Net Calories

naturalbeautii
naturalbeautii Posts: 72 Member
edited January 2019 in Food and Nutrition
Can someone explain net calories and please let know what I am doing wrong? Because this chart doesn't look good.

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  • lemurcat2
    lemurcat2 Posts: 7,885 Member
    Looks like you aren't eating back your exercise calories and are about 500 cal/day under your goal. How many exercise calories are you getting and how are you tracking them?
  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
    No, you're massively under eating. You should eat your calorie goal PLUS exercise cals (or at least a portion of them)
  • TeaBea
    TeaBea Posts: 14,517 Member
    edited January 2019
    Are you adding exercise manually, or do you have a tracker adding calories?

    My Fitness Pal gave you a calorie deficit before deliberate exercise. When you log exercise (or a synced tracker does it for you) - you should be eating at least a portion of those calories back.

    Ideally you should be able to eat 100% of exercise calories back and lose at the rate you set up. However, exercise calories are estimates, food logging is an estimate, and activity level is a range, etc.

    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/818082/exercise-calories-again-wtf/p1

    Edited to add - there are trackers that have know issues (bugs). You may have to disconnect and then reconnect.
  • naturalbeautii
    naturalbeautii Posts: 72 Member
    I input my exercise on MFP. I go to gym 4x times a week and workout 45 mins to 1 hour. My exercise calories might be average of 500 or 600.
  • TeaBea
    TeaBea Posts: 14,517 Member
    naturalbeautii wrote: »
    I input my exercise on MFP. I go to gym 4x times a week and workout 45 mins to 1 hour. My exercise calories might be average of 500 or 600.

    Then eat your goal + 250-300 calories every time you work out. After a time, you might find you are losing faster than expected. Then eat more than 50% of exercise calories. If after a time, you find you are losing slower than expected. Then eat less than 50% of exercise calories. Some forms of exercise are harder to estimate than others.
  • naturalbeautii
    naturalbeautii Posts: 72 Member
    TavistockToad wrote: »
    No, you're massively under eating. You should eat your calorie goal PLUS exercise cals (or at least a portion of them)

    Ok...when I look at my net calories on MFP, I need to hit that goal of 1,350 everyday and on days I exercise I can eat back 50 or 100% of my exercise calories once I hit MFP goal. I just want make sure I understand this stuff completely.
  • lemurcat2
    lemurcat2 Posts: 7,885 Member
    TeaBea wrote: »
    naturalbeautii wrote: »
    I input my exercise on MFP. I go to gym 4x times a week and workout 45 mins to 1 hour. My exercise calories might be average of 500 or 600.

    Then eat your goal + 250-300 calories every time you work out. After a time, you might find you are losing faster than expected. Then eat more than 50% of exercise calories. If after a time, you find you are losing slower than expected. Then eat less than 50% of exercise calories. Some forms of exercise are harder to estimate than others.

    Yes, this. 500-600 sounds like a lot for 45-60 min of exercise, so I'd eat back 50% to start. I'd also make sure you hit or come close to your goal all days.

    So on exercise days you'd be eating around 1600-1650.

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