I have a few questions

justle

I've set my goals to maintain my current weight, i've not entered that i'll be doing any exercise and i'm not going to eat back my exercise calories (as i'm not asking mfp to calculate a deficit for me).

the reason i've done this is because when i exercise my stupid brain thinks its ok to eat the exercise cals in chocolate like i've earned a treat! i'm hoping doing it this way i will fill my calories with fuel not crap.

does anyone else do it this way around? are there any reasons i shouldn't do it this way (that i've maybe not thought about).

also i've pre-planned my food for today, i thought i was being healthy and yes i've stuck way within my calories but i've already gone over my protein and carbs allowance (i'll add here that i've not actually consumed this food just plugged it in to mfp in advance) I've still got a further 791 cals to eat to eat my calorie allowance (for maintaining) not including my exercise cals.

what o what am i doing wrong here? I'll add we dont have heaps of fruit and veg in the house right now, we're budget living and close to our next pay day so i cant go bulking up on that today.


any advice?

melaniecheeks

Can you open your diary so we can see what you're planning to eat?

Going over on protein really isn't a big issue, unless you aer consuming way over 150g per day.

The MFP default setings for carbs are quite generous - what are your big carb counts coming from?

justle

woops sorry i thought it was public - i've amended it now

melaniecheeks

I'd question the values for that jacket potato - the carb level there seems way too high!

And your protein for your salmon seems a littel high too. Unfortunately, as the database is created and maintained by ordinairy users, a lot of the info in it is wrong.

And personally, I'd not have potatoes AND rice at the same meal.

justle

brill thanks for your comments

glassyo

I think eating your maintenance calories and creating your deficit through exercise is an EXCELLENT idea. Eating exercise calories/not eating exercise calories does seem to be a mind game for some people.

stormieweather

That's a perfectly fine way to go about it .

One suggestion, if you're not a real big exerciser, is to set your goal at "lose 1/2 pound per week", which will give you a 250 calorie deficit, and then create the other 250 calorie deficit from exercise (calories you do NOT eat back). This works out to a 1 pound per week loss, if sustained.

melsinct

I have been doing something similar, as "exercise calories" were messing with my head. I am a desk worker, so really I am sedentary all day. I set MFP to "active" which encompasses the 1-2 miles of brisk walking and other cardio I do daily. The only exercise I log is pilates class, but that only burns 100 calories anyway. I did this after plateauing back in May and it really has helped me.