question

myrandablack

okay so my daily calorie goals is 1200-1300, and i usually never go over that, but today i took a 50 minute long bike ride (4-6 miles) and burned 726 calories. so it gave me those calories from the exersize to eat. am i supposed to eat those? because i ate all but 100 of those :ohwell: 1789 calories.
did i eat to much today? i thought if you want to lose weight you have to eat less calories and workout more. so if it want's me to eat 1200 calories a day, (actually it wanted me to eat 1450) then why does it give me these extra calories?

Breakfast
Coffee - Brewed from grounds, 4 cup (8 fl oz)
Albertsons - Instant Oatmel rain date and walnut, 1 packet
colorado proud - 2% reduced fat milk, 1 cup
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Lunch
Kraft Singles - American, 1 slice
Kraft Singles - American, 1 slice
King Soopers - old fasioned multi-grain bread, 2 slice
best foods - light mayonnaise, 1 tablespoon
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Dinner
Garlic - Raw, 1.25 clove
Lettuce - Green leaf, raw, 0.25 cup shredded
Tomatoes - Red, ripe, raw, November thru May average, 0.5 Italian tomato
La Favorita - flour tortillas, 1 tortilla
sargento - classic cheese, mexican, 1/4 cup
tyson - grilled chicken breast stips, 3 ounces
nanita's finest - new mexico style green chili, mild, 0.25 cup
kroger - refried beans, vegetarian, 1/2 cup
___________________________________
Snacks
Peanut butter - Chunk style, with salt, 2.5 tbsp
country maid - Butter Braid crem cheese, 1 slice
caribou coffee - chocolate mocha chewy granola bars
wasa - crisp'n light cracker bread, 3 slices
__________________________
Total: 1,789 209
Your Daily Goal: 1,926
Remaining: 137
*You've earned 726 extra calories from exercise today

myrandablack

okay so my daily calorie goals is 1200-1300, and i usually never go over that, but today i took a 50 minute long bike ride (4-6 miles) and burned 726 calories. so it gave me those calories from the exersize to eat. am i supposed to eat those? because i ate all but 100 of those :ohwell: 1789 calories.
did i eat to much today? i thought if you want to lose weight you have to eat less calories and workout more. so if it want's me to eat 1200 calories a day, (actually it wanted me to eat 1450) then why does it give me these extra calories?

Breakfast
Coffee - Brewed from grounds, 4 cup (8 fl oz)
Albertsons - Instant Oatmel rain date and walnut, 1 packet
colorado proud - 2% reduced fat milk, 1 cup
___________________________________________
Lunch
Kraft Singles - American, 1 slice
Kraft Singles - American, 1 slice
King Soopers - old fasioned multi-grain bread, 2 slice
best foods - light mayonnaise, 1 tablespoon
__________________________________________
Dinner
Garlic - Raw, 1.25 clove
Lettuce - Green leaf, raw, 0.25 cup shredded
Tomatoes - Red, ripe, raw, November thru May average, 0.5 Italian tomato
La Favorita - flour tortillas, 1 tortilla
sargento - classic cheese, mexican, 1/4 cup
tyson - grilled chicken breast stips, 3 ounces
nanita's finest - new mexico style green chili, mild, 0.25 cup
kroger - refried beans, vegetarian, 1/2 cup
___________________________________
Snacks
Peanut butter - Chunk style, with salt, 2.5 tbsp
country maid - Butter Braid crem cheese, 1 slice
caribou coffee - chocolate mocha chewy granola bars
wasa - crisp'n light cracker bread, 3 slices
__________________________
Total: 1,789 209
Your Daily Goal: 1,926
Remaining: 137
*You've earned 726 extra calories from exercise today

lotusfromthemud

Your baseline is your BMR (staying in bed all day, amount of calories you need) plus your daily activity level. If you exercise, you need to fuel your body to do that. Your baseline is already figuring a calorie deficity, so if you don't eat to make up for exercise, you go under your minimum.

If you go under for a few days this is not a problem, but if you're consistent with going under, you start "starvation mode" and hold on to every calorie. I actually found out when I started here that I was undereating...which was why I couldn't lose the last ten. Now that I'm eating more, I'm losing again.

Food is fuel. The more you're driving, the more fuel you need.

hope that helps. :flowerforyou:

myrandablack

thanks
it did