Finding out eat-back exercise calories

amusedmonkey

It's often mentioned on MFP forums to only eat back half or 75% of your exercise calories. This is due to the difference between gross calories (total calories burned) and net calories (calories burned excluding those you would have burned at rest during the same timeframe). Net is what one should use for eat-back purposes.

To make things easier, I have stumbled across a gross-to-net converter. Just see how much an exercise burns oh MFP, then enter that number along with age and time spent to get the actual calories you are supposed to eat back. Tweak the length of your exercise here to get as close to the resulting number as possible and there you go!

http://www.shapesense.com/fitness-exercise/calculators/net-versus-gross-calorie-burn-conversion-calculator.aspx