working out calories

vs161l5

I have a silly question. When you work out using the fitnesspal suggested calories burned, are they lost after the workout or by the end of the day?

heybales

Very difficult to make out what that question is asking.

When you workout and log it, you are given estimated calorie burn for the workout, that gets added to the estimated non-exercise maintenance MFP already came up with.

Then the deficit is taken off.

Say non-exercise maintenance based on your choice of activity level - 2500
1 lb weekly goal loss - 500
2500 - 500 = 2000 eating goal on non-exercise days

You exercise and your maintenance just went up for the day, so you log 600 burned.
2500 + 600 = 3100 maintenance
3100 - 500 = 2600 eating goal on that exercise day

Same deficit in place, exercise or not.

So they raised your daily value, therefore your eating goal is increased until midnight.

Literally if you did a late workout and couldn't finish reaching your goal that night, eat the extra the next day. So what if one day show 300 under and next day shows 300 extra eaten - balance.

vs161l5

my daily goal is ~1500 and my works normally show a burn of 400 to 500 calories. the question is, have i lost those calories right then or by the end of the day?

wilsoje74

What do you mean by lost?

vs161l5

the calories i burned during the workout

wilsoje74

I guess I'm also confused by your question

goddino37

Hello - the calories lost are lost after your workout.

The math calculation on the summary page is only meant for tracking purposes to determine whether you have extra calories to eat at the end of the day, IF you are logging in your calories/workout AS YOU GO ALONG during the day.

If you record your calories/workout at the end of the day, you still lost your workout calories after the workout. Nothing changed.

However, if you record at the end of the day, you don't have a sense of whether you were on track, and might overshoot your caloric daily maximum.

The first method is akin to taking your pulse throughout the day.

The second method is akin to winging it, and praying that the numbers make sense at the end of the day.

The first method is my preferred mode of operation.

Hope that helps.

heybales

I'm thinking by the question remaining the same, you might be confused as to what is happening.

Suggest you reread what I wrote putting your own example numbers in there.

No matter what - log your exercise, your daily goal goes up.

Reach your eating goal, that's what you do with a goal. Whether you understand or not. Better if you do of course, but not needed.

After all, you probably don't understand where your NET eating goal came from either, and yet you are probably blindly following that too.

sgcc

Not sure what you are asking, exactly. The exercise log is an indicator of how many "extra" calories were burned when you exercise. Not sure how MyFitnessPal works in this regard. Typically most online calorie counting programs gives you the calories that you burned in exercise back, making your daily calorie allotment higher than it was which for me doesn't work. I must adhere to 1200 to 1250 calories per day, to lose weight. Just because I exercise, such as a vigorous cardio workout, it doesn't help me lose faster. But it does help me maintain. When I am at my goal weight and exercising, I can basically eat whatever I want! In normal portions of course.

vs161l5

I understand net goals. if I'm trying to lose a pound a week without exercise and that number is 500 cals. then I exercise and not eat extra I should lose more weight during a given week? The question was if I work out in the morning and I burn 500 cals. during the workout. Are the calories gone after the workout or by the end of the day since these are est. calories burned?

vs161l5

thankyou snowgoose. i understand and agree with you about maintaining my goal cals. whether I workout or not?

heybales

I understand net goals. if I'm trying to lose a pound a week without exercise and that number is 500 cals. then I exercise and not eat extra I should lose more weight during a given week? The question was if I work out in the morning and I burn 500 cals. during the workout. Are the calories gone after the workout or by the end of the day since these are est. calories burned?

Yes, in that case MFP gave you a 500 cal deficit, and you are creating another 500 cal deficit, meaning for that day you created a 1000 cal deficit.
So yes, you should lose more.

Let's hope that is still on average a reasonable deficit so it doesn't backfire on you eventually, and you have to eat at some ridiculously low number with exercise just to lose weight. That will suck big time when maintenance rolls around, or you get sick and can't exercise, or life get busy for a week or two and you can't either.
What a miserable life having to eat that low.

Anyway.

Your question still doesn't make sense. If that estimate of calorie burn is correct - you burned 500 more calories than normal purely for the mechanical movement of the exercise.
This doesn't include extra calories burned repairing what you did, ect.

"Are the calories gone" from where?
What are you exactly talking about? Calories gone from your logging, your calorie goal, your body?
After the workout or by end of day? Just doesn't make sense without a frame of reference.

Suggest you don't repeat the question, that is getting no where, give a context for some insight.

I think you still may be asking a question based on some false view of the way things work - and therefore is mighty confusing to us that don't have that same view.

heybales

Not sure what you are asking, exactly. The exercise log is an indicator of how many "extra" calories were burned when you exercise. Not sure how MyFitnessPal works in this regard. Typically most online calorie counting programs gives you the calories that you burned in exercise back, making your daily calorie allotment higher than it was which for me doesn't work. I must adhere to 1200 to 1250 calories per day, to lose weight. Just because I exercise, such as a vigorous cardio workout, it doesn't help me lose faster. But it does help me maintain. When I am at my goal weight and exercising, I can basically eat whatever I want! In normal portions of course.

Wow - that sucks big time.

You do realize of course that as you weigh less, your calorie goal must come down if you want to keep losing, because you spent less energy moving and such daily, and your metabolism slows down for very expected reasons?

How low on calorie goal are you prepared to go, because if already eating 1200-1250 total and with exercise, are you going to run out of room before you reach goal weight?

Or will maintenance end up being what you end up eating at the end of the loss? You might say sliding in to maintenance level, not able to go up? Or crash in to that level is more correct term.

Unless you are 5 ft or under, you've already made this more difficult for yourself than needed. Wow.