How many exercise calories are good?

marinawalker2015

hi community, I'm 52 and have been working out and logging my info regularly for a long time. I'm currently trying to battle menapause weight gain to no avail. I challenged myself to stay off the scale for a month while at the same time upping my workouts and eating well. 1450 calorie intake. I've been exercising an average of 1100 calories on top of that. After a month, no weight loss. Am I eating too few calories? I've heard you should eat at least half of your exercise calories. Seems like a lot of calories. But I know I can't up my exercise. I'm already at two hours a day. Feeling frustrated.

queenliz99

How do you calculate your calorie burns? Do you use a food scale to weigh everything?

LivLovLrn

Hello there.
What did you put for your settings in MFP? If you put that you want to lose any weight then you are already eating at a calorie deficit for that; MFP figures that for you. My opinion is that you should start eating back at least half those exercise calories; your body needs fuel to function properly and it will hang on to what it has if it feels it needs to (speaking from experience!)

Jruzer

You're eating 1450 kcal and you've got 1100 kcal of exercise per day? You should be dropping well more than a pound per week.

I would suggest you carefully examine both your logging and your calorie burn estimates.