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Net calories or Calories to end plateau?

caeliumspecto
caeliumspecto Posts: 42 Member
edited October 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
I keep reading people on here suggesting that increasing Calories will end a plateau. Usually they say that they increase Calories and don't eat back exercise Calories.

I'm curious, are you all talking about increasing Calories or Net Calories? I eat a lot more than my "Net Goal," but I'm usually way under once I'm done with exercise.

Should I just eat more and increase my daily net Calories, or increase my Calories and burn off the difference so Net Calories stays the same?

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  • Rae6503
    Rae6503 Posts: 6,294 Member
    You have to increase your net calories. There's no point to increasing gross then exercising them off.
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