Explain what Net Calories means?

MLouis1
MLouis1 Posts: 108 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
I keep seeing it and don't understand it.

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  • Iknowsaur
    Iknowsaur Posts: 777 Member
    Your net calories for the day are the calories you have eaten minus the calories you have burned.
  • TeaBea
    TeaBea Posts: 14,517 Member
    The way MFP is designed......you get your calorie deficit BEFORE any exercise. When you add exercise, you are increasing the deficit....too big a deficit is not healthy.

    Do I eat my exercise calories back?......if you are using MFP as designed the short answer is yes. The reason I say short answer......calorie burns in MFP are estimates. Many people who use MFP calorie burn estimates only eat back a portion of their exercise calories.
  • WBB55
    WBB55 Posts: 4,131 Member
    On MFP, it works like this

    MFP gives you a calorie goal for the day based on the settings you have (weight, how much you told it you want to lose per week, etc). Let's say you set it to "lose 1 lb" and it gave you 1400 as your target.

    1400 goal.

    Then you exercise that night and log 200 calories for that. You now have a "Net" calories of 1200. 1400 you ate, minus the 200 exercise calories. MFP wants you to eat those calories back. Thus bringing your "Net" back to 1400. So...

    1600 total calories eaten - 200 exercise calories = 1400 Net calories

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