my long runs that my digestive system shuts down for a few hours.

[gt7301b]

I'm no help cause I rarely have trouble eating:) We usually go out to dinner on the weekends and that makes up for most of my workout. I may be a little short calories wise on my long run days, but it evens out with my rest days.

[gt7301b]

I'd also try wearing a heart rate monitor, mfp really over estimates calorie burn for me on my medium (5-6 miles) run days. It is pretty close for speed work/ races, but my heart rate tends to stay pretty low for the first half of a 5-6 mile run.

[katinthehat]

if you're the spreadsheet making kind, make yourself a weekly spreadsheet where you do burned vs consumed and figure out your weekly averages. That will give you a better big picture of where you stand.

[jreeds]

Aug 24, 2013 18:37:02 GMT -5 katinthehat said:

if you're the spreadsheet making kind, make yourself a weekly spreadsheet where you do burned vs consumed and figure out your weekly averages. That will give you a better big picture of where you stand.

Loooooove spreadsheets! This is a great idea! DH is going to think I hit a whole new level of crazy, lol!

[jreeds]

Aug 24, 2013 18:01:47 GMT -5 gt7301b said:

I'd also try wearing a heart rate monitor, mfp really over estimates calorie burn for me on my medium (5-6 miles) run days. It is pretty close for speed work/ races, but my heart rate tends to stay pretty low for the first half of a 5-6 mile run.

Well, I have a heart rate monitor for my Garmin so I think the calorie burn for my runs is usually ok. I typically manually enter the burn for that. Anything else though I rely on MFP

[katinthehat]

Aug 24, 2013 19:06:57 GMT -5 jreeds said:

Aug 24, 2013 18:37:02 GMT -5 katinthehat said:

if you're the spreadsheet making kind, make yourself a weekly spreadsheet where you do burned vs consumed and figure out your weekly averages. That will give you a better big picture of where you stand.

Loooooove spreadsheets! This is a great idea! DH is going to think I hit a whole new level of crazy, lol!

I do weekly averages for my weight.  I have three years worth of spreadsheet data...