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momandmedaycare
momandmedaycare Posts: 5 Member
edited November 25 in Health and Weight Loss
the calories your given at the start do they decrease as you lose weight?

Are you supposed to eat your exercise points?

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  • Liftng4Lis
    Liftng4Lis Posts: 15,151 Member
    Yes and yes. Remember, most only eat a portion of the exercise calories to accommodate miscalculations in logging and overestimations in burns.
  • RoxieDawn
    RoxieDawn Posts: 15,488 Member
    edited October 2015
    You should enter in your new weight into MFP and after 10 pounds you should have MFP recalcuate your new calorie goal for loosing more weight. You do need less calories as you get smaller. That is why it is important to make sure you eating at a correct calorie goal and light/moderate deficit depending on your goals and amount of weight to loose.

    The exercise calories is a personal preference usually eat back a portion. Depending on how you calculate your exercise, be sure to not overestimate the calorie burn if you choose to eat back more than 50% of what you are calculating your burns at.

    There are alot of stickies you can read up on that will answer the basic questions

    http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/1080242/a-guide-to-get-you-started-on-your-path-to-sexypants/p1

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  • jeepinshawn
    jeepinshawn Posts: 642 Member
    momandmedaycare wrote: »
    the calories your given at the start do they decrease as you lose weight?

    Are you supposed to eat your exercise points?

    Yes, and thats up to you. I wouldn't recommend eat more then 25-30% of them back though.
  • abatonfan
    abatonfan Posts: 1,120 Member
    edited October 2015
    Yes, you will be eating less as you lose more weight (or eat the same amount and have weight loss slow down). For comparison, my TDEE was around 2000 calories at my starting weight, and 80 pounds later it's now around 1580. If I ate at around 1500 at my starting weight, I would lose at about a pound per week, while I would be maintaining my weight now if I ate that amount.

    The general recommendation is to eat back roughly half of your exercise calories. MFP's exercise database is notoriously high (I would not lose weight if I ate back all of my exercise calories), and eating back half also gives you some wiggle room for areas where your logging might not be exact.
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