Daily Food Journal on Fitness Pal

Loudmom01

I entered my food and exercise. The diary keeps a total but it added back in the calories I burn from exercise. I cant eat what I burn off or I will never lose weight. How do I keep it from doing that?

soccerella

you cant - if you dont want to eat the calories you burned from exercise then simply dont eat them, but there is no way to change that part of the recording

cramernh

you cant - if you dont want to eat the calories you burned from exercise then simply dont eat them, but there is no way to change that part of the recording

Yup... thats a big 10-4

gettinfitmama

My fitness pal has it set up so that you will lose weight if you eat around your alloted calories each day. When you exercise, you burn calories and need to replenish your body. If you don't eat back some of those calories, your body will think you are starving it and you won't lose. There is a pinned topic on the subject around here somewhere...hopefully someone can post it for you...I've got to run to a PTO meeting.

Good luck but EAT THEM!

JeSuisPrest

Actually you can set it to see your calorie deficit.

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/408674-the-olivia-method-the-cool-new-way-to-set-up-your-mfp-go?error_user_id=6516604&error_username=JeSuisPrest&hl=Olivia's+method

ElizabethRoad

You move more, you need more fuel. Pretty simple.

nicksaysnever

MFP gives you a built-in deficit based on how many calories you burn on an average day. If you then burn more calories exercising, you should eat some more to keep your calories in a healthy weight loss range, rather than a starvation range. There are a bunch of topics surrounding this subject, but suffice to say you will not gain weight if you eat your exercise calories, and in a lot of cases doing so will actually help you lose.

Jorra

I entered my food and exercise. The diary keeps a total but it added back in the calories I burn from exercise. I cant eat what I burn off or I will never lose weight. How do I keep it from doing that?

You most certainly can eat what you burn from exercise and still lose weight. Your body naturally burns the majority of its calories daily through staying alive. MFP gives you a calorie goal that is less than what your body burns without exercise. When you exercise, you need more.

Elleinnz

Might be worth reading this to undrstand how MFP has been designed to work....

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/186814-some-mfp-basics

bellawares

This . . .

http://shouldieatmyexercisecalories.com/

Loudmom01

Might be worth reading this to undrstand how MFP has been designed to work....

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/186814-some-mfp-basics

Thank you so much for the info. I read it and it does make sense......a little. Need to look into it a little more cause it pretty much says the opposite of what I always thought.

Loudmom01

This . . .

http://shouldieatmyexercisecalories.com/

thanks this helped too!! looks like im not the first to be confused by this.