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If you want to lose weight, one of the most helpful things you can do is start tracking your calorie intake.

This improves your awareness of how much you\u2019re eating, where you can cut back, and how to budget your calories so as to eat your favorite foods while still losing weight.

Many people take this a step further and start tracking their calorie expenditure (\u201cburn\u201d) using an activity tracker like a FitBit, Apple Watch, or Jawbone.

If you\u2019ve used one of these trackers, though, you\u2019ve probably noticed that on some days you burn a lot more calories than others. A hike, bike ride, or jog can jack up your calorie expenditure by several hundred calories.

In this case, the person set a daily calorie budget of 2,000 calories, and they\u2019d already eaten and tracked all of those calories. But they also went on a bike ride that burned 327 calories, which opens the question . . . should you \u201ceat back\u201d those ~300 calories?

Even if you don\u2019t use an activity tracker, you\u2019ve probably wondered the same thing: if you burn more calories on a particular day, should you eat more to compensate?

The short answer is that no, you probably shouldn\u2019t eat back the calories burned during exercise.

If you want to know why this is the case and learn a better way to manage your calorie intake that doesn\u2019t depend on activity trackers or constantly balancing your daily calorie budget in this way, keep listening.

Timestamps:

2:51 - The problem with eating back calories

20:06 - Does that really work if your actual calorie expenditure changes a lot day to day?

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