Additional calories given for excercise

ToshaMkay

Does anyone know how I remove the extra calories MyFitnessPal adds to my daily intake for excercise. I'm trying to lose weight, not maintain, and the extra calories aren't helpful for me.

Ready2Rock206

Don't log exercise or log it as 1 calorie.

malibu927

The way MFP is set up you lose weight without exercise if you told it you wish to lose weight. Exercising increases your calories burned, so in order to keep the deficit consistent, it's expected that you eat at least a portion of them back.

H_Ock12

I just ignore them, unless I'm exercising to eat, and find joy that it shows a larger deficit for me that day.

dragon_girl26

malibu927 wrote: »

The way MFP is set up you lose weight without exercise if you told it you wish to lose weight. Exercising increases your calories burned, so in order to keep the deficit consistent, it's expected that you eat at least a portion of them back.

This, especially if you are eating 1200 calories (don't know if you are, but saying that just in case.). Eating back at least half is a good idea, so that your deficit isn't too large, because your deficit will be what MFP has calculated for you already, plus the exercise calories, if that makes sense.

TavistockToad

ToshaMkay wrote: »

Does anyone know how I remove the extra calories MyFitnessPal adds to my daily intake for excercise. I'm trying to lose weight, not maintain, and the extra calories aren't helpful for me.

Use a tdee calculation then, not mfp.

TeaBea

ToshaMkay wrote: »

Does anyone know how I remove the extra calories MyFitnessPal adds to my daily intake for excercise. I'm trying to lose weight, not maintain, and the extra calories aren't helpful for me.

Sometimes the extra calories are not very important: morbidly obese, or a combo of minimal exercise and a moderate weight loss goal.

But sometimes extra calories are very important. If you are closer to goal or you exercise a lot or you have an aggressive weekly goal - then a large deficit is not doing you any favors. Your body will not fuel existing lean muscle mass as efficiently. A large deficit doesn't lower your body fat % as much.

NorthCascades

ToshaMkay wrote: »

I'm trying to lose weight, not maintain, and the extra calories aren't helpful for me.

They're not "extra" calories, you burned them, it's like repaying a debt.

SezxyStef

it is important to eat at least some of those back...MFP uses NEAT to calculate your calories which basically means the calories given before you exercise will help you lose the weight so any extra is just that...extra and should be eaten.

cwolfman13

How is it so difficult to understand how this app works...four years plus here and I'll never understand...it's seriously pretty simple.

SezxyStef

cwolfman13 wrote: »

How is it so difficult to understand how this app works...four years plus here and I'll never understand...it's seriously pretty simple.

I don't think people read much when they are setting up the profiles...they just go with what they know...I half expect at least 80% have no clue how this app works but are using it anyway...

trwww

I don't eat back my exercise calories either. What I do is look just at the "Totals" row on the Food tab instead of looking at the "Calories Remaining" box.

Sugrat

Go in to your profile, under goals, go to exercise calories and disable the feature. You won't see the additional calories now. Hope that helps.

malibu927

Sugrat wrote: »

Go in to your profile, under goals, go to exercise calories and disable the feature. You won't see the additional calories now. Hope that helps.

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