Daily calorie goal

ashleyrongo
ashleyrongo Posts: 8 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
Hi guys. So my daily calorie goal in around 1600. Does this mean I should eat up to 1600 and work out or I should be going over it and then burning enough to get back down to 1600? What I've been doing is trying to eat less than the calorie goal and then work out- burning about 500 calories through cardio.. Thoughts?

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  • Asher_Ethan
    Asher_Ethan Posts: 2,430 Member
    What are your stats? How do you calculate that you are burning 500 calories in cardio?
  • Sued0nim
    Sued0nim Posts: 17,456 Member
    Did you read MFP when you set up your account and it gave you a calorie goal

    That's your calorie goal without exercise so you eat that

    When you exercise you eat those too ..but as MFP and machines overestimate start by eating back half the calories

    500 calories in straight cardio would take me 70 mins running at 8km/h (5mph)
  • distinctlybeautiful
    distinctlybeautiful Posts: 1,041 Member
    My recommendation is that you base your food intake on your exercise, not vice versa. That means you eat 1600 calories each day - unless you exercise.. then you eat 1600 calories plus the number of calories you burned through exercise. If you eat over your goal and then exercise to get back down to your goal, your kind of making exercise a punishment - or at the very least a consequence - for eating. I don't think that should ever be the case.
  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
    rabbitjb wrote: »
    Did you read MFP when you set up your account and it gave you a calorie goal

    That's your calorie goal without exercise so you eat that

    When you exercise you eat those too ..but as MFP and machines overestimate start by eating back half the calories

    500 calories in straight cardio would take me 70 mins running at 8km/h (5mph)

    All of this

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