Ok, so possibly a silly question.

lwestling79
lwestling79 Posts: 10
in Health and Weight Loss
So I am allowed 1460 calories a day and my goals area says I plan to work out 6 days a week and the amount of time (30 minutes). I do plan to eat my exercise calories back on days I need them, but because I put that I plan to work out, are those calories considered in my daily calories or not? So, say I burn 100 calories working out, can I safely eat those back or are they already accounted for? Am I making sense? Lol

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  • hill8570
    hill8570 Posts: 1,466 Member
    Assuming you're using the MFP calculator, that 1460 doesn't take the exercise into account.

    I wouldn't recommend eating back all of the exercise calories. It pretty easy to underestimate your calorie intake and over-estimate your calorie burn, so eating back, at most, 50% of your calories will tend to give better results.
  • lwestling79
    lwestling79 Posts: 10
    Excellent, thank you! :)

    Good to know about the exercise calories.
  • ZOOpergal
    ZOOpergal Posts: 176 Member
    You will notice that if you enter in your exercise, those calories will get added to your "calorie bank". But you have to log it for it to show on there.
  • lwestling79
    lwestling79 Posts: 10
    I have noticed it on there so I haven't been logging my exercise because I don't know what to do with the extras. Lol. Some days I'm just walking the dog for 30 minutes, and it gives me around 100-120 back, give or take. Does that sound accurate?
  • lwestling79
    lwestling79 Posts: 10
    And thank you guys! It's great to have found this forum because my IRL people are probably sick of my calorie and deficit and blah blah blah talk.

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