Help...confused

SlimJanette

I have been reading up on TDEE and some people say eat back and some say no so I am asking:

I exercise 6 days a week. That includes Cardio and 3 days of lifting.
I am 38 and weigh 169.2.

BMR 1526
TDEE 2632
20% 1974

Do I eat back my exercise calories or just stick to 1974?

doIlhands

don't

diannethegeek

If you use MFP as it's designed you would eat them back because the program doesn't take your exercise into account until you actually do it. Since a TDEE calculation includes the exercise already you don't eat them back because they're already accounted for.

DVaughan1975

Stick to 1974. Your excercise calories are already figured into your TDEE. I am assuming that you set your activity level to moderately active (if not more).

AmyRhubarb

If you included your exercise in your activity level when you ran your numbers for TDEE, then do not eat them back.

SlimJanette

I custom changed my goals in MFP by what Scooby's Workshop said. I have it set as Strenuous exercise as I joined a Crossfit class starting next week.

freebirdjones

I custom changed my goals in MFP by what Scooby's Workshop said. I have it set as Strenuous exercise as I joined a Crossfit class starting next week.

If you have your BMR in there eat them back.

If your going to TDEE - the deficit then don't eat them back, you've already accounted for them in TDEE

I know mfp has people to their TDEE and then you put in cardio in your log and it tells you to eat them twice. I don't know why?

jzammetti

Stick to 1974. Your excercise calories are already figured into your TDEE. I am assuming that you set your activity level to moderately active (if not more).

^^ This. Strenuous sounds right to me.