one question needed answerd please

bikini1234

Hey everyone right ok I am absolutley hopeless when it comes to nutrition, calories ,bmr etc so please someone tell me if this is correct : so mfp has set 1300 cals a day for me and I am very happy with that ok so here it is if I eat 1300 cals today and burn 700 cals today through exercise does that mean I have the 700 exercide cals I burnt to eat back on top of my daily 1300 if I wanted to eat the exercise cals back so that means I would have 2000 cals to day to eat 700 from exercise and 1300 from daily cals?? Please someone tell me if I am correct because I am tearing my hair out teying to understand this

Zichu

That's exactly it. You need to eat calories back to restore used up energy and to help burn off fat.

Shweedog

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/10589-for-those-confused-or-questioning-eating-your-exercise-calo

jellybeanhed313

Yes, you should eat most/all of your exercise cals back. Otherwise, your total cals will be really low and that may put your body into starvation mode and keep you from losing weight.

Secret_Agent_007

Unless you're also doing the cat pee diet.

mrandolph69

I agree with the other people who have responded. However, in eating back you exercise calories you have to make sure the number of calories you burned off in the exercise are accurate. If they are too high and you eat back all of them the you will overeat. Make sure to be as accurate in the estimation as possible. I use an HRM for this and have found MFP's estimate to be absurdly high (which is understandable since they are just an estimate.) If you don't get an HRM then I would suggest not eating back all of the calories just to make sure you are not overeating.