Net calories

humbug12

I've been reading all the posts on the site since I joined and this is my first post. I think I get the concept of eating my calories and so forth, but I still have a question. What should my net calories be? Should it total my BMR? Just a little confused about this, hopefully someone can help clarify the issue.

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ChristieDF

Hi usually I don't worry about my net cals. My goal cals is 1200 and when I exercise I receive some more. Usually I eat a few of those cals.

Ex: Goal cals 1200
Food cals 1295
exercise cals 891
net cals 404
remaining 796

my exercise cals and net cals add up to the food cals. I ate 95 of my exercise cals and that plus the remaining would be my exercise cals. So in all I just pay attention to the goal cals and food cals.

ChristineM1953

I have always heard that your net calories should not go below 1200, but mine often are. Someone told me if I ate more, I would proabably lose more quickly, although I am losing about 2# per week.

ChristieDF

Sometimes I have a couple of high cal day like 1500. Sometimes I stagger my cals. It's just to trick my body. Because it gets use to the same amount of cals. So trick it so I can still lose my weight. Someone on my friend list showed me that.

humbug12

I think I get it now, I think I'm going to eat back some of my calories but not all and hopefully that will work. Thanks for all the input.