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Earned calories for exercise

nataliehallworth
nataliehallworth Posts: 4 Member
edited January 18 in Chit-Chat
Can someone help me? Do I have to eat the whole amount of daily calories plus any earned through exercise?

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  • Travelerraven
    Travelerraven Posts: 42 Member
    edited January 2021
    No stay with in your healthy limit of what you need to survive and train. I train and have 1.500 earned calories but I stay with in my daily 1.500 calories for weight loss and 2,000 calories for maintaining.
  • glassyo
    glassyo Posts: 7,814 Member
    nataliehallworth wrote: »
    Can someone help me? Do I have to eat the whole amount of daily calories plus any earned through exercise?

    You don't HAVE to but why wouldn't you if you could still lose weight doing so?
  • sijomial
    sijomial Posts: 19,809 Member
    Why would you choose a tool and then not at least trial using the tool as it was designed?

    If you used a TDEE calculator or a fitness tracker you would also be taking your exercise calories into account - just like MyFitnessPal does in a slightly different way.

    Your body counts them and when you get to goal weight and want to maintain what will you do then?
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