maintenance calories

angelgreathouse9

seems like i should know this but i'm asking anyways... my calories were 1200 when in weight loss mode, so I would make sure that if i went over I exercised enough to keep a net of 1200... now that I'm in maintenance and adding calories it still works the same way right???? if I'm allowing myself 1300 and I burn 350 at the gym then allowed to eat 1650 in order to maintain???

nxd10

Why don't you use the MFP calculator to see what you should be eating? And yes, if you log your exercise, you want to eat those calories back - exactly the same as when you were losing.

vfit10

If you used the calculator to get your Cals ,you already counted the calories you burned during exercise.
If you eat more calories than calculator suggestion, you will eating more than your body needs. Weight your self on the morning then during the whole week eat the same Cals and depending of your goals if gain/lose adjust it.

Helloitsdan

Body weight x 13-15 should give a good indication to maintenance calories. Then reverse diet up to that number in half the amount of weeks it took to diet down.

sijomial

angelgreathouse9 wrote: »

now that I'm in maintenance and adding calories it still works the same way right???? if I'm allowing myself 1300 and I burn 350 at the gym then allowed to eat 1650 in order to maintain???

Yes.
Same old game of numbers - just a different goal.

sijomial

vfit10 wrote: »

If you used the calculator to get your Cals ,you already counted the calories you burned during exercise.

If you are talking about this calculator then you are misunderstanding how MFP works - exercise is not included.
Hopefully you are referring to a TDEE calculator and not this site but your post doesn't state that.