Eating exercise calories

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  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,874 Member
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    EEF8 wrote: »
    do you eat the extra calories you earn by exercising? I'm doing 1200 a day but after a workout the program then says I have 700 calories left rather than the 400 I left for dinner. Aren't you just erasing your workout?

    considering the MFP gives you a calorie goal to lose weight WITHOUT exercise, no...you're not erasing your workout. With the MFP method, you're supposed to eat back exercise calories...that is how that activity is accounted for...it is meant to teach you how to fuel your fitness. Part of actually being healthy and fit is understanding how to fuel that activity. Fit and healthy people eat...they don't crash diet and exercise incessantly.

    That said, I can pretty much guarantee you that your burn is inflated. Eat back a fraction of that...you have to make an allowance for estimation error.
  • PeachyCarol
    PeachyCarol Posts: 8,029 Member
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    Liftng4Lis wrote: »
    MFP already has your deficit built in. Most eat back a portion, to accommodate miscalculations in logging and overestimations in burns.

    ^That pretty much sums up my thinking on the subject.

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