Net Calories?

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UnknownMasta
UnknownMasta Posts: 58 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
I eat About 1900 Calories a day and burn 1200-1500 A day and my net is 700-400 Is that good or bad?

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  • malibu927
    malibu927 Posts: 17,565 Member
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    Bad. Your net calories, ideally, should be 1900. Start eating 50% of your exercise calories back (1200-1500 is a LOT, what are you doing and how are you measuring those?) to fuel your body.
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,876 Member
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    weighlpop wrote: »
    I eat About 1900 Calories a day and burn 1200-1500 A day and my net is 700-400 Is that good or bad?

    Very bad...it would be the same as just eating 400-700 calories everyday.

    How are you coming to the conclusion that you burn 1200-1500 calories per day from exercise...that's a pretty excessive amount of exercise on a daily basis...I would have to pretty much do a 35-40 mile bike ride every single day.
  • pineapple_jojo
    pineapple_jojo Posts: 440 Member
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    Bad, eat your 1900 and then at least half your exercise.
  • TeaBea
    TeaBea Posts: 14,517 Member
    edited July 2017
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    When you say you burn 1200-1500 calories a day.....is that from deliberate exercise?

    MFP as designed gave you a calorie goal BEFORE exercise, so eating exercise calories back would "ideally" get you back to the deficit you signed up for.

    However, exercise calories are guesstimates. I'm not saying 1200-1500 a day is impossible......but what's your exercise, and where did you come up with those numbers.

    Many users start by eating back 50% of exercise calories and then adjust that number up or down (after several weeks) based on actual results.

    A 700-400 net intake would definitely be a bad thing. There comes a point where your body makes choices.....a full head of hair....or the heart muscle. Besides your body won't get everything from fat stores. A moderate deficit helps your body support existing lean muscle mass better.
  • stanmann571
    stanmann571 Posts: 5,728 Member
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    weighlpop wrote: »
    I eat About 1900 Calories a day and burn 1200-1500 A day and my net is 700-400 Is that good or bad?

    How are you calculating 1200-1500 that seems very high.
  • UnknownMasta
    UnknownMasta Posts: 58 Member
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    I walk like 1-3 hours daily and use stationary bike for 150minutes+ daily. Not counting my weight workouts
  • kshama2001
    kshama2001 Posts: 27,897 Member
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    MFP uses the NEAT method (Non-Exercise Activity Thermogenesis), and as such this system is designed for exercise calories to be eaten back. However, many consider the burns given by MFP to be inflated and only eat a percentage, such as 50%, back. Others, however, are able to lose weight while eating 100% of their exercise calories.

    My FitBit One is far less generous with calories than the MFP database and I comfortably eat 100% of the calories I earn from it back.

    http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/818082/exercise-calories-again-wtf/p1

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