Can I eat my exercise calories since it added to my calorie bank?

dniania

I'm allowed 2,280 calories a day and today I went to the gym and burned about 250 calories and when I logged it ..it added 250 calories to my calorie goal for the day ... so I can technically eat 2530 calories for the day or am I wrong?

AnvilHead

Watch this short video, @SideSteel explains it very well: http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10503681/exercise-calories-do-i-eat-these-a-video-explanation

callsitlikeiseeit

man, i wish i had 2280 cals towork with each day. id be eating all day and never hungry or even marginally ' snacky' LOLOLOL

my maintenance is 1600

with 2280cals i personally wouldnt feel the NEED to eat back ANY calories.

paperpudding

OP - yes that is the way MFP is designed to work - ie yes, you are meant to eat back your exercise calories.

However many people find the exercise calories allotted are over inflated so they eat back part, say, 1/2 or 3/4, of them rather than the full given amount, to allow for this.

GottaBurnEmAll

AnvilHead wrote: »

Watch this short video, @SideSteel explains it very well: http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10503681/exercise-calories-do-i-eat-these-a-video-explanation

This video pretty thoroughly explains the answer to the question.