Eating Calories Burned

blooderflowers
blooderflowers Posts: 5
edited November 10 in Fitness and Exercise
I use the myfitnesspal app on my phone so I can track calories throughout the day, it gives me my calorie intake from food, along with calories burned by exercise.

I've noticed it's telling me that I am not consuming the correct number of calories a day. For example yesterday I burned about 200 calories doing my day do day stuff, and indulged myself a little and ate 1300 cals (my daily target is 1200) on my phone app it told me that yesday I had eaten 1300 calories and had burned around 200, but then when I submitted my diary of that day, it told me I wasn't consuming enough calories!

Why is this? I'm mega confused! :(

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  • porffor
    porffor Posts: 1,210 Member
    The basic is that 1200 cals is the minimum allowed by MFP. You burnt 200 of that, but only ate 100 back so that left you at 1100 overall.

    have a search on here for eating exercise calories, there are lots of different arguements for and against.

    personally I didn't eat them ealry on but have got to a point now where I'm trialling eating more and I must say it seems to be working... but you are individual.. find what works for you weight wise and go with that.. if that stops working then you'll need to adjjust it. :wink:

    P.S. welcome to the forum!
  • blooderflowers
    blooderflowers Posts: 5
    Thank you for that responce, I've been looking myself and can't seem to get a straight answer, there are lots of people saying it works for them and lots who say it works better when they don't eat it back. It's rather confusing! I don't need to loose much just about a stone, so I don't know what the best option would be. :smile:
  • mandylooo
    mandylooo Posts: 456 Member
    Thank you for that responce, I've been looking myself and can't seem to get a straight answer, there are lots of people saying it works for them and lots who say it works better when they don't eat it back. It's rather confusing! I don't need to loose much just about a stone, so I don't know what the best option would be. :smile:

    Generally, people with a lot of weight to lose can eat fewer calories than those with not so much to lose. The problem is that if you don't have a lot to lose, then you if you eat too few calories you will lose muscle as well as fat; the less weight you have to lose, the more slowly you need to do it, the more important it is to eat back your exercise calories.
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