Macros & Not eating back

Chelfit

Hi

If I'm eating my cut TDEE and not eating back my activity how do I know if I've hit my macros? I have 200 calories left to eat at the end of the day, but I'm not sure what macros I should be eating because my remaining calories include exercise. How does everyone else figure this out?

heybales

When you manually set your eating goal, you should have set your macros per recommendations.

You are actually confusing yourself pretty sure, you eat the calories MFP says you have left, as well as the macro amounts.

Why would the fact your eating goal contains exercise already change anything?

And no, your remaining calories do NOT include exercise if you used the TDEE deficit method.

Your eating goal is a deficit from a TDEE that is an average of a weekly total.

Therefore every hour of the day contains some exercise calories, either for that day or another day. Eating goal / 24 hrs = how much hourly.

Chelfit

Ok, I had to read your reply a few times, because if I wasn't confused before I'm definitely am now!

I've set my macro goals at 40/30/30. I had also set my Net Calories goal at my TDEE cut of 2060. Which could explain where I'm going wrong. Should I be setting it at my TDEE of 2424? My BMR is 1564.

I've copied my summary below. I know that out of the 620 cals is the 432 cals I burned today. So I know how much I can eat to hit my 2060. How do I figure out the macros?

Totals 1,872 222 48 144 44 70
Goal 2,492 249 83 188 36 54
Left 620 27 35 44 -8 -16
Calories C F P F S

heybales

No, you set it up right.

But you can NOT log exercise calories unless you have met your goal for the day - otherwise yes, you'll confuse yourself with the math.

But even in that case, 40% is 40% no matter what the amount is - problem is in this case the amount should not have changed.

Or log your exercise as 1 calorie so it doesn't change your goals.

The problem is your are attempting to use a TDEE deficit method that usually contains the exercise included, in a app doing math where NO exercise is included until you do it, and when you log it, you eat it back.

Which is not the case now.

As to what you have left today - easier to just go edit your workout for now and change calories burned to 1, see what the numbers are, meet your goal, and then edit your workout again to full calorie burn.

Chelfit

Thanks heybales! This makes sense and explains the confusion.