Calories and Exercising

sammiestrange
sammiestrange Posts: 5
in Health and Weight Loss
So, I've lost almost 50lbs. I started off 186 last year and am now at 141. The MFP app says that if I want to reach my goal to eat 1200 calories a day. Is that considering what calories I burn during exercise? For the past few days, I've been so tired. I've had the willpower to work out and want to, but my legs are just so fatigued I can't do anything. I'm not over doing it, I rarely do strength (starting that soonish...) and I do cardio for 30-45 a day. Could it be that I'm staying in the 1200cal range while burning 500 during a workout? So confused. Want to break this plateau...

Please let me know what you think. :)

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  • Francl27
    Francl27 Posts: 26,371 Member
    You're supposed to add exercise calories.
  • discoveredamber
    discoveredamber Posts: 379 Member
    From what I have seen and been told the 1200 calories they give you does not include exercise so if you burn 500 calories you can eat those calories back. So that would give you 1700 ti eat.
  • bethiewilliams
    bethiewilliams Posts: 37 Member
    I always eat back half my exercise calories so I don't get hungry. If 1200 is to lose weight the you could eat all your exercise cals back if you wanted but by eating some of them you should have enough energy to function...
    Good luck :)
  • Mokey41
    Mokey41 Posts: 5,769 Member
    Reset your budget to no more than 1 lb per week and eat back 1/2 your exercise calories.
  • sammiestrange
    sammiestrange Posts: 5
    Thanks Everyone! I hope that not only will this help me recover from this fatigue, but also will give me some energy.

    I just hope this works and doesn't throw my weight loss for a loop. :P

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