calorie converter question..

mbuyak

Hi there! I'm pretty new to this, and was wondering when you enter your food intake, it takes away from your daily calories conzuption..but when you add your exercise, it adds calories. Does this mean that I can eat more that the 1200 calories a day? I am trying to lose 20 lbs, and don't want to overeat, but I am just kinds confused by the calories converter. Thanks for any help!

KettleBellHoe

Larger the deficit - more burn of calories. Leading to faster weight loss. You can eat more then 1200 but you don't wanna eat all the calories you burnt off or the exercise would pretty well be meaningless.

Sherbog

I have eaten 1200 calories per day plus the calories added by exercising. Works for me.

LovingLisa2012

from the help section on this site

We set your nutritional target in Net Calories which we define as:

Calories Consumed (Food) - Calories Burned (Exercise) = Net Calories

What that means is that if you exercise, you will be able to eat more for that day. For example, if your Net Calorie goal is 2000 calories, one way to meet that goal is to eat 2,500 calories of food, but then burn 500 calories through exercise.

Think of your Net Calories like a daily budget of calories to spend. You spend them by eating, and you earn more calories to eat by exercising.

Rabid_Hamster

In short, yes. You have a net calorie intake to achieve your goal. For every calorie you burn, that's more calories you should consume to still meet your goal. It's simple math really. Example: you have a net daily calorie intake of 1500. You exercise 300 calories. You should eat 300 more to maintain that amount..
1500 (Net) - 300 (Exercise) = 1200 (+300 calories more you can eat)= 1500 net

mbuyak

Thanks so much . Good to know I can eat more, I'm starving, lol