Eating back calories..
Cantstopmyshine1993
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there has been a few times MFP wouldn't let me complete my log for the day bc my calories were too low. The reason was was bc I had burned off a lot from exercising. So my question is... Are you supposed to eat back the calories you burn from exercising?
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I'm a little confused by this as well! I feel like I'm defeating the purpose if I eat back the calories I burned off. But I am new to this. I looked it up and read that you don't need to eat the calories back if you aren't trying to gain, but I think the calories that MFP gives us are our minimum for proper body function? Someone will correct me if I'm wrong on that. I did the TDEE calculator and it gave me a higher calorie intake than MFP with TDEE-20%. So now I really don't know!
Hope someone answers that can be helpful!0 -
MFP will not suggest less than 1200 calories per day for women and 1500 per day for men as suggested by the national institute for health. It will prompt you if you don't make that calorie goal. It shouldn't prompt you if you meet that goal and burn extra with exercise. For example, I've eaten about 1800 calories and burned off about 1000 hiking for a few hours. Since I still ate over 1500 it didn't prompt me, even though my net calories were only 800.
That said, MFP gets strange bugs every time it's updated, so if you ate more than the cutoff and it prompts you, then it's probably a bug.0 -
Your mfp calorie goal has your weight loss deficit calculated into it. You are supposed to eat your exercise calories. Some people feel that mfp overstates exercise calories and instead of eating them all they eat only a portion. I suggest eating at least 50% and then reevaluating after a month.0
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galgenstrick wrote: »MFP will not suggest less than 1200 calories per day for women and 1500 per day for men as suggested by the national institute for health. It will prompt you if you don't make that calorie goal. It shouldn't prompt you if you meet that goal and burn extra with exercise. For example, I've eaten about 1800 calories and burned off about 1000 hiking for a few hours. Since I still ate over 1500 it didn't prompt me, even though my net calories were only 800.
That said, MFP gets strange bugs every time it's updated, so if you ate more than the cutoff and it prompts you, then it's probably a bug.
Yes I ate over 1200 calories0 -
You never have to click the "complete entry" button. You can just ignore it.
As far as eating your exercise...you get lots of opinions. Some people feel that if your body has less than the recommended amount of calories you will go into "starvation mode" where your metabolism will slow down and you won't lose any weight. Other people call that BS and say the fewer calories the better, and more exercise is good for you.
Personally, I think the people that talk about "starvation mode" are already pretty thin and have a different metabolism than the average overweight person that is trying to lose weight. I'm exercising and losing weight by running about 2,000 calories a day under what MFP says I can eat for the maximum weight loss. Maybe some dietitian would be upset about my glutens or some crap. But I don't care. I just want to stop being fat, and I'm making progress so screw the naysayers.0 -
You never have to click the "complete entry" button. You can just ignore it.
As far as eating your exercise...you get lots of opinions. Some people feel that if your body has less than the recommended amount of calories you will go into "starvation mode" where your metabolism will slow down and you won't lose any weight. Other people call that BS and say the fewer calories the better, and more exercise is good for you.
Personally, I think the people that talk about "starvation mode" are already pretty thin and have a different metabolism than the average overweight person that is trying to lose weight. I'm exercising and losing weight by running about 2,000 calories a day under what MFP says I can eat for the maximum weight loss. Maybe some dietitian would be upset about my glutens or some crap. But I don't care. I just want to stop being fat, and I'm making progress so screw the naysayers.
What goal did mfp give you?0 -
I never input calorie burn from MFP --- too many variables.0
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How long have you been at this?0 -
You never have to click the "complete entry" button. You can just ignore it.
As far as eating your exercise...you get lots of opinions. Some people feel that if your body has less than the recommended amount of calories you will go into "starvation mode" where your metabolism will slow down and you won't lose any weight. Other people call that BS and say the fewer calories the better, and more exercise is good for you.
Personally, I think the people that talk about "starvation mode" are already pretty thin and have a different metabolism than the average overweight person that is trying to lose weight. I'm exercising and losing weight by running about 2,000 calories a day under what MFP says I can eat for the maximum weight loss. Maybe some dietitian would be upset about my glutens or some crap. But I don't care. I just want to stop being fat, and I'm making progress so screw the naysayers.
2000 calories under your MFP goal? Exactly what are you doing for exercise to generate such a deficit?
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As long as you're eating at least 1200 calories a day, don't worry if it's not completing the log, it's probably a bug, it should log if you eat over 1000, anything under that and you get a warning about eating too little calories and it won't log (tried and tested). Also use a heart rate monitor for your burned calories, MFP over estimates your calories burned. If you choose to eat your calories back, do what works for you.0
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kelsieizzlenizzle wrote: »galgenstrick wrote: »MFP will not suggest less than 1200 calories per day for women and 1500 per day for men as suggested by the national institute for health. It will prompt you if you don't make that calorie goal. It shouldn't prompt you if you meet that goal and burn extra with exercise. For example, I've eaten about 1800 calories and burned off about 1000 hiking for a few hours. Since I still ate over 1500 it didn't prompt me, even though my net calories were only 800.
That said, MFP gets strange bugs every time it's updated, so if you ate more than the cutoff and it prompts you, then it's probably a bug.
Yes I ate over 1200 calories
How many calories did you net?0 -
How long have you been at this?
Since mid January. I've lost 35 pounds.
I only really started exercising a lot in the last month or so when the snow melted. I've been bicycling an hour to two hours a day. I started it to try to break through a plateau but I was really missing hamburgers and I loved it when MapMyRide gave me a thousand calories and that's two hamburgers! or three slices of pizza
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MapMyRide calculated my 37 mile ride with 2200 feet of climbing at over 1000 calories more than Strava did.0
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brianpperkins wrote: »kelsieizzlenizzle wrote: »galgenstrick wrote: »MFP will not suggest less than 1200 calories per day for women and 1500 per day for men as suggested by the national institute for health. It will prompt you if you don't make that calorie goal. It shouldn't prompt you if you meet that goal and burn extra with exercise. For example, I've eaten about 1800 calories and burned off about 1000 hiking for a few hours. Since I still ate over 1500 it didn't prompt me, even though my net calories were only 800.
That said, MFP gets strange bugs every time it's updated, so if you ate more than the cutoff and it prompts you, then it's probably a bug.
Yes I ate over 1200 calories
How many calories did you net?
My goal is 1,430 calories I ate 1,303 & had 398 calories burned from exercising. I was under 1000 after my burned calories so that might be why it didn't complete. But I was wondering if I should eat some back if I'm eating "too less" calories.
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kelsieizzlenizzle wrote: »brianpperkins wrote: »kelsieizzlenizzle wrote: »galgenstrick wrote: »MFP will not suggest less than 1200 calories per day for women and 1500 per day for men as suggested by the national institute for health. It will prompt you if you don't make that calorie goal. It shouldn't prompt you if you meet that goal and burn extra with exercise. For example, I've eaten about 1800 calories and burned off about 1000 hiking for a few hours. Since I still ate over 1500 it didn't prompt me, even though my net calories were only 800.
That said, MFP gets strange bugs every time it's updated, so if you ate more than the cutoff and it prompts you, then it's probably a bug.
Yes I ate over 1200 calories
How many calories did you net?
My goal is 1,430 calories I ate 1,303 & had 398 calories burned from exercising. I was under 1000 after my burned calories so that might be why it didn't complete. But I was wondering if I should eat some back if I'm eating "too less" calories.
Your MFP goal is 1430 NET calories ... not total.0 -
brianpperkins wrote: »MapMyRide calculated my 37 mile ride with 2200 feet of climbing at over 1000 calories more than Strava did.
I rode 16.02 miles today and MapMyRide gave me 1182 calories for that.
I don't know how to compare it with Strava. I just just know I feel good and my scale says I'm losing weight. That's what matters to me.
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brianpperkins wrote: »kelsieizzlenizzle wrote: »brianpperkins wrote: »kelsieizzlenizzle wrote: »galgenstrick wrote: »MFP will not suggest less than 1200 calories per day for women and 1500 per day for men as suggested by the national institute for health. It will prompt you if you don't make that calorie goal. It shouldn't prompt you if you meet that goal and burn extra with exercise. For example, I've eaten about 1800 calories and burned off about 1000 hiking for a few hours. Since I still ate over 1500 it didn't prompt me, even though my net calories were only 800.
That said, MFP gets strange bugs every time it's updated, so if you ate more than the cutoff and it prompts you, then it's probably a bug.
Yes I ate over 1200 calories
How many calories did you net?
My goal is 1,430 calories I ate 1,303 & had 398 calories burned from exercising. I was under 1000 after my burned calories so that might be why it didn't complete. But I was wondering if I should eat some back if I'm eating "too less" calories.
Your MFP goal is 1430 NET calories ... not total.
607 net calories it shows on my chart for today0 -
kelsieizzlenizzle wrote: »brianpperkins wrote: »kelsieizzlenizzle wrote: »brianpperkins wrote: »kelsieizzlenizzle wrote: »galgenstrick wrote: »MFP will not suggest less than 1200 calories per day for women and 1500 per day for men as suggested by the national institute for health. It will prompt you if you don't make that calorie goal. It shouldn't prompt you if you meet that goal and burn extra with exercise. For example, I've eaten about 1800 calories and burned off about 1000 hiking for a few hours. Since I still ate over 1500 it didn't prompt me, even though my net calories were only 800.
That said, MFP gets strange bugs every time it's updated, so if you ate more than the cutoff and it prompts you, then it's probably a bug.
Yes I ate over 1200 calories
How many calories did you net?
My goal is 1,430 calories I ate 1,303 & had 398 calories burned from exercising. I was under 1000 after my burned calories so that might be why it didn't complete. But I was wondering if I should eat some back if I'm eating "too less" calories.
Your MFP goal is 1430 NET calories ... not total.
607 net calories it shows on my chart for today
Then, yes, you need to eat more, until your NET shows at least 1200.0 -
I usually eat back about 75% of my exercise calories, since the goal calories for weight loss already put you at a deficit for the day.0
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brianpperkins wrote: »MapMyRide calculated my 37 mile ride with 2200 feet of climbing at over 1000 calories more than Strava did.
I rode 16.02 miles today and MapMyRide gave me 1182 calories for that.
I don't know how to compare it with Strava. I just just know I feel good and my scale says I'm losing weight. That's what matters to me.
If you are in fact 2,000 calories per day below your MFP goal, that is an additional projected four pounds per week loss on top of whatever you told MFP ... highly unlikely to achieve and resulting from losing lean body mass rather than fat if you do it.0
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