Am I Doing This Right?

ninjawaffles22

I am new to MFP. I am an 18 year old, 5'6, 119 lb girl. My goal is 115 lbs and a toned stomach. MFP set my NET calorie goal at 1200. I ate that 1200 calories throughout the day. I also went to the gym and burned about 600 calories with cardio plus a decent amount of strength training, so that put my NET calories at 600. Does that mean I eat 600 more calories? Well, I did that today by indulging myself with a blueberry muffin from a local bakery. It seems like that muffin just put all of my hard work down the drain, even though my NET calories are within my goal. So am I doing this right, or should I not be eating all of those calories back? I think I should also add that I'm losing that little bit of weight from my weight gain I had after over coming an eating disorder, if that effects anything.

Liftng4Lis

Yes, MFP is designed to eat back exercise calories.

juggernaut1974

Sounds like you need to talk with your eating disorder counselor again

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jenncornelsen

ceoverturf wrote: »

Sounds like you need to talk with your eating disorder counselor again

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Agree. 115 at your height is borderline underweight. U want to tone and build muscle u will have to eat more

ninjawaffles22

For your information, I have talked about my goal in weight with my doctor, and he said that if I were at this weight, I would be completely healthy. I appreciate your guys' concern, but that is not the answer I was looking for, since I know about those issues about myself more than you guys do. My question is simply if I eat all of my exercise calories back or not. Thank you to those who answered my question!