Calorie exercises question

hiphop10
hiphop10 Posts: 135 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
When you exercise and it increases your calorie intake for the day are you suppose to eat more to make up for the exercises? It seems your weight loss would not benefit from that?

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  • Liftng4Lis
    Liftng4Lis Posts: 15,151 Member
    MFP is designed to eat back your exercise calories. Most eat back half as to account for miscalculations.
  • psuLemon
    psuLemon Posts: 38,432 MFP Moderator
    hiphop10 wrote: »
    When you exercise and it increases your calorie intake for the day are you suppose to eat more to make up for the exercises? It seems your weight loss would not benefit from that?

    Since your deficit is already built in, you should consider eating back your part of your exercise calories. Or if you exercise routinely, I would consider switching to the TDEE method.

  • malibu927
    malibu927 Posts: 17,562 Member
    MFP uses the NEAT method, which gives you a deficit before exercise. You're expected to eat them back, but many only do 50-75% due to possible overestimations of calories burned from the MFP database/exercise machines.
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    Provided you set everything up the way you're supposed to, your calorie goal to lose weight with MFP includes your weight loss deficit WITHOUT exercise...so you simply eat to your calorie goal with no exercise whatsoever and theoretically you would lose weight. Your not trying to create your deficit via exercise with MFP.

    Exercise is an activity that increases the body's calorie requirements and needs to be accounted for. Some calculators account for some estimate of your exercise up front in the equation and include some estimate of that activity in you activity level. MFP does not...you account for exercise after the fact with MFP, when you log it...that's why you get calories back...you have to adjust for inflation though.

    When you set exercise goals with MFP, they have no bearing on your calories...they are just for you...play with the tool a bit and this should become pretty clear.
  • hiphop10
    hiphop10 Posts: 135 Member
    Thank you everyone. What is the TDEE method?
  • psuLemon
    psuLemon Posts: 38,432 MFP Moderator
    hiphop10 wrote: »
    Thank you everyone. What is the TDEE method?

    The below link can explain it. Essentially, TDEE = total daily energy expended. This method includes calories burned from: metabolic functions, daily routine and exercise. From that number, you create a deficit and eat the same calories daily. While MFP doesn't include exercise. Personally, i find the TDEE method more manageable, but if you don't exercise on the regular, you will reduce your calorie deficit and reduce weight loss. For me, eating the same calories a day is just easier.But I exercise 5-6 hours a week guaranteed.

    http://iifym.com/tdee-calculator/

  • hiphop10
    hiphop10 Posts: 135 Member
    Great information here thank you. This link is worth saving.

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