Can I eat my calories burned?

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helen5430
helen5430 Posts: 1 Member
in Health and Weight Loss

maybe a stupid question, but I’m new here. If my calorie goal is 1500, but I exercise and burn 1000 calories (I run long distances) and the total now increases to 2500cal, am I “allowed” to eat over and above the 1500cal…? Not the full 1000cal amount of course, but just somewhere in between?

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  • Lietchi
    Lietchi Posts: 7,224 Member

    In theory you could eat the full amount even, but some recommend only eating part of those calories (at least until you find out of the numbers are correct for you).

    I eat all of my exercise calories because experience has taught me that the numbers work for me (I actually burn more calories than expected, so even more margin to eat a bit more).

    Where is the number coming from? For me: my Garmin underestimates my running calories. I compare with the calculator here: https://exrx.net/Calculators/WalkRunMETs

    Set it to net calories rather than gross calories to know how many extra calories you can consume/ to compare with the number MFP estimates for runs.

    If you're using a Garmin, compare with gross calories to know if your Garmin is estimating correctly.

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