suggestions?

Mywitnessfitness

Fitness pal says you can eat the same amount of calories that you burned. What is your intake? Example, being on a 1200 calorie diey and you burned 200, fitness pal says you can eat 1400.

Sued0nim

If your goal is 1200 and you add exercise for 200 you eat 1400 to stay at your goal

Only eat back 50% of estimated calorie burns from MFP database or machines as they tend to overestimate

pippin44

I personally try not to eat back any calories I burn. Eating 1200 calories/day should result in a 1.5-2lb weight loss per week....so I figure, if I don't eat back the extra calories I burn, I will be closer to my 2lb per week goal. On a day when I don't exercise, I really work hard on staying at 1200.....but on a day when I do exercise, I don't focus on that as much.

TimothyFish

Assuming you are trying to lose 1 pound per week, you would expect to burn 1700. Through exercise, you burn 200. Because part of those calories were already counted in the 1700, you shouldn't just add those to get 1900. It is more likely that you burned 1800. So, you should eat 1300.

healthygreek

I eat back 1/2 to all of my exercise calories depending on my hunger.

Mywitnessfitness

Ive been doing this all wrong then the entire time. What a disappointment. So discouraging.