New to everything about working out help

Fatkicker

Hello I just signed up today and already have some questions..I tried using a calorie tracker before and it put me at 1400 calories..now this one is saying 1300 calories and the more i workout the more I can eat?? I noticed my other tracker added back the food I ate and I never understood so if someone could explain that to me in simple terms that would be great. Also I started p90x lean last week and was wondering if I will lose or gain doing this? I want to drop 10lbs I don't want to gain,wouldn't mind toning but I can't stay at this weight. I am 5'2 144lbs,want to drop 10lbs and learn how to stay where I am comfortable. I am really hoping I can do this,thanks Brenda

DCskat3r4lfe

im pretty new as well, dont want to lie or say the wrong things..

p90x you will lose and gain at the same time... gaining muscles and losing fat/inches.

the whole calorie thing im unsure of.. i know the more "active" you are the more calories you need for your body to work.. but me myself feel that if i eat the calories i burned it defeted the purpose.. so i always stick to the 1700 im supposed to have.. but i really eat 800-1000.. but thats me.. the more calories you burn vs the calories you eat is what counts..

im no expert.. but all you need is motivation and a good head to keep you moving.. dont try too hard that you burn out and dont feel bad if you dont lose "50 in 2 months" like ads tell us..

since ive started my weightloss.. not only do i feel better about myself i feel new muscles i never had and i just feel healthy when im done eating.. everyones different..

hope i helped.. if not i tried =P

alienblonde1

Well you can eat back your exercising burned calories I think it's good to do at least some of them.

RayvinWinters

The way this site works is, the calories it gives you at the beginning is so you loose weight, assuming that you don't do any exercise. As you do exercise, you burn calories, and thus you can eat more. You should eat at least some of these calories, because otherwise you risk eating too little. (WTF?!? Eating too little while dieting?) Yes. The last thing you want is for your body to think there is a shortage of food. If it thinks that it needs to hold out until the end of a famine, it will try to hold on to the fat as much as it can, and one way it will do that is by making you feel burned out, so exercising becomes harder.

This is one of the easiest sites to use, as it calculates for you how many calories you should be eating to loose the weight. You don't need to eat back all the calories you burned, but you should eat back most of them.

Also, for the record, I came to the conclusion of how this site works by comparing it to others, and my current knowledge of nutrition and how the body works. I do not in any way work for MFP, nor have any insight to the actual programming.