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Adding Cardio to the daily

twilight5567
twilight5567 Posts: 7
edited October 2024 in Fitness and Exercise
I don't quite understand...We start out with the calorie goal for the day, but when we add cardio to the daily diary it adds more calories for the day...how can I lose weight if I do exercise but it gives me additional calories? Seems like I would lose more if I stick to my daily calorie goal and burn those with the daily cardio...

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  • BarbWhite09
    BarbWhite09 Posts: 1,128 Member
    Yea, I kinda agree. I normally try not to pay attention to the extra calories it gives me.
  • JennLifts
    JennLifts Posts: 1,913 Member
    When you signed up, it created a decifit, so when you do the cardio, you make the deficit too big to have effective weightloss. Quite controversial. I'd start by eating them and if you don't see loss eat fewer.
  • Sallycinnimon
    Sallycinnimon Posts: 102 Member
    The calories at the beginning are a base amount. Set as if you were to not exersize. Exersizing burns calories so it adds more. The more you exersize, the more you get to eat.
  • SarahBeeMe
    SarahBeeMe Posts: 91 Member
    This seems to come up quite a lot. If you end up burning so much that you are under the recommended 1200 it's possible your body can go into that famous 'starvation mode'. I find it useful to eat SOME of my exercise calories on some days. Mostly just so that I have the energy! Seems to be different for everyone though so maybe have a play around with it and see what suits you best.
  • twilight5567
    twilight5567 Posts: 7
    Ok thanks everyone...I'll experiment and see...it sure sounds good to add those extra calories! Ha! So far today, I'm only using some...
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