calorie counting

robbie34
robbie34 Posts: 2
edited September 21 in Health and Weight Loss
Time for a dumb question. If you burn 500 calories working out and your calorie in take for the day is 2990, do you have to replenish those lost calories to keep muscle growth?

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  • summerblunden
    summerblunden Posts: 184 Member
    If your goal is to gain weight, yes. If not all of them, then part at least.
  • erickirb
    erickirb Posts: 12,294 Member
    Yes, this is even more important when trying to put weight on. If you don't eat the extra calories it would be as if you only ate 2490. Also keep in mind that if your HRM or machine says you burned 500 cals that double counts the calories you would have burned at rest so you could back those out. Say you burned 500 cals in 30 minutes but you burn 1.5 cals/min at rest you would only have to increase your caloric intake by 455 (500 - 45 (30x1.5)). The 455 is what you should enter in MFP.

    I just looked at your diary as well. You may want to change your setting to increase the goal amount of protein as that is what it looks like you are trying to do and should do when trying to gain weight.

    Change you goals by going to goals, click change goals, select custom, make your changes increase protein and decrease carbs and/or fat to the desired level, then click save changes.
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