Net calories

yn6my2qstn
yn6my2qstn Posts: 2 Member
in Food and Nutrition
Hi everyone , could some one please help
Me understand net calories? For example today my net says 500 is that a good thing or bad thing I’m so confused. Thank you

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  • yirara
    yirara Posts: 10,075 Member
    We need more information to answer this.

    Is this on the fitness pal website/app? If so could potentially be bad, if this is the end of the day, depending on what you did.

    On MFP, gross calories are all the calories you ate. If you exercise and log this you are given more calories to eat that you are supposed to eat back within reason. What you ate after exercise is your net calories. Say you ate 1200 calories. And then you ran 5km and possibly burned 300. Your net calories are only 900 calories then. But if you eat 300 more, thus a total of 1500 calories, then your net calories are still 1200. The second example is how MFP should be used as only eating 500 calories in a day after exercise is far too little and unhealthy. I mean, a single day is fine, but try to hit your net goal on average.

    There's the caveat that calorie estimates for exercise can be grossly inflated. So why not start with eating half of them back and see if your weightloss is on track. If it's too fast after one menstrual cycle, or a month then eat more.
  • yn6my2qstn
    yn6my2qstn Posts: 2 Member
    Thank you very much, i started intermitted fasting few days ago that’s when I started seeing 500-600 on net I’m struggling to eat a lot during the period I’m not Ona fast and my workouts have increased as well as walking so I will keep an eye on that. Thanks for the information

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