exercise calories questions

Cherylann402

OK, let's say you are allowed to eat 1500 calories per day. You do an exercise that burns 200 calories. The program then tells you that you have earned 200 more calories by exercise, so now you can eat 1700 calories that day.....

My questions are this:
1. Doesn't it defeat the purpose of exercising to burn calories, if you are just going to eat more to make it up?

2. How can you lose weight if you are basically undoing all the calories you burned with the exercise?

3.Wouldn't you lose more weight, faster, if you exercise and then only eat 1500 calories per day?

Cherylann402

OK, let's say you are allowed to eat 1500 calories per day. You do an exercise that burns 200 calories. The program then tells you that you have earned 200 more calories by exercise, so now you can eat 1700 calories that day.....

My questions are this:
1. Doesn't it defeat the purpose of exercising to burn calories, if you are just going to eat more to make it up?

2. How can you lose weight if you are basically undoing all the calories you burned with the exercise?

3.Wouldn't you lose more weight, faster, if you exercise and then only eat 1500 calories per day?

jhacker

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So you are saying that I should eat the extra 200 calories I gained from exercise? Will I still lose? Or does my body need them because of the exercise? I'm a bit confused!:ohwell:

MFP automatically subtracts 500 calories from your daily caloric needs based on your lifestyle and BMR. When you exercise, you increase your caloric output. For instance:

My BMR is 1400. My lifestyle (slightly active) expends an extra 300 calories. That's 1700 calories a day that I burn WITHOUT exercise.
MFP subtracts 500 calories for a weekly 1lb loss. 1700-500=1200.

That would be okay if I didn't exercise, but I do. So I log my exercise into MFP.

80 Min Lifting + 30 Min Cardio + 15 Min Abs = 600 calories

Those 600 calories PLUS my 1700 expended from normal stuff = 2300 calories expended in a day.

Now if I stick with the 1200 calories, I'm at a 1100 calorie deficit, which is way too much, so MFP tells me to eat more so I will maintain a 500 calorie deficit.

So now it's 2300 calories-500 = I have to eat 1800 calories a day for safe weight loss.

The equation is:

BMR+Daily Activity+Exercise-500 Calories = How many calories you eat in a day.
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This was my question a few days agao and songbyrdsweet cleared it up for me. Hope it helps. There is a thread called Too few calories if you want to look it up.:flowerforyou:

Erica92627

Great minds think a like. I put my info in for the day and I've earned 3000 (okay a bit of an exaggeration) but it does defeat the purpose of burning calories just to put them back on. Maybe they do that just so you don't feel deprived and you feel it is more as an award. ???

Erica92627

I have another question to add to original question. What if I don't use my full Cal. on any given day or two, I'll still loose pounds right?

jenken99

i have used up my full calories and sometimes i go over, and i still have lost weight i think it just depends how much and what u have ate and if it was b4 u went to bed