calories

Meselele

guys what does eating back your exercise calories mean?

ambsnic17

If you burn let's say 250 calories on your exercise then you eat that 250 in food later

heybales

And in the way MFP works - that means you keep your deficit the same, if the other estimated values were indeed true.

What usually happens in MPF world if the method was followed - would be a too big a deficit picked by the user would be offset by potentially too large an estimated calorie burn - and balance would be caused if they exercised enough.

What happens with many though is people have no clue what's going on - but they figure they know better so they don't follow the program, causing an already unreasonable deficit to become bigger by their frequent exercise.
So then body becomes stressed, exercise becomes mediocre even if not noticed, and weight loss slows or stops compared to before and what the math would suggest should happen.

Then they come here - and have success doing it better.

Just a little diatribe in case others are reading that are deciding which way to go.