Eat workout calories back

whocares2018

Do I eat my my calories I earned via workouts? I’ve been working from home for a year I use a stand up desk I do not sit all day. I normally get a walk in on the treadmill before work so I set my activity to low. So now I’m not sure if I eat the calories back or not?

janejellyroll

If your calorie goal comes from MFP, it doesn't include exercise. Your activity level is intended to be based on your regular daily activity aside from additional exercise. MFP's design is that you will get a base number of calories scaled to your activity level and then you will log additional exercise (or add adjustments from a fitness tracking device) and eat those calories back.

I probably wouldn't log anything just for working at a stand-up desk unless I found that I was losing faster than intended. For the walk before work, that would be something that I would log.

Hodgy2357

Just had a look at your little image. You sound like you're really on this! you've linked your fitbit, that's giving you a great estimate. I know when I've had one in the past if I didn't move as much as usual it dropped my calorie allowance. Eat and enjoy that calorie allowance.

You've prompted me to look into getting a tracker again!

heybales

whocares2018 wrote: »

Do I eat my my calories I earned via workouts? I’ve been working from home for a year I use a stand up desk I do not sit all day. I normally get a walk in on the treadmill before work so I set my activity to low. So now I’m not sure if I eat the calories back or not?

Just to know MFP already had categories and wording, so when activity trackers could be synced they were put into what was existing.

That Fitbit Adjustment may be in your Exercise Diary, and it may be added to your eating goal as Exercise - but it may not be exercise at all.

MFP creates that when your Fitbit says you burned more than MFP thought you'd burn.

If you could have somehow selected exactly the right MFP activity level - there'd be no adjustment and you wouldn't be wondering anything - your eating goal would contain what you now see, just hidden away without your awareness.

And it's not exercise always, could be none - it's the difference (Fitbit daily burn - MFP estimated daily burn).
That could be increased daily activity, could be exercise, could be combo.

And you may have days of exercise but less daily movement - so not a big increase.
You should enable in MFP Food setting Negative Adjustments too - because sometimes we move less than MFP estimate we would.